Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would speak with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday and expected to hear more about the American leader鈥檚 phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin about a ceasefire and to discuss the next steps.
Meanwhile, a federal judge has blocked enforcement of Trump's executive order service, the latest in a string of legal setbacks for his sweeping agenda.
Here's the latest:
Democrats are searching for a way out of their party鈥檚 identity crisis
They鈥檝e been sniping at each other in public since Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that prevented a government shutdown. But the divisions in their party hardly began there.
For months, Democrats have been struggling to coalesce behind a political strategy as they confront President Trump and the Republican majorities in the House and the Senate. Behind closed doors at party retreats, think tank meetings and strategy sessions, Democrats have been having tense and searching conversations about as they urgently try to address what went wrong in last year鈥檚 election.
鈥淚 think we鈥檙e in a place internally where we鈥檙e having these family discussions and figuring out what the path forward is,鈥 said Rep. Maxwell Frost, a Florida Democrat and, at age 28, the youngest member of Congress.
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Violent attacks on Tesla dealerships spike as Musk takes prominent role in Trump White House
Cybertrucks set ablaze. Bullets and Molotov cocktails aimed at Tesla showrooms.
Attacks on property carrying the logo of electric-car company are cropping up across the U.S. and overseas. While no injuries have been reported, Tesla showrooms, vehicle lots, charging stations and privately owned cars have been targeted.
There鈥檚 been a clear uptick since Trump took office and empowered Musk to oversee a new Department of Government Efficiency that鈥檚 . Experts on domestic extremism say it鈥檚 impossible to know yet if the spate of incidents will balloon into a long-term pattern.
The White House has thrown its weight behind Musk. Trump has said Tesla vandalism amounts to 鈥渄omestic terror鈥 and has threatened retribution, warning that those who target the company are 鈥済oing to go through hell.鈥
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Transportation secretary: NYC subway could lose federal funding unless it cleans up dirt and crime
鈥淚f you can鈥檛 keep your subway safe ... we鈥檙e going to pull your money,鈥 Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said, adding that it鈥檚 not just New York City that鈥檚 at risk.
Subway systems in Chicago and Washington could lose the federal dollars they depend on to stay afloat if they also don鈥檛 clean up, he said.
Duffy, in the 鈥淔ox & Friends鈥 interview, said, 鈥渏ust good government would dictate we have good, clean subways.鈥
Trump recently talked about crime in the subways of New York City, where he lived for most of his life.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he鈥檒l talk with Trump later in the day
He said he expects to hear more about Trump鈥檚 call with Putin about a ceasefire and to discuss the next steps.
But Zelenskyy said a vow by Putin not to attack energy infrastructure was 鈥渧ery much at odds with reality鈥 following an overnight barrage of drone strikes across Ukraine.
鈥淓ven last night, after Putin鈥檚 conversation with ... Trump, when Putin said that he was allegedly giving orders to stop strikes on Ukrainian energy, there were 150 drones launched overnight, including on energy facilities,鈥 Zelenskyy said at a news conference in Helsinki with Finnish President Alexander Stubb.
Russia said it had halted its targeting of Ukraine鈥檚 energy facilities and accused Kyiv of attacking equipment near one of its pipelines.
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Details on an upgraded air traffic control system coming soon, transportation secretary says
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said an announcement about upgrades to the decades-old system could come in the 鈥渘ext couple days.鈥
Duffy said the system is safe 鈥渂ut we鈥檙e seeing the cracks of age.鈥
Interviewed Wednesday on Fox News Channel鈥檚 鈥淔ox & Friends,鈥 Duffy said speed is 鈥渢he key鈥 and that 鈥淐ongress has to give us all the money upfront.鈥
He didn鈥檛 provide a cost estimate but said he鈥檇 discuss the issue soon with Trump, share details with Congress and 鈥渉ope we get the money quick.鈥
by a deadly mid-air collision over the Potomac River in Washington, other plane crashes and near-misses on airport runways.
Trump鈥檚 schedule today
According to the White House press office, Trump will receive an intelligence briefing at 11 a.m. ET.
Later this afternoon, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will hold a press briefing at 1 p.m. ET.
A look at the judge who blocked Trump鈥檚 deportations and is now facing calls for impeachment
The federal judge who ruled against and is now facing is no stranger to politically fraught cases 鈥 including ones involving the president.
In his 14 years on the federal bench, James 鈥淛eb鈥 Boasberg has that arose during the special counsel investigations into Trump, in how the Justice Department conducts national security surveillance and handled his share of who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
A former homicide prosecutor in the nation鈥檚 capital who played basketball at Yale University, where he also earned his law degree, Boasberg has cultivated a reputation among colleagues as a principled jurist with bipartisan respect 鈥 he was appointed to the federal bench in 2011 by President Barack Obama but was named a decade earlier to a seat on the D.C. Superior Court by President George W. Bush.
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Federal judge blocks Trump administration from banning transgender people from military service
A federal judge blocked enforcement of Trump鈥檚 executive order service on Tuesday, the latest in a string of legal setbacks for his sweeping agenda.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, D.C., ruled that Trump鈥檚 order to exclude transgender troops from military service likely violates their constitutional rights. She was the second judge of the day to rule against the administration, and both rulings came within hours of an extraordinary conflict as Trump called for impeaching a third judge who temporarily blocked deportation flights, from Chief Justice John Roberts.
Reyes, who was nominated by President Joe Biden, delayed her order until Friday morning to give the administration time to appeal.
Trump鈥檚 deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, posted about the ruling on social media, writing, 鈥淒istrict court judges have now decided they are in command of the Armed Forces鈥s there no end to this madness?鈥
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