Billionaire investor urges world leaders to act ‘immediately’ after Trump imposes tariffs
President Donald Trump’s announcement of reciprocal tariffs has put the world on edge, with foreign leaders forming their responses. Some are threatening retaliation, while others are looking to negotiate better deals for their countries.
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is sending a clear message to world leaders hoping to strike a deal with the U.S.: Don’t wait too long.
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“My advice to foreign leaders is that if you have not already reached out to President [Trump], you need to do so immediately. Trump is, at his core, a dealmaker who sees the world as a series of transactions,” Ackman wrote in a post on X. He characterized the president as a “tough, but fair negotiator.”
“He loves to make deals, and he loves to get things done promptly,” Ackman added.
The famous investor made a similar remark on Wednesday night, predicting that countries who are quick to come to the negotiating table will get better deals than those who wait.
Ackman isn’t the only one urging world leaders to act quickly. Eric Trump, the president’s son, agrees.
“I wouldn’t want to be the last country that tries to negotiate a trade deal with [Trump]. The first to negotiate will win – the last will absolutely lose. I have seen this movie my entire life…,” the president’s son wrote on X.
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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer told reporters on Thursday that he would continue to “negotiate on a deal in our interests,” vowing that he would not agree to anything that did not serve the U.K.’s interests.
Italy is apparently also looking to negotiate. According to Reuters, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said her country “will do everything we can to work towards an agreement with the United States…”
Meanwhile, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called Trump’s tariffs a “major blow to the global economy” and vowed countermeasures but said Europe is looking to “go from confrontation to negotiation.”
“We are already finalizing a first package of countermeasures in response to tariffs on steel. And we are now preparing for further countermeasures, to protect our interests and our businesses if negotiations fail,” von der Leyen said.
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As some look to make deals, others are ready to fight against Trump’s new tariffs.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday announced that Canada would match Trump’s 25% tariff on all vehicles not compliant with the USMCA trade deal.
“We take these measures reluctantly. And we take them in ways that is intended and will cause maximum impact in the United States and minimum impact in Canada,” Carney said, according to The Associated Press.
The Kamala Harris gaffe that floored even her own advisor: ‘What the hell was that?’
A former top advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed presidential campaign was shocked when Harris told “The View” that she wouldn’t have done anything different from President Biden, according to a new book by reporters Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes.
With roughly one month to go until the November election, Harris famously told the liberal hosts that nothing “comes to mind” after they asked her to name something she would’ve done differently than Biden over the past four years.
Harris senior campaign advisor Stephanie Cutter was floored at Harris’ response, according to Allen and Parnes’ new book released this month entitled, “FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House.”
“What the hell was that?” Cutter recalled thinking to herself. “That’s not what we practiced.”
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The gaffe became a moment that defined Harris’ campaign and provided ammunition for her opponent.
The Trump campaign immediately seized on the gaffe and started sharing the clip to voters via social media and text message that afternoon.
“It provided the money shot” for Trump’s ad makers,” the book quotes a Harris ally as saying. “And it was her own bad moment.”
“When she gave us the gift of the View interview, we were able to anchor her to the Biden administration in her own words, which is something we were trying to do anyway,” one Trump advisor says in the book.
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The Democratic candidate faced scrutiny throughout her campaign for not breaking with Biden on more issues after she took his spot at the top of the ticket.
Harris’ answer had “done little to erase the impression that her reason for running was one of circumstance,” the book’s authors noted.
The vice president was facing pressure from Biden to remain loyal to him and put “no “daylight” between them during her campaign, the book said.
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Ahead of her first interview as the Democratic candidate, Harris was prepped by aides with a list of items she could name that made her “proud of her work with Biden,” the book also said.
Harris’ office did not immediately return a request for comment.
Masked agitators attack conservative students at school — and police ‘did nothing’
A group of conservative students were assaulted and had their equipment destroyed on Thursday when masked protesters attacked them before an event on a California university campus.
Turning Point USA at UC Davis, a registered student organization, was hosting a “Prove me Wrong” event with Brandon Tatum, a guest speaker, when protesters destroyed camera gear, a tent, event signage, flipped tables, and assaulted group staff, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, wrote on X.
“While our people were under attack, police stood aside and did nothing,” he wrote. “Our team is understandably shaken up, but they assure me they will not back down.”
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In a statement to Fox News Digital, the university said protesters disrupted the event at Memorial Union Quad by confronting members of the student organization and others.
“The UC Davis Police Department took one report of an assault,” the school said. “No one requested medical aid. The event with the guest speaker took place on schedule and was completed without further incident. The university protected the free speech rights of the campus community throughout the event.”
The student group invited Tatum, a former police officer known for his popular YouTube Channel, to speak on the campus at 1 p.m. An hour before the event began, about 30 people approached the tent and table staffed by supporters of the event.
One demonstrator struck someone who approached the table with a cell phone, the school said. Other demonstrators pulled down the tent and engaged in shoving with those staffing the tent and others nearby. The protesters left the area before returning minutes later and trying to remove a tent.
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No one has been arrested.
Videos of the chaos posted online show protesters holding a large banner with “ACAB,” an acronym for “All Cops Are Bastards,” as they approached the event area.
Kirk criticized the university, which he called the “most militant school in the country, with the largest Antifa presence.”
“When I spoke there in March of 2023, Antifa foot soldiers vandalized the school, smashed windows and fought the police,” he said. “What we have is a pattern, with no signs of improvement.”
Reacting to the news of the incident, Elon Musk wrote on X that “the left is the party of violence & hate.”
A video posted by Tatum online shows him defending himself as the protesters appeared to destroy a TPUSA tent and tables.
“This is what mostly peaceful looks like,” he wrote.
Kirk called for the arrest of those involved and that failing to do so will result in “radical anarchists” resorting to “more and more violence if they think doing so will stop conservatives from speaking.”
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He urged UC Davis to show its willingness to protect free speech and freedom of assembly on a public campus.
“If they won’t, then the Trump Administration should investigate their continued receipt of federal taxpayer dollars,” he said.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Turning Point USA.
Service suspended after several family members hit and killed by Amtrak train
Three family members in Pennsylvania are dead after being struck by a train Thursday near Philadelphia.
Bristol Borough Police Chief Joe Moors said during a news conference that three adults were killed by an Amtrak train traveling from Boston, Massachusetts, to Richmond, Virginia.
Moors confirmed to Fox News Digital they were all related.
Police were called to an area near the tracks at about 6 p.m. after receiving reports of people on the tracks.
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As an officer was walking toward the people at about 6:10 p.m., the train hit and killed them, Moors said.
Officials told Fox News Digital it appeared the three people heard the train and could not get off the tracks in time. They were all hit at the same time.
There were no reported injuries to the 236 passengers or crew onboard, an Amtrak spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
No officers were injured in the crash.
“Amtrak is working with the Bristol Borough Police Department to investigate the incident,” the spokesperson said.
Amtrak Police is leading the investigation.
The three people, who were all adults, have not yet been publicly identified.
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In a travel advisory, Amtrak announced all rail traffic scheduled to depart New York and Philadelphia was being held.
“We apologize for the inconvenience and will provide an update as details become available,” Amtrak wrote in the advisory. “We appreciate your patience.”
As of 11 p.m. Thursday, train service resumed.
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On Wednesday, one person died after being hit by an Amtrak train in the same county.
The crash happened near Cornwells Heights Station, delaying train service in all directions for an hour.
There were no reported injuries to the 232 passengers or crew onboard, according to Amtrak.
Amtrak is working with the Bensalem Police Department to investigate.
Judge poised to hold Trump admin in contempt as he takes down names during hearing
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Thursday grilled Trump administration lawyers over whether they defied a court order blocking deportations under a wartime immigration law — a potential step toward holding the administration in contempt.
At issue is the administration’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan nationals, including alleged members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang. Boasberg pressed Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign on why the government appeared to ignore an emergency injunction last month halting those deportations.
The administration has appealed the underlying case to the Supreme Court. But for now, Boasberg is weighing whether there is probable cause to move forward with contempt proceedings — a question that remained open after a tense exchange in court.
Boasberg said he would issue a decision as early as next week on how to proceed if he finds grounds to hold the administration in contempt.
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During the hearing, Ensign was repeatedly questioned about who in the Trump administration had information about the flights and when the three deportation flights left U.S. soil for El Salvador. At least 261 migrants were deported that day, including more than 100 Venezuelan nationals who were subject to removal “solely on the basis” of the law temporarily blocked by the court.
“You maintain that the government was in full compliance with the court’s order on March 15, correct?” Boasberg asked Ensign.
Ensign said yes, to which the judge responded: “It seems to me the government acted in bad faith that day.”
“If you really believed everything you did that day was legal and would survive a court challenge, you would not have operated the way that you did,” Boasberg said.
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He repeatedly questioned Ensign about his knowledge of the flights and whether any related materials were classified, which could have triggered state secrets protections.
Government lawyers have refused to share information in court about the deportation flights, and whether the plane (or planes) of migrants knowingly departed U.S. soil after the judge ordered them not to do so, citing national security protections.
But according to Ensign, that may not have been an issue. He told Boasberg the flight information likely wasn’t classified, prompting the judge to wonder aloud why it hadn’t been shared with him in an ex parte setting.
“Can you think of one instance” where the state secrets privilege was invoked using unclassified info? he asked Ensign, who struggled to respond.
“Pretty sketchy,” Boasberg said aloud in response.
Another focus of Thursday’s hearing was timing — both when President Donald Trump signed the proclamation authorizing use of the Alien Enemies Act, and when federal agents began loading planes with migrants bound for El Salvador.
Boasberg noted that the Trump administration began loading the planes the morning of March 15, hours before the flights left the U.S.
“So then it’s not crazy to infer there was prior knowledge and actions ahead of the Saturday night deportations?” he asked Ensign.
The judge pressed the lawyer over the names, locations and agencies of individuals who were privy to the removals, as well as internal conversations with other administration officials who may have been listening in to the court proceedings.
“Who did you tell about my order?” Boasberg asked. “Once the hearing was done, who did you tell?”
Ensign says he relayed the information to Department of Homeland Security contacts and State Department officials, among others.
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He listed the names of the individuals, at Boasberg’s request, which the judge then carefully transcribed onto a pad of paper, interjecting at times to clarify the spelling or ask for their job titles.
The hearing is the latest in a flurry of legal battles over the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act. It follows Boasberg’s order requiring officials to explain why they failed to comply with his directive to return the deportation flights — and whether they knowingly defied the court.
Boasberg told both sides he would see them again next week for arguments on the plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction motion, set for Tuesday.
The hearing also marks the latest clash between Trump and Boasberg, whom the president has publicly denounced as an “activist” judge and called for his impeachment.
Mom’s gut-wrenching message to parents after teenage son dies in twin brother’s arms
Choking back tears, the grieving Texas mother and twin brother of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf struggled to explain the devastation they feel after he was stabbed to death in a terrifying scene at a track meet in Frisco, Texas.
Austin Metcalf, a junior at Memorial High School in Frisco, was stabbed in the chest allegedly by 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, a student-athlete from Frisco Centennial High School. The altercation reportedly began as a seating dispute as the teams waited for the delayed competition to begin.
The suspect has been arrested and charged with murder.
“My son is gone, and I don’t really have words,” Meghan Metcalf wept Thursday on “The Will Cain Show.” “He’s just going to be so missed by mostly our family, but this whole community has really wrapped their arms around us. If I could say anything to the nation, I would say to make sure that you just hug your babies tight, because you don’t know when [is] the last time you get to do it.”
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Austin was “extremely smart” and a “highly recruited” football player, and his twin brother Hunter remembered him as “just a great person overall” who was “always there to check on me and keep me straight, so I wouldn’t get in trouble.”
Hunter Metcalf recounted the tragedy Thursday on “The Will Cain Show.” He explained that the brothers noticed the suspect near their team tent. When the brother tried to question the suspect, the situation escalated, he said.
“My brother stepped in. He started being how he always is. We’re just brothers, just having my back. Things started getting more, like, higher intensity, and the kid said some, like, aggressive stuff — like, reckless stuff — and Austin tried to handle the problem,” Hunter said, recounting Austin’s final moments.
“I whipped my head around, and then all of a sudden I see him running down the bleachers just grabbing his chest… I put my hand on there, tried to make it [the bleeding] stop, and I grabbed his head and I looked in his eyes. I just saw his soul leave, and it took my soul, too.”
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The incident occurred at about 10 a.m. at Kuykendall Stadium at the University Interscholasic League’s District 11-5A championship meet. Anthony attends Frisco Centennial, roughly 7 miles away from Frisco Memorial.
According to the Frisco Independent School District, the meet was suspended shortly after the incident. The ISD added that the stadium “was immediately secured, and students were released and sent back to their home campus on FISD buses with expediency.”
Meanwhile, the Metcalf family is grappling with rage and grief over the sudden loss of Austin.
“I am so angry at that boy. It’s just not fair,” Meghan cried out.
The Metcalf family’s church held a vigil in Austin’s honor on Wednesday night, drawing hundreds of people.
“Seventeen years, my best friend, just there in the blink of an eye, I lost him. So I’m not at that point to forgive and forget, but eventually I will,” Hunter said.
“I just pray for [the suspect’s] family,” he added. “I pray that they understand what we’re going through as well.”
A GoFundMe page was started by Austin’s father, Jeff Metcalf, to help the family heal.
Tom Hanks’ daughter reflects on childhood ‘with confusion, violence, deprivation’
Tom Hanks’ only daughter, E.A. Hanks, remembers a complicated childhood marred by her parents’ divorce and a mother she claims could be emotionally and physically “violent.”
E.A., whose initials stand for Elizabeth Anne, wrote about her experience in her upcoming memoir, “The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road.” The 42-year-old’s parents separated after five years of marriage in 1985, and her mother, Susan Dillingham, whom she describes as Hanks’ first “non-famous” wife, got primary custody.
The “Big” actor saw E.A. and her older brother Colin Hanks, 47, on weekends and in the summer, she wrote in an excerpt obtained by People magazine.
E.A. said she was born in the Los Angeles area, but her mother moved them to Sacramento after the separation.
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“Eventually a divorce agreement was settled, and I would visit my dad and stepmother (and soon enough my younger half brothers) on the weekends and during summers, but from 5 to 14, years filled with confusion, violence, deprivation, and love, I was a Sacramento girl,” she wrote. “I lived in a white house with columns, a backyard with a pool, and a bedroom with pictures of horses plastered on every wall.”
She said Dillingham, who also went by the stage name Samantha Lewes, failed to tell their father she was leaving LA with the children.
“My dad came to pick us up from school, and we’re not there,” E.A. explained, according to People. “And it turns out we haven’t been there for two weeks, and he has to track us down.”
In Sacramento, E.A. and Colin’s life with Dillingham was troubled.
“As the years went on, the backyard became so full of dog s— that you couldn’t walk around it, the house stank of smoke,” she wrote, adding she believes her mother, although undiagnosed, suffered from bipolar disorder and episodes of extreme paranoia and delusions.
“The fridge was bare or full of expired food more often than not, and my mother spent more and more time in her big four-poster bed, poring over the Bible.”
“Eventually a divorce agreement was settled, and I would visit my dad and stepmother (and soon enough my younger half brothers) on the weekends and during summers, but from 5 to 14, years filled with confusion, violence, deprivation, and love, I was a Sacramento girl.”
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Then Hanks suddenly got primary custody after an incident.
“One night, her emotional violence became physical violence, and in the aftermath I moved to Los Angeles, right smack in the middle of the seventh grade,” she wrote. “My custody arrangement basically switched — now I lived in L.A. and visited Sacramento on the weekends and in the summer.”
E.A. added that, in her senior year of high school, her mother “called to say she was dying.”
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Dillingham died of lung cancer in 2002 at the age of 49.
The memoir is mainly focused on a road trip she took in 2019 from LA to Palatka, Florida, where Dillingham’s family used to live to try and learn more about her mother. It was inspired by a different road trip she and her mom took together.
“When I was 14, my mother and I drove across America along Interstate 10 to Florida, in a Winnebago that lumbered along the asphalt with a rolling gait that felt nautical,” she wrote of one of her last memories of Dillingham.
She said the only time she remembers her parents being “in the same place at the same time” was at Colin’s and her high school graduations.
“I have one picture of me standing between my parents,” she wrote. “In it, my mother’s best wig is slightly askew.”
Fox News Digital reached out to reps for Hanks for comment.
After his divorce from Dillingham in 1987, Hanks married Rita Wilson in 1988. They share two sons — Chet, 34, and Truman, 29.
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E.A.’s memoir, “The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road,” is out Tuesday.
James Bond’s new owner, Amazon MGM, has already started working out the details of a “fresh, exotic new” Bond that is sparking conversation online.
At CinemaCon, the annual convention for movie theater owners in Las Vegas, studio executives Courtenay Valenti and Sue Kroll shared a few details about the latest entry in the franchise.
“We are committed to honoring the legacy of this iconic character while bringing a fresh, exotic new chapter to audiences around the world alongside [producers] Amy [Pascal] and David [Heyman],” they told the audience Wednesday night, per Variety.
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“They’re both in London getting started and couldn’t be here tonight, but we wanted to thank them for what we know to make an incredible partnership.”
James Bond fans were divided online by the promise of a new Bond.
“People don’t want a fresh exotic Bond,” one person wrote on X.
Another lamented, “‘Fresh?’ ‘Exotic?’ No, no, no. James Bond was already perfect, why changing the roots of Ian Fleming[‘s] iconic character ?
“That’s it. Bond went woke. Fffff,” one person complained.
Another wondered, “If they wanted to do something ‘fresh’, why buy the James Bond franchise?”
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Others were into the idea of a different style for the Bond films.
“It’s time, it’s time for a James Bond 007 female,” one person wrote on X.
“I hope he’s a black actor,” another added.
In February, Amazon shared a press release announcing that long-time producers of the Bond films, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, would be stepping back from the franchise and giving creative control to Amazon MGM.
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“Amazon MGM Studios, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli today announced that they have formed a new joint venture to house the James Bond intellectual property rights, and those parties will remain co-owners of the franchise,” the company said in a statement at the time.
“Under the terms of the new venture, Amazon MGM Studios will gain creative control of the James Bond franchise following closing of the transaction.”
Daniel Craig, the most recent man to portray the world-famous secret agent, told Variety, “My respect, admiration and love for Barbara and Michael remain constant and undiminished. I wish Michael a long, relaxing (and well deserved) retirement and whatever ventures Barbara goes on to do, I know they will be spectacular, and I hope I can be part of them.”
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared Reuters’ headline, “James Bond’s long-serving producers give control to Amazon,” and asked followers on the X platform, “Who’d you pick as the next Bond?” Many X users responded with images of English actor Henry Cavill.
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With the news out of CinemaCon, some people suggested “White Lotus” star Theo James.
“Theo James should be the next James Bond. Someone at @AmazonMGMStudio needs to court him seriously!” one person wrote.