Trump warns he’ll do ‘whatever it takes’ to deport migrants and vows to shut down Department of Education in Time Person of the Year interview: Live

Donald Trump said he was willing to do “whatever it takes” to drive illegal immigrants out of the United States, including building more detention centers, and also vowed to close the Department of Education and leave education administration to individual states.

Trump further played down fears of the possible influence of Elon Musk and Robert F Kennedy Jr on his administration and managed inflation expectations, warning that he may not be able to lower food prices after all, saying: “It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up, they’re very hard .”

The newly elected president commented on this in an interview withTime magazine after being named “person of the year” after winning the election in November.

The annual cover — which highlights an individual who greatly influenced the year, for better or for worse — was unveiled Thursday, bearing a powerful portrait of the Republican against a stark backdrop.

Trump also received the honor in 2016 after defeating Hillary Clinton to win the White House for the first time.

He celebrated this latest gong yesterday by giving a short speech and ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

Here Kelly Rissman with more.

“Homeless is a misnomer. It implies that somebody is a little behind on their mortgage, and if you just gave them a job, they would be back on their feet,” former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson said in October. “What you actually have are violent, drug-zombies with dead eyes and needles and human excrement on the street.”

The more money spent on fighting homelessness, “the worse it gets,” Musk says.

The findings strike a blow to the persistent right-wing conspiracy theories that federal law enforcement agents staged a riot or “false flag” attack in order to capture Donald Trumpsupporters to break into the Capitol.

But the report’s revelation that roughly two dozen confidential sources were on the ground at the time is likely to continue fueling the bogus narrative that federal agents had something to do with inciting the attack.

Back in September, an X/Twitter account known as Autism Capital posted a screenshot of the written theory which appears to have been taken from 4Chan. The theory postulated that only “high [testostrone] alpha males” and “aneurotypicals” can think freely and believe they know what is objectively true. This means that “a republic of high-status men is best for decision-making,” the theory continues. Elon Musk, owner of X and CEO of Tesla, responded: “Interesting observation.”

No wonder Musk found such proclamations interesting. He spoke publicly several times about having “Asperger’s syndrome” (a term that fell out of favor after researchers learned of the extent of Hans Asperger’s collaboration with the Nazi regime’s child euthanasia program and a program that has not been used clinically since 2013.) The concept of “Aspie supremacy” – a term coined by some disability rights advocates for the deeply problematic idea that people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who would previously be thought to have Asperger’s are superior to both neurotypicals and other autistics – around for a while. But in the last few years it has gained popularity in some very online, very right-wing spaces.

US Senate Chaplain Barry Black was hospitalized after suffering a brain hemorrhage and is expected to have a “smooth recovery,” his office said.

Black, 76, suffered a subdural hematoma earlier this week and is in a local hospital and under the care of Capitol doctors, said the Rev. Lisa Schultz, Black’s chief of staff. A subdural hematoma is when blood collects between the skull and the surface of the brain, increasing pressure on the brain.

The first guest invited to ring the opening bell for trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 1956 was not a company executive, a politician or a well-known celebrity. It was a ten-year-old boy, Leonard Ross, who received the honor by winning a television quiz.

Since then, business titans, political giants and global movie stars have all been among those who have rung the opening bell NYSE. Ronald Reagan rang the bell as president in 1985. Billionaire businessman and former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg and Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr. they also rang the bell. The list even includes the famous Muppets: Miss Piggy used to be a bell ringer.

The White House is pushing back against claims that New Jersey airspace has been invaded by drones controlled by enemy nations, and says many of the aircraft sightings cited in support of such claims are in fact normal piloted aircraft.

In recent days, Garden State residents have been posting videos of what they describe as drone sightings over areas where the U.S. military has a research center, as well as President-elect Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

One Republican congressman, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, claimed Wednesday during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing that the aircraft in question was of Iranian origin and under the control of a “mother ship” operated by Tehran near the US coast.

Noting that he has “a lot of differences” with her on policy, Comer repeatedly told CNN that Ocasio-Cortez is a “good person” and a “good speaker.” He also argued that she would be an “excellent” choice to co-chair the oversight board, adding that he had a rocky relationship with outgoing member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD).

Reported sexual assaults at US military academies fell in 2024 for second year in a row, according to new Pentagon data, marking a sharp turnaround from an alarming surge two years ago that triggered extensive reviews and a management overhaul.

The drop in reports is reflected in a similar decrease in the total number of students who said in an anonymous survey that they had experienced some kind of unwanted sexual contact during the school year that ended in the spring.

Defense officials warned Thursday, however, that the numbers were still high and that there was still much work to be done.