“I feel we achieved quite a bit in 4 years of the Trump administration,” Melania Trump informed Fox in an interview that aired Sunday morning, including, “By no means say by no means,” when requested if she might be residing within the White Home once more ought to her husband run for reelection.
Throughout the interview, Trump mentioned what she known as her “NFT tasks.” The previous first woman has designed and put up on the market on her private web site a number of non-fungible tokens, that are digital collectibles authenticated by the blockchain that’s usually a bit of digital artwork. The entire gadgets Trump is promoting can solely be bought through cryptocurrency, and the primary lot of things put up on the market earlier this yr failed to achieve its desired financial threshold of $250,000 for a gap bid.
The newest NFT, titled “The MetaRose,” is a blue rose that animates. Usually, most trendy first women set up foundations or organizations — usually not-for-profit — that additional the initiatives they started throughout their White Home tenures. Trump stated once more through the interview that “a few of the proceeds” of the sale of the NFTs — that are listed at $150 every — will go towards supporting foster kids.
CNN has a number of occasions sought readability on how giant a portion of the gross sales will likely be or have been devoted to charitable endeavors, and to which charities, and has not acquired a solution. Trump has by no means publicly acknowledged how a lot cash she has pocketed from the sale of those digital gadgets, which she has been promoting since late final yr.
Trump mentioned the truth that she wasn’t featured on the duvet of Vogue journal throughout her time within the White Home, a decades-old custom that was resumed final yr when the journal put first woman Jill Biden on its cowl.
“They’re biased they usually have likes and dislikes, and it is so apparent,” she stated about why the style journal by no means centered on her as they produce other first women.
Trump additionally weighed in on the state of the US beneath President Joe Biden, saying, “I feel it is unhappy to see what is going on on, for those who actually look deeply into it.”
“I feel lots of people are struggling and struggling and what’s going on all over the world as properly. So it’s totally unhappy to see and I hope it adjustments quick,” Trump stated.
Two bodies were discovered in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane on Monday after a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the airline said in a statement on Tuesday.
JetBlue Flight 1801 departed Kennedy Airport in New York at 7:49 p.m. Monday and landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport at 11:10 p.m., according to flight tracker data. The bodies were discovered during a routine post-flight maintenance assessment of the plane, the airline said.
Paramedics pronounced the two people dead at the scene, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. It was unclear how long the people had been in the landing gear compartment.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages Kennedy Airport, did not immediately respond to a request for comment about how the individuals may have gained access to the aircraft.
Landing gear compartments, located under an aircraft’s wings and at the front of the plane, have long been used by people attempting to travel undetected on airplanes. The airline did not say whether the two people who were found dead on Monday were stowaways.
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Such attempts to hide in landing gear compartments have proven deadly in the past. The compartments open and close upon takeoff and landing to deploy and retract wheels and other landing components, and other stowaways have fallen to their deaths from the openings, sometimes landing in public spaces along flight paths.
Those who can stay within the compartment risk being crushed by landing gear when it is withdrawn back into the aircraft, along with other hazards, including severe temperatures, pressure changes and lack of oxygen. Many stowaways die of hypothermia.
As recently as Christmas Day, a body was discovered in a wheel well of a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Hawaii. In 2023, a man was found alive in a landing gear compartment after a commercial flight from Algeria to France, though he was suffering from severe hypothermia.
An investigation was underway on Tuesday to determine the identities of the two individuals discovered in Fort Lauderdale and how they might have accessed the aircraft before it departed from New York, JetBlue said.
“This is a heartbreaking situation, and we are committed to working closely with authorities to support their efforts to understand how this occurred,” the airline said.
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Facebook owner Meta is ending its third party fact-checking programme and will instead rely on its users to flag misinformation.
The social media platform on Tuesday said it would “allow more speech by lifting restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discourse and focusing our enforcement on illegal and high-severity violations” and “take a more personalised approach to political content”.
Starting in the US, Meta will move to a so-called “community notes” model, similar to the one employed by Elon Musk’s X, which allows users to add context to controversial or misleading posts. Meta itself will not write community notes.
Former President Jimmy Carter‘s casket is being transferred Tuesday to Washington, D.C., for the next phase of his state funeral.
Carter has been lying in repose in Atlanta, as part of six days of observances that began Saturday with a service at his boyhood home in Plains, Georgia.
“This is somebody from a small town in south Georgia who was a peanut farmer who ultimately became the president of the United States,” said Carter’s grandson, Jason Carter, at the Plains service on Saturday. “It’s a pretty remarkable American story.”
Carter, the 39th president, died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100 — living longer than any president in U.S. history. His beloved wife of 77 years, Rosalynn, died in November 2023.
On Tuesday, Carter’s body will be flown from Atlanta to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where his casket will be transferred with ceremony to a hearse. From there, a motorcade will proceed to the U.S. Navy Memorial, where his casket will then be transferred from a hearse to a horse-drawn caisson with ceremony.
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Members of the joint services military honor guard conduct a changing of the guard near the casket of former President Jimmy Carter as he lies in repose at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, on Jan. 6, 2025. Carter died Dec. 29 at the age of 100.
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The caisson will travel to the U.S. Capitol, where Carter’s casket will be carried up the stairs into the Rotunda by military body bearers. Members of Congress will be able to pay their respects during a service.
Beginning Tuesday afternoon, Carter will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda until Thursday, when his funeral service will be held at the National Cathedral before his remains are flown back to Georgia. President Biden is will be delivering a eulogy at Thursday’s service, along with several others. President-elect Donald Trump said he will attend.
There will be a final private service in Plains, and Carter will be buried next to Rosalynn Carter at his family’s peanut farm.
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Full schedule of Tuesday’s events (all times Eastern):
9:30 a.m.: A departure ceremony from the Carter Presidential Center.
10 a.m.: The motorcade departs for Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia.
10:40 a.m.: The late president and his family arrive at Dobbins Air Reserve Base and board Special Air Mission 39 after an arrival ceremony.
11:15 a.m.: Special Air Mission 39 departs for Washington.
12:45 p.m.: Special Air Mission 39 arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, and Carter’s remains are transferred with ceremony to the hearse.
1:15 p.m.: The motorcade departs for the U.S. Navy Memorial.
2 p.m.: The motorcade arrives at the U.S. Navy Memorial and Carter’s remains are transferred from a hearse to a horse drawn caisson with ceremony.
2:15 p.m.: The funeral procession begins marching up to the U.S. Capitol via Pennsylvania Avenue, turning left onto Constitution Avenue.
2:40 p.m.: Upon arrival at the U.S. Capitol, the late president is carried up the stairs by military body bearers and into the Rotunda.
3 p.m.: Congress pays their respects during a service in the Rotunda.
3:45 p.m.: Carter begins lying in state while the military maintains a guard of honor.
7 p.m. to midnight: Lying in state opens to the public.
Caroline Linton
Caroline Linton is an associate managing editor on the political team for CBSNews.com. She has previously written for The Daily Beast, Newsweek and amNewYork.
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