Trump Working To Give Yosemite National Park Land To Private Developer: ReportThe National Park Service has been working under the direction of Trump officials to give land within Yosemite National Park to a private developer, according to a report in NOTUS.The proposed deal would allow a Nevada-based company access to construct a road inside a roughly quarter-mile strip of park land. The road would connect one of Yosemite’s central thoroughfares to land owned by the private developer, just outside the park’s western boundaries, NOTUS reported, citing four people directly familiar with discussions, as well as agency documents.In exchange, the park service would receive land considered to be of equal value somewhere in California. The land exchange has reportedly been in the works since the spring of last year.A National Park Service spokesperson told HuffPost that “no final decisions have been made” and any land exchange or access would be subject to “all applicable federal laws, regulations, and Departmental policies, including required environmental review and public notification processes.”“If a proposal advances, the Department would follow established procedures to ensure appropriate coordination, transparency, and public involvement, consistent with federal law,” they added.Read more from NOTUS here:Latest Live UpdatesTrump Announces Creation Of U.S. Space AcademyWhile speaking at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, President Donald Trump on Friday said he would soon sign an executive order for the creation of a U.S. Space Academy.“It’s clear that we will need to educate and train an entire generation of skilled service members, engineers, and civil operators ... and that’s why in a few moments I will sign an executive order to begin the process of creating a new national academy. It’s called the U.S. Space Academy,” Trump said.The announcement came during an event to award the Artemis II crew the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.“So you think of West Point, and you think of Annapolis, and you think of the Air Force Academy, and you think of the Coast Guard Academy’s great — they’re all great,” the president added. “But we’re going to have now a Space Force. We’re going to have an academy for what the people in this room love the most.”Nepal Declines Foreign Aid Following Catastrophic Flash FloodsNepal’s foreign minister is declining foreign assistance following this week’s devastating flash flooding that has killed roughly 500 people, saying they don’t need it, Reuters and Agence France-Presse reported.“The offer for help is natural. Our security agencies are doing the search-and-rescue operation. For now we don’t require such help,” Lok Bahadur Chhetri, spokesperson for the foreign ministry, said Friday, according to Reuters.Speaking to AFP, Chhetri said this stance could change.“If Nepal needs any specialized help or expertise, then we will request it,” he said.More than 3,700 people have been rescued so far, but 1,924 remain unaccounted for, The Associated Press reported Friday.President Donald Trump on Thursday said the U.S. is offering Nepal “anything they want.”Jury Resumes Deliberations In Lindsay Clancy TrialJurors have started their second day of deliberations in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom whose defense argues that postpartum mental illness drove her to kill her three children.The jurors met for a few hours on Thursday but left without reaching a verdict on whether she’s guilty of three counts of first-degree murder. Clancy has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.The jury briefly returned on Friday with a question for the judge, who called the lawyers to the bench for a sidebar, The Associated Press reported.The judge and attorneys finished discussing the question, but did not address it in open court before going to recess, Fox News reported.Trump Says He’s Working To Break Up Meat Processing ‘Monopoly’ And Let Farmers, Ranchers ‘Process Their Own Food’President Donald Trump said he is authorizing legal documents to break up what he called a “nasty monopoly” of meat processing companies in the U.S. by allowing farmers and ranchers to “process their own food.”“There are, essentially, 4 of them, a very non competitive number, and they make life miserable for our wonderful Farmers and Ranchers, and I can’t let that happen, can I?” he wrote on social media Friday. “This should move quickly.”The announcement follows conservative talk show host Glenn Beck, in an interview with the president on Wednesday, raising his concerns about the nation’s beef processing regulations. Beck, who said he owns his own ranch, called the companies a “meat processing cartel” and urged Trump to “break their back” by reducing federal meat processing regulations.“Help us. With all of the federal regulations, it is really hard,” Beck said.“So you’re saying, with less regulation, you think that the ranchers and farmers would do a very good job of processing the beef,” Trump said of Beck’s plea.“Wow, I’ll look into that today,” Trump said. “You just gave me a very good idea.”Four companies control about 85% of meat processing in the U.S., according to Reuters. Those are Cargill, Tyson Foods, JBS USA, and National Beef Packing Co.The Justice Department has been investigating whether the four companies have engaged in criminal anticompetitive conduct, The Wall Street Journal first reported in April.Friday marks six months since the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran, and there’s still no end to it in sight.Iran’s minister of foreign affairs, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, said Friday that “putting diplomacy back on track isn’t impossible.”“It hinges on U.S. understanding of one simple fact: pressure doesn’t work. The U.S. should build trust, speak respectfully, acknowledge our rights, and uphold commitments,” he said in a message posted on social media.Trump on Thursday also said talks are off.“We ‌don’t want to speak to them. We’re not looking to meet or anything,” he told reporters in the White House.Norway’s King Harald V Dies At 89 And His Son Becomes King Haakon VIIIKing Harald V of Norway, who went into exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his homeland and refused a string of European noblewomen to marry his school sweetheart, died Friday. He was 89.The palace said he died at the National Hospital in Oslo at 6:35 a.m.Harald was Europe’s oldest monarch. The popular king modernized the royal house but refused to follow in the footsteps of other aging monarchs who have abdicated in recent times. His son automatically became King Haakon VIII.Read more from the AP here:Intelligence Reports Reveal That Putin Views U.S. As Weakened By Iran War: WaPoU.S. intelligence reportedly showed that Russian President Vladimir Putin sees the U.S. as weakened by the Iran war, giving the Kremlin an opening to ramp up pressure in Europe, according to The Washington Post, which cited two anonymous sources familiar with the matter. The classified assessment preceded a surprise trip that CIA Director John Ratcliffe recently made to Moscow, where he warned the Kremlin against escalating operations toward Ukraine during the visit, one source told The Post. CBS News and ABC had previously reported that Ratcliffe also cautioned Moscow against attacking NATO countries. The CIA and the White House declined to comment to The Post on Ratcliffe’s visit. Read more from The Washington Post: Judge Again Blocks Trump Mail Ballot Executive Order In Ruling That’s Likely To Be Swiftly AppealedA federal judge on Thursday halted — at least for now — attempts to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail voting.The move stalled the directive for a second time only about a week before the first mail ballots are due to be sent out for the rapidly approaching midterm elections. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani placed a 14-day hold on the government implementing the order in a case that could be headed back to the Supreme Court, which on Monday overturned an earlier ruling of hers that had blocked Trump’s order from taking effect.Read more from The AP:Democratic Senator Urges Criminal Investigation Of RFK Jr. Following Samoa ReportSen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) says he’ll urge Republicans to refer Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation after a new report raised questions about the Trump official’s testimony regarding his past trip to Samoa. Previously, Kennedy had said that a 2019 trip to Samoa had “nothing to do with vaccines,” when asked about the visit during a Congressional hearing in 2025.New documents obtained by The Associated Press and The Guardian, however, revealed that Kennedy had specifically reached out to the Samoan prime minister about studying “what happened with your MMR vaccines” in a letter prior to the visit. The Department of Health and Human Services maintained that the trip “was unrelated to vaccines” in a comment to the AP. “Any claim or insinuation based on these letters that Secretary Kennedy lied under oath or to Congress is not only false but outright defamatory,” the Department said. HHS did not immediately respond to The Guardian’s request for comment about the call for an investigation. In addition to pressing his Republican colleagues, Wyden noted that Democrats could also hold Trump officials accountable if they retake the Senate majority. “RFK’s platform is built on lies and grifts that leave a trail of dead children in their wake. There are consequences for lying to Congress,” Wyden said in a statement to The Guardian. Read more from The Guardian: Trump Planning To Skip The 9/11 25th Anniversary Ceremony At World Trade Center: ReportPresident Donald Trump plans to skip the 25th anniversary ceremony of the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center in New York, according to The New York Times.Trump’s team, which visited ground zero ahead of time, initially told officials he planned to attend and was interested in speaking at the ceremony on September 11, which he had attended previously. However, politicians have been prohibited from speaking at the site since 2012 in an effort to keep it nonpartisan.Trump, who is from New York, has apparently since backed out in part because he wanted to deliver the speech. He also has travel plans the following day for the Irish Open tournament, The Times reported. Instead, Trump plans to commemorate the terrorist attack at the Pentagon, which was also targeted during the 9/11 attacks, sources told The Times. He gave a speech at the Pentagon last year for the anniversary of the attack.Read more at The New York Times:See All Updates