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Robert Kennedy Jr. already has a job with Trump, as announced by the Republican candidate
The Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency, Donald Trump, announced in Arizona that former independent candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. will be in charge of a working team that will create, if he wins the November elections, to investigate what is causing the increase in chronic health problems for decades in the country and childhood diseases.
He will also create a commission, in honor of ´Bobby´, as he called the lawyer and environmentalist of whom he said he is “proud”, to investigate and publish the remaining documents related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, uncle of the now former White House candidate.
The presence of Kennedy Jr. in Trump’s act occurs only hours after he announced that he abandoned his career for the White House and made the leap to support the Republican and said that he made the decision after the real estate tycoon promised him that if he reaches the presidency he would let him fight to end the chronic diseases.
“Tonight I am very pleased to welcome a man who has been an incredible advocate of many of the values that we all share, and we have shared them for a long time,” Trump said a few minutes after entering the stage of the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, full of followers.
“I don’t think many of you have heard of him, he is very discreet, but very respected. He is a great person, I have known him for a long time,” Trump also said, who in front of the delirious applause of the crowd assured that “it is what he (Kennedy) deserves.”
Trump also assured the crowd that Kennedy carried out an “extraordinary” campaign and that he had defeated President Joe Biden, who initially sought re-election before handing over the baton to vice president Kamala Harris, that if the Democrats had allowed him to participate in primaries, he would have defeated Biden.
In his turn on the podium, Kennedy, who recognized his ideological differences with the candidate he now supports, said that his values overlap in “having safe food and ending the epidemic of chronic diseases.”
“Don’t you want food without chemicals? Don’t you want a president to get us out of wars and rebuild the middle class?” said Kenendy Jr., son of the prosecutor killed in the 1960s, Robert Francis Kennedy.
At the time of leaving the presidential race, Kennedy Jr. had a voting intention of 4.7%, according to the average of polls prepared by Five Thirty Eight, which this Friday reflects a support of 47% to Harris and 43.7% to Trump.
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White House says Cuba policy unchanged despite sanctioned fuel shipment
The White House said Monday that it has not changed its policy toward Cuba, despite allowing a sanctioned Russian oil tanker to deliver fuel to the island on humanitarian grounds.
U.S. officials emphasized that the decision was made as an exception and does not signal a broader shift in policy.
The administration added that similar decisions would be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, depending on humanitarian considerations.
The clarification comes amid ongoing restrictions related to U.S. sanctions policy, which continue to limit trade and financial flows involving Cuba.
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Spain to grant citizenship to Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López
The Spanish government is expected to grant citizenship this Tuesday to Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lópezthrough an extraordinary procedure known as “carta de naturaleza.”
The decision will be approved by royal decree, an exceptional legal mechanism used in special cases that require expedited resolution due to specific circumstances.
López has been living in Madrid since 2020, after leaving Venezuela following a prolonged political and legal conflict with the government of Nicolás Maduro.
According to government sources, López currently does not have a valid Venezuelan passport and faces difficulties in having his nationality fully recognized in his home country.
As a result, he applied for Spanish citizenship via a fast-track process at the end of 2025, after previously attempting to obtain it through regular procedures.
The Spanish government justified the move based on López’s international relevance and foreign policy considerations.
López is the leader of the Voluntad Popular party and co-founder of the World Liberty Congress, an initiative launched in 2022 alongside figures such as Garry Kasparov and Masih Alinejad.
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ICE to remain at airports amid DHS shutdown, Homan says
The U.S. “border czar,” Tom Homan, said Sunday that agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will remain deployed at airports until operations return to “100% normal,” as the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues.
“We will maintain ICE presence until airports feel they are fully back to normal operations,” Homan said during an interview on Face the Nation on CBS.
Homan justified the deployment on security grounds, noting that the measure was ordered by President Donald Trumpamid widespread absenteeism among agents of the Transportation Security Administration, who have gone without pay for over six weeks due to the DHS shutdown.
According to acting TSA administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill, at least 460 TSA agents have resigned during the shutdown, while daily absenteeism has averaged 11%, exceeding 50% at some airports.
Homan warned that if TSA staffing levels do not recover after the shutdown, ICE agents will continue filling the gap. “ICE is there to support our TSA brothers and sisters. We will remain as long as needed to ensure airport security,” he said.
The DHS shutdown reached 44 days on Sunday, making it the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The impasse stems from disagreements between Democrats and Republicans over ICE funding.
A recent bipartisan Senate proposal to fund DHS without including ICE failed after being blocked by House Republicans, who insist on full funding for the agency.
Amid the deadlock, Trump signed an executive order directing Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to immediately pay TSA agents to address what he called an “emergency situation” and restore order at airports, with payments expected to begin Monday.
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