We’re pausing our live coverage of Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, but we’ll be back with you bright and early tomorrow morning.
Before we return, here’s a quick recap of what’s been happening in the US during the last 24 hours:
Domestic policy
Trump signed his latest executive order, banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sport.
The move is designed to prevent people who were biologically assigned male at birth from participating in certain sporting events, including those at school.
Ahead of signing the order, Mr Trump said: “From now on women’s sports will be only for women.
“We’ve gotten the woke lunacy out of our military and now we’re getting it out of women’s sports.”
In other domestic policy news:
Foreign policy
Much of the world spent today catching up on Trump’s plan for Gaza – revealed yesterday alongside Benjamin Netanyahu, and they didn’t like it.
Trump’s comments suggesting the US “take over” the enclave and turn it into the “Middle East Riviera” were widely condemned by political opponents, world leaders, humanitarian groups and, most importantly, Palestinians.
Egypt and Jordan – who have been touted to receive, Palestinians, rejected the idea immediately, whilst Saudi Arabia, an important American ally, said its calls for an independent Palestinian state were “unwavering”.
Democrat Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American member of US Congress, said Trump’s comments amounted to “ethnic cleansing”.
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian UN ambassador, said simply: “Our homeland is our homeland.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared to row back on the president’s comments in the While House briefing room earlier today.
She repeatedly said the US wanted to relocate Palestinians “temporarily” rather than “permanently”, as Trump had said several times yesterday.
In other foreign policy news:
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A BELOVED restaurant chain has announced it will close eight venues across the UK, scrapping 158 jobs in the process.Owners are pointing the finger at Labour's
The latest figures published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics today (7 March) came in below market expectations, with economists polled by