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The Qatari royal family has been trying for five years to unload one of the jumbo jets in their fleet, but they had been unable to find a buyer until they foisted the massive aircraft on president Donald Trump.

Airlines have been retiring the Boeing 747 over the last decade because they're too expensive to fly, cost more to maintain and require longer runways for landing, and the Qataris had struggled to find a buyer for one of their three remaining "flying palaces" before offering it to the U.S. president as a gift, reported Forbes.

President Donald Trump took a risk on his Middle East trip, and it could be disastrous, according to a CNN analysis.

Written by Stephen Collinson, who believes there was a lot of “substance” that happened on the trip but lifting sanctions on Syria could backfire.

CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent Alex Marquardt claims there is a “chill in the air” at the National Security Council as many layoffs are expected.

The comments came after Marquardt gave a report on negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

Hours before the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments regarding the right to birthright citizenship, which Donald Trump's administration is attempting to undermine, the president jumped on Truth Social to complain.

As NBC News reported, "The longstanding interpretation of the provision as understood by generations of Americans, including legal scholars on the left and right, is that anyone born on U.S. soil is an American citizen with a few minor exceptions, including people who are the children of diplomats. As part of Trump's hard-line immigration policy, he wants to limit birthright citizenship to people who have at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen or is a permanent U.S. resident."

Vice President JD Vance is headed back to Rome this weekend to attend Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural mass, according to a Bloomberg report.

This will be Vance’s second trip to the Vatican in two months. Last month, he visited Pope Francis on Easter weekend before the pontiff died on Easter Monday. Conspiracy theorists and jokesters alike swelled the digital world with the idea that Vance’s meeting killed the pope. However, Francis was hospitalized before his death.

Republican Georgia state Rep. Kacey Carpenter is asking for the release of a student taken into custody after being "wrongly pulled over" by police, a report said on Wednesday.

The Dalton Police Department pulled over Mexican-born 19-year-old Ximena Arias-Cristobal, The Daily Beast reported. Both the police and the prosecuting attorney of the City of Dalton have dismissed charges against her, yet the report explained she remains in Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, the police confirmed.