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The U.S.-born director of ‘Home Alone 2’ is afraid of being deported.

Filmmaker Chris Columbus has told the San Francisco Chronicle that President Donald Trump’s cameo in his movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is “an albatross” that he wishes to remove.

The U.S. economy is set to lose billions of dollars over foreign boycotts of President Donald Trump's tariffs and other policies.

Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that foreign travel to the US had decreased by almost 10% in the past year. A worst-case scenario would be a 0.3% hit to the US gross domestic product — about $90 billion — according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc estimates.

The State Department is expected propose the elimination of entire embassies and consulates around the world as the U.S. government looks to shrink its diplomatic footprint.

Punchbowl News obtained a document showing the department will file a fiscal year 2026 budget proposal due to the Office of Management and Budget that calls for the consolidation of outposts in Canada, Japan and some other countries and the “resizing” consulates in major cities to “FLEX-style light consulates.”

The G7 countries' plan to formally condemn a Russian missile attack on Ukraine is being rejected by the Trump administration, reported Bloomberg News on Tuesday.

" Russia fired two short-range ballistic missiles, including one equipped with cluster munitions, at Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy on Palm Sunday morning as Ukrainians attended church services," noted the report. "At least 35 people were killed and 119 injured in the attack, including children, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said."

As the White House claims they have the ‘upper hand’ in the China trade war, a new POLITICO report is claiming otherwise.

US tariffs on Chinese goods are now at 145 percent. This is up 135 percentage points since February 1, when there was just a 10 percent tariff.

President Donald Trump's trade war and the significant cuts in scientific research at U.S. agencies are moving "America down the value chain," political analyst Jonathan Chait wrote for "The Atlantic" on Monday.

Trump inherited a "healthy economy," only to "burn [it] down," Chait wrote. He questioned whether it was incompetence or if there was something strategic Trump was attempting to do.

Five owner-operated businesses have filed a lawsuit against the tariffs in the U.S. Court of International Trade.

The Liberty Justice Center and law professor Ilya Somin joined together to form the legal team for the five businesses, which includes VOS Selections, Inc. Plastic Services and Products, Genova Pipe, Microkits, FishUSA, and Terry Precision Cycling.

Jacob Levy, Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory at McGill University, cautioned in a Blue Sky thread that the case involving a Maryland man the U.S. government acknowledges was "wrongfully deported" has reached a "crisis moment."

In March, Kilmar Ábrego García was accused of being an MS-13 gang member and deported to El Salvador along with others whom the U.S government alleged were dangerous. The deportation was carried out despite a U.S. judge telling the government that it could not deport García to El Salvador.