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Here’s what happened during Trump’s 13th week in office
President Donald Trump met with foreign leaders from El Salvador and Italy this week, advancing negotiations on both trade and immigration issues at the White House.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Washington during a pause in steep tariffs against the European Union and other countries that could go into effect in June. But both Trump and Meloni voiced optimism that the two countries would secure a deal before then.
«There will be a trade deal, 100%,» Trump told reporters at the White House Thursday. «Of course there will be a trade deal, they want to make one very much, and we’re going to make a trade deal. I fully expect it, but it’ll be a fair deal.»
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When asked whether she still considered the U.S. a reliable trading partner due to changes related to tariff policy, Meloni said that she wouldn’t have made the trek to the White House unless it were so. Meloni said her objective for the trip was to invite Trump to meetings on behalf of Italy and Europe to foster a trade negotiation between the two states.
«I think the best way is that we simply speak frankly about the needs that every one of us has and find ourselves in the middle for that’s useful for all,» Meloni told reporters Thursday.
Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance met with Meloni Friday in Rome to continue discussing economic policies between the two countries.
Here’s what also happened this week:
Visit with Bukele
Trump kicked off the week meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Monday, launching a debate about whether El Salvador should return Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego-Garcia after he was deported there.
On Monday, Trump administration officials and Bukele agreed that they didn’t have the authority to return Abrego-Garcia to the U.S., even though the Trump administration admitted in court filings that he was deported in an «administrative error.» Even so, the Trump administration has accused Abrego-Garcia of being a member of the MS-13 gang, a designated terrorist group.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court upheld in April a lower court’s order that «requires the government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.»
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, April 14, 2025 (Al Drago for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
While Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters Monday that El Salvador would call the final shots on whether it would return Abrego-Garcia, Bukele said it was «preposterous» for El Salvador to do so.
«How can I smuggle a terrorist into the U.S.? I don’t have the power to return him to the United States,» Bukele said.
Additionally, the Justice Department unveiled documents Wednesday detailing domestic violence allegations that Abrego-Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez, included in a court filing in 2021. Vasquez alleged in the filing that Garcia beat her and that she had documentation of the bruises he left on her.
Feud with Harvard
The Trump administration also continued to go after federal funding at higher education institutions.
After Harvard refused to comply with a series of requests from the Trump administration to reform various practices on campus, the administration revealed Monday that it would freeze more than $2 billion in federal funding for the institution.
Harvard University President Alan M. Garber said in a Monday statement that the Trump administration included additional requests unrelated to tackling antisemitism on campus. As a result, Garber said the institution would not bend to those requests, claiming they were unconstitutional.
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Trump has publicly criticized Harvard University multiple times in recent weeks. (Getty Images | iStock)
Garber said the new requests «direct governmental regulation of the ‘intellectual conditions’ at Harvard,» including auditing viewpoints of student, faculty and staff members on campus, and eliminating all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, offices and initiatives at Harvard.
«It makes clear that the intention is not to work with us to address antisemitism in a cooperative and constructive manner,» Garber said. «We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement.»
Prescription drug prices
Trump also signed an executive order Tuesday seeking to combat soaring prescription drug prices.
The directive instructs Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to standardize Medicare payments for prescription drugs, including those used for cancer patients, no matter where a patient receives treatment. This could lower prices for patients by as much as 60%, according to a White House fact sheet.
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A new White House directive instructs Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services to standardize Medicare payments for prescription drugs. (iStock/Getty )
The order also includes a provision to match the Medicare payment for certain prescription drugs to the price that hospitals pay for those drugs. That amounts to up to 35% lower than what the government pays to acquire those medications, the White House said.
Drug prices have significantly risen in recent years. Between January 2022 and January 2023, prescription drug prices rose more than 15% and reached an average of $590 per drug product, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Of the 4,200 prescription drugs included on that list, 46% of the price increases exceeded the rate of inflation.
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Líderes europeos reafirmaron su apoyo a Ucrania y llamaron a mantener la presión sobre Rusia antes de cumbre entre Trump y Putin
Los principales líderes europeos reafirmaron este domingo su apoyo a Ucrania y llamaron a mantener la presión sobre Rusia para alcanzar la paz, días antes de la reunión prevista entre los presidentes Vladimir Putin y Donald Trump el próximo 15 de agosto en Alaska.
La cumbre, anunciada por Trump el viernes, forma parte de sus esfuerzos por buscar una salida al conflicto iniciado con la invasión rusa en febrero de 2022. El encuentro se celebrará sin la presencia del presidente ucraniano, Volodimir Zelensky, quien ha reclamado participar en las negociaciones.
Trump adelantó que el eventual acuerdo “incluirá algún intercambio de territorios para el beneficio de ambos”, en referencia a Ucrania y Rusia, sin dar más detalles. Zelensky rechazó esa posibilidad: “No pueden tomarse decisiones en nuestra contra, no pueden tomarse decisiones sin Ucrania. Sería una decisión contra la paz. No conseguirán nada. Los ucranianos no entregarán su tierra al ocupante”, afirmó el sábado en redes sociales.
En conversaciones separadas con Zelensky, el presidente francés, Emmanuel Macron, y el jefe del Gobierno español, Pedro Sánchez, expresaron su respaldo a Kiev. Macron señaló en X que “el futuro de Ucrania no puede decidirse sin los ucranianos”, mientras que Sánchez abogó por “una paz justa y duradera que respete la independencia y la soberanía” del país.
Además, los mandatarios europeos firmaron una declaración conjunta en la que sostienen que “solo un enfoque que combina una diplomacia activa, el apoyo a Ucrania y la presión sobre la Federación Rusa” podrá poner fin a la guerra. “Aplaudimos el trabajo del presidente Trump por detener la masacre en Ucrania” y “estamos listos para apoyar ese trabajo en el plano diplomático, además de mantener nuestro sustancial apoyo militar y financiero a Ucrania”, añade el texto.
Entre los firmantes figuran Macron, la primera ministra italiana, Giorgia Meloni; el canciller alemán, Friedrich Merz; el primer ministro polaco, Donald Tusk; el primer ministro británico, Keir Starmer; el presidente finlandés, Alexander Stubb, y la presidenta de la Comisión Europea, Ursula von der Leyen.
En paralelo, el presidente brasileño, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, conversó el sábado por teléfono con Putin y expresó la disposición de Brasil a contribuir a una solución pacífica. Según la presidencia brasileña, el mandatario ruso agradeció el interés.
Las tres rondas de conversaciones celebradas este año entre Rusia y Ucrania no produjeron avances. Moscú exige la cesión de cuatro regiones parcialmente ocupadas —Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia y Kherson—, además de Crimea, anexionada en 2014, y que Kiev renuncie a suministros de armas occidentales y a su ingreso en la OTAN. Ucrania considera estas condiciones inaceptables y exige la retirada total de las tropas rusas y garantías de seguridad que incluyan más armamento y presencia militar europea.
Sobre el terreno, los combates continúan. En la región de Donetsk, bombardeos rusos mataron el sábado a cuatro personas y dejaron una veintena de heridos; en Kherson, otras dos personas murieron.
La reunión de Alaska será la primera entre presidentes en ejercicio de Estados Unidos y Rusia desde la celebrada en Ginebra en junio de 2021 entre Putin y el ex presidente Joe Biden. Trump y Putin no se encuentran cara a cara desde la cumbre del G20 en Japón en 2019, aunque han mantenido contactos telefónicos desde enero.
Los líderes europeos subrayaron que “el camino a la paz en Ucrania no puede decidirse sin Ucrania” y reiteraron su compromiso con garantías de seguridad “creíbles y robustas” para Kiev. Además, calificaron la invasión rusa como una “flagrante violación” de la Carta de la ONU, el Tratado de Helsinki de 1975, el Memorándum de Budapest de 1994 y otros compromisos internacionales suscritos por Moscú.
“Seguiremos trabajando con el presidente Trump y los Estados Unidos y con el presidente Zelensky y el pueblo ucraniano por una paz en Ucrania que proteja nuestros intereses vitales de seguridad”, concluye la declaración.
(Con información de EFE y AFP)
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Boston’s sanctuary sheriff was arrested Friday on federal charges after allegedly leveraging his elected position to extort $50,000 from a cannabis executive who was seeking state approval to open a dispensary—a scheme FBI Director Kash Patel called a betrayal of public trust.
Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins, 67, who oversees more than 1,000 employees in the Boston-area, was handcuffed Friday morning in the Southern District of Florida after a federal grand jury indicted him on two counts of extortion under color of official right, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.
«When someone entrusted with enforcing the law is accused of breaking it for personal gain, it undermines the public’s trust in every honest officer who wears the badge,» Patel told Fox News Digital. «The FBI will pursue corruption at every level, because no one is above the law. The people of Suffolk County, and the country, deserve leaders who serve them, not themselves.»
Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins was arrested on Friday in connection to an illegal licensing scheme. (Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)
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Tompkins was appointed sheriff of the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department (SCSD) in 2013, elected in a 2014 special election, and later re-elected to serve successive six-year terms.
He made headlines in 2019 after booting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents out of the county jail, signing an eviction notice that required hundreds of illegal immigrant detainees to be moved out within 60 days, according to a report from the Boston Herald.
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According to court documents, a cannabis company applied in 2019 for a retail dispensary license in Boston through the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC). To meet the state’s Positive Impact Plan (PIP) requirement, the company partnered with the sheriff’s department, which agreed to screen and refer graduates from its re-entry program for work at the dispensary’s retail store.
The company’s partnership with SCSD was formalized in a letter signed by Tompkins in 2019 and submitted with its dispensary license application in 2020. The cannabis commission approved the license in 2021 and renewed it in 2022 and 2023, with the company citing the partnership to meet the PIP requirement in each application.
Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins is accused of pressuring an executive into selling him stocks and then demanding a refund. (John Wilcox/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)
To raise capital for an initial public offering (IPO) and expand as a publicly traded company, executives sought multimillion-dollar investments from institutions and other high-net-worth investors—not the general public, according to court documents.
By mid-2020, the company was preparing for its IPO by producing audited financial statements, hiring attorneys and obtaining additional financing.
Prosecutors allege Tompkins pressured the cannabis executive for stock, reminding the executive he had helped the company in its licensing efforts. The executive feared Tompkins might exploit his position as sheriff to undermine the partnership with the department, putting both the license and the company’s planned IPO in jeopardy.
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In October 2020, the company asked Tompkins for an updated partnership letter to submit with its license renewal application, according to court documents. Within a month of signing the letter, and after alleged pressure on the executive, Tompkins obtained a pre-IPO stake in the company.
Prosecutors claim that in November 2020, Tompkins wired $50,000 from his retirement account to an account controlled by the executive, purchasing nearly 29,000 shares at $1.73 each. Following a reverse stock split, he held about 14,400 shares valued at $3.46 each.
Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins is facing up to 20 years in prison for each count of extortion. (Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)
Once the company launched its IPO in 2021, the stock value jumped to $9.60 per share, increasing the value of Tompkins’ $50,000 purchase of 14,417 shares to $138,403.
By May 2022, the value of Tompkins’ stock had dropped thousands of dollars below his $50,000 investment, but he allegedly demanded a full refund. The executive agreed, issuing five checks between May 2022 and July 2023.
Prosecutors claim some checks were marked as «loan repayment» and «[company] expense» at Tompkins’s direction to disguise the nature of some of the payments.
Copies of checks showed payments allegedly made to the Suffolk County sheriff.
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U.S. Attorney Leah Foley wrote in a statement that elected officials, particularly those in law enforcement, are expected to be ethical, honest and law-abiding, «not self-serving.»
«His alleged actions are an affront to the voters and taxpayers who elected him to his position, and the many dedicated and honest public servants at the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department. The people of Suffolk County deserve better,» Foley wrote. «Public corruption remains a top priority for my administration, and we will continue to investigate and prosecute anyone who uses their position of trust and power for their own gain.»
FBI Boston special agent in charge Ted Docks added the act was «clear-cut corruption.»
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«From his very first day as Suffolk County Sheriff, Steven Tompkins sought to portray himself as a man of the people–a principled public servant and reformer, devoted to the cause of justice. That’s why it’s beyond disappointing that he’s now accused of gaming a system instituted in the interests of public safety and fair play,» Docks wrote in a statement. «We believe what the Sheriff saw as an easy way to make a quick buck on the sly is clear-cut corruption under federal law. The citizens of Suffolk County deserve better, not a man who is accused of trading on his position to bankroll his own political and financial future. Public servants must be held to the highest of ethical standards, and those falling short will be rooted out.»
Tompkins, who faces a sentence of up to 20 years in prison for each count, will appear in Boston federal court at a later date.
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