This happened February 4, 2025;:
OVERNIGHT:
6:52pm – Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the President of El Salvador offered to house incarcerated Americans in Salvadoran jail cells in exchange for a fee.
9:34pm – China imposed 15% tariffs on US coal and LNG products, and 10% tariffs on American crude oil and other products in response to Trump’s tariffs.
10:22pm – We learned that a woman who worked with the antivaxx nonprofit run by Trump’s Health and Human Services nominee, RFK Jr., accused him of sexual misconduct and was paid a nearly $1 million settlement as part of an NDA signed in late 2020.
TODAY:
5:48am – United Airlines announced plans to restart flights to Tel Aviv, Israel from Newark, NJ on March 15.
6:42am – Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Republican Missouri Senator Josh Hawley introduced a bill to cap credit card interest rates at 10%.
6:46am – The 2025 Met Gala dress code was announced: it’s “Tailored for You” based on the theme “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”.
7:19am – We learned that Trump is expected to go to the Super Bowl this weekend in New Orleans.
7:42am – Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Fox Business that as of today, the first flights sending illegal immigrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay are happening.
8:30am – OK! Magazine reported that Rebecca Minkoff is exiting Real Housewives of New York after one season due to producers finding her “relatively boring”.
9:03am – Sabrina Carpenter announced a deluxe version of her Grammy-winning album, “Short n’ Sweet”, including a remixed version of her song “Please Please Please” featuring Dolly Parton.
9:04am – The first trailer for the thriller movie “HURRY UP TOMORROW” based on The Weeknd’s album by the same name and starring The Weeknd, Jenna Ortega, and Barry Keoghan has dropped.
9:36am – Tiger Woods announced that his mom died at 81-years-old.
9:47am – GloRilla became the first-ever partner for ALL of Rihanna’s brands, including Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, Fenty Hair & Savage x Fenty.
9:47am – The NFL will remove the “End Racism” messaging in the end zone ahead of the Super Bowl.
9:54am – Swedish police said that about 10 people, including the gunman, were killed during a shooting at an adult education center in Orebro, 125 miles west of Stockholm.
9:54am – FBI agents have filed a class action lawsuit against the Trump Administration seeking to stop what they allege amounts to an illegal effort to intimidate them by gathering up names of agents who worked on January 6 cases.
10:40am – The Hulu show, “How to Die Alone”, created by and starring Natasha Rothwell, has been canceled after one season.
10:43am – Republican Missouri Senator Josh Hawley proposed 20 years in jail and a $1 million fine for people who download DeepSeek, the extremely popular Chinese AI program that’s said to rival ChatGPT.
10:44am – The Cataracs & Dev teased a reunion for a new single coming this year.
11:13am – Comedian Amber Ruffin has been tapped to headline the White House correspondents’ dinner, the second Black female to perform at the event after Wanka Sykes in 2009.
11:20am – The ACLU and others have filed a lawsuit against Trump’s Executive Order banning gender-affirming care for individuals under 19 years old.
12:33pm – Trump signed an Executive Order withdrawing the US from the United Nations Human Rights Council and to “review American involvement and funding in the UN”.
2:04pm – Netflix announced that they’ve stopped communicating with Karla Sofia Gascon after her horrendously offensive tweets from a few years ago resurfaced. They are no longer covering any expenses for her travel during awards season and she will have to pay for everything from her airfare to accommodations.
3:30pm – During an Oval Office conversation between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, Trump talked about “permanently” resettling Palestinians outside of Gaza, possibly in Jordan, Egypt, or other locations.