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Foreign aid deadline, UK PM visits White House, Gene Hackman found dead & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

News, Daily News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court has paused a deadline for the Trump administration to release foreign aid funding. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is visiting the White House. Palestinian prisoners and detainees, along with the bodies of Israeli hostages have been returned. The Pentagon is planning to get rid of transgender service members currently serving. Plus, Gene Hackman and his wife have been found dead in their home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From CNN, I'm Charlie Drever with the five things you need to know for Thursday, January 27th.

0:38.3

Chief Justice John Roberts has paused a court-imposed midnight deadline for the Trump administration

0:43.3

to release nearly $2 billion in frozen foreign aid.

0:47.3

The Trump administration raised to the Supreme Court just hours before the cutoff,

0:52.3

saying it'll take weeks to pay out the money owed to the impacted

0:55.8

contractors and organisations. Robert's order doesn't resolve the underlying questions raised

1:01.5

by the case. Instead, he imposed what's known as an administrative stay to give the court a few

1:07.4

days to review written arguments. In yesterday's court filings, the Trump administration said it's ending more than 90% of

1:14.8

foreign aid awards, amounting to about $57 billion.

1:19.7

It comes as Elon Musk admitted during yesterday's cabinet meeting that the Department

1:24.3

of Government Efficiency had accidentally cut funding for Ebola prevention.

1:29.3

We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect.

1:31.3

But when we make mistakes, we'll fix it very quickly.

1:35.3

British Prime Minister Kirstama is meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. today.

1:42.3

It's expected to be a tough visit as European leaders continue to try to get security

1:46.8

guarantees for Ukraine, from a White House that's been aligning more and more with Russia.

1:52.5

Stama will be hoping he'll have better luck than his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron,

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