Today's other headlines bring us to Capitol Hill, where Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed ongoing aviation problems on the previous administration and years of neglect.

The infrastructure didn't rot in the last 100 days. We didn't have 3,000 controller shortages in the last 100 days.

There was four years that came before. Newark Airport in particular

has been plagued by weeks of delays due to equipment outages and air traffic controller

shortages. United Airlines has already opted to cut flights to the airport, which is one of its hubs,

and further cuts could be coming. The FAA today met with major airlines behind closed doors to discuss reducing flights at Newark.

In the lead up to the meeting, the FAA said the airport is clearly unable to handle the

current level of scheduled operations.

A Georgetown University scholar from India was released from a detention center in Texas today.

Dr. Badar Khan Suri told reporters he was extremely thankful to be free.

The postdoctoral fellow was arrested in March amid the Trump administration's crackdown on foreign students.

Earlier, his supporters had gathered outside the courthouse in Virginia where a judge ruled the government had not provided any evidence why he should be held.

The Trump administration had revoked his visa accusing him of supporting Hamas.

Kansuri is married to a Palestinian-American. His lawyers say he was targeted because her father worked with the Hamas-backed government in Gaza before the

October 7th attacks. Cancuri has not been charged with a crime. The director of national

intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has fired the top two officials leading the National Intelligence

Council. That's the group that analyzes security threats to the U.S. and provides assessments to the president and other top policymakers.

The firings of Michael Collins and his deputy, Maria Langenreichoff, came after the group wrote an assessment that contradicted the Trump administration's rationale for deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members.

Gabbard has vowed to go after which she has described

as efforts to politicize the intelligence community. California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a

$12 billion budget deficit today. He says the shortfall is due in part to broader economic

uncertainty, including President Trump's tariff rollout. To make up ground, Newsom has proposed

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