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President Trump says he's removing Mike Walts as his national security advisor and nominating

him to be U.S. ambassador to the U.N.

This follows an incident in March when the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic was inadvertently added to a group chat on the signal messaging app

in which details of pending U.S. military strikes targeting Houthi rebels in Yemen were discussed.

Waltz later said he took

responsibility for that. It sparked calls from Democrats in Congress for Waltz and Defense Secretary

Pete Higset to resign. The Trump administration is ending a duty-free exemption on low-value

imports from China beginning today. NPR's Emily Fang says the move will make

those goods much more expensive for American consumers. There has been pressure since the Biden

administration to end what's called the de minimis loophole, meaning packages under $800 were not

charged in import fee. More than one billion of these packages now come to the U.S. a year, mostly from China, a more than six-fold increase from the last decade.

Trump administration says it's now going to charge customs duties on packages from China in order to combat fentanyl trafficking and to collect revenue for the government.

American consumers are now sharing screenshots of the new import cost estimates they're getting

on Tomu, which in most cases double or even triple the cost of their purchases from China.

And trade logistics companies are warning of massive delays in shipping in the coming weeks.

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