US President Donald Trump said he would likely impose sanctions on Russia if its leader Vladimir Putin refuses to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
Trump did not provide details on possible additional sanctions.
The US has already imposed serious sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
According to Trump, his administration is also considering the issue of sending weapons to Kiev.
The US president added that the EU must do more to support Ukraine.
Trump also said he was open to the possibility of technology billionaire Elon Musk buying the short-video app "TikTok" if the CEO of "Tesla" wants to do it, Reuters reported.
"I'd be willing if he wanted to buy it", Trump said in response to a journalist's question about whether Musk was willing to buy the social platform, after the US president earlier signed an executive order postponing the implementation of the ban on the "TikTok" app by 75 days. in the US.
The president has removed Secret Service protection from his former national security adviser John Bolton, who was the target of an Iranian assassination plot because of his work in the White House.
According to a spokesman for Bolton, the Secret Service called him on Monday night to inform him that his protection would be terminated at noon the next day.
"I am disappointed, but not surprised, that President Trump has decided to terminate the protection previously provided to me by the U.S. Secret Service," Bolton wrote in an article in "Ex".
The White House and the Secret Service did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.
Bolton has made harsh statements about his former boss since leaving the White House. He called Trump "unfit to be president" in a new 2024 edition of his memoirs, where he also denounced the Republican as an extremely selfish man who would punish his personal enemies and appease his adversaries Russia and China.
Trump announced that he was reversing former President Joe Biden-era guidelines that limited federal immigration detentions near so-called sensitive sites, including schools, hospitals and churches.
Since 2011 US authorities have been prohibited from doing so since, but the Biden administration has expanded the scope of the order, further limiting their powers, DPA notes.
"Criminals will no longer be able to hide in American schools and churches to avoid arrest", the US Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
The new US administration has also issued a directive limiting the previous practice of "parole", which allowed immigrants to enter the country legally, albeit on a temporary basis. The second directive restores the ability of the United States to quickly deport any arrested undocumented person who cannot prove they have been in the country for more than two years.
About 47% of Americans approve of Donald Trump's presidency after he returned to the White House this week, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, which ended yesterday, Reuters reported.
The agency notes that this is a sign of continued polarization in US society since the Republican victory in the presidential election last November.
The poll, conducted in the first two days of the week after Trump took office, shows that his popularity is higher than during most of his first term in 2017. by early 2021.
But the survey results also mean that Americans are already unhappy with some of his first steps as US president - about 58% of respondents say that Trump should not have pardoned everyone convicted of crimes during the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
However, Trump did just that - pardoning most of the nearly 1,600 people charged after joining the storming, while also suspending the sentences of 14 leaders of the riot - and this was hours into his second term, as the poll was being conducted.
Only 29% of respondents approve of Trump's handling of the politicization of the justice system. He has accused his predecessor, Joe Biden, of perverting the course of justice by pursuing lawsuits aimed at preventing him from returning to office, charges the Democrat has denied. Trump has also said he may use the justice system to seek retribution against political rivals.
Respondents are more favorable about Trump's approach to other issues. About 46% of respondents approve of his handling of immigration, an issue that many Americans would like to see as a top priority for the new U.S. administration.
About 58% of respondents agree that the U.S. should "drastically reduce the number of immigrants who can claim asylum at the border" - a signal of clear support for Trump's first steps in office to end the process of allowing asylum applications to be filed at the U.S. border.
Trump also declared illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border a national emergency and took steps to limit the granting of citizenship to children born on U.S. soil.