Por Kristen Holmes y Betsy Klein, CNN

La socialité y modelo de Palm Beach, Bettina Anderson, celebrará este sábado su matrimonio con el hijo mayor del presidente Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., en una isla tropical. No será la boda que la novia había imaginado originalmente.

Anderson había expresado inicialmente su interés en casarse en la Casa Blanca, según informaron varias fuentes a CNN. Sin embargo, el novio no lo consideró apropiado, especialmente dada la guerra en curso entre Estados Unidos e Israel con Irán, según una de las fuentes. El presidente Donald Trump también les dijo a sus aliados que no le parecía una buena idea.

La pareja optó por una ceremonia pequeña y exclusiva en una isla de las Bahamas, donde Anderson ya había publicado imágenes de aguas cristalinas y playas solitarias. También podría haber una celebración posterior en la Casa Blanca a finales de este año, según una fuente cercana al asunto.

Amigos de Trump Jr. comentaron a CNN que nunca habían visto al novio tan feliz.

Técnicamente, Trump Jr. y Anderson ya están casados; un certificado de matrimonio presentado en el condado de Palm Beach demuestra que contrajeron matrimonio legalmente el jueves. Esto no es inusual para las parejas que optan por bodas en destinos internacionales.

Para Trump Jr., fue un compromiso breve que siguió a uno considerablemente más largo. Tras separarse discretamente de Kimberly Guilfoyle, su prometida durante aproximadamente cuatro años, después de las elecciones de 2024, se le vio en Palm Beach y luego en Mar-a-Lago, de la mano de Anderson.

Su noviazgo oficial se produjo en la investidura del presidente: Anderson acompañó a Trump Jr. en el Capitolio, bailó con él en la investidura y comió McDonald’s a bordo del avión familiar con un vestido de diseñador y un bolso Dior a juego. El noviazgo público provocó algunos rumores que se difundieron a través de fuentes anónimas en las portadas de los tabloides.

Después de un año juntos, incluyendo una aparición en un viaje presidencial a Escocia, Trump Jr. le propuso matrimonio. El presidente reveló la noticia a los invitados a la fiesta navideña en la Casa Blanca.

“Este ha sido, sin duda, el fin de semana más inolvidable de mi vida. Me caso con el amor de mi vida y me siento la mujer más afortunada del mundo”, dijo Anderson en unas declaraciones improvisadas en el Salón de la Cruz de la Casa Blanca.

Este fin de semana, Trump Jr. y Anderson celebrarán oficialmente su boda en una pequeña isla de las Bahamas. El presidente anunció el viernes que no asistirá.

“Considero importante permanecer en la ciudad de Washington en la Casa Blanca durante este importante momento. ¡Felicidades a Don y Bettina!”, publicó Trump en Truth Social.

Según dos personas familiarizadas con los planes, la boda será íntima a propósito, con la familia y los amigos más cercanos de la pareja conformando la lista de invitados, que no supera las 50 personas.

También se están implementando medidas de seguridad adicionales después de que se filtrara la ubicación de la boda a principios de esta semana, según informaron a CNN fuentes cercanas al asunto. La pareja ya estaba preocupada por la seguridad antes del evento, y ahora esas preocupaciones se han intensificado.

Se espera que los hermanos del novio, Eric Trump e Ivanka Trump, asistan con sus respectivas parejas, al igual que los cinco hijos de Trump Jr.: Kai, Donald III, Tristan, Spencer y Chloe, cuyas edades oscilan entre los 11 y los 19 años.

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By Ashley Strickland, CNN

(CNN) — An unusual collection of stars may represent the remnants of a dwarf galaxy that the Milky Way devoured about 10 billion years ago. Astronomers have dubbed the ancient galaxy Loki, after the Norse god of mischief. The finding could change the current understanding of how the Milky Way evolved in the distant past.

The vast Milky Way spans about 100,000 light-years and contains anywhere between 100 billion and 400 billion stars, according to NASA. A light-year is the distance light travels in one year, which is 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers).

Our home galaxy wasn’t always such a cosmic giant. It grew over time starting about 12 billion years ago by merging with a multitude of dwarf galaxies. But the original size and mass of the Milky Way remain an open question — driving scientists to search for evidence of the galaxies it consumed to determine its history and evolution.

To identify those missing puzzle pieces, astronomers have now zeroed in on a cluster of metal-lacking stars detected oddly close to the galactic disk, according to a study published in May in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The astronomers are interested in these stars near the disk — a massive rotating pancake-like region containing much of the Milky Way’s stars — because the first stars in the universe were comprised of hydrogen and helium, which fused heavier elements together in their cores before exploding and unleashing the heavy elements that enriched future generations of stars.

Metal-poor stars are often associated with ancient dwarf galaxies, which the Milky Way might have consumed over time to grow to its current massive state — and remnants of these cosmic meals might be hiding deep within the galaxy.

The metal-poor composition of such ancient stars close to the galactic disk suggests that the Milky Way once made a rather large meal of another galaxy early in its history — and it could represent a critical, previously overlooked building block of our galaxy.

The search for metal-poor stars

Astronomers are like the detectives of the universe, searching the cosmos for clues of its origins, and very-metal-poor, or VMP, stars are a powerful tool in that quest, said Dr. Cara Battersby, associate professor of physics at the University of Connecticut, who did not participate in the study.

“VMP stars have been around for billions of years, holding within them clues to the formation of the Universe’s earliest generations of stars,” Battersby wrote in an email. Studying the metal-poor stars’ composition and motion can unlock details about the conditions and dynamics of the early universe, she added.

The search for metal-poor stars in the Milky Way has largely centered on the plentiful range of old stars in the galaxy’s stellar halo, so named because it’s a large, round diffuse cloud that surrounds the galactic disk.

Some astronomers believe evidence of more ancient mergers could be found deeper inside the Milky Way, such as in its disk.

An abundance of young, metal-rich stars, as well as a plethora of dust, crowded within the galactic disk has made it hard to spot metal-poor stars there, said lead study author Dr. Federico Sestito, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hertfordshire’s Centre for Astrophysics Research in England.

Sestito and his colleagues identified 20 metal-poor stars in surprising proximity to the disk using observations from the Euro

By Tim Lister and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN

(CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered retaliation to a deadly Ukrainian attack on what he said was a college dormitory in an occupied town.

Putin accused Ukraine of a “terrorist” act after Ukrainian drones struck the dormitory in Starobilsk, an occupied town in eastern Luhansk on Friday.

The Russian president added that he had ordered the defense ministry to come up with proposals for a response to the Ukrainian strike.

The Russian state news agency Tass said Saturday that the death toll has risen to 10, with 38 people injured, citing the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Ukraine’s military rejected Putin’s claim and accused Russian media of circulating “manipulative information” on the attack. It reiterated that it strikes “military infrastructure and facilities used for military purposes.”

The Ukrainian military said that among targets struck early Friday was “one of the headquarters of the ‘Rubicon’ unit in the Starobilsk area.”

The elite Rubicon Center for Advanced Unmanned Technologies has pioneered Russian drone technology and targeting since it was formed in 2024.

Ukraine has stepped up longer-range drone attacks in recent weeks. It claimed two attacks earlier this week on Russian military facilities in occupied territory earlier this week.

One wave of strikes hit a Russian drone pilot training camp in the occupied town of Snizhne, killing at least 65 cadets and an instructor on Wednesday night, according to the commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces.

Robert Brovdi, the commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, claimed the strike targeted a 2,484-square-meter complex, which housed drones and explosives as well as a command post.

Footage posted on social media Wednesday night also showed a building ablaze in Snizhne, which CNN has geolocated to the same area as the drone training camp.

Another set of strikes hit a Russian security service headquarters and an air defense system in the Kherson region in occupied Ukraine, killing and wounding almost 100 Russians, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed Thursday.

Ukrainian claims of such high casualty figures are unusual, and CNN cannot independently verify them. CNN approached Russian authorities for comment.

Ukraine has developed an arsenal of mid- and long-range drones capable of deep strikes on Russian military and energy infrastructure.

Zelensky said Saturday that the security services had struck “one of Russia’s important military-industrial enterprises” 1,700 kilometers (1,050 miles) inside Russia.

The target was a chemical plant in Perm Krai, Zelensky said, that provides a range of products to Russia’s military. He posted video purporting to show smoke rising from the facility.

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La relación del presidente Donald Trump con los republicanos del Senado ha tocado fondo tras una revuelta en torno a su fondo de US$ 1.800 millones para la “antiinstrumentalización”, que puso de manifiesto profundas divisiones sobre la dirección del partido y sus prioridades.

Trump y sus aliados cercanos estaban furiosos por la reprimenda del viernes, mientras que en el Capitolio, los senadores y asesores republicanos criticaron duramente el fondo, calificándolo como el último de una serie de errores perjudiciales de la Casa Blanca que, según cinco personas familiarizadas con las conversaciones, temen cada vez más que les cuesten el control de la cámara.

“El presidente lo está haciendo tan difícil como humanamente posible”, comentó un alto asesor republicano del Senado. “Esto es un verdadero frente unido. Los 53 senadores republicanos no están contentos en este momento”.

Y a seis meses de las elecciones de mitad de mandato, los republicanos, exasperados por las luchas internas, advierten que la situación podría empeorar aún más.

El enfrentamiento en torno al fondo “contra la instrumentalización” puso fin a un período desastroso que frustró el intento de los republicanos de aprobar un importante paquete de inmigración antes del 1 de junio, como había exigido Trump, dejando su agenda en un punto muerto.

Esto también puso de relieve los temores que los legisladores venían sintiendo desde hacía tiempo: que, en lugar de ayudar a reforzar su posición política centrándose en cuestiones económicas y destacando logros políticos clave, Trump estaba debilitando sus posibilidades en noviembre debido a su preocupación por proyectos personales y una amplia campaña de represalias.

“Esto es como decir ‘Nerón tocaba la lira mientras Roma ardía’”, declaró el estratega republicano Barrett Marson. “Los temas en los que Trump, y en cierta medida el Congreso, se están centrando ahora mismo no benefician a los estadounidenses, y el tiempo se acaba para cambiar la situación”.

La semana pasada, Trump celebró la derrota del senador republicano Bill Cassidy, a quien sus aliados habían apoyado económicamente en las primarias como venganza por haber votado a favor de su destitución en el juicio político de hace cinco años.

Posteriormente, el presidente rechazó al popular senador texano John Cornyn en la segunda vuelta de las primarias republicanas de la próxima semana, optando en cambio por respaldar a Ken Paxton, un aspirante al que los senadores habían advertido abiertamente que podría costarles la victoria a los republicanos.

Mientras tanto, la Casa Blanca presionaba a los senadores republicanos para que autorizaran US$ 1.000 millones para el nuevo salón de baile de Trump y el Servicio Secreto, dando mayor importancia a un proyecto personal que muchos legisladores temen que solo esté reforzando la percepción de los votantes de que el Partido Republicano está desconectado de la realidad, comentaron asesores del Senado y otras personas familiarizadas con el asunto.

Cuando la parlamentaria del Senado dictaminó que el dinero no podía incluirse en el paquete legislativo más amplio de los republicanos, Trump pidió públicamente su despido, una medida que muchos senadores consideraron inapropiada e imprudente, según fuentes cercanas al caso.

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By Jeremy Herb, Zachary Cohen, Kristen Holmes, Sean Lyngaas, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump selected Tulsi Gabbard as his top intelligence official thanks to her non-interventionist, “America First” ideology that had pushed her away from the Democratic Party and into the MAGA fold.

But as Trump’s director of national intelligence, Gabbard’s isolationist tendencies quickly put her at odds with his military actions in Iran and Venezuela. Months before announcing her resignation Friday, citing her husband’s diagnosis of a rare form of bone cancer, Gabbard was routinely sidelined from some of the administration’s biggest foreign policy decisions of Trump’s second term.

When Trump’s national security team gathered at Mar-a-Lago on New Year’s Day to watch the US operation in Venezuela unfold, Gabbard was thousands of miles away posting pictures on social media from a beach in her home state of Hawaii.

Ahead of Trump’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear sites last summer, Gabbard posted a video warning that the world is “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before,” which angered Trump and the White House and put her on the sidelines.

And in February, when Trump launched joint strikes on Iran with Israel, Gabbard was in Washington with Vice President JD Vance and other cabinet members. Trump was in Mar-a-Lago with top national security officials, including CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Dan Caine.

Before the strikes, Trump and Gabbard had a conversation about his potential military action in Iran, and he asked if the rumors about her resigning over it were true — whether she would leave if he decided to go forward, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. She said that the rumors were not true and she would not resign if he took military action, the source said.

While Gabbard was sidelined when it came to international deliberations, she shared Trump’s suspicions of the so-called “deep state.” Rooting out those perceived as being against Trump’s interests in the intelligence community became a main focus of her time as DNI.

“It’s scorched earth for anyone who they feel crossed Trump,” a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

Friction with CIA

Gabbard quickly became isolated inside even her own office, the source said, surrounding herself with a small circle of advisers and — in a move many viewed as a symptom of paranoia — objecting to CIA officers serving as a part of her security detail because she did not trust that agency.

Another source pushed back on this notion and said Gabbard only removed one member of her detail for incompetence and lack of professionalism.

“She is extremely grateful for her protective team and trusts them with her life,” a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence told CNN.

Gabbard and CIA director Ratcliffe have had a fraught relationship, according to multiple sources. Gabbard felt Ratcliffe at times was going around her directly to the president, despite the agencies traditionally working hand in hand. This prompted Gabbard to begin talking to the president directly about various issues, something one source speculated saved her job.

Gabbard met with Trump in the Oval Office on Friday to present him with her resignation letter. A source close to Gabbard told CNN on Friday that despite her turbulent tenure at DNI, a key reason she stayed in the job as long as she did was simply that the president still likes her personally.

Another source close to Gabbard said she had been wrestling with the d