By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN

(CNN) — Tariff refunds are finally happening. Well, sort of.

Exactly two months after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s most sweeping tariffs, American importers, who are owed $166 billion in refunds plus interest, can begin applying for reimbursement Monday through a new US Customs and Border Protection portal.

CBP estimates that refunds will be issued within 60 to 90 days after approval, but it could take longer depending on whether additional reviews of entries are merited.

The program, called the Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries (CAPE), “is designed to consolidate refunds of IEEPA duties including interest rather than processing refunds on an entry-by-entry basis,” CBP said in a prior notice. (IEEPA refers to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the law Trump had relied on to impose now-extinct tariffs.)

Only parties known formally as importers of record who made tariff payments or authorized customs brokers who act on their behalf can file for tariff refunds. However, not all tariff payments will be eligible to apply for reimbursement on Monday, which marks the start of multiple phases for the rollout of the program.

For the first phase, only entities who have made certain tariff payments will be able to make refund submissions. It’s unclear when the system will open for all payments subject to refund.

Additionally, the process could drag out even longer if the Trump administration takes further actions to delay or reduce the size of refunds.

“There’s alternative authorities that perhaps could reduce that number quite a bit,” White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said in a recent Fox News interview, referring to the size of refunds distributed.

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Se emitió una alerta de tsunami de tres metros para Japón después de que un fuerte sismo de magnitud 7,5 sacudiera la costa nororiental, según la Agencia Meteorológica de Japón.

La agencia meteorológica nacional emitió una alerta de tsunami de tres metros para la prefectura de Iwate y partes de Hokkaido y Aomori. En otras zonas del noreste de Japón, emitió un aviso, estimando un tsunami de 1 metro.

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By Zoe Sottile, Gloria Pazmino, CNN

(CNN) — A peace and faith focused sermon delivered during Sunday mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City did little to clear the minds of some parishioners who walked out of church saying they remained distraught over the extraordinary conflict that erupted between Pope Leo and President Trump a week ago.

Some Catholic supporters of the president said they took issue with Trump’s fiery comments about Pope Leo, the first American pontiff. In the 2024 presidential election, Catholic voters broke for President Donald Trump, with nearly six in 10 voting to reelect the president, according to a CNN exit poll.

“I like Donald a lot, but he needs to calm down,” said Lola Reese after attending Sunday Mass at St. Patrick’s.

Reese said growing up Catholic in New Orleans taught her the importance of the separation of church and state.

The president’s back-and-forth with the pope might hurt his relationship with his supporters, she said. She called for the president to “back off and kind of calm down his little bitty, tiny streak of a little meanness here and there.”

Reese’s sentiment was shared by several churchgoers, including those who said they had voted for the president but saw his recent comments as out of line.

Anita Bauman, a Catholic Trump voter from Pennsylvania, said the president’s comments were “colossally stupid.”

“I don’t think it helps the president at all,” she said. Bauman said she supported the president’s actions in Iran, where, in early April, US-based rights group HRANA said more than 3,600 people had been killed since a joint US-Israeli bombing campaign began in February.

“I do think that things needed to be done in Iran,” she said. “I think that regime was dangerous, but I don’t think picking a fight with the pope or trying to school the pope on theology is a good idea at all.”

Unprecedented rift

The president’s unprecedented — and largely one-sided — conflict with the Chicago-born Augustinian seemingly sparked last week, when Pope Leo said he hoped the president would find an “off-ramp” to the US-Israeli war with Iran and called the president’s rhetoric about the Iranian people “truly unacceptable.” In a rare event in the history of the modern Catholic Church, Pope Leo actually referred to the sitting president by name in at least one of his remarks.

The president, who along with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has often invoked God and Biblical metaphors to justify the war, responded forcefully on social media: “Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.” He added he does not want a pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, who thinks it’s “terrible that America attacked Venezuela” or “who criticizes the President of the United States.” The pope has not said he thought it was OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

Soon after, Trump further inflamed some Christian supporters when he posted an AI-generated image to Truth Social last Monday depicting himself as a Christ-like figure healing a sick person with American flags and eagles in the background.

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By Brad Lendon, Teele Rebane, CNN

(CNN) — The US made good on its threat to board and seize any vessel defying its blockade of Iran’s ports on Sunday, with footage released by the military showing a guided-missile destroyer firing on the Iran-linked M/V Touska, and once it was disabled, Marines rappelling from helicopters onto its deck.

The incident comes after the Trump administration said it expected peace talks with Iran to resume this week in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Iran has vowed to retaliate for the seizure of the merchant ship, and it has not yet officially committed to the talks.

What happens now to the ship and its crew may depend on what it was carrying, experts told CNN.

Here’s what we know.

What is M/V Touska?

US Central Command (CENTCOM) says the guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance warned the Touska repeatedly over a six-hour period, during which time the container ship was steaming in the Arabian Sea toward Bandar Abbas, Iran.

According to MarineTraffic.com, the Touska’s last port of call was Port Klang, Malaysia, on April 12. Before that it had been going back and forth between the Chinese city of Zhuhai and various Iranian ports.

The ship is owned by the Mosakhar Darya Shipping Co, which has an address in Tehran and is subject to sanctions, according to the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Marine Traffic says the Touska has been under sanctions since 2018, and that all its owner companies, technical and commercial managers have been sanctioned since 2012.

What US forces were involved?

The USS Spruance is an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, the workhorse of naval fleet.

It’s 5-inch gun is designed for use against ships, aircraft and land targets, according to a Navy fact sheet.

First deployed in 1971, the Mark 45 gun has a range of 15 miles with conventional ammunition.

It’s a fully automatic weapon and can fire 16 to 20 rounds per minute from a 20-round drum, which then can be reloaded by crew below deck for further use, the Navy says.

The ship carries a range of other weaponry, including torpedoes, Tomahawk missiles for land attacks, Standard interceptors for ballistic missile defense and Sea Sparrow missiles for short-range missile and aircraft defense.

The Spruance, with a displacement of around 9,000 tons, is more than 500 feet long and carries a crew of 329. It joined the fleet in 2011, operates as part of the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group, and is homeported in San Diego.

How was the M/V Touska stopped?

CENTCOM says the US destroyer hit the Touska with “several rounds” from its 5-inch gun.

Video provided by the Navy shows the warship firing three shots at Touska after warning its crew to evacuate the ship’s engine room.

“US Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit later boarded the non-compliant vessel, which remains in US custody,” a CENTCOM statement said.

A video taken after sunset shows US Marines from the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli rappelling from helicopters to board the ship.

Analyst Carl Schuster, a former US Navy captain, told CNN it would probably take at least two hits from the destroyer’s gun to knock out the Touska’s diesel engine. All three fired by the Spruance in the CENTCOM-supplied video appeared to have hit, he said.

Schuster said it’s likely the vessel would need to be towed after the hits.

What happens next?

The Touska will be taken to an anchorage or port for inspection or valuation, Schuster said.

Once that is done and its cargo can be determined it could eventu

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By Alexandra Banner, CNN

Tariff refunds are finally beginning to roll out — at least in part. Two months after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s most sweeping tariffs, American importers who are owed more than $166 billion in refunds can begin applying today.

Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day.

1⃣ Gas prices

US gas prices will remain far above pre-war levels for weeks, if not months to come. But there are ways to save at least a few cents per gallon at the pump by finding the cheapest station in your area and fueling up at certain retailers. Read more.

2⃣ Louisiana mass shooting

A man fatally shot eight children, seven of them his own, across three homes in Shreveport, Louisiana, on Sunday, according to police. It marks the nation’s deadliest mass shooting since January 2024. Read more.

3⃣ Peace talks

Iran’s military warned it would retaliate after the US Navy on Sunday fired on and seized an Iranian cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman. The incident has raised fresh doubts about whether a second round of US-Iran peace talks will proceed in the coming days. Adding to the uncertainty, the current ceasefire between the US and Iran is set to expire on Tuesday. Read more.

4⃣ Tsunami warning

A tsunami warning was issued for Japan earlier today after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the country’s northeastern coast, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency and the US Geological Survey. Waves of up to three meters (9.8 feet) were possible in some areas, officials said. Read more.

5⃣ Animal rights protest

Police used rubber bullets and pepper spray as hundreds of protesters on Saturday attempted to enter a beagle breeding site in Wisconsin. Protesters tried to overcome barricades that included a manure-filled trench, hay bales and barbed wire, but were unable to enter the research facility, where an estimated 2,000 beagles are kept. Read more.

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