By Michael Williams, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump has made clear on social media and in interviews that he thinks Immigration and Customs Enforcement needs a rebrand — more specifically, a new name: National Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or NICE.

Whether that change will move forward, in the form of an executive order, or whether it will just be a meme, has been the topic of internal debate at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security.

The idea to change the name of ICE — which would require an act of Congress, not simply an executive order — appears to have originated on social media. In late April, the president shared to his Truth Social account a screenshot of a suggestion made on X that the name be changed “so the media has to say NICE agents all day.”

“GREAT IDEA!!! DO IT,” the president wrote on Truth Social.

Since then, both the White House and the Department of Homeland Security, the Cabinet agency that oversees ICE, have shared memes to their social media accounts endorsing the name change. As the memes took off, officials at ICE remained on standby in case the White House chose to move forward with a name change and crunched numbers on what that would look like, from changing stationary to vests, per a source familiar.

Trump said he’s felt pushback from rank-and-file officers, along with the White House’s border czar, Tom Homan, who were not as enthusiastic.

“But I’m not sure that the guys liked it, because … I think they like their image of being strong, and they’ve done a great job,” he said during a Tuesday interview on WABC’s “Sid and Friends in the Morning.”

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that “the NICE men and women of ICE continue to risk their lives to arrest and remove criminal illegal aliens from American communities.”

ICE has been perhaps the most heavily and publicly scrutinized federal agency in Trump’s second term, as its agents have deployed nationwide to conduct at-times controversial immigration arrests.

Following the shooting of US citizen Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis in January, public opinion polling found that slightly more than half of Americans believed the agency was making US cities less safe.

Aware of that criticism, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has frequently said he wants to take a “quiet” approach to immigration enforcement while maintaining an aggressive posture.

“We’re staying focused on all illegals, without question,” Mullin, who took over DHS in March, told Newsmax last week. “We’re purposefully trying to be a little more quiet. … That doesn’t mean we’re slowing down even a little bit.”

ICE was created by the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the post-9/11 law enacted by Congress that also created the Department of Homeland Security. Because the agency was created by Congress, changing its name would require congressional action.

But such technicalities have not prevented the administration from acting outside of its authority to change agencies’ names in the past.

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By Kaitlan Collins, Ben Tinker, Adam Cancryn, Sarah Owermohle, CNN

(CNN) — Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary is leaving the Trump administration, according to three people familiar with the situation, after President Donald Trump signed off on a plan to fire him last week.

The FDA chief had come under intense and sustained pressure from both within the administration — including over his resistance to approving the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, an episode that prompted Trump to confront him directly — and from outside allies, including in the pharmaceutical industry and anti-abortion interest groups. And he oversaw constant turnover within the agency’s senior ranks.

Makary’s resignation means Trump will now need to fill yet another vacancy in the top ranks of the US Health and Human Services Department. The administration already lacks a permanent leader atop the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a permanent surgeon general, who traditionally serves as the nation’s top doctor.

Makary’s departure comes one day before he was set to testify about the FDA’s proposed budget before the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Politico first reported his resignation.

A push to oust Makary had accelerated in recent days, driven by a faction of White House and HHS officials who had soured on an FDA that had been marked by constant chaos, internal clashes and policy confusion, people familiar with the matter said.

Makary over the last week sought to shore up his standing with Trump, telling associates at some points that he believed the president still retained confidence in him.

So it caught Makary and his allies by surprise when several reports surfaced Friday that Trump had approved a plan to fire him. That prompted widespread speculation within the administration over who was behind the push, as well as when and whether Trump would make his removal official.

Despite the widespread dissatisfaction with Makary’s performance, some Trump aides had argued that ousting yet another senior health official would amount to a political misstep — further angering a portion of the administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” base. It would also create another high-level vacancy, forcing the Senate to devote precious floor time to confirming a replacement ahead of the midterms.

Others within the White House and HHS, however, saw Makary’s departure as inevitable. And they welcomed the opportunity to reset leadership at the FDA and shore up relationships with key constituencies in the anti-abortion movement and drug industry before November.

In addition to Makary’s planned ouster, White House and HHS officials were also weighing a restructuring of the agency’s senior staff.

Makary, a surgeon and author, had pledged to accelerate FDA decisions on drugs, devices and vaccines following his confirmation in March 2025. But he frequently found himself mired in controversy over the subsequent year — both from pharmaceutical companies unhappy with his management of the drug approval process and administration officials who questioned his handling of other areas of FDA’s sweeping portfolio, including tobacco regulation.

In a recent flashpoint that renewed talk among Trump and his advisers about firing Makary, the FDA chief resisted internal efforts to approve the sale of fruit-flavored e-cigarettes. The issue prompted an angry Trump to directly press Makary over vapes decisions, two people fa

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Por Rebecca Cairns, CNN

En la planta de la fábrica de noodles de Nongshim, en la ciudad de Gumi, se desarrolla una sinfonía industrial: el molido de la harina de trigo y el traqueteo de los rodillos dan paso al rítmico roce de las cuchillas sobre la masa; cintas de fideos frescos se cuecen al vapor con un silbido, se fríen rápidamente con un crujido, y luego se transportan en un abrir y cerrar de ojos por una cinta transportadora que zumba constantemente, para finalmente ser empaquetadas en plástico arrugado.

Cada minuto, 600 paquetes de ramyeon —fideos instantáneos coreanos, también conocidos como ramyun o ramen— salen de las líneas de producción ultrarrápidas y altamente automatizadas y se colocan en cajas que son transportadas por robots hasta el muelle de carga.

Esta instalación de 42.266 metros cuadrados (454.947 pies cuadrados) es la fábrica de noodles más grande de Corea del Sur, con una producción de seis millones de paquetes por día.

“El año pasado produjimos 1.230 millones de unidades, por un valor de 884.000 millones de wones (US$ 598 millones)”, afirmó el director de la fábrica, Sang Hoon Kim.

La planta de Gumi produce el 80 % del Shin Ramyun y el 90 % del Chapagetti (fideos gruesos y masticables, similares a los espaguetis, con pasta de soja negra) que se venden en el mercado nacional, con tan solo 600 empleados. Esto es posible gracias a un conjunto de sensores con inteligencia artificial y cámaras inteligentes que supervisan cada etapa de la producción, garantizando la seguridad y la calidad, explicó Kim, quien añadió que la tecnología es desarrollada internamente por personal con amplia experiencia en la elaboración de ramyeon.

Pero en Gumi, el ramyeon es más que un simple alimento: la fábrica y sus productos se han convertido en el pilar cultural de la ciudad.

Gumi, situada a unos 270 kilómetros (168 millas) al sureste de la capital de Corea del Sur, es una ciudad de tamaño medio con aproximadamente 400.000 habitantes y una larga historia como centro industrial: primero conocida por los textiles, luego por la electrónica y, hoy en día, como el mayor centro de tecnología de las comunicaciones del país.

No suele ser un lugar frecuentado por turistas, pero eso está cambiando.

En 2022, Gumi puso el foco en su producción de noodles, lanzando el primer “festival de ramyeon” ese mismo año.

Según Jeong-tae Kim, alto funcionario del Ayuntamiento de Gumi y principal organizador del festival, el objetivo era transformar la reputación de Gumi como una ciudad industrial “aburrida” en un destino “divertido” tanto para residentes como para turistas.

“Como ciudad industrial, necesitábamos una identidad cultural”, afirmó Jeong-tae Kim.

El ayuntamiento se puso en contacto con Nongshim, y este se asoció con el consejo para organizar el festival, que ha crecido cada año: de tan solo 10.000 visitantes en su primera edición a un récord de 350.000 en 2025, año en el que se vendieron 54.000 tazones y 480.000 paquetes de ramyeon durante los tres días del evento.

El punto culminante del festival es una franja peatonal de 475 metros (1.558 pies) repleta de puestos de comida, que los organizadores denominan “el restaurante de ramen más largo del mundo”. Aquí, decenas de restaurantes y chefs sirven ramen y platos inspirados en el ramen, desde sándwiches de ramen hasta sopa de noodles con cerdo ahumado Asado.

Los vendedores reciben fideos de la fábrica Nongshim. “El ramen recién frito es increíblemente delicioso”, dijo el gerente de la fábrica, Sang Hoon Kim, y añadió que ver a los turistas llegar a Gumi “nos ha llenado de orgullo”.

Según Jeong-tae Kim, durante los fines de semana de festivales, los billetes de tren desde la cercana ciudad de Daegu se agotan y los vendedores locales