Friday, June 6, 2025

Good evening and welcome to your daily news briefing from The Independent.

A look at all the ways President Donald Trump and Elon Musk can hurt each other amid their ongoing feud, Harvey Weinstein admits he "acted immorally" ahead of his rape trial verdict, and Trump shares a video boosting his Flag Day military parade.

Top stories

1 | From banning X to funding Dems: All the ways Musk and Trump could hurt each other as they go nuclear

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2 | AOC takes victory lap as Trump-Elon nuclear breakup confirms everything she and Bernie Sanders warned

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3 | Harvey Weinstein admits he has ‘regrets’ and ‘acted immorally’ as he awaits verdict in New York rape trial

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4 | Fugitive dad accused of killing his 3 daughters googled ‘how to relocate to Canada’ before vanishing, affidavit reveals

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5 | Trump gushes over plans for military parade on Flag Day: 'Like nothing you've ever seen'

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The Big Question 

President Donald Trump has ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to scrap a longstanding ban on supersonic air travel across the U.S. and replace it with a to-be-determined set of regulations that will allow faster-than-sound travel so long as the sonic booms it creates do not breach certain noise limitations.

In an executive order signed on Friday, Trump directed the FAA administrator to begin the process of repealing a section of the Code of Federal Regulations that prohibits anyone in the United States from flying a civilian aircraft “at a true flight Mach number greater than 1.”

That regulation was imposed in April 1973, at a time when the British and French governments were jointly developing Concorde, a supersonic airliner that had a cruising speed in excess of Mach 2, or twice the speed of sound.

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