Trump feels bad about Alex Pretti, ‘worse’ about Renee Good because her parents were ‘Trump fans’

President Donald Trump admitted he feels “terrible” about the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, but said he’s was more upset about Good because her parents are “tremendous Trump people.”

Trump made the comment Tuesday on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show” while addressing the ongoing unrest in Minneapolis, where both Good and Pretti were fatally shot by federal agents this month. “Bottom line, it was terrible,” he said when asked about Pretti’s death.

“Both of them were terrible; the other was terrible too,” Trump continued, referring to Good as well. “And I’m not sure about his parents, but I know her parents were big Trump fans, makes me feel bad anyway. But I guess you could say even worse, they were tremendous Trump people, Trump fans.”

The president went on to speculate that Good “was maybe radicalized, maybe not.”

—New York Daily News

How to talk to kids about ICE

MINNEAPOLIS — Many families with children who could be directly affected by Immigration Customs Enforcement operations have been talking about the subject for weeks. Families who have not been impacted may not have discussed the subject, or know what to say. But all children have questions.

Katie Lingras, a child psychologist at the University of Minnesota, encourages parents to broach the subject, even if it feels fraught.

“The natural response from many parents is, ‘This is really scary. I want to protect my kids, and I’m not going to talk about it,’” she said.

But even very young kids can pick up on subtle cues that something’s different, and Lingras says that giving them age-appropriate information can be more reassuring than avoiding the subject. “It’s all about how you talk about it and what you say,” she said.

—The Minnesota Star Tribune

Florida still leads the way, but global spaceports could soon top 100

With Florida leading the world in launches again in 2025 and with no signs of slowing down, the state is ground zero for challenges for a growing industry as other spaceport players across the U.S. and world start to build momentum.

“We finally cracked triple digits. Got to 109 launches,” said Dale Ketchum, Space Florida’s vice president of government and community relations. “We’re continuing to grow rapidly. We’ve obviously got a lot of folks seeking to launch their vehicles at the Cape Canaveral spaceport.”

Ketchum was giving an update at the Global Spaceport Alliance’s annual summit on Tuesday that opened up four days of commercial space conferences this week at the Orange County Convention Center.

He noted that Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, along with California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base, have traditionally led the way for launches, and that’s not slowing down.

—Orlando Sentinel

US, Denmark start talks over Greenland deal to assuage Trump

U.S., Danish and Greenlandic officials met Wednesday to discuss a new framework deal over Greenland, an attempt to satisfy President Donald Trump’s desire to see a greater American presence on the Arctic island that stops short of ceding it to the U.S.

The senior officials met to “discuss how we can address U.S. concerns about security in the Arctic while respecting the red lines of the Kingdom,” said Oliver Routhe Skov, the spokesman for Denmark’s embassy to the U.S.

The negotiations follow Trump’s announcement last week of a “framework of a future deal,” in which he pledged to refrain from imposing tariffs on European nations opposing his effort to take possession of Greenland.

The about-face came after weeks of mounting pressure by Trump on Denmark and Greenland to give the U.S. control over the strategic Arctic island, which is a semi-autonomous territory under NATO ally Denmark’s rule. The repeated threats prompted an outcry from Danish and Greenlandic officials and other European allies.

—Bloomberg News