Trump admin updates: Trump calls for expanded deportations in LA, NYC and more

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, a critic of the Trump administration's handling of the Russia-Ukraine war, focused his questions to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the conflict.

McConnell asked Hegseth who is the aggressor and who is the victim in the conflict. Hegseth said that Russia is the aggressor, but declined to include in his answer whether he viewed Ukraine as the victim.

McConnell also asked Hegseth which side he wanted to win the war, to which Hegseth responded that the Trump administration wants to see "peace."

"Ultimately peace serves our national interests," Hegseth said.

Elon Musk early on Wednesday said that he regrets some of the posts he made about President Donald Trump late last week, saying he went "too far."

"I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week," Musk said in a post on X, his social network. "They went too far."

Musk did not clarify which posts he was referring to in his statement.

-ABC News' Alex Ederson

A federal appeals court will allow President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs to remain in effect temporarily.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit continued a stay of a ruling from the Court of International Trade that blocked the president's sweeping global tariffs last month.

"Both sides have made substantial arguments on the merits. Having considered the traditional stay factors, the court concludes a stay is warranted under the circumstances," the court's two-page decision said.

The court also granted expedited review of the appeal with oral arguments set for July 31.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that his administration will bring back the names of military bases that had been renamed in 2023 to remove names that honored Confederate leaders.

The Trump administration has already done that with Fort Benning and Fort Bragg by finding soldiers who had won medals for heroism and shared the same last names as the Confederate officers for whom the bases had originally been named.

"For a little breaking news, we are also going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort A.P. Hill, and Fort Robert E. Lee," Trump said while delivering remarks at Fort Bragg. "We won a lot of battles out of those forts. It's no time to change. And I'm superstitious. I like to keep it going."

-ABC News' Luis Martinez