President Donald Trump said Sunday that he was disappointed with Russia for launching missiles while trying to reach a peace deal between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Trump spoke with reporters before boarding Air Force One on Sunday evening, where he was asked about everything from the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, and Iranian peace talks to the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre.During the gaggle, the president said his meeting on Saturday with Zelenskyy went very well."We’ll see what happens over the next few days," Trump said. "I was very disappointed that missiles were flying, by Russia…very disappointed."TRUMP AND ZELENSKYY HAVE ‘VERY PRODUCTIVE’ TALK AS THEY ATTEND POPE FRANCIS' FUNERALTrump and Zelenskyy met face-to-face for the first time since their infamous Oval Office spat in February, as both were attending Pope Francis’ funeral in Rome.After the meeting, the Ukrainian president posted on X that the meeting was "very symbolic" and could potentially be "historic."The meeting came as peace talks between Russia and Ukraine appeared to be at a standstill with Zelenskyy and Putin making competing demands.TRUMP INSISTS UKRAINE-RUSSIA PEACE DEAL IS CLOSE, BUT MISTRUST IN PUTIN LEAVES EXPERTS SKEPTICALTrump called the meeting with Zelenskyy on Saturday "beautiful.""Look, we have a tough road ahead, okay?" Trump said. "He told me that he needs more weapons, but he’s been saying that for three years. He needs more weapons, and we’re going to see what happens."I want to see what happens with respect to Russia," Trump added.He explained that he was very disappointed with Russia for conducting bombings in Kyiv after the discussions with both countries.NIKKI HALEY ON RUSSIA AND UKRAINE SAYS US SHOULD 'WANT TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY'Trump said Zelenskyy spoke to him about Crimea, which has been a sticking point for the Ukrainian president.American officials have apparently floated the idea of recognizing Russia's control of Crimea, a territory that Russia seized in 2014, as part of a ceasefire proposal. This would also involve the freezing of current frontlines.But Zelenskyy has drawn a red line about Crimea.In 2022, Zelenskyy said the Russian war against Ukraine and against the entire free Europe "began with Crimea and must end with Crimea – and its liberation," according to a report from Axios.VANCE ISSUES ULTIMATUM TO RUSSIA, UKRAINE ON PEACE NEGOTIATIONSOn Tuesday, Zelenskyy reiterated his stance, shutting down the idea that Ukraine would recognize Russian control of Crimea.Trump blamed the state of Crimea on former U.S. presidents."Crimea was given away by Barack Hussein Obama, and by Biden, like 11 or 12 years ago. That's a long time ago," Trump told reporters. "I don't know how he could bring up Crimea, because that's been a long time. Nobody brought it up for 12 years, and now they're bringing it up now. So, I told them, I told him, he should maybe go back to Obama, ask him why they gave it up. They gave it without a shot being fired by him."As far as current negotiations about reaching peace, Trump said he wanted Putin to "stop shooting, sit down and sign a deal.""We have the confines of a deal, I believe, and I want him to sign it and be done with it," the president said.TRUMP SAYS ‘INFLAMMATORY’ ZELENSKYY STATEMENT ON CRIMEA PROLONGS WAR WITH RUSSIASince his return to the Oval Office, Trump said the U.S. has been more respected than ever before. He also noted that with that strength, there are actions he can take against Russia, though he is not looking to act."There’s no more games," he said before taking another dig at former President Biden. "We have somebody that knows what he’s doing, not like the previous person who didn’t have a clue."Trump touted that since implementing tariffs, costs are dropping "way down."For instance, he said groceries, eggs and gasoline are coming down. He also said the U.S. is collecting "a lot" of money from the tariffs."Eventually, we’ll be reducing taxes very substantially to the people of our country because the money is so great coming in from tariffs, that I’ll be able to reduce taxes to a very large extent, and maybe almost completely," Trump said.Along with tariffs, the president addressed peace negotiations in Iran, saying he thinks the deal is going to be made without "having to start dropping bombs all over the place."VIRGINIA GIUFFRE, JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND PRINCE ANDREW ACCUSER, DEAD AT 41 BY SUICIDE: REPORTOn a more somber note, Trump was asked for his reaction to Virginia Giuffre's suicide in Australia.Giuffre, 41, one of Epstein’s and Prince Andrew’s most prominent accusers, filed a lawsuit against the English royal in New York in 2021. In the lawsuit, Giuffre claimed she was forced to have sex with him three times between 1999 and 2002, when she was underage.She died in Neergabby, Australia over the weekend, where she had been living, according to an NBC report."Well, it's a very sad situation, the whole thing," Trump said. "That whole situation is very sad, her and others. And so certainly that's a horrible thing, horrible."Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson, Bradford Betz and Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.

New York Times columnist David Brooks argued a Wisconsin judge allegedly shielding an illegal immigrant from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents would be both "something illegal" and "something heroic" against the Trump administration.On Friday, Brooks commented on the news that Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested and charged with obstruction of an official proceeding after evidence came to light that she had shielded previously deported Mexican national Eduardo Flores-Ruiz from ICE agents after his court hearing.According to a criminal complaint, Dugan demanded that the officers proceed to the chief judge’s office and – after his hearing ended – escorted Flores-Ruiz and his attorney out a restricted jury door, bypassing the public area where agents were waiting in order to help him avoid arrest.AG PAM BONDI OUTRAGED AT WISCONSIN JUDGE ARRESTED FOR OBSTRUCTING ARREST OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTAlthough he didn’t "know the specific details of this case" at the time, Brooks claimed that even if Dugan did "escort this guy out of the door," this could be considered a form of "necessary" civil obedience."It strikes me as maybe something illegal, but it also strikes me as something heroic. And in times of trouble, then people are sometimes called to do civil disobedience. And in my view, when people do civil disobedience, they have to pay the price. That's part of the heroism of it, frankly," Brooks said on "PBS Newshour."He continued, "And so you can both think that she shouldn't have legally done this and that morally protecting somebody against, maybe not even in this case, but in other cases, frankly, a predatory enforcement agency, sometimes, civil disobedience is necessary."Brooks speculated that there may be similar resistance in the weeks and months ahead and encouraged protesters to resist peacefully."That's one of the ways you can shift public opinion, because one of the ways authoritarians lose control is when their opponents protest in a nonviolent way, and the authoritarians crack down violently. That's the way you delegitimize an authoritarian regime. And so that — it may come to that," Brooks said.CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREFlores-Ruiz faced three misdemeanor battery charges for allegedly beating up two people when he attended his criminal court hearing with Dugan on April 18. He was arrested after officials said they found probable cause that he was removable under U.S. immigration law, given he was previously deported and never sought or obtained permission to re-enter the country. When agents identified themselves to him outside the court on April 18, he fled the scene on foot but was arrested after a short chase, according to the criminal complaint.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Elizabeth Hurley leaned into Billy Ray Cyrus' country roots one week after the couple went Instagram official.Cyrus, 63, wrapped his arms around his new girlfriend in a series of photos shared on social media Sunday.The "Austin Powers" actress appeared to be smitten with the country musician as they toured his Tennessee ranch together in an all-terrain vehicle.BILLY RAY CYRUS CREDITS ELIZABETH HURLEY ROMANCE FOR MAKING HIM THE HAPPIEST HE'S BEEN IN A 'LONG TIME'Hurley, 59, looked completely at ease wearing a sheer white blouse and blue jeans as she posed for photos with the "Achy Breaky Heart" singer.She added his 2009 song, "Back to Tennessee," to the post, a song which was released with the film, "Hannah Montana: The Movie." Cyrus sings about leaving "fancy cars and diamond rings" behind to return to what he loves back at home, and his Tennessee roots.ELIZABETH HURLEY HINTS AT BILLY RAY CYRUS ROMANCE WITH SWEET KISSING SNAP"All this time I was chasing after dreams, it was right in front of me, I was lost without her," the lyrics state. "I'm on the road now, I know just what I need, to find my way back to Tennessee."He continued, "I'm coming home now, to Southern, is so sweet, and find my way back to you and me, find my way back to Tennessee."Cyrus debuted his new song "Ask (Honor Song)" on Friday, and told "The Ty Bentli Show" that their blossoming relationship is a gift from God, and he's the happiest he's been with his new romance."It's just been beautiful," Cyrus said, noting there are "no expectations of where we go from here other than her and her son. I do love him a lot, and it’s great that God brought them into my life when he did. It’s just a good thing. "It’s been a long time since I’ve been this happy."LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSThe former co-stars reconnected over text, with Hurley making the first move nearly two years after they worked on the 2022 film "Christmas in Paradise.""We did very few scenes together, but the couple times we were in the same scene, there was a chemistry there that felt … we just laughed, and it was at a time I wasn't laughing a lot. And I found out the oddest thing," he said of Hurley. "I've obviously, I know all about her life and career and me, a kid from Flatwoods, Kentucky, going to sit and pretend I'm an actor with Elizabeth Hurley knowing that, wait, how did this happen? And the oddest part was first how much we laughed."CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERCyrus was in the throes of divorce from his third wife, Firerose, when Hurley contacted him unexpectedly after not communicating for more than two years."I felt like, ‘Wow, can life get any harder? Can it get any tougher?’ For me, at a certain point, it was like, ‘You can’t get knocked down any flatter than laying on your back when life is kicking you,’" Cyrus said. "And, in this moment, this hand kind of reached out in a text message, not a physical hand, as in the one you saw in the picture. That'd be good. A friend reached out."At the time, he "didn't even know the number" of the person who sent him a text along the lines of, "Hey, it looks like life might be a little bit tough and just wanted you to know I’m in your corner; you’ve got a friend in your corner.""So, I text back, I go, ‘Who is this?’ And it’s like, ‘Elizabeth Hurley.’ Of all the people to reach out to me in that second that maybe I needed most," Cyrus said. "This friend that made me laugh."If all we ever were [is] the friends that we are, I would take that. She’s so impressively brilliant. She reminds me a lot of Dolly Parton. She’s a very smart businesswoman. If you can laugh together, you can make it through everything."

EXCLUSIVE: New York Attorney General Letitia James, who became President Donald Trump's nemesis after accusing him of mortgage fraud, is now battling the very same allegations, and her chief tormentor is a legendary scam artist who says he knows a crook when he sees one.Sam Antar, who kept the books for his cousin, "Crazy Eddie" Antar, while he built a New York-area consumer electronics empire, helped his late relative skim cash and inflate the value of their company before leaving investors high and dry in the late 1980s. He says he knows every trick in the fraud book and smells a rat in James' real estate filings."I don't know how the wheels of justice will turn and, to be frank, I don't care as long as I'm right," said Antar, who has made his findings public. "If they fail to convict her, it's their humiliation and their embarrassment."Antar pleaded guilty to multiple felonies, cooperating with prosecutors to help convict his cousin, whose chain's ads featured a maniacal pitchman pledging, "Our prices are insane!" While Eddie Antar fled to Israel, was extradited back to the U.S. and served time before dying in 2016, Sam Antar reinvented himself as a fraud expert for government agencies and law firms. He runs a website where he posts about his various investigations.‘PLAYING WITH THE COURTS’: TRUMP ADMIN HIT WITH DOZENS OF SUITS AFTER YEARS OF PRESIDENT CONDEMNING ‘LAWFARE’In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Antar said he worked alone and was the first to unearth documentation of James’ alleged mortgage fraud and posted it to his White Collar Fraud website weeks ago.He said the strength of his findings, backed by his renowned reputation in the field of uncovering white-collar fraud for the government, eventually led to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) picking up the case and sending a criminal referral to the Justice Department."It's not the Trump administration at war with Tish James, it's me bringing her to accountability and justice," Antar told Fox News Digital. "I'm not the Trump administration. I was investigating Tish James because that is what I do.""I took all kinds of risks doing it, from retaliation, to libel, to reputational risk. But I stand by everything."Antar said his findings were all uncovered independently by him and that he is not working for the government by looking into James. Fox News Digital asked the FHFA and the White House to corroborate his claims but did not receive a response. "Everything that I've done is thoroughly documented," said Antar, who said he's a Democrat. "This is not bullying. This is not the Trump administration at war. Trump has his own agenda. I don't care. I am not Donald Trump. All I did was, I did my forensic accounting and I thoroughly documented everything that I did."Antar’s investigations uncovered documents stretching back as far as 1983, which he said indicate James may have been misrepresenting her financial situation for decades in order to nail sweetheart loans from lenders.The FHFA accuses James of falsifying records to meet certain lending requirements and score favorable loan terms. James, 66, denies the allegations and claims Trump is behind the move, calling it a "revenge tour" for the $454 million civil fraud lawsuit she successfully spearheaded against him last year. Trump and the Trump Organization are currently appealing. In Trump's civil fraud case, the then-presidential candidate was accused of financial misrepresentation and providing false statements about his real estate, the same types of crimes James is being accused of by the FHFA. Antar told Fox News Digital that he started digging into James’ records months ago after he looked into the costs of her private flight travel as attorney general.Property in Sterling Street, Norfolk, VAIn the criminal referral letter sent to the Justice Department, FHFA Director William Pult cited a property in Virginia that James allegedly claimed as her principal residence in 2023 despite being a public office holder in New York at that same time. She bought the property around the time the Trump trial was getting underway. The FHFA said primary residence mortgages receive more favorable loan terms, including lower interest rates, compared to secondary residence mortgages. In her mortgage documents, James reaffirmed this would be her primary residence, Antar said."She gave her relative power of attorney and declared, in a notarized document, that she intended to make the property her primary residence," Antar said. "If that’s true, she’d be disqualified from holding office in New York. Neither she nor the relative filed for a homestead exemption, yet the mortgage was issued under the condition that both would live there. That’s how she got favorable terms."A building permit issued on James’ New York property on July 15, 2024, lists that property as the "JAMES RESIDENCE" and states "Remain Occupied," according to the FHFA letter.James' office told Fox News Digital that she has been clear that she is not using the Virginia home as her primary residence because she lives in New York.In a letter to the Justice Department this week, James' lawyers told Attorney General Pam Bondi that while the power-of-attorney form "mistakenly stated the property to be Ms. James’ principal residence," Pult "absolutely ignored" an all-caps statement to the mortgage loan broker two weeks prior that the property "WILL NOT be my primary residence" but would rather be the primary residence of her niece. James' attorney, Abbe Lowell, said emails showed the mortgage broker understood this.Property in Brooklyn, NYIn 2001, James purchased a property in Brooklyn with its certificate of occupancy listing the property as having five units, but James, the FHFA said, consistently misrepresented the same property as having four units in both building permit applications and numerous mortgage documents and applications. This enabled James to get a lower mortgage interest rate, known as a conforming loan, since conforming loans are only available on four-unit or fewer structures. COURT NAMES NEW JUDGE IN TRUMP CIVIL FRAUD CASE BEFORE REASSIGNING PREVIOUS JUDGE HOURS LATERShe also netted mortgage assistance through the Home Affordable Modification Program, a government-run program that provides homeowners at risk of foreclosure with reduced monthly mortgage payments and recipients had to have properties with four dwellings or fewer, the referral states.James' lawyers told Bondi that the residence "has four floors and, for as long as Ms. James has lived there, the property has always functioned as a four-person residence."The certificate of occupancy for the property listed online still shows the 2001 version, listed as five units. The DOB told Fox News Digital that that document is the most recent certificate of occupancy they have on file for that building.James’ office told Fox News that James has been clear in her filings that the property is a four-unit dwelling and that the previous owner listed the property as a five-unit before she purchased it in 2001.Mortgages with father listed as her husbandMeanwhile, James, who never married, is also accused of saying her father was her husband to obtain two mortgages in Queens as a married couple. The documents allegedly show that the property James purchased with her father had both parties listed as "husband and wife" in 1983 and 2000. "While this was a long time ago, it raises serious concerns about the validity of Ms. James representations on mortgage applications," Pulte wrote.Lowell, who accused the FHFA of "cherry-picking," writes the deed lists her father "and Letitia James, his daughter.'" "As I have set forth, the exhibits Director Pulte included with his letter are notable for the fact that he omitted numerous other records (some of which we have included) which refute the allegations of impropriety, and make clear that a mistake on one line had no significance," Lowell wrote."If there is anything that you believe I have not addressed in the real facts and documents provided, please let me know. Otherwise, we would expect a quick response confirming that this referral matter has been closed by the Department." Antar, meanwhile, continues to back his findings. "I documented everything that I did," he said. "And I stand by everything I did. I did this on my own time, my own dime."READ THE CRIMINAL REFERRAL BELOW. APP USERS CLICK HERE.