First Thing: Nikki Haley to vote for Trump in 2024 election U-turn

The ex-president's most enduring rival during the primaries joined the ranks of many one-time foes who will nevertheless support him. Plus, are phones designed for adults causing children to lose their love for music?

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Nikki Haley, who emerged as Donald Trump's most enduring rival and trenchant critic during the Republican primary elections, has said she intends to vote for the former US president in November.

Any other one-time Trump foes who will nevertheless support him? Haley joins the ranks of the US Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell; Trump's former attorney general turned critic William Barr; and Chris Sununu, the New Hampshire governor.

What has Trump himself been up to? On social media and in a Tuesday fundraising email, Trump falsely said the Department of Justice was ready to kill him. Trump was apparently referencing the FBI order for a search warrant in August 2022 of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in search of classified documents Trump had allegedly taken. The FBI took the unusual step of responding, describing the language in the warrant as a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force. No one ordered additional steps to be taken and there was no departure from the norm in this matter." The Washington Post has previously reported that FBI agents picked a day for the raid when Trump would not be at Mar-a-Lago and told the Secret Service ahead of time.

What next, diplomatically? The US is worried Netanyahu may be willing to torpedo a potential normalization deal with Saudi Arabia if it entails ending the war in Gaza and committing to working towards a two-state solution.