"We're doing pretty well, I think, with Russia. We'll see if we have something to announce, maybe by Tuesday. I'll be speaking to President Putin on Tuesday," Trump said.
Williams and Wilmore are scheduled to travel back to Earth alongside Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Wilmore and Williams have been stranded on the ISS for nine months after reaching there in June last year. They were supposed to stay there for about a week. The astronauts were transported from Earth to the ISS aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.
Trump has signed an executive order to dismantle seven government offices, including the United States Agency for Global Media, the parent company of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
This came just before a federal judge issued a 14-day halt on the Trump administration's ability to use the act, ordering any planes in the air carrying the deportees to return back to the US.
A draft list of recommendations by security officials proposes categorising countries into three groups--Red, Orange, and Yellow--to restrict travel. Being placed on the Red List would mean a complete ban on entering the United States.
In a podcast with AI researcher Lex Fridman, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appreciated US President Donald Trump's unshakeable dedication to his country, particularly in the wake of assassination attempts last year.
SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov docked with International Space Station.
This rarely used law, which has been invoked only three times before, grants the president broad authority to target and remove undocumented immigrants.