What happened
Donald Trump has criticised British police after five men arrested over a suspected bomb plot at RAF Fairford were released on bail. The British nationals, aged between 23 and 25, were detained on Sunday after three vans were found about 400m from the Gloucestershire airbase, prompting the evacuation of 85 nearby households. Army bomb disposal specialists examined the vehicles before police released the men following interviews and further inquiries.

Who said what
Trump said he was surprised that the men had been released, adding: “I would have said don’t let them have bail.” Asked whether the suspects could be linked to Iran, he replied: “Might be.”

The RAF Fairford “bomb plot” was “designed to fail”, said Sam Kiley in The Independent. “The delivery of a bomb, or many bombs, is now easier, more accurate, less dangerous and likely to succeed if it is done with drones these days – not men in white vans.” So the “mystery now is who has the most to gain from the flop?”

What next?
Police will continue investigating the men and the vehicles while examining possible links to foreign actors. Iran has rejected suggestions that it was involved.

What happened
SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, has launched its most powerful rocket into orbit for the first time on its 14th test flight. Despite one of its six engines failing during lift-off from Texas, Starship’s booster successfully detached to send the rocket into orbit, where all 26 of its Starlink satellites were deployed.

Nonetheless, the engine issue triggered an early return to Earth “out of an abundance of caution”, with Starship landing in a pre-arranged cleared zone in the Pacific Ocean.

Who said what
Despite the decision to cut the planned flight time from 10 hours to three, SpaceX’s live host said “this has been a wildly successful day so far”. Nasa administrator Jared Isaacman called it a “gorgeous launch”.

SpaceX describes Starship as “the most powerful launch vehicle ever developed”, claiming that it will eventually carry crew and cargo to “the Moon, Mars and beyond”.

If it could regularly return to its launch site and be caught by “giant mechanical arms”, Starship would “revolutionise the space industry, enabling launches of bigger, heavier satellites” at lower costs, said The New York Times.

What next?
SpaceX says Starship eventually aims to carry up to 100 people on “long-duration, inter-planetary flights”.

What do “Seinfeld”, “The Office” and “Family Guy” have in common? Each was used in a recent White House promotional video for the launch of what the administration has dubbed Trump TV, an official White House broadcast that has thus far largely been limited to previously recorded Maga speeches and events.

Notably, the splashy – if dubiously copyright-compliant – rollout of what the White House has deemed its “Essentials Station” comes as the Trump administration escalates its long-running altercation with mainstream media outlets. So what exactly is Trump TV, who is it for and what does this White House have in mind for the programming’s future?

Trump TV was “born of necessity” after multiple major media companies “boycotted the White House press pool in response to the president’s ban on certain outlets”, said New York magazine. But unlike the “Oprah Winfrey Network-esque conservative media company Trump (allegedly) envisioned” as a potential outlet over the years, Trump TV is, for now, “just a dinky livestream on the White House YouTube page”.

Trump TV “peaked at 8,000 viewers” for its Monday evening premiere before “dipping to around 4,000”, said The Independent. “Some 1,600 people” tuned in the following morning “when footage showed the president signing an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico ‘Gulf of America’.”

Given the “calamitous start to life after the press pool”, The Daily Beast asked the White House if it “intends to try to fix the viewership issues” or if it is “waiting to patch things up with the TV networks”. To date, the White House has not responded.