内容摘要：The sun sets on Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Rochester, N.Y. (Toni Duncan via AP)

The sun sets on Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Rochester, N.Y. (Toni Duncan via AP)

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, when asked about Glucksmann’s comments, responded that the U.S. would “absolutely not” be parting with the landmark in New York Harbor.Leavitt is one of three administration officials named

on First and Fifth Amendment grounds. The AP says the three are punishing the news agency for editorial decisions they oppose. The White House says the AP is not following an executive order to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.“My advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to remind them that it’s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now,” Leavitt said Monday, apparently referencing the U.S. fight with Allied powers to free France from Nazi occupation during World War II and alongside France during World War I. “They should be very grateful.”During a news conference, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the U.S. will not heed a French lawmaker’s call to hand back the Statue of Liberty.

But the debt of gratitude runs both ways. Leavitt skipped past France’s key role in supporting the future United States during its war for independence from the United Kingdom.In his subsequent follow-up, Glucksmann said that his call for Lady Liberty to travel back across the Atlantic to France had been intended as “a wake-up call.”

“We all in Europe love this nation to which we know we owe so much,” he posted. “It will rise again. You will rise again. We are counting on you.”

AP journalist Zeke Miller contributed to this report from Washington.Debris floats in the water at the scene where a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

that killed a family of five visiting from Spain and the helicopter’s pilot, a, has renewed concerns about the safety of the popular sightseeing excursions.

Since 2005, five helicopters on commercial sightseeing flights have fallen into the Hudson and East rivers as a result of mechanical failures, pilot errors or collisions,Longtime opponents have revived calls to ban or limit “nonessential” helicopter flights, including the roughly 30,000 sightseeing rides over the city each year.