The White House on Sunday promoted a “China Commercial Agreement” – Without providing details: after two senior US officials alluded to a possible agreement with China after conversations between the two Swiss countries during the weekend.
“The United States announces China’s commercial agreement in Geneva,” said the head of the White House for a transcription of the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, and the comments of the United States Commercial Representative Jamieson Greer to journalists.
Besent and Greer had reached an optimistic tone regarding the state of a possible commercial agreement with China, noting that the administration would provide additional details on Monday. While Greer referred to an “agreement” and “agreement”, none of the officials provided details. China has not yet publicly intervened in whether the two countries have reached an agreement.
“I am pleased to inform that we made substantial progress between the United States and China in very important commercial conversations,” Besent told journalists, adding that “the conversations were productive.”
Hamas says that he will launch the American hostage
Hamas agreed to free Edan AlexanderA dual and Israeli citizen who believes is the last American citizen who is still captive in Gaza, weeks after saying that he had lost contact with the group that kept him hostage.
His release is part of “the steps that are being taken to achieve a high fire, open the crosses and allow help,” said Khalil Al-Hayya, head of the Hamas Negotiation Team, in a statement. Al-Hayya did not provide information about Alexander’s condition.
Steve Witkoff, the special envoy of the United States to the Middle East, confirmed the agreement to NBC News and said he travels to Israel to ensure Alexander’s release.
The news occurs when disagreements on how to address the situation in Gaza, as well as in Iran, have led to the tension between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuAccording to two US officials, two diplomats from the Middle East and two other people with knowledge.
While Netanyahu wants to continue with a military approach, Trump sees an opportunity to reach an agreement with an Iran now torn, the sources told NBC News.
‘Know the press’
Trump’s main advisor Stephen Miller said Friday that the administration is “looking” ways to end the due process for unauthorized immigrants in the United States.
When asked if he would support suspend habeas corpus for undocumented immigrantsSenator John Barraso, R-Wyo., Evoked the questions, and finally told “Meet The Press” of NBC News that he did not believe that the problem would come before Congress.
Meanwhile, Senator Amy Klobuchahhe, D-minn. The state of the Democratic Party After the 2024 elections.
Klobuchar reflected on Joe Biden suspending his re -election campaign last year and supporting Kamala Harris a few months before the elections.
“Yes, a primary would have served us better. But we are where we are,” Klobuchar said. “I am not interested in going back in time. I am interested in moving forward.”
Politics shortly
- Special delivery: The Trump administration is preparing to accept A Jet Jumbo from Boeing 747-8 of Qatar’s royal family as a gift to be the new Air Force One for presidential trips until shortly before Trump leaves the office.
- The musk reimbursements: Regulatory problems that have pursued the technological billionaire Elon Musk and its commercial empire in recent years They have begun to melt Under the Trump administration.
- ICE problem: Three Chamber Democrats I could face the arrest for an incident during a supervision visit To a detention center for the application of immigration and customs in New Jersey, a spokesman for the National Security Department suggested.
- Lost in translation: Trump Steve Witkoff’s special envoy Broken with a long data protocol When trusting the translators provided by Kremlin during three high -level meetings with Vladimir Putin de Russia, officials said to NBC News.
How Leo became the unexpected Pope
Once the doors of the Sistine Chapel are sealed, the cardinals who attend the conclave make an oath of “absolute and perpetual secret”, as well as all the Vatican personnel who help them, including chefs, cleaners and drivers.
But there Since then there have been some clues of experts As for how a relatively dark American Augustine, which was not widely discussed before the event, moved the minds and ended up as a potato.
Cardinal Wilton Gregory said that “there was a lot of dialogue when eating, breaks in coffee, those moments in which you can participate in smaller groups,” insinuating that it was at the moment that Cardinal Robert Prevost, which will soon become Leo, prospered.
“It was not that he stood up and made this overwhelmingly convincing speech that simply captivated,” Gregory said. “I don’t remember any particular intervention, but I think it was involved quite effectively in smaller group conversations.”
Notable appointment
This was not our first rodeo. We have gone through this 268 times.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, New York Archbishop
The conclave who saw Pope Leo XIV unexpectedly arise When the new leader of the Catholic Church ended after only 33 hours of deliberation.
Buyers of groceries prepare to pay more for eggs, meat and other basic products
Egg prices are stabilizing After a Ostive earlier this yearBut edible buyers are already getting used to paying more for them and other basic pantry products.
After reaching a maximum point at $ 6.55 in mid -March, a dozen eggs were sold for an average of $ 5.45 throughout the country from the week ending on April 19, according to the latest data available from the NIQ market research firm. He Continuous decline It is good news for consumers, but it occurs in the middle of higher prices for a series of basic pantry products, even when inflation in general has cooled.
And it is not just eggs: many buyers are preparing to pay more for the groceries in general, since they change the focus towards the cover of essential elements.
Many now plan to cut their expenses this summer in everything from clothes and furniture to trips, according to a survey, the KPMG consulting firm published at the end of April. The groceries were one of the two categories in which buyers said they hope to spend more.
In case you have lost it
- New research suggests Wild chimpanzees have developed A much more nuanced communication system than was done above.
- Black University Seniors They are graduating in a labor market That has seen Dei recoil, less external enthusiasm for recruiting black workers and signs of a cooling in the hiring of all.
- Kentucky Derby winner jockey Junior Alvarado has been suspended and fined $ 62,000 for hitting his horse too many times during the race. Alvarado used his riding harvest in sovereignty “more than the amount allowed,” according to officials.
- Other Terrestrial stop at Newark Liberty International The travelers left a new wave of cancellations and delays in the New Jersey airport.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Restart direct conversations with Ukraine As of May 15, as other world leaders threaten greater sanctions to Russia.
- He The Trump administration arrested the investigation With the aim of helping babies with heart defects, putting 30 years of research at risk.
- TO Soviet spaceship Released in 1972 in a failed mission to Venus, it is believed that he crashed with the earth.
