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Trump-Xi summit ends without any major deals. Major tensions unresolved—AND MORE
CNN: President Donald Trump departed Beijing Friday afternoon local time without any immediate sign that the US and…
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Israel to sue NY Times over op-ed alleging widespread rape of Palestinian prisoners
Times of Israel: Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Sa’ar, say piece by columnist Nicholas Kristof is ‘one of the most hideous and distorted lies…
‘It all flows from Trump’: Brendan Carr, US broadcast media watchdog
Financial Times: The chair of the Federal Communications Commission on making the agency more ‘aggressive’, his fight with Disney — and…
Trump warns Taiwan against declaring independence, hours after summit with China’s Xi
BBC: “I’m not looking to have somebody go independent,” the US president told Fox News on Friday, at the end of his two-day…
How Iran’s energy exports are still headed toward China
Bloomberg: The U.S. blockade has intercepted dozens of vessels since mid-April. But a small number of ships with Iranian cargo are still…
Anthropic agrees terms of $30bn funding deal at $900bn valuation
Financial Times: Investors Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital and Altimeter Capital have agreed to co-lead the round, which would nearly…
Investors take fright as left-leaning candidate secures path to UK parliament
Reuters: The potential return of Burnham to Westminster alarmed investors on Friday. Sterling, down around 2% against the dollar this week,…
Orban’s media empire crumbles after Hungary election defeat
Reuters: The tone of public service media changed overnight, with more opposition voices appearing even before Magyar formally took power,…
Geneva paying price of Trump’s retreat from UN
Politico: Indeed, the layoffs have already begun. In 2024, Geneva hosted about 12,000 of the U.N.’s 131,000 employees — around 9.3…
Iran is Europe’s war too, argues Trump’s former national security adviser
Politico: “I think Trump made a big mistake not consulting European NATO allies before the war,” Bolton told the podcast. “But the European…
Politics so broken it’s driving people to therapy
Politico: “This is the first time that we’re really seeing people initiating therapy because of political [anxiety],” says Veronica Calkins, a…
No mention of Jimmy Lai by Trump as Rubio says U.S. still hoping for ‘positive response’ from China
The Globe and Mail: There was no mention of Mr. Lai in any White House summary of the meetings, nor did Mr. Trump mention him in his…
DNI Tulsi Gabbard probes US funding to more than 120 biolabs abroad
New York Post: Gabbard told The Post Monday in a statement that her team is going “to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they…
US authorities prepare to end Adani fraud cases
Financial Times: They come after Adani’s legal team privately mentioned to SEC and DoJ officials that the billionaire had pledged in the wake…
Big Tech turns to Sesame Street, Girl Scouts to deflect scrutiny over kids’ screen time
Reuters: Meta and Google enlisted trusted children’s brands such as Sesame Street, Girl Scouts and Highlights magazine to teach kids to…
Xpeng in talks with VW about buying factory in Europe
Financial Times: Xpeng, often known as China’s Tesla, is in talks with Volkswagen and other carmakers about buying a factory in Europe as it…
Iran war saps money from other Pentagon needs, leaders warn
Wall Street Journal: Pentagon leaders say they could start running out of money for operations this summer unless Congress passes a new…
U.S. ambassadors missing in action under Trump
Wall Street Journal: Veteran diplomats say unprecedented vacancies hamper American global power but Trump officials dismiss those criticisms…
ICE moving forward with warehouse detention plan despite lawsuits, probe
Washington Post: In an analysis of those purchases, CoStar found DHS paid an average of 13 percentabove market values. Most recently, DHS…
Prepare for an AI jobs apocalypse
The Economist: This dystopian possibility is behind Silicon Valley’s admonitions that state intervention, and perhaps a universal basic…
Supreme Court preserves access to mail distribution of widely used abortion pill
Washington Post: The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that patients can, for now, continue to access by mail the most commonly used abortion…
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