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The Trump administration is limiting the variety of refugees it admits into the nation to 7,500 and they’ll principally be white South Africans, a dramatic drop after the U.S. beforehand allowed in a whole bunch of hundreds of individuals fleeing battle and persecution from around the globe.

The administration revealed the information Thursday in a discover on the Federal Registry.

No purpose was given for the numbers, that are a dramatic lower from final yr’s ceiling set below the Biden administration of 125,000. The Associated Press beforehand reported that the administration was contemplating admitting as few as 7,500 refugees and principally white South Africans.

The memo stated solely that the admission of the 7,500 refugees throughout 2026 fiscal yr was “justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.”

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Atlanta will cease water cutoffs and evictions to ease shutdown impacts

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens stated Thursday that due to the SNAP profit cutoff, the town will cease reducing off water service to individuals who don’t pay their payments and that city-owned or funded housing will cease evicting individuals or charging them late charges.

Both measures will final via Jan. 31.

Dickens stated the hassle is meant to assist people who find themselves shedding SNAP advantages or federal employees going with out pay, however stated eligibility can be “pretty open” to anybody requesting assist.

The announcement got here because the Atlanta Community Food Bank stated it might spend $5 million in reserves to bolster meals provides.

Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, has declined to contemplate state support for SNAP recipients, though the state has greater than $14 billion in reserve money. Dickens, a Democrat prone to be reelected on Tuesday, stated “this might be a good time” to make use of a few of that surplus.

Another lawsuit challenges suspension of SNAP advantages for tens of hundreds of thousands of Americans

A coalition of cities along with group, enterprise and union organizations filed a lawsuit Thursday that goals to make sure meals advantages for tens of hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans don’t get halted this weekend by the Trump administration.

The lawsuit comes as a federal choose in Boston heard a movement on an identical lawsuit over SNAP, saying she anticipated to make a ruling later Thursday. The program could possibly be suspended as early as Saturday as a result of authorities shutdown.

“Denying millions of Americans access to basic food security is unlawful and unconscionable, and it threatens to push local nonprofit food banks, food pantries, and other organizations beyond the breaking point,” Diane Yentel, president and CEO, National Council of Nonprofits.

The SNAP program, which prices about $8 billion per 30 days, serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a serious piece of the nation’s social security internet.

Refugee organizations denounce drastic cuts made within the slashed refugee admittance cap

Refugee advocacy teams are sharing sturdy reactions to the Trump administration’s new restrict on entries from final yr’s ceiling of 125,000 set below Democratic President Joe Biden to 7,500, who will principally be white South Africans.

“By privileging Afrikaners while continuing to ban thousands of refugees who have already been vetted and approved, the administration is once again politicizing a humanitarian program,” Sharif Aly, president of IRAP, stated in an announcement.

“Concentrating the vast majority of admissions on one group undermines the program’s purpose as well as its credibility,” stated Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, President & CEO of Global Refuge.

Human Rights First condemned the choice as a “new low point” in U.S. overseas coverage.

“This decision will further destabilize front-line states that host over two-thirds of the world’s nearly 43 million refugees, undermining U.S. national security in tandem,” stated Uzra Zeya, president of Human Rights First.

Democratic senators say Trump’s ballroom is ‘likely a misuse of federal authority’

The high Democrats on three Senate committees are suggesting to Trump that his proposed White House ballroom is “unauthorized, unprecedented” and a “likely misuse of federal authority.”

The senators raised conflict-of-interest considerations about main authorities contractors being among the many donors contributing to the $300 million mission, saying it offered a “profound risk of pay-to-play corruption.”

In a letter despatched to Trump, they request an itemized listing of donors, the quantities they gave and if any are foreigner people or entities. They additionally ask for an in depth breakdown of the ballroom plan’s funds, They additionally ask what steps are being taken to protect furnishings and different historic objects beforehand within the East Wing.

The letter’s signers had been: Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, rating member of the environmental committee, Martin Heinrich, rating member of the power committee and Gary Peters, rating member of the federal government affairs committee.

Illinois governor’s ask to halt immigration crackdown for Halloween dismissed

Illinois Gov JB Pritzker’s request to “suspend” a Chicago space immigration crackdown throughout Halloween has been shutdown by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Pritzker made the request this week after federal brokers deployed a chemical agent in a Chicago neighborhood getting ready up for a Halloween parade. Neighbors stated a number of kids had been affected and U.S. residents had been amongst these handcuffed.

The crackdown that began almost two months in the past has led to tense clashes and roughly 3,000 arrests throughout Chicago’s metro space, which incorporates elements of Indiana.

Pritzker says Illinois households “deserve to spend Halloween without fear.”

But Noem says immigration brokers are conserving communities protected and blasted Pritzker’s request as “shameful.” She spoke to reporters in Gary, Indiana, after highlighting latest arrests.

UN official blasts Trump’s announcement that US will restart nuclear weapons testing

The high U.N. official on Thursday blasted President Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons.

Antonio Guterres, the U.N. Secretary General, stated in an announcement that “current nuclear risks are already alarmingly high” for another international locations to affix in.

“We must never forget the disastrous legacy of over 2,000 nuclear weapons tests carried out over the last 80 years,” he stated, in accordance with his deputy spokesperson, Farhan Haqq. “Nuclear testing can never be permitted under any circumstances.”

Kamala Harris voted for California’s partisan plan to redraw US House maps

The former vp stated Proposition 50 is California’s probability to struggle again towards President Donald Trump’s plan to achieve extra GOP seats in Texas and different states.

“We as Californians are standing up to level the playing field,” Harris stated in a social media submit.

Voting concludes Nov. 4. If passes, it might realign district boundaries to make as many as 5 extra seats winnable for Democrats in subsequent yr midterm elections. Republicans presently maintain 9 of the state’s 52 congressional seats.

Warner calls partisan briefing on boat strikes ‘outrageous’

The high Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee stated that the Trump administration’s gradual efforts to dam Democrats from briefings on nationwide safety issues is “against every norm of how national security policy has worked” and “an erosion of trust” with the general public.

Virginia Sen. Mark Warner stated Thursday {that a} partisan briefing on the U.S. navy’s boat strikes in waters off South America this week was “outrageous” and will have by no means occurred.

“Every United States senator ought to read in,” Warner advised reporters. “And until that happens, I don’t know how you even begin to rebuild trust.”

Warner criticized Republican senators who attended the assembly, together with members of management and extra average members of the GOP convention. He stated that “somebody should have walked out.”

The briefing got here because the Senate is anticipated to vote subsequent week on a battle powers decision that might prohibit strikes in or close to Venezuela, until Congress approves the navy motion.

Oklahoma company plans employee furloughs in response to federal shutdown

The head of the Oklahoma Human Services company notified workers by way of electronic mail Wednesday that because of the federal shutdown they plan to furlough workers who make greater than $50,000 yearly, efficient Nov. 2.

The company additionally plans to implement a hiring freeze for many positions, remove most journey and extra time, and scale back or droop a few of its contracts, in accordance with the e-mail from OHS Director Jeffrey Cartmell.

“As you know, nearly 75% of OKDHS’ funding comes from federal sources,” Cartmell wrote within the electronic mail obtained by The Associated Press.

“After exhausting every available option to minimize the impact on staff and sustain essential operations, the continuing lapse in federal appropriations leaves us no choice but to implement these temporary measures.”

Last-minute scramble over pay takes a toll on navy households in the course of the shutdown

The authorities shutdown is exacting a heavy psychological toll on the nation’s navy households, leaving them not realizing from week to week whether or not their paychecks will arrive.

Alicia Blevins, whose husband is a Marine, stated she’s going to see a therapist largely due to the grinding uncertainty.

“I don’t feel like I have the tools to deal with this,” stated Blevins, 33, who lives at Camp Lejeune, a Marine base close to North Carolina’s coast. “I don’t want to dump all this on my husband. He’s got men that he’s in charge of. He’s got enough to deal with.”

Even although the Trump administration has discovered methods to pay the troops twice because the shutdown started on Oct. 1, the method has been fraught with anxiousness for a lot of Americans in uniform and their family members. Both occasions, they had been left hanging till the final minute.

Trump administration limits variety of refugees to 7,500 they usually’re principally white South Africans

The Trump administration is limiting the variety of refugees it admits into the nation to 7,500 and they’ll principally be white South Africans, a dramatic drop after the U.S. beforehand allowed in a whole bunch of hundreds of individuals fleeing battle and persecution from around the globe.

The administration revealed the information Thursday in a discover on the Federal Register.

No purpose was given for the numbers, that are a dramatic lower from final yr’s ceiling set below the Biden administration of 125,000. The Associated Press beforehand reported that the administration was contemplating admitting as few as 7,500 refugees and principally white South Africans.

The memo stated solely that the admission of the 7,500 refugees throughout 2026 fiscal yr was “justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.”

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Vance and Duffy will maintain roundtable to debate shutdown impacts on aviation

Vice President JD Vance will lead the closed-door assembly on the White House on Thursday, in accordance with a White House official who wasn’t approved to talk publicly and spoke on situation of anonymity to share particulars of the assembly.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has warned in latest days that flight delays might develop as air site visitors controllers who’re lacking paychecks due to the shutdown name out sick. Duffy and Vance can be joined on the roundtable by former New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican, and leaders from the aviation business, in accordance with the official.

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Cuba hawk Rubio says US prepared to assist Cuban individuals recuperate from Hurricane Melissa

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the United States is able to assist the Cuban individuals recuperate from devastation wrought by Hurricane Melissa regardless of long-standing hostility between Washington and Havana, the U.S. emargo on the communist island nation and Rubio’s personal harsh criticism of the Cuban authorities.

In an announcement launched Thursday, Rubio stated the State Department is issuing “a Declaration of Humanitarian Assistance for Cuba and is prepared to provide immediate humanitarian assistance directly and via local partners who can most effectively deliver it to those in need.”

He famous that present U.S. regulation permits for exemptions on exports to Cuba that embody non-public donations of meals, medication, different humanitarian items to Cuba and catastrophe response.

On Wednesday, U.S. officers stated a number of dozen catastrophe aid employees and concrete search and rescue groups are being deployed to Caribbean nations affected by the storm however didn’t point out Cuba.

US sanctions alleged human smuggling community working out of Mexico

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on a Cancun-based human smuggling group that has allegedly smuggled hundreds of individuals from Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Asia into the U.S.

Bhardwaj Human Smuggling Organization and its chief Vikrant Bhardwaj and a bunch of companies are additionally accused of being concerned in drug trafficking, bribery, and cash laundering.

Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John Okay. Hurley stated the Trump administration “will continue to target and dismantle terrorist transnational criminal organizations to protect the American people.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson says the shutdown ‘has to end’

Johnson, a Republican, says it’s no shock talks are selecting up within the Senate on methods to finish the federal government shutdown, notably with SNAP meals support about to finish Saturday.

“We’re just fed up with it,” he stated at his each day information convention on the Capitol, on day 30 of the shutdown. “Turn this thing back on.”

The speaker has stored the House out of legislative session for greater than a month, a outstanding closure stopping different enterprise in the course of the shutdown.

US shares blended as Wall Street sees each good and dangerous in Big Tech earnings, US-China relations

The U.S. inventory market is drifting round its file heights Thursday, as Wall Street sifts via blended developments on all the things from the U.S.-China commerce battle to earnings for Big Tech behemoths.

The S&P 500 slipped 0.2% and edged a bit farther from its all-time excessive set Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 199 factors, or 0.5%, as of 10 a.m. Eastern time. The Nasdaq composite fell 0.6% from its file set the day earlier than.

Stocks additionally dipped in Europe, following a blended end in Asia, coming off a a lot anticipated assembly between the leaders of the world’s two largest economies. President Trump hailed his discuss with China’s chief, Xi Jinping, as a “12” on a scale of zero to 10, and Trump stated he would lower tariffs on China. But whereas the talks might supply some stability for the close to time period, main tensions stay between the 2 international locations.

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Trump’s schedule for Thursday

The president is en route again to Washington and is anticipated to reach a bit after 3 p.m. ET. This night, he and first woman Melania Trump will host the annual Halloween parade on the White House.

Xi agreed to purchase 25 million metric tons of soybeans yearly for subsequent 3 years, Bessent says

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent added that as a part of the deal President Trump struck with Xi, China will begin by buying 12 million metric tons of soybeans from the U.S. between now and January.

“So you know, our great soybean farmers, who the Chinese used as political pawns, that’s off the table, and they should prosper in the years to come,” Bessent stated in an interview on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria.”

New Trump administration rule bars scholar mortgage aid for public employees tied to ‘illegal’ exercise

The Trump administration is forging forward with plans to eject some nonprofits from a well-liked scholar mortgage forgiveness program if their work is deemed to have a “substantial illegal purpose” — a transfer that would lower off some academics, medical doctors and different public employees from federal mortgage cancellation.

New guidelines finalized Thursday give the Education Department expanded energy to ban organizations from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. The Trump administration calls it vital to dam taxpayer cash from lawbreakers. Critics say it turns this system right into a software of political retribution.

Set to take impact in July, the coverage is aimed primarily at organizations that work with immigrants and transgender youth.

It grants the training secretary energy to exclude teams from this system in the event that they have interaction in actions together with the trafficking or “chemical castration” of youngsters, unlawful immigration and supporting terrorist organizations. “Chemical castration” is outlined as utilizing hormone remedy or medicine that delay puberty — gender-affirming care widespread for transgender kids or teenagers.

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Surgeon normal nominee goes into labor, delaying affirmation listening to

A Senate listening to for Trump’s surgeon normal choose, Casey Means, has been postponed as a result of she went into labor.

The information from a spokesperson for the Senate well being committee comes simply hours earlier than Means was scheduled to look nearly earlier than the committee for her affirmation listening to. It wasn’t instantly clear when the listening to can be rescheduled.

Means, a Stanford-educated physician-turned-wellness influencer, has been anticipating her first little one.

Trade takeaways from Trump’s assembly with Chinese chief Xi Jinping

1. Rolling again tariffs: Trump advised reporters whereas heading residence on Air Force One that he had agreed to chop his 20% tariff enhance, imposed over China’s function in producing fentanyl and chemical compounds used to make it, to 10%. China confirmed that it’ll take common tariffs on Chinese items to 47%, down from 57%. The two sides agreed to proceed to work on cracking down on illicit flows of the drug into the U.S.

2. Sales of pc chips to China: Trump stated he mentioned U.S. gross sales of pc chips to China. Trump and former President Joe Biden had imposed restrictions on entry to essentially the most superior chips similar to these used for synthetic intelligence. China will converse with Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia about buying its pc chips, he stated. That gained’t embody its next-generation Blackwell AI chip, he stated, “but a lot of the chips.”

3. U.S. soybeans and different farm exports: Trump stated the Chinese facet has dedicated to purchasing “a tremendous amount” of American soybeans, sorghum and different farm merchandise. The Chinese facet didn’t present any particulars.

4. No TikTok deal but: Beijing stated it is going to work with the Trump administration to resolve points associated to TikTok’s possession.

China and the U.S. to pause tit-for-tat port charge measures for a yr

China’s Commerce Ministry stated on Thursday that the U.S. will pause its measures below its Section 301 investigation towards China’s shipbuilding and maritime industries for one yr.

It stated China will pause its related countermeasures towards the U.S. for a yr in response after the U.S. suspensions take impact.

The U.S. imposed new port charges on Chinese-owned or -operated ships calling at American ports from Oct. 14 ensuing from its Section 301 investigation, which it stated discovered China’s practices in maritime and shipbuilding had been “unreasonable” and a burden to American commerce.

Beijing, in response, slapped retaliatory port charges largely mirroring the U.S. charges on American vessels calling at Chinese ports that got here into impact the identical day.

Separately, China’s Commerce Ministry additionally stated it is going to “properly” resolve TikTok associated points with the U.S.

Atomic bombings survivors in Japan denounce Trump’s nuclear take a look at feedback

Japanese survivors of U.S. atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the finish World War II condemned Trump’s feedback Thursday suggesting the U.S. will restart testing of its nuclear weapons.

“The act vehemently opposes all countries that are endeavoring to achieve a nuclear-free and peaceful world and absolutely could not be tolerated,” stated Jiro Hamasumi, secretary normal of Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots group of the survivors that gained the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

The group demanded in an announcement that the U.S. reply to requires nuclear disarmament and take a management function within the motion.

China calls on US to chorus from nuclear weapon exams

Foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun stated in Beijing that China hopes the U.S. will fulfill its obligations below the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and honor its commitments to droop nuclear exams.

His remark got here in response to a social media submit by Trump that urged the U.S. may resume the exams.

Trump made the submit minutes earlier than the extremely anticipated assembly with Chinese chief Xi Jinping in South Korea.

China says it is going to droop uncommon earth controls for one yr

China has agreed to droop its new export management restrictions on uncommon earth minerals for one yr and examine and refine them, the Commerce Ministry stated.

In return, the U.S. will droop for one yr a rule that expanded its controls to all subsidiaries which can be at the least 50% owned by Chinese corporations on an export management listing.

The two strikes within the U.S.-China commerce battle had alarmed corporations globally.

The ministry assertion didn’t point out uncommon earths by title, however stated that China would droop measures introduced on Oct. 9, when the uncommon earth restrictions got here out.

Chinese Commerce Ministry confirms tariff discount

China confirmed Trump’s remark that the U.S. would slash the fentanyl-related tariff charge by 10 proportion factors in an announcement from the Commerce Ministry.

It additionally stated that each side would prolong a short lived tariff charge pause on one another for a yr.

The pause was initially introduced in May after each side threatened one another with sky excessive charges.

Xi requires cooperation on AI and immigration

Xi, stressing that dialogue is best than confrontation, listed a variety of points the place China and the U.S. might work collectively, together with combating unlawful immigration and telecom fraud, anti-money laundering efforts, synthetic intelligence and infectious illness response.

He known as for extra dialogue and change on these potential areas of cooperation.

He additionally stated the U.S. and China ought to have optimistic interactions on the worldwide stage that exhibit their duty as main powers to attain optimistic outcomes for his or her international locations and the world.

He famous that China will host the APEC leaders assembly and the U.S., the Group of 20 summit, subsequent yr.

Xi calls on each side to finalize consensus on commerce

The first official Chinese touch upon the assembly urged any deal is just not accomplished.

Xi famous that negotiating groups from each international locations had reached a consensus, a possible reference to talks held in Malaysia final weekend, in accordance with a report on the assembly distributed by state media.

The Chinese chief stated the groups ought to full follow-up work as quickly as doable to ship tangible outcomes that can present “peace of mind” to China, the U.S. and the remainder of the world.

The latest twists and turns within the relationship supply classes for the U.S. and China, Xi stated.

“Both sides should take the long-term perspective into account, focusing on the benefits of cooperation rather than falling into a vicious cycle of mutual retaliation,” he stated, in accordance with the report.

China’s views on Trump’s tariffs

There was no quick remark from China on the outcomes of the assembly, however the fentanyl-related tariffs have been a selected sticking level.

China noticed them as an act of dangerous religion as a result of it had been working with the Biden administration on tightening its controls over the circulate of the elements for the drug to Mexico.

Trump demanded that China do extra.

A have a look at previous Trump-Xi conferences

Thursday’s assembly between the U.S. and Chinese leaders in Busan, South Korea, ran about an hour and 40 minutes, pretty comparable in size to a few of their conferences throughout Trump’s first time period.

Their final assembly six years in the past on the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, was below an hour and a half, as Trump went from his assembly with Xi straight to a separate sit-down with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

At a separate G20 summit — this time in 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina — Trump and Xi met for a dinner that ran greater than two hours.

Their two meetups in 2017 had been extra elaborate. First, Trump invited Xi to Mar-a-Lago, his south Florida membership and residence, for 2 days of discussions in April of that yr.

Xi then returned the favor later that November when he welcomed Trump for a lavish state go to that included an arrival ceremony, a personal tour of the Forbidden City in addition to a dinner there, a navy parade and a state banquet.

Asian markets are decrease regardless of Trump feedback on commerce with China

Trump’s assembly with Xi appeared to attract an initially skeptical response from traders regardless of Trump’s upbeat feedback to reporters afterward.

Chinese share costs fell again when markets reopened after their noon break Thursday.

Share costs retreated throughout the area, with Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 down 0.3% and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng sinking 0.7%.

The Shanghai Composite index misplaced 0.7%.

U.S. futures and oil costs additionally declined.

Trump says nuclear testing ‘will be announced’ however doesn’t supply any extra particulars

The president, whereas talking to reporters aboard Air Force One, gave the impression to be conflating the testing of missiles that ship a nuclear warhead and the testing of nuclear weapons.

Trump stated that different international locations “seem to all be nuclear testing” however in terms of the U.S., “We have more nuclear weapons than anybody. We don’t do testing.”

The U.S. exams its missiles, as does China and Russia. But the U.S. has not accomplished an explosion take a look at on its nuclear warheads since 1992 and no nation outdoors of North Korea has accomplished these exams on their weapons because the Nineteen Nineties.

“I see them testing and I say, well, if they’re going to test, I guess we have to test,” Trump stated.

Trump was requested the place the exams would happen and he stated, “It’ll be announced. We have test sites.”

Tariffs on Chinese exports at the moment are 47%, Trump says

The new charge comes from Trump deciding to not transfer ahead together with his newest tariff menace, which might have created a 157% levy.

Trump determined to scale back the present charge from 57% to 47% as a result of China agreed to assist extra on lowering the circulate of fentanyl elements.

Trump says he’ll work with Xi on Ukraine battle

“We’re both going to work together to see if we can get something done,” he stated.

However, Trump urged that “there’s not a lot more we can do.”

He stated, “The sides are locked in, fighting, and sometimes you’ve got to let them fight, I guess.”

Trump stated they didn’t talk about China’s buy of Russian oil, which boosts Moscow’s financial system in the course of the battle.

China and Nvidia will speak about chips, Trump says

The U.S. president stated China will converse with Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia about buying their pc chips.

“We make great chips,” Trump advised reporters on Air Force One. “Nvidia’s the leader.”

It wouldn’t embody the next-generation Blackwell AI chip, “but a lot of the chips,” Trump stated.

Trump says he’d return for a Kim Jong Un assembly

The U.S. president, talking with reporters after departing South Korea, stated he didn’t join with the North Korean chief throughout his Asia journey.

He harassed that the 2 leaders maintained a superb relationship and stated he’d be keen to return for a Kim go to.

“I’d come back with respect to Kim Jong Un,” Trump stated.

The two males met 3 times throughout Trump’s first time period.

A thaw with Canada?

Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shared a dinner desk final night time in Gyeongju, the place there have been each visiting.

“We had a very nice conversation with him last night,” Trump stated.

The president has been indignant at Canada, even rising tariffs, due to a crucial tv commercial about his commerce coverage.

Trump says Taiwan wasn’t mentioned

There was hypothesis forward of the assembly that Xi would push Trump to scale back U.S. help for the self-governing island of Taiwan, which China views as a part of its territory. But Trump stated they didn’t speak about it.

“Taiwan never came up,” he stated.

Trump updates his journey plans

The president stated he would go to China in April, after which Xi would go to the U.S. after that.

It’s essentially the most particular he’s been about plans for subsequent steps between the 2 leaders.

Trump says he’s reached offers with Xi

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump stated China would finish restrictions on uncommon earth exports and purchase American soybeans.

He additionally stated the U.S. would cut back tariffs that had been carried out earlier this yr as punishment for the circulate of fentanyl elements.

When discussing how he would charge the assembly on a scale from 1 to 10, Trump stated it might be a 12.

Trump heads again to the U.S.

The president headed residence, wrapping up a visit to Asia that had Trump spending 5 days in three international locations.

His lengthy flight again to Washington has him scheduled to land Thursday afternoon, the place he’s shortly thereafter anticipated to attend a White House Halloween celebration.

What did Trump and Xi speak about?

Before the assembly, there was a tough thought of the agenda, together with tariffs, pc chips, uncommon earth minerals and different factors of pressure. Trump repeatedly stated he anticipated to have the ability to attain a cope with Xi.

But there was no quick phrase on their dialog as soon as it ended. Trump boarded Air Force One with out talking to reporters, and the White House didn’t make any bulletins.

Trump boards Air Force One

With the 1 hour and 40 minute assembly with Xi over, Trump boarded the steps to his airplane. He pumped his fist on the high and waved earlier than stepping inside.

The president is returning to Washington after stops in Malaysia, Japan and South Korea.

Trump and Xi finish their assembly

The two leaders walked out of the constructing alongside one another, briefly chatting in entrance of the cameras. They shook palms and Trump leaned in as if he was whispering in Xi’s ear.

Trump-Xi assembly is underway

The two leaders welcomed the press in for transient introductory remarks however now are speaking behind closed doorways flanked by their high officers.

Journalists left the assembly room shortly after 11:15 a.m. native time in Busan.

Trump stated he and Xi might meet for so long as three hours. The official White House schedule, nevertheless, has the assembly working slightly below two hours.

Xi says US and China ought to be ‘partners and friends’ regardless of ‘frictions’

The Chinese chief spoke for longer than Trump in his opening remarks, saying “it feels very warm seeing you again because it’s been many years.”

“We do not always see eye to eye with each other,” Xi stated via a translator, including that “it is normal for the two leading economies of the world to have frictions now and then.”

However, he stated, China and the U.S. “are fully able to help each other succeed and prosper together.”

Trump and Xi convene their bilateral assembly

Shortly after their handshake, Trump and Xi moved to a room to carry their talks.

“It’s an honor to be with a friend of mine,” Trump stated of Xi. He stated the 2 can be having some discussions, however “I think we’ve already agreed to a lot of things.”

Accompanying Trump had been commerce consultant Jamieson Greer, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House chief of workers Susie Wiles and David Perdue, the U.S. ambassador to China.

Trump declares nuclear weapon exams

There was no indication that the U.S. would begin detonating warheads, and the navy already usually exams its missiles and different tools.

The president urged adjustments had been vital as a result of different international locations had been testing their weapons. Russia has introduced a number of exams lately.

Trump wrote on social media whereas en path to Busan that the Pentagon will “start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis” and “that process will begin immediately.”

The White House didn’t instantly reply to questions looking for extra particulars.