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After months of negotiations, the United States and Ukraine have signed an agreement to share future profits and royalties for Ukrainian minerals and rare earths.

The agreement will create a fund, and Donald Trump said that since the war began, it is estimated that the aid provided to Kiev will be repaid approximately $17.5 billion. The U.S. president said that once a peace deal was reached, the deal allowed the U.S. investment in Ukraine’s defense of Russia and its reconstruction.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said the fund would be evenly distributed between the United States and Ukraine, granting both sides the same voting rights and only related to new investments.

The Trump administration contacted El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele directly for the detention of Kilmar Abrego García, who was wrongly deported to the notorious prison in El Salvador, two sources told The Guardian.

This comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the government to promote his return to the United States so that he could face immigration procedures within the country. Ábrego García is protected from deportation to his country of origin, El Salvador.

Sources said the links did not generate new developments after Buckler rejected the approach and that the Trump administration may work to create a note that it could quote it has taken action. U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis has previously ruled that it was not enough for Trump to raise the matter in the Oval Office.

Kamala Harris said in the main speech, “courage has the ability to infect” Trump

Kamala Harris said the U.S. president has witnessed his president’s “wholesale abandonment of American ideals” in her most powerful speech since Trump returned to the White House.

The former vice president called on Americans to continue organizing in his speech to Democratic audience in San Francisco because she emphasized that “fear is not the only thing that is contagious. Courage is contagious.” She praised the university, leaders and judges against Trump and ordinary citizens.

Harris said in his first 100-day indictment against Trump that the turmoil in the administration was design, referring to the policy blueprint for the 2025 project. “Please, let's not be considered as messy. In fact, witnessing is a kind of ship used to quickly implement a decades-long manufacturing agenda.”

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