The United States and China agreed to pause for 90 days on most tariffs. Hamas said it will release a hostage, believed to be the last living American captive in Gaza. A group of women are talking about decades of abuse accused of Pentecostal missionaries.
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The United States and China said they have agreed to a 90-day pause on most of their mutual tariffs since last month, a major step towards relaxing the trade war between the two countries in the global economy. According to the joint statement of the two countries:
→ U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports will be reduced from 145% to 30%
→ China's tariffs on U.S. imports will be reduced from 120% to 10%
→The United States and China will also “establish a mechanism to continue discussing economic and trade relations.” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will continue to represent the United States, and his Vice Premier of Life will continue to represent China.
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The news comes after the first face-to-face meeting between the two countries held in Switzerland last weekend.
Earlier Monday Wall Street stock digital climb The dollar is in conflict with the haven peers in amid signs of progress.
President Donald Trump announced last month: “Foreign trade and economic practices have created a national emergency.” Since then, critics have said Trump’s attempts to alleviate his aggressive posture are marked by uncertainty and half measures, such as the preliminary agreement announced by the United States and the United Kingdom last week, which they say is “an evidence that Trump is desperate to show trade progress.”
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Hamas said earlier Monday that it will release 21-year-old Edan Alexander, a man considered the last U.S. citizen to be captured in the Gaza Strip. In an announcement of the agreement to release Alexander in a statement released yesterday, militant groups said it was “part of the steps to achieve a ceasefire, open intersections and allow aid.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said it only agreed to safe corridors to allow Alexander's release, rather than any ceasefire or release of Palestinian prisoners or detainees.
Steve Witkoff, the U.S. Special Envoy for the Middle East, said on Sunday that he would travel to Israel to receive Alexander's release. President Donald Trump will also travel to the Middle East separately on a trip this week, which is expected to intensify Israel's efforts to pause quickly in Gaza. Read the full story here.
Legal experts and Democrats expressed growing shock after White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller suggested Trump administration officials openly discuss the unilateral moratorium on personal oversight. A writ of habeas warrant dates back several centuries and is a legal right in Bedrock, a U.S. that grants the U.S. the right to see judges by anyone detained in the U.S., challenge government evidence to their evidence and defend it. Experts say there has been a legal consensus for decades that only Congress, not the president, has the right to suspend habeas protection.
When President Miller and Donald Trump attacked the Supreme Court and federal judges’ ruling, the Trump administration would consider the proposal to suspend the personal interpersonal corpus that anyone, including the United States, has the right to appear in court and file a defense.
The Republican Party's senior Refusing to answer questions to a large extent Regarding Miller's threat, Democrats argue that the Trump administration is using its immigrant suppression to undermine the judiciary's power, bypassing traditional legal safeguards, and dangerously increasing the president's power. "The authoritarian slopes can be slippery," said Democratic Senator Chris Murphy. Read the full story here.
The opening remarks are set to begin after a 12-person jury was selected at the federal sex trafficking trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs in New York City. The trial is expected to last eight weeks and will see lawyers portraying rappers and entrepreneurs in the case in a very different term. Combs pleaded not guilty to five counts of crimes, including extortion and trafficking.
Federal prosecutors in the southern New York area plan to describe the comb as the leader of a massive criminal conspiracy and a serial abuser using violence and threats, forcing women to participate in sexual contacts of drug fuel known as "freaks." At least three women who say they are victims should stand during the trial. Former federal prosecutor Rachel Maimin said their testimony would be the most powerful element in the government case.
Combs' lawyers are expected to argue that he was unjustly persecuted for his consensus campaign with his romantic partner. Mitchell Epner, a former New Jersey federal prosecutor, said the defense “clearly” plans to hammer the idea of agreeing. This is still expected As the trial proceeds.
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Joe Campbell said that when God gave him the mission of life, he was a teenager: teach the gospel to his children. For the half century since then, Pentecostal pastors have repeatedly faced charges of sexual abuse of children, while always finding a way to stay in ministry. NBC News Investigation Deadly for decades of missed warnings and failure to intervene.
Six months ago, we began investigating the charges. At that time, we spoke with five women who said Campbell had sexually abused the children in the 1970s and 1980s. Nine others, including four men, told us that Campbell showed them porn during the church overnight, handing them sex toys or touching them in ways that upset them. Now, Campbell’s accusers say that God has given them his own mission: to tell their stories and send him to jail. - Mike Hixenbaughsenior investigative journalist
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