Hello! Rebecca Morin here. I'm back after an extended weekend in Texas where I got to spend Mother's Day weekend with my mom for the first time in over a decade! |
Mixing business and diplomacy in the Middle East |
It's his first foreign trip in his second term in the White House. President Donald Trump on Tuesday started his Middle East trip in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. There, he and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed several new agreements on military cooperation, AI data centers, medical research and deepening security ties worth around $600 billion. The president, whose trip is from Tuesday to Friday, will also visit Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and Doha, Qatar. Trump is diverging from U.S. presidential habit by choosing the Middle East, not Canada or Mexico, for the first foreign trip of his second term. Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar are three of the world's richest nations and they invest deeply in military and security technologies. How Trump's personal diplomacy and business intersect in Middle East visit. |
| • | Money, power and CEOs. Trump was joined by several CEOs during his trip to Saudi Arabia, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. During the trip, Musk said Saudi Arabia has approved Starlink, the satellite internet service owned and operated by SpaceX, for aviation and maritime use in the region. | | • | A new government in Syria, and a new chance. Trump said Tuesday that he will order the end of sanctions against Syria to "give them a chance of greatness" in an effort to normalize relations with the new Syrian government after the fall of the country's dictator, Bashar Assad. | | • | Trump is set to have three days of summits among Persian Gulf rulers. See photos from the first major foreign trip of Trump's second term. | | President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman pose for a group photo during the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday. Brian Snyder, REUTERS |
White South Africans arrive in US. Trump's 'genocide' claim disputed. |
Fifty-nine white South Africans arrived in the United States on Monday after President Donald Trump's administration granted them refugee status as alleged victims of racial discrimination. But the South African government and human rights activists are disputing that charge. Trump's welcoming of South Africa's white minority stands in contrast to Trump's revocation of resettlement and refugee programs for hundreds of thousands of people who have fled violence and political persecution from countries like Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. Why Trump said white South Africans are the victims of "genocide." |
Aides discussed Biden possibly using wheelchair if reelected, new book says |
Former President Joe Biden 's aides privately talked about the possibility of Biden using a wheelchair if he was elected to a second term due to his physical deterioration, according to an excerpt of a new book by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson. Dr. Kevin O'Connor, Biden's personal physician, privately warned aides that a wheelchair might have been necessary if Biden had suffered a bad fall in 2023 or 2024, according to the excerpts of the book, titled "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again." A Biden spokesperson said in a statement to Axios that "no special treatment was necessary" for Biden. | |
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