Jeffries praises Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen as he ends re-election bid after gerrymander – US politics live

Lebanon and Israel have agreed to a 45-day extension of their ceasefire, after two “productive” days of talks hosted by the US, according to state department spokesperson Tommy Pigott.

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In a statement, he added that the state department will “reconvene the political track of negotiations” on 2 June and 3 June.

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“We hope these discussions will advance lasting peace between the two countries, full recognition of each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and establishing genuine security along their shared border,” Pigott said.

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Ahead of Louisiana’s US Senate primary tomorrow, the president posted on Truth Social on his way back from China to repeat his support for Republican congresswoman Julia Letlow.

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“She is a TOTAL WINNER!” Trump wrote on social media. “She has my Complete and Total Endorsement, and will never let you down!”

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The president announced his backing for the representative earlier this year as a hardline challenger to Senator Bill Cassidy, the incumbent who is one of three sitting Republicans who voted to convict Trump during his second impeachment trial.

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Cassidy, who also chairs the Senate health committee, has drawn the ire of the president, and has been critical of the administration’s Make America Healthy Again (Maha) agenda. Although Cassidy cast a deciding vote to confirm Robert F Kennedy Jr as Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, he has since questioned many of his policy decisions.

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Letlow is also facing another known entity in the Louisiana primary – the state’s treasurer John Fleming.

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While the Senate primary will still take place on Saturday, after Louisiana lawmakers voted to pass a new congressional map that would eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black House districts this week. If the state’s lower chamber lawmakers pass the map, the House race now stands to be an open primary on 3 Novembe, where all US House candidates, regardless of party affiliation, would be on the ballot in Louisiana for voters in their district.

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A reminder that the Republican governor, Jeff Landry, suspended the state’s House primary elections after the supreme court gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act.

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After Steve Cohen announced that he would not seek re-election to Congress, Hakeem Jeffries praised his colleague’s time in office.

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“The city of Memphis, the Congress and the nation are better because of Steve’s commitment to making a difference,” the top House Democrat said of Cohen.

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Jeffries also pointed to Cohen’s accomplishment as the first Jewish person elected to represent Tennessee in the Congress, and his work as a champion for civil rights. Steve has been a powerful champion for civil rights, and social justice issues.

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Steve Cohen, the lone House Democrat from Tennessee, announced that he would not seek re-election after his district was redrawn in the state’s new congressional map.

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“This is by far the most difficult moment I’ve had as an elected official,” Cohen, who has served in the US House since 2007, told reporters on Capitol Hill on Friday. “I don’t want to quit. I’m not a quitter. But these districts were drawn to beat me.”

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The new map, passed by Tennessee’s GOP-dominated legislature last week, splits up the ninth district and funnels Black voters in the Memphis area into three different constituencies.

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Now, all of Tennessee’s congressional districts are Republican-leaning. The state’s gerrymander came a week after the US supreme court effectively gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act.

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Henry McMaster, South Carolina’s Republican governor, signed an executive order on Thursday ordering a special redistricting session ahead of the midterm elections.

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This comes after state senators in South Carolina bucked Donald Trump’s demands earlier this week to approve plans to redraw the state’s congressional map after the supreme court gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act.

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The president had urged them to back the redistricting proposal on Monday evening. The US president would be “watching closely”, he wrote on social media, adding: “GET IT DONE!”

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“We appreciate Governor McMaster’s leadership in ensuring South Carolina addresses congressional redistricting,” said Drew McKissick, the state’s Republican party chair. “Thanks to the Supreme Court ruling, Republicans have an opportunity to get this done, and we should maximize it. Now is the time for lawmakers to stand with President Trump, defend the Constitution, and finish the job.”

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The Friday session will focus on whether to redraw the state’s map to essentially get rid of the majority-minority district that Democrat currently James Clyburn represents. However, a number of South Carolina Republicans fear that mid-decade redistricting would actually weaken GOP voting power in newly-drawn districts.

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  Donald Trump has departed Beijing after a two-day summit with Chinese president Xi Jinping.

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  Trump said that during the visit he and Xi discussed a wide array of topics, with the conflict with Iran one of the most pressing. He claims that the US and China agreed that Iran should not have be able to produce nuclear weapons and that the strait of Hormuz must be opened as soon as possible, while also stating that he would consider ending sanctions on Chinese companies that bought Iranian oil.

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  He also told reporters that he would be “OK” with Iran suspending their nuclear programme for 20 years, but only if they do so with “a real commitment”, while claiming that Iran’s missile capabilities had been reduced by 80% and described reports to the contrary as “treasonous”.

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  Despite not agreeing on a large number of deals, Trump claims that China have agreed to buy 200 Boeing jets from the US, with a further 550 jets also possibly being bought at a later date, and said that they had also agreed to purchase “billions of dollars” of soybeans in a deal that he described as a big win for American farmers.

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  Discussions also took place around China releasing 30 pastors who were arrested in late 2025 for being members of the Protestant Beijing Zion church. Despite this, Trump did not say that steps had been made to release Jimmy Lai, a political prisoner from Hong Kong who was sentenced to 20 years in jail for collusion and sedition.

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  The issue of Taiwan was also discussed “a lot” according to Trump, but the president declined to elaborate on the details of these discussions or the position his government would take. Taiwan, which is engaged with a protracted conflict with China as each nation claims sovereign over the other, has historically received unofficial support from the US, and is one of its largest trading partners.

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On Iran, Trump claimed that he would be open to them suspending their nuclear program for 20 years, but that it had to be done with a “real commitment”.

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Speaking to journalists onboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington, Trump also denied reports that Iran still had a high capacity to use missiles, claiming that their missile stockpile was 80% gone as a result of the US military campaign which began in late February. Trump claimed that those reports were fake, and singled out a journalist from the New York Times whose work he described as “treasonous”.

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Additionally, Trump said, having discussed it with Xi, he would consider lifting sanctions on Chinese companies that bought Iranian oil, and that he would make a decision on the matter soon.

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Around the same time Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister, said that US had been in contact with Iran to say that they were seeking to continue talks, and that his country were prepared to pursue either a diplomatic or militaristic route in order to end the conflict.

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Donald Trump has said that he and Chinese president Xi Jinping spoke about Taiwan, but that he did make not a commitment to his policy on the country.

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Taiwan is a contentious topic in China, with both countries claiming sovereignty over the other, but Trump stated that he did not believe that there was a conflict in Taiwan and refused to clarify his stance on the struggle between the two countries, telling reporters that he had not thrown his support behind either side and stating “we’re not trying to have wars”.

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The issue was brought up while with Xi in China, with Trump responding to questions about the hostility by simply saying “China is beautiful”.

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The Chinese markets have fallen after the US-China summit that took place in Beijing, despite Donald Trump touting new business deals between the two countries.

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China’s blue-chip CSI300 Index and the Shanghai Composite Index each fell more than 1%, while The Hang Seng in Hong Kong lost 1.6%.

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Big deals between the two superpowers had been expected, but the only agreements that came out of Trump’s two day trip were arrangements for US oil and soybean, as well as unconfirmed deal for China to purchase 200 Boeing jets.

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If you’re just catching up, these ere are the latest developments from Trump’s summit with Xi:

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  Trump declared that numerous deals had been struck between the US and China, including China buying 200 Boeing jets as well as US oil and soybeans. This deal has not been confirmed by either China or Boeing.

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  Trump also stated that the he and Xi discussed Iran, with the president claiming that the two agreed that Iran should never be able to possess nuclear weapons and that the strait of Hormuz must be opened as soon as possible.

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  No progress appears to have been made over the fate of Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong pro democracy activist who has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for collusion and sedition.

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  Jamieson Greer, the US trade representative, told Bloomberg TV that an agreement for double-digit billions of dollars in agriculture sales to China is expected after Trump’s visit to Beijing.

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Donald Trump has now boarded Air Force One at Beijing Airport after spending around two hours in the Zhongnanhai leadership compound speaking and speaking privately with Xi Jinping.

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The president was accompanied to the airport by Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi where a red carpet to awaited him, and sent off by dozens of schoolchildren, who waved American and Chinese flags and chanted “farewell” in unison.

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In case you’re just joining us, here’s a recap of the day’s events as Donald Trump and Xi Jinping wrap up the second and final day of talks in their much-anticipated two-day summit. It’s 2pm in Beijing.

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  The US president said “a lot of good” came from his China visit and “we’ve settled a lot of different problems that other people wouldn’t have been able to solve”. “We’ve made some fantastic trade deals for both countries,” Trump said while sitting next to Xi in Beijing’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound, where they were to hold their final talks of the summit.

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  Trump also said: “We did discuss Iran. We feel very similar about [how] we want it to end. We don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon. We want the strait open.”

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  US secretary of state Marco Rubio said the US policy on Taiwan had “not changed”. “It’s been pretty consistent across multiple presidential administrations, and remains consistent now,” he told NBC News.

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  The White House said Trump and Xi had agreed during their talks on the need to keep the strait of Hormuz open. Trump said separately that his patience with Iran was running out, as a ship was reportedly seized by Iran off the United Arab Emirates. “I am not going to be much more patient,” Trump told Fox News. “They should make a deal.”

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  Trump also said hunting down Iran’s enriched uranium was primarily for political optics, after Israel demanded it as a goal. “I just feel better if I got it, actually, but it’s – I think, it’s more for public relations than it is for anything else,” Trump told Fox News from China.

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  US trade representative Jamieson Greer told Bloomberg TV the US believed China was being “very pragmatic” in respect to its involvement with Iran, and that he was confident Beijing would do whatever it could to limit material support for Tehran.

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  Greer also said an agreement for double-digit billions of dollars in agriculture sales to China was expected after the Beijing summit. Asked by Bloomberg if the year-long trade truce with China expiring this October would be extended as a result of the Beijing summit, he said: “We’ll see about that … there’s certainly a willingness on both sides that – if this continues to work out well for each country – to continue that…”

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  The US is hoping for a positive response from China on Washington’s appeals for the release of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai and others, Marco Rubio told NBC.

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Donald Trump’s final hours in Beijing are being spent in Xi Jinping’s private residence, a secretive site near the Forbidden City that few foreigners – or even locals – will ever get a glimpse of.

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The US president will have lunch there with Xi before leaving Beijing in the early afternoon, less than 48 hours after he landed.

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At a busy intersection near Trump’s hotel, the crowds that gathered to catch a glimpse of the presidential motorcade were thinner on Friday morning than on Thursday evening, with the heavy police presence encouraging people not to loiter. Many grumbled about the inconvenience caused by the repeated road closures.

n Asked for their views on Trump, the word that came up again and again from Beijingers was “unpredictable”.

n “What he says isn’t necessarily what it means,” said one Trump-watcher, who declined to give his name.

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Returning now to Trump’s earlier comments on Iran, the US president said his patience with Iran was running out after he discussed the war with Xi Jinping on Thursday.

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India condemned the attack and said all 14 crew had been rescued by the Omani coast guard.

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Vanguard, a British maritime security advisory firm, said the vessel was believed to have been hit by a missile or drone which caused an explosion.

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Donald Trump just said his visit had been “incredible” and “I think a lot of good has come of it”.

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“We’ve made some fantastic trade deals for both countries,” the US president said.

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We’ve settled a lot of different problems that other people wouldn’t have been able to solve.

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Trump said his relationship with Xi Jinping was “a very strong one”.

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Sitting beside Xi in Beijing’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound, Trump also said:

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We did discuss Iran. We feel very similar about [how] we want it to end. We don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon. We want the strait open.”

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He also said that “we want them to get it ended because it’s a crazy thing there”.

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Before these final meetings of the Beijing summit, Donald Trump suggested that hunting down Iran’s enriched uranium was primarily for political optics, after Israel demanded it as a goal.

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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who alongside Trump ordered the attacks on Iran that began on 28 February, said in a recent interview that the war was “not over” because the sensitive nuclear material “has to be taken out” of the country, Agence France-Presse reports.

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Iran has not confirmed the location of its highly enriched uranium, which some experts believe could be buried deep underground, making the task of seizing it prohibitively difficult without precise intelligence.

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Trump, in a social media post on Friday referring to his second administration’s achievements, said they included “the military decimation of Iran (to be continued!)”.

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Donald Trump has reportedly arrived at Beijing’s Zhongnanhai complex – China’s leadership compound – for a meeting with Xi Jinping.

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The two leaders are set to pose together in the gardens of the walled-off compound – next to the Chinese capital’s Forbidden City – and then have a working tea and a closed-door lunch.

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Afterwards their two-day summit wraps up and the US president is to leave China for Washington on Friday afternoon.

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Returning to US trade representative Jamieson Greer and the Iran war, he said the US was confident China would do whatever it could to limit material support for Tehran amid the war.

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Asked on Bloomberg TV on Friday if he thought Xi Jinping would pressure Tehran and help the US get the strait of Hormuz reopened, Greer said:

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First of all, it’s really important for China to have the strait of Hormuz open – no tolling, no military control. That was clear from the meeting, so we welcome that.

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Donald Trump has said China wants to buy oil from the US and that it will be buying a lot of American farm products.

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He also told Fox News that Xi Jinping probably has the ability to influence Iran, amid expectations the US will urge Beijing at the summit to help convince Tehran to make a deal ending the war.

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Trump also said on the network’s Hannity program that he was “not going to be much more patient” over Iran but that the Iranian leaders the US was dealing with were reasonable.

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He also said Xi Jinping was “all business” and no games, and that China would open up the country in stages.

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Xi told a delegation of US business executives who travelled with Trump to Beijing that China would “open wider” to the world.

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“American companies will enjoy even brighter prospects in China,” Xi was quoted as saying on Thursday.

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US secretary of state Marco Rubio has said the US policy on Taiwan is “unchanged” after the summit talks between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing.

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“Our policies on that have not changed,” Rubio told NBC News. “It’s been pretty consistent across multiple presidential administrations, and remains consistent now.”

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Xi warned Trump on Thursday that China and the US could come into conflict if the issue over self-ruled Taiwan – claimed by Beijing – is mishandled.

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“The Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-US relations,” Xi said.

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Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are set to meet on Friday to wrap up a high-stakes two-day state visit that has featured pomp and business deals but also a stark warning from Xi that mishandling the Taiwan issue could push US-China relations to “a very dangerous place”.

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Trump is on the first visit by a US president to China since 2017 and has been hoping for tangible results that might improve his sagging approval ratings ahead of the crucial midterm elections.

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The two leaders are scheduled to have tea and lunch today before Trump flies back to the US.

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US secretary of state Marco Rubio told NBC in an interview broadcast on Thursday that the US was hoping for a positive response from China on Washington’s appeals for the release of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai and others.

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Lai, a prominent pro-democracy activist and critic of the Chinese Communist party, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong after being found guilty of national security and sedition offences. He later said he would not appeal against his conviction, opening the door for political negotiations to his release.

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During the Beijing summit Trump has also been expected to urge China to convince Iran to make a deal with Washington to end a war unpopular with American voters. A brief US summary of Thursday’s talks highlighted what the White House called the leaders’ shared desire to reopen the strait of Hormuz and Xi’s apparent interest in buying US oil to reduce China’s dependence on Middle East supplies.

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  Trump told Fox News that China had agreed to order 200 Boeing jets – its first purchase of US-made commercial jets in nearly a decade. But markets were expecting a much higher number, with earlier news reports suggesting 500 or more could be involved, and Boeing shares fell more than 4% after the comments.

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  Xi’s remarks on Taiwan, the democratically governed island Beijing claims, represented a sharp warning during a pomp-filled summit that otherwise appeared friendly and relaxed. They came in a closed-door meeting that ran for more than two hours, Beijing said.

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  US secretary of state Marco Rubio told NBC News that Taiwan was discussed, saying the Chinese “always raise it … we always make clear our position and we move on to the other topics”. Rubio is among a large contingent of US officials and business leaders who travelled with Trump to China.

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  At a lavish state banquet on Wednesday, Xi called the China-US relationship the most important in the world and added: “We must make it work and never mess it up.” Trump earlier told Xi their two countries were “going to have a fantastic future together”.

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  The summit has been aimed at maintaining a fragile trade truce struck when the leaders last met in October and Trump suspended triple-digit tariffs on Chinese goods and Xi backed away from choking global supplies of vital rare earths.
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US state department says Lebanon and Israel agree to a 45-day ceasefire extension

Lebanon and Israel have agreed to a 45-day extension of their ceasefire, after two “productive” days of talks hosted by the US, according to state department spokesperson Tommy Pigott.

In a statement, he added that the state department will “reconvene the political track of negotiations” on 2 June and 3 June.

“We hope these discussions will advance lasting peace between the two countries, full recognition of each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and establishing genuine security along their shared border,” Pigott said.

Trump pushes endorsement for Letlow in Louisiana Senate primary

Ahead of Louisiana’s US Senate primary tomorrow, the president posted on Truth Social on his way back from China to repeat his support for Republican congresswoman Julia Letlow.

“She is a TOTAL WINNER!” Trump wrote on social media. “She has my Complete and Total Endorsement, and will never let you down!”

The president announced his backing for the representative earlier this year as a hardline challenger to Senator Bill Cassidy, the incumbent who is one of three sitting Republicans who voted to convict Trump during his second impeachment trial.

Cassidy, who also chairs the Senate health committee, has drawn the ire of the president, and has been critical of the administration’s Make America Healthy Again (Maha) agenda. Although Cassidy cast a deciding vote to confirm Robert F Kennedy Jr as Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, he has since questioned many of his policy decisions.

Letlow is also facing another known entity in the Louisiana primary – the state’s treasurer John Fleming.

While the Senate primary will still take place on Saturday, after Louisiana lawmakers voted to pass a new congressional map that would eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black House districts this week. If the state’s lower chamber lawmakers pass the map, the House race now stands to be an open primary on 3 Novembe, where all US House candidates, regardless of party affiliation, would be on the ballot in Louisiana for voters in their district.

A reminder that the Republican governor, Jeff Landry, suspended the state’s House primary elections after the supreme court gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act.

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Supreme court Justice Samuel Alito is resisting climate advocates’ calls for him to sit out a major case that could benefit the fossil fuel industry.

In a statement to NBC news, a spokesperson for the high court said that “his recusal is not required”.

“Justice Alito does not have a financial interest in any party” involved in the case in question, the spokesperson told the outlet.

The pushback came one day after a coalition of environmental advocacy organizations and progressive watchdog groups called on the Senate judiciary committee to investigate Alito’s financial ties to oil companies, noting that the justice’s most recent financial disclosure showed he had holdings in ConocoPhillips, Phillips66 and five other oil and energy companies, and also has sums invested in a Vanguard fund in which Exxon is the third-largest holding.

“His irregular recusal practice in oil and gas industry-related cases is undermining public confidence in the impartiality of the Court,” reads the letter, whose signatories included the Center for Biological Diversity, the Revolving Door Project and scores of other progressive groups.

Alito did not recuse himself from a case slated to be decided in the court’s next term. It focuses on a bid by energy companies ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to find that federal law prevents subnational governments from filing lawsuits against oil and gas companies for the climate-warming effects of their products.

The supreme court in February agreed to take up the case brought by the oil majors Suncor Energy and Exxon. Alito weighed in on the decision.

But two years earlier, had recused himself from considering a petition brought by the same companies in the same lawsuit. The court rejected the companies’ request to weigh in on that petition. The court did not respond to the Guardian’s request for comment.

Hakeem Jeffries says ‘Congress and the nation’ are better for Cohen’s tenure in office

After Steve Cohen announced that he would not seek re-election to Congress, Hakeem Jeffries praised his colleague’s time in office.

“The city of Memphis, the Congress and the nation are better because of Steve’s commitment to making a difference,” the top House Democrat said of Cohen.

Jeffries also pointed to Cohen’s accomplishment as the first Jewish person elected to represent Tennessee in the Congress, and his work as a champion for civil rights. Steve has been a powerful champion for civil rights, and social justice issues.

Meanwhile, in Columbia, South Carolina lawmakers are at the state legislature ahead of holding a special session to settle the proposed change to the state’s congressional districts.

“Time is of the essence and its important that we act sooner than later,” said Jay Jordan, a Republican state representative, in response to a question about whether the redistricting can be achieved in time without any legal hurdles, for the upcoming elections.

Lone Tennessee House Democrat says he will end re-election bid after state gerrymander

Steve Cohen, the lone House Democrat from Tennessee, announced that he would not seek re-election after his district was redrawn in the state’s new congressional map.

“This is by far the most difficult moment I’ve had as an elected official,” Cohen, who has served in the US House since 2007, told reporters on Capitol Hill on Friday. “I don’t want to quit. I’m not a quitter. But these districts were drawn to beat me.”

The new map, passed by Tennessee’s GOP-dominated legislature last week, splits up the ninth district and funnels Black voters in the Memphis area into three different constituencies.

Now, all of Tennessee’s congressional districts are Republican-leaning. The state’s gerrymander came a week after the US supreme court effectively gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act.

Earlier, I brought you the news that thousands of US stock trades surfaced in Donald Trump’s recent ethics filings.

A spokesperson for the Trump Organization told the Guardian that the president, his family and the Trump Organization do not play a role in selecting, directing or approving specific investments made in his name.

They are not asked for inputs regarding the investment decision, the spokesperson added in response to questions about portfolio management raised after Trump’s ethics filings revealed thousands of trades tried to US stocks.

“President Trump’s investment holdings are maintained exclusively through fully discretionary accounts independently managed by third-party financial institutions,” the spokesperson said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit the US this fall, at the invitation of President Trump, Wang Yi, a top Chinese diplomat said, as reported by Xinhua, Chinese state media.

“The man I am walking with is President Xi, of China, one of the World’s Great Leaders!” posted Trump on Truth Social along with a photo on Friday morning after departing from China.

Trump also brought up the widely discussed White House ballroom in the post. “China has a Ballroom, and so should the U.S.A.! It’s under construction, ahead of schedule, and will be the finest facility of its kind anywhere in the U.S.A.,” he said, adding that the opening would be around September 2028.

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Kurt Campbell, regarded as the architect of Barack Obama’s China policy, who attended 15 China summits, said Xi’s reference to the Thucydides trap, would have not have gone down well with Trump, portraying the US as a falling nation.

“It is rare in a summit like that, that a relatively obscure academic concept captures some of the moment, but President Xi bringing up Thucydides’ Trap, and the concept of a rising and falling nation, and how hegemonic transitions take place, really got under the president’s skin,” he said.

Thousands of US stock trades surfaced in Donald Trump’s ethics filing on Thursday afternoon. Trump disclosed at least $220m in financial dealings in the securities of dominant American companies this year, including Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Oracle, Broadcom, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, as first reported by Reuters.

The value of the transactions were reported in ranges and could be as high as approximately $750m, according to two financial disclosure forms shared by the US Office of Government Ethics.

Some large purchases, valued under $5m, included an S&P 500 Index fund, Nvidia Corp and Apple Inc, while large sales, valued at more than $5m, included Microsoft, Amazon and Meta.

The White House press office referred questions about who placed the trades to the Trump Organization. Other details, such as the types of securities traded, were also unclear in the filings.

South Carolina governor orders special redistricting session

Henry McMaster, South Carolina’s Republican governor, signed an executive order on Thursday ordering a special redistricting session ahead of the midterm elections.

This comes after state senators in South Carolina bucked Donald Trump’s demands earlier this week to approve plans to redraw the state’s congressional map after the supreme court gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act.

The president had urged them to back the redistricting proposal on Monday evening. The US president would be “watching closely”, he wrote on social media, adding: “GET IT DONE!”

“We appreciate Governor McMaster’s leadership in ensuring South Carolina addresses congressional redistricting,” said Drew McKissick, the state’s Republican party chair. “Thanks to the Supreme Court ruling, Republicans have an opportunity to get this done, and we should maximize it. Now is the time for lawmakers to stand with President Trump, defend the Constitution, and finish the job.”

The Friday session will focus on whether to redraw the state’s map to essentially get rid of the majority-minority district that Democrat currently James Clyburn represents. However, a number of South Carolina Republicans fear that mid-decade redistricting would actually weaken GOP voting power in newly-drawn districts.

Here’s a recap of the day so far

• Donald Trump has departed Beijing after a two-day summit with Chinese president Xi Jinping.

• Trump said that during the visit he and Xi discussed a wide array of topics, with the conflict with Iran one of the most pressing. He claims that the US and China agreed that Iran should not have be able to produce nuclear weapons and that the strait of Hormuz must be opened as soon as possible, while also stating that he would consider ending sanctions on Chinese companies that bought Iranian oil.

• He also told reporters that he would be “OK” with Iran suspending their nuclear programme for 20 years, but only if they do so with “a real commitment”, while claiming that Iran’s missile capabilities had been reduced by 80% and described reports to the contrary as “treasonous”.

• Despite not agreeing on a large number of deals, Trump claims that China have agreed to buy 200 Boeing jets from the US, with a further 550 jets also possibly being bought at a later date, and said that they had also agreed to purchase “billions of dollars” of soybeans in a deal that he described as a big win for American farmers.

• Discussions also took place around China releasing 30 pastors who were arrested in late 2025 for being members of the Protestant Beijing Zion church. Despite this, Trump did not say that steps had been made to release Jimmy Lai, a political prisoner from Hong Kong who was sentenced to 20 years in jail for collusion and sedition.

• The issue of Taiwan was also discussed “a lot” according to Trump, but the president declined to elaborate on the details of these discussions or the position his government would take. Taiwan, which is engaged with a protracted conflict with China as each nation claims sovereign over the other, has historically received unofficial support from the US, and is one of its largest trading partners.