🔵 US-China Deal Signed

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Citizen Frank
June 26, 2025

Good evening. It’s Thursday, June 26.

Donald Trump said on Thursday the US and China had signed a trade deal two weeks after saying they had reached an understanding in London about how to implement a ceasefire in the countries’ dispute.

“We just signed with China yesterday,” the president said at the White House on Thursday, without providing any details.

A White House official said the US and China had “agreed to an additional understanding for a framework to implement the Geneva agreement”, in a reference to the trade talks that the nations held in May, when they first negotiated a truce.

 
 

After the US strike on Iran earlier this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump agreed on a rapid end to the war in Gaza and expansion of the Abraham Accords, Israel Hayom reports, citing “a source familiar with the conversation.”

According to the outlet, Trump and Netanyahu agreed in a phone call that the war in Gaza would end within two weeks.

Four Arab states, including the UAE and Egypt, would jointly govern the Gaza Strip in place of Hamas. The terror group’s leadership would be exiled, and all hostages would be released.

The White House has called “fake news” a report that quotes prosecutors saying Kilmar Abrego Garcia would be sent to an unnamed third country.

The Trump administration has included deportations to non-origin countries in its immigration policy, and has obtained permission from the Supreme Court to do so.

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson, responding to an AP report on what prosecutors said about deporting Abrego Garcia again, posted on X: “This is fake news.”

Senate Republicans are scrambling to rewrite major parts of their “big, beautiful bill” in deference to key holdouts and the chamber’s parliamentarian as the clock ticks on a self-imposed deadline.

GOP leaders are aiming to start voting Thursday, but senators emerged from a closed-door briefing on the status of the megabill Monday night saying that some of their biggest sticking points — ranging from key tax decisions to a deal on Medicaid — remain unresolved.

The multitude of unresolved issues has left Republicans unsure when the bill will get to the Senate floor, even as leaders project confidence they are on track to pass it and send it back to the House this week — setting up final passage ahead of their July 4 target.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) called on the Justice Department to investigate whether New York state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani should be stripped of his U.S. citizenship following his win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor.

In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Ogles said the DOJ should determine whether Mamdani, who was born in Uganda, “may have procured U.S. citizenship through willful misrepresentation or concealment of material support for terrorism.”

The congressman provided evidence, including a New York Post report on Mamdani rapping the lyrics: “Free the Holy Land Free/ My guys.” The Holy Land Foundation was convicted of providing support to the terrorist organization Hamas. Ogles said Mamdani’s actions raise “serious concerns about whether Mr. Mamdani held affiliations or sympathies he failed to disclose during the naturalization process.”

Brad Pitt’s Los Angeles home was broken into.

Police are currently investigating a burglary that reportedly took place at the actor’s house.

Pitt, 61, was not home at the time of the alleged break-in, law enforcement sources told NBC News.

Nike on Thursday said it expects sales and profit declines to moderate ahead, after the sneaker giant took its biggest financial hit yet from its turnaround plan during its fiscal fourth quarter.

While the worst could be behind the company, it has new challenges like tariffs to face, making a tough turnaround that much more difficult. On a call with analysts, finance chief Matt Friend called the duties a “new and meaningful” cost.

“With the new tariff rates in place today, we estimate a gross incremental cost increase to Nike of approximately $1 billion” in its current fiscal year 2026, Friend said.

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