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Associated Press:
Trump defends the prospect of Qatar gifting him a plane to use as Air Force One  —  President Donald Trump is ready to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet as a gift from the ruling family of Qatar during his trip to the Middle East this coming week, and U.S. officials say it could be converted into a potential presidential aircraft.
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Politico:
Qatar calls reports of pending jet gift to Trump ‘inaccurate’  —  The president might end up with a luxury jumbo jet, but it won't happen this week.  —  Qatar on Sunday denied reports that the Trump administration is preparing to accept a luxury jet from the country's royal family in the coming days.
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump to accept luxury jet from Qatar to use as Air Force One  —  The Trump administration is set to accept a luxury plane from the Qatari royal family that will be retrofitted and used as Air Force One during the president's second term, two people familiar with the agreement told CNN.
Lowkell / Blue Virginia:   UVA Prof. Larry Sabato on Qatar “Gifting” Trump a Luxury Jet: “The Trump Administration is drowning in corruption-and few Americans seem to care.
Wall Street Journal:
Proposal Cutting Medicaid Aims for GOP Middle Ground  —  House bill is set to include work requirements but not deeper reductions some fiscal hawks demanded  —  WASHINGTON—House Republicans are releasing their plan to cut Medicaid spending, with the program's defenders in the GOP appearing …
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Punchbowl News:
5/12/25 ☀️ AM:  —  What you need to know about reconciliation  —  SLF poll shows Cornyn getting creamed by Paxton  —  Murphy to force votes on U.S. arms sales to Qatar, UAE  —  What you need to know about reconciliation … Hill Republicans want to get the package on Trump's desk by July 4.
Brett Guthrie / Wall Street Journal:
A Common Sense Budget Reconciliation Bill  —  My committee's legislation supports U.S. innovation, strengthens Medicaid, and ends Green New Deal-style waste.  —  When President Trump took the podium for his Second Inaugural Address, he promised a “revolution of common sense” …
Discussion: Politico and Bloomberg
Washington Post:
U.S. officials say ‘substantial progress’ made in China trade talks  —  The White House said it was announcing a trade deal without providing any details.  Representatives from the U.S. and China had been meeting in Switzerland.  —  Bessent: ‘Substantial progress’ in US-China trade talks
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Bloomberg:   Words Are Enough to Give Markets a Roadmap for US-China Success
Associated Press:
US touts ‘substantial progress’ in tariff talks with China, but details are still scarce
Emma Colton / Fox News:
Trump and China close in on trade deal after productive talks, Bessent says
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He Will Sign Executive Order Aimed at Lowering Drug Prices  —  President wants to tie drug prices U.S. pays to those paid by other countries  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump on Sunday said he would sign an executive order aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs …
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Greg Wehner / Fox News:
Trump to sign executive order he says will slash drug prices by up to 80%
John Eligon / New York Times:
White South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump Leave for U.S.  —  Dozens of Afrikaners who claim discrimination in their home country left Johannesburg on Sunday.  Their departure for the U.S. came as the Trump administration was halting virtually all refugee admissions.
Walter Olson:
Will we allow ICE to behave as a secret police?  —  I had missed the story from two weeks ago about what happened after (apparent) agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), one wearing a balaclava to hide his face, seized two men at the Charlottesville, Va. courthouse.
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Ruth Simon / Wall Street Journal:
How Tariffs Are Crushing Small Businesses: ‘Nobody in Power Seems to Care’  —  Owners are laying off staff and tapping personal savings, hoping to hold out until a trade deal with China; an $8,752 fee on a $5,649 order  —  The owner of a San Francisco card-game company cashed in his money-market funds.
Matt O'Brien / Associated Press:
Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress  —  The Trump administration has fired the nation's top copyright official , Shira Perlmutter, days after abruptly terminating the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office.
Giovanna Coi / Politico:
US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump's return  —  The world is more divided than ever, but there's still something (nearly) everyone agrees on: The U.S. is unloved.  —  The United States is becoming less popular globally in the aftermath of Donald Trump's return to the White House, according to new data.
Discussion: Reuters
Associated Press:
Pope Leo XIV calls for peace in Ukraine and Gaza in symbolically rich blessing on Mother's Day  —  Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff that featured some symbolic gestures suggesting a message of unity in a polarized Catholic Church.
 
 
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Washington Post:
Even as pope, Leo XIV might have to deal with U.S. tax returns
Discussion: NPR
 

 
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