Trump Rejects Iran’s Offer, and 17 Passengers Exposed to Hantavirus Return to U.S.
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Why did Trump reject Iran's latest offer for talks?
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So is it accurate to say you think the combat operations are over and done?
No, I didn't say that. I said they are... They are defeated, but that doesn't mean they're done.
In interviews that aired over the weekend, both President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that their country's war against Iran was not over.
What are the implications of Trump's rejection on U.S.-Iran relations?
Is the war with Iran over? And if it isn't, who will decide when it is? I think it accomplished a great deal, but it's not over because there's still nuclear material, enriched uranium that has to be taken out of Iran. There's work to be done.
Their comments seemed to undermine earlier messaging from the Trump administration that the conflict had run its course. Netanyahu specifically laid out a list of things he said still need to be addressed. At the top was Iran's nuclear materials.
How do you envision the highly enriched uranium will be removed from Iran? You go in and you take it out. With what? Special forces from Israel, special forces from the United States? Well, I'm not going to talk about military means, but what President Trump has said to me, I want to go in there.
President Trump, for his part, appeared less intent on retrieving the nuclear materials, saying the U.S. was surveilling Iran's stockpile and that it would, quote, get that at some point. Neither leader offered a timeline for future action or for winding things down.
How is the U.S.-China summit connected to the Iran conflict?
There are still ongoing negotiations with Iran, but President Trump said yesterday that he had rejected their latest offer, calling it totally unacceptable. The details of the proposal weren't made public, and Trump didn't specify what he objected to. Trump had hoped to have the conflict resolved by the time he heads to China this week to meet with President Xi Jinping, but the clock is ticking. The U.S.-China summit begins Thursday in Beijing. Now, here's what to know about Trump's upcoming visit to China. The last time Trump and Xi met, back in the fall, they agreed to pause some of their most bruising trade policies. Trump halted the triple-digit tariffs that he'd slapped on Chinese goods. And China stepped back from throttling the export of rare earth metals.
The visit this week could determine whether that kind of uneasy detente will hold.
Publicly, this meeting between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump is all about stability, and the messaging will be focused on peace. But behind the scenes, both sides are really digging in for a longer-term, more prolonged economic war.
Alexandra Stevenson is the Times' Shanghai bureau chief. She says China's been developing new trade countermeasures, and it's been telling Chinese companies to ignore U.S. sanctions.
After years of Washington turning to sanctions and tariffs to do what, from the Chinese perspective, has been perceived as constraining its economic and technological rise, China is now making moves that indicate that they are ready for a fight.
What recent legal decisions have impacted Democratic redistricting efforts?
Or as one analyst told me, Beijing is basically locked and loaded.
The national redistricting fight, a tit-for-tat battle playing out in states across the country, has recently delivered the GOP a burst of momentum. Republicans now have roughly 10 more House seats that favor them than they did two weeks ago. That's thanks in large part to two major legal decisions — First, the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act, opening the door for red states to dilute black voting power, thus breaking up what had been safely Democratic districts. The very next week, Tennessee did just that, and other states are looking at similar options.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Why did Trump reject Iran's latest offer for talks?
0:00–1:03
2
What are the implications of Trump's rejection on U.S.-Iran relations?
1:03–2:06
3
How is the U.S.-China summit connected to the Iran conflict?
2:06–3:45
4
What recent legal decisions have impacted Democratic redistricting efforts?
3:45–5:42
5
How many Americans were exposed to hantavirus on the cruise ship?
5:42–7:27
6
What measures are being taken for passengers returning from the hantavirus outbreak?
7:27–8:23
7
Why has pharma swag become a popular item in thrift stores?
8:23–8:34
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