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Trump’s Clash With the Library of Congress Sets Up Constitutional Fight
Wed, 14 May 2025
P.M. Edition for May 14. The U.S. president has fired the librarian of Congress and is seeking to install members of his administration. National political reporter Ken Thomas describes the power struggle between the branches of government. And Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, Aramco, says it has signed 34 agreements with U.S. companies with a potential value of $90 billion. Plus, Ukraine and Russia can’t agree on who will meet where— if at all —for peace talks, scheduled for Thursday. Pierre Bienaimé hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ukraine and Russia can't agree on who will meet where, if at all, for peace talks tomorrow. Plus, President Trump's firing of the Librarian of Congress sets up a power struggle between the branches of government.
There's just a real fear among some in Congress that this is an attempt by the executive branch to run roughshod over the legislative branch.
And Saudi Arabia's national oil company Aramco signs deals with American companies with potential value of $90 billion. It's Wednesday, May 14th. I'm Pierre Bien-Aimé for The Wall Street Journal, filling in for Alex Osola. This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that moved the world today.
Diplomatic efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine are rising as Kyiv and Moscow seek to demonstrate a desire for peace while portraying the other as an obstacle. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would be waiting in the Turkish capital Ankara tomorrow for Vladimir Putin.
But the Russian president is sending a team of negotiators to Istanbul and the Kremlin won't say if he will be there. President Trump hasn't ruled out the possibility of joining any talks in Turkey. Turkish officials say U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump's top representative for talks with Russia Steve Witkoff, and special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg are all expected to reach Istanbul by Friday. But it isn't clear with whom they would meet and when. Meanwhile, German police have detained three men suspected of planning to mail packages with explosives in a Russian-sponsored act of sabotage.
The arrests could shed light on explosions last year at logistics hubs in Germany and the UK. Western security officials alleged these were part of one of the most audacious acts of sabotage ordered by the Kremlin. According to German officials, investigators think the plot was at an early stage and that the suspects had yet to mail actual explosives.
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Chapter 2: What controversy arose from Trump's firing of the Librarian of Congress?
Chapter 3: What are the implications of Trump's actions on the Library of Congress?
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Chapter 5: What is the current status of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia?
There has long been a debate inside the company and across the industry about the decision to drop HBO from the name of the streaming service, given how well-established that brand had been. At the end of last year, the streaming service had 117 million subscribers worldwide, and Warner projects it will top 150 million at the end of 2026.
And we exclusively report that Apple is embracing the world of brain-computer interfaces, unveiling a new technology that would allow people to control their iPhones with neural signals. Wall Street Journal reporter Rolf Winkler talked to our Tech News Briefing podcast about how Apple plans to work with startup Synchron on new brain-computer interfaces to assist people with disabilities.
There's a number of companies that are working on these next-generation technologies. brain implants. They're called brain-computer interfaces because they're an interface between your brain and a computer. Basically electrodes that are implanted inside your skull. and that read neural signals.
And the way they work is those neural signals are relayed to a chip, which then relays the data to a decoding device. And that device, you basically train this whole apparatus to understand which neural signals translate to actions in the real world. The first use of these devices is really to interact with technology. So the first company to do this was Synchron.
Morgan Stanley thinks that commercial approval won't come before 2030. Synchron says they can beat that.
you
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