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U.S. said it made ‘progress’ toward a deal with ChinaTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent said yesterday that the U.S. had made “substantial progress” in talks with China after a weekend of meetings in Geneva, and that more details would be announced today.Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative who joined Bessent for the talks, suggested that some form of a “deal” addressed U.S. national security concerns about China’s trade practices. He did not say whether the two nations had agreed to drop any of their punishing tariffs.China’s vice premier for economic policy, He Lifeng, described the talks as “candid, in-depth and constructive”…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that the Trump administration has made progress in its trade negotiations with China. “We will be giving details tomorrow. “But I can tell you that the talks were productive,” Bessent told members of the media on Sunday from Switzerland. “We had the vice premier, two vice ministers who were integrally involved, Ambassador Jamieson [Greer] and myself. And I spoke to President Trump, as did Ambassador Jamieson last night, and he is fully informed of what is going on.”The Trump administration has leveled tariffs as high as 145% on Chinese goods as the president looks…

Four people were killed, four others were critically injured and about 30 people were rescued after flames engulfed an apartment building in Milwaukee on Sunday morning, the authorities said.The fire, at a four-story building in the western part of the city, was reported a little before 8 a.m., Fire Chief Aaron Lipski of the Milwaukee Fire Department told reporters at the scene.More than two dozen people were rescued by multiple ground and aerial ladders or by firefighters on their hands and knees dragging people out of the building, he said.“Our firefighters ascending from the second floor to the third floor…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Exclusive – As mothers across the nation gather with their families and friends to celebrate Mother’s Day 2025, Fox News Digital asked second lady Usha Vance about the meaning of the holiday for her and how she’ll be spending the special occasion. Mrs. Vance shared insight into her dual roles of second lady and a mom of young children.”The balancing act today is sometimes easier than it was when I was working full-time in the private sector because I have more control over my schedule and do not feel pulled in as many…

Extended interview: Barry Diller – CBS News Watch CBS News In his new book, “Who Knew,” former television, film and media executive Barry Diller writes of his remarkable business career, while also revealing the sexuality that he kept secret from an early age. In this web exclusive, Diller sits down with correspondent Tracy Smith to talk about why he thought revealing his sexuality would be “dangerous”; his early days at William Morris; his decades-long relationship with fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg; and the process of writing a memoir, in which he would “pull the stitches” of memory. Be the first…

A Russia-backed “fact-check network” has listed a controversial Australian academic among its contributors as the Kremlin shifts its information war efforts.

DAMASCUS/WASHINGTON: A Trump Tower in Damascus, a detente with Israel and US access to Syria’s oil and gas are part of Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa’s strategic pitch to try to get face time with US President Donald Trump during his trip to the Middle East, according to several sources familiar with the push to woo Washington. Jonathan Bass, an American pro-Trump activist, who on Apr 30 met Sharaa for four hours in Damascus, along with Syrian activists and Gulf Arab states has been trying to arrange a landmark, if highly unlikely, meeting between the two leaders this week on the…

Walking into the crowded hotel conference room, Andrew Batey looked like any other tech guy attending ETHDenver, an annual cryptocurrency conference. A venture capital investor based in Florida, Mr. Batey wore a black sweatshirt emblazoned with the logos of more than a dozen crypto companies, with names like LunarCrush and bitSmiley. He had arrived in town with some expensive footwear — a pair of Off-White Air Jordans, the type of sneaker, he said, that people usually don’t take out of the box.Mr. Batey, however, was at the conference not to network with fellow crypto enthusiasts but to fight one of…

Ferrari World building in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on December 2nd, 2023.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesDisney’s announcement last week that its newest theme park will be in Abu Dhabi offers further confirmation of the status of the United Arab Emirates as a global consumer crossroads located in the Middle East. At the center of the UAE’s economic engine is man-made Yas Island, located 20 minutes from the center of Abu Dhabi and which first began development in 2006 for the Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Since that 2009 debut for F1 in the region, Ferrari World, Yas Waterworld,…

A tense ceasefire holds days after the most intense hostilities in decades.Feelings of relief and hope are sweeping India and Pakistan. The latest flare-up in hostilities that killed at least 60 people across the two countries has come to a dramatic halt after four days. Nearly 30 countries including the United States are reported to have been involved in getting the ceasefire agreed. The administration of US President Donald Trump, which announced the truce, has proposed a new round of talks at a neutral venue to try and end the bitter rivalry. A dispute over divided Kashmir, India’s accusation that…