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Summer looks a little different this year for some Americans who say they are dialing back their leisure activities and shopping sprees due to tariffs.

Since taking office for his second term, President Donald Trump has ordered a number of sweeping tariffs, including a blanket 10% tariff on all imports, that have driven up costs on various products. He has also threatened additional tariffs, which has resulted in volatility in the stock market and continued concern from consumers about their personal costs.

“The tariffs are making high prices even more unreasonably high, to the point where … what you’re charging is not even close to what this is worth,” said Raina Becker, 49, a recently laid-off writer who now works as a freelance copy editor in upstate New York. Becker said she was hoping to invest in a new summer wardrobe. “And I can’t in good faith do it, because I can’t afford to spend my money like this.”

The apparel industry has taken an especially hard hit from Trump’s tariff program because a vast majority of clothing, shoes and accessories are manufactured in places like China, Vietnam and India before being shipped to the U.S.

Like Becker, Mei Wu, 31, who lives in Los Angeles, realized she can’t splurge on shopping this year. She had her eye on a $170 dress from the Australian brand VRG GRL as an outfit for her June birthday party. But when she saw that another $277.95 would be tacked on to the price because of tariffs, she decided not to purchase it.

“The bottom line is, I do think that we deserve to be able to buy where we want to buy without getting punished for it. How we spend our money is totally up to us, and at the end of the day we work hard for what we bring to the door,” said Wu, a content creator who described her shopping dilemma as a “first world problem,” but one that is frustrating all the same.

A recent consumer pulse report from the accounting firm KPMG, which surveyed 1,516 U.S. consumers, found that “in response to tariffs, 50% are cutting back on purchases, and 49% are actively seeking deals and discounts.” When asked specifically about summer plans, many said they are still choosing to travel — but have otherwise cracked down on personal expenses.

“We’re seeing a more selective and cost-conscious summer travel season,” Duleep Rodrigo, KPMG’s consumer and retail leader, said in a statement in the report. “Vacations are still in the budget — but nearly everything else is on the chopping block.”

Trump’s tariff policies are facing a number of legal challenges in court, with some judges calling them unlawful. However, a federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily paused rulings by a panel of judges that, just hours earlier, halted several of the president’s tariffs on international trading partners.

As Americans wait for news of whether tariffs will continue to be imposed, they are still hoping to have fun during summer.

Patrice LaBelle Lester, 29, is spending the next few months planning her October vow renewal celebration. But she’s being more frugal with her budget.

For example, she said she found a way to order faux flowers — which were being shipped from China — in bulk without paying the surcharge caused by tariffs. Originally, the price was $300. With tariffs, they skyrocketed to about $1,700.

So the content creator found a different vendor who would be willing to cover the cost of the tariffs so Lester could stay within her original budget. But she said she was warned that because the flowers would have to be shipped by cargo freighter, rather than by plane, there would be a delay in receiving them. Lester said she’s also hoping to grow her family, which means she wants to purchase a new car over the summer.

“I know Trump said he was only giving, I guess, a tax break to those that buy an American-made car, but it’s hard to kind of support that in this political climate,” said Lester, who lives in San Antonio, Texas. “So it’s impacting me in that way, because that is a purchase I would like to make in the next few months.”

For Becker, there has been one unexpected perk of reeling in her spending: getting to do more activities that bring people together.

“A number of people are talking about, again, myself included, hoarding craft supplies for our various hobbies,” she said, reflecting on how changes in her spending have also realigned her values. “The silver lining in all this is that it can, if done correctly, build community.”

The suspect in a fire attack in Boulder, Colorado, yelled “Free Palestine,” the FBI said. A Trump administration-fueled “shadow docket” looms over the Supreme Court. And Ukraine said it carried out a massive drone attack in Russia.

Here’s what to know today.

Suspect uses makeshift flamethrower and yells ‘free Palestine’ in Boulder, Colorado, attack

A man shouted “free Palestine” and used a “makeshift flamethrower” during an attack yesterday afternoon in downtown Boulder, Colorado, that left at least eight people injured, officials said.

The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office said on its daily booking sheet that Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, of El Paso County, Colorado, had been charged with two counts of first-degree murder — one with “extreme indifference” and one listed as “deliberation with intent — nonfamily — gun.” Soliman is also charged with one count of attempted murder, one count of first-degree assault, one count of causing serious injury to an at-risk adult or someone over 70 and one count of using explosives or incendiary devices.

Soliman is an Egyptian national with no prior significant contact with law enforcement, and he does not belong to a specific group, two senior law enforcement officials told NBC News.

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The attack happened during a weekly demonstration to support awareness for Israeli hostages still held in Gaza, officials said. Four men and four women ranging in age from 52 to 88 years old were injured, a Boulder Police spokesperson said. Earlier Sunday, officials said one person was in critical condition.

Authorities have yet to formally confirm that anyone has died as a result of the attack, and there has been no update on the condition of the other injured victims.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, whose mother was born in a concentration camp and whose grandparents survived the Holocaust, said the attack appeared to be “a hate crime given the group that was targeted.”

The group, called Run for Their Lives — Boulder, has been holding demonstrations fairly regularly, sometimes weekly, after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack on Israel, the group has said.

A witness said she was walking down Pearl Street when the attack unfolded. “I saw this big fire go up,” Brooke Coffman told NBC affiliate KUSA of Denver, and described two women “rolling around a little bit” after having stripped out of their burning clothes. Another witness said in an interview with MSNBC that he rushed to the scene and helped other bystanders pour buckets of water on victims’ burns to keep them comfortable.

Here’s what else we know.

Trump overshadows the Supreme Court as ruling season begins

The beginning of June marks the start of the traditional monthlong ruling season at the Supreme Court, with the next scheduled ruling day coming Thursday. But if it feels like the Supreme Court has already weighed in on several big cases already, it’s because it has.

Since January, the court has already issued rulings of some description in 11 emergency cases related to the Trump administration via what some have dubbed a “shadow docket.” For example, justices have already allowed for President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people in the military to go into effect and have put the brakes on the administration’s attempt to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members.

In the meantime, the docket of merits cases has a relatively small number of headline-grabbing cases compared to previous years. Some bigger decisions to watch for include a challenge to a Tennessee law that bans gender transition care for minors and an effort by Texas to restrict access to pornographic websites.

Not only is the shadow docket changing how the Supreme Court operates. It has also sparked concerns about the court’s transparency and process. Read the full story here.

More politics news:

• Speaker Mike Johnson defended cuts to Medicaid in the bill for Trump’s agenda in a “Meet the Press” interview, saying that millions of people won’t lose coverage “unless they choose to do so.”

• Republicans are facing new pressure to extend Obamacare tax credits, which are set to expire at the end of the year.

Ukraine claims massive drone strike on Russian bombers

Ukraine’s Security Service said it has struck more than 40 Russian bombers in what would be one of the largest and most audacious attacks on Russian territory in the yearslong conflict. A source within the Security Service of Ukraine said the country targeted “41 strategic Russian aircraft” in an operation code-named “Spiderweb” that had been in the works for a year and a half.

Russia did not immediately comment on the bombs, but Irkutsk’s regional governor said there had been a drone attack “on a military unit in the settlement of Sredny.” Russian officials in the Ryazan and Murmansk regions also reported drone activity yesterday afternoon, according to the Associated Press.

Ukraine and Russia are scheduled to meet for a second round of direct talks in Istanbul. Read the full story here.

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• Eleven people were hospitalized and a suspect in custody after a stabbing at a homeless services provider in Oregon.

• Moderna said the FDA has approved its lower-dose Covid vaccine — but only for people who have previously received a Covid vaccine and only for certain groups of people.

• Newark airport will reopen a closed runway today that has contributed to weeks of delays and chaos at the travel hub.

• A California state board recommended parole for Charles Manson cult follower Patricia Krenwinkel for the second time.

• Actor Devin Harjes, known for his roles in “Boardwalk Empire” and “Daredevil,” died at the age of 41 after complications from cancer.

Staff Pick: These trans Americans are saying goodbye to the U.S.

Denver parents Brandon and Candace are spending tens of thousands of dollars to move to New Zealand in July. The reason, they said, is to protect their 9-year-old transgender daughter, Chase, from the effects of the Trump administration’s policies and an increasingly hostile climate for trans people in the United States.

“You’re taught to believe, or indoctrinated, I suppose, in America that this is the land of the free and promise and all of that, and for my child’s rights to be stripped away for just being herself is gross,” Candace said, adding that she and her family feel like they have “no control over” their future in the U.S.

Brandon and Candace are one of five families interviewed by reporter Jo Yurcaba who have either already left or are planning to leave the country as a result of federal and state policies targeting transgender people and their health care. The families described fears of losing access to health care and identification documents that reflect their gender identities and increased anti-trans violence. — Brooke Sopelsa, OUT managing editor

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WASHINGTON — Kenny Capps is a cancer patient who has been battling multiple myeloma for a decade. A 53-year-old father of three children who lives in North Carolina, he was on the brink of losing his health insurance coverage due to rising costs — until Democrats passed an Obamacare funding boost four years ago.

“Thanks to the enhanced premium tax credits, we were able to keep affording insurance,” Capps told NBC News during a recent visit to Washington to raise awareness about the issue. “It had almost doubled to the point of my mortgage at that time, so I was getting close to the point of having to make decisions as to whether I was going to pay my bills or have health insurance.”

Capps makes too much money to qualify for Medicaid. He falls outside the subsidy range originally set by Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act. And his income hasn’t been keeping up with the ever-rising cost of health care. “Like a lot of Americans,” he said, “I’m stuck in the middle.”

His fortunes changed when Congress capped premiums for a “benchmark” plan to 8.5% of income.

“So thanks to that, I was able to continue treatment,” he said.

But there’s a catch: That funding expires at the end of 2025, and the Democrats who passed it along party lines (first in early 2021, before extending it the following year) have since been swept out of power. The new Republican-led Congress has made clear it won’t extend the money in the “big, beautiful bill” it’s using as a vehicle for President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda.

Some in the GOP are open to a bipartisan deal to extend the funds. But it’s far from clear Republican leaders will allow it, as many in the party want the funds to expire. Letting the money lapse would save the government tens of billions of dollars, but it would strip away coverage for about 5 million Americans, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

A new 7-figure ad campaign on ACA funds

A new coalition called Keep Americans Covered is seeking to dial up pressure on lawmakers to continue the funding, launching a new ad in a seven-figure campaign.

It features a woman named Jessica, a restaurant manager in Arizona whose daughter has a chronic illness. She says the ACA tax credits “have been particularly helpful for our family” to help afford the coverage they need.

“We need Congress to take action now. It’s vital for us,” she says in the ad. “We need these health care tax credits passed today.”

The spot, first reported by NBC News, is set to run in Washington, D.C., and 12 states — including Louisiana and South Dakota, home to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, respectively. The ad campaign will also run in other states like Maine, Alaska and North Carolina, which are represented by Senate Republicans who will be key to the fate of the funding. The coalition behind it includes AARP, organizations advocating for cancer patients and lobbying groups representing doctors, hospitals and insurers.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said he wants to strike a separate bipartisan deal with Democrats to extend the ACA tax credits.

“I think we should,” Tillis, who faces re-election in a purple state, said in an interview, warning that Republicans shouldn’t settle for purely party-line votes. “So we got — with the ACA subsidies and other things, we should start thinking about a stream of bipartisan bills that we can work on.”

But Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., said the issue of the expiring funds proves that Obamacare costs more than the Democrats who enacted it claimed.

“There’s been a facade out there about the entire program actually paying for itself, or having money to pay for it,” Rounds said. “That’s part of the reason why we’ve got such a deficit right now. So from my perspective, we will have to take a look at any of the expenditures right now for health care.”

Democrats seek to extend funds; GOP skeptical

Republicans have a complex relationship with the ACA, originally voting unanimously against it in 2010 and trying unsuccessfully for years to repeal it. They’ve abandoned that effort in recent years, succumbing to the law’s growing popularity and mindful of the fact that their political fortunes are becoming more reliant on working-class voters in the Trump era. Still, the party has little interest in shoring up a signature Democratic achievement.

In a recent House Ways and Means Committee markup for the GOP bill, Democrats offered an amendment seeking to permanently extend the ACA money. Republicans rejected it on a party-line vote, 25-19. Notably, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., who represents a swing district, didn’t cast a vote.

House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith, R-Mo., who voted to sink that amendment, has floated the idea of a bipartisan deal at the end of the year to extend tax provisions with broad support. When asked if he’s open to including ACA tax credits in such a bill, his office declined to comment.

But Congress may not have the luxury of time. Insurers are set to finalize rates for 2026 plans in September. Open enrollment begins in early November, at which point the rates for next year will be locked in and can’t change based on legislative action.

The top lobbying group for insurers warned that the impacts of inaction on the ACA funding could include premium hikes for consumers, in addition to coverage losses.

“Fifteen million Americans — including more than 4 million who rely on the health care tax credits — could lose their coverage, and millions more could face substantial premium hikes,” said a spokesperson for America’s Health Insurance Plans.

If so, the higher premiums and coverage rescissions would hit during an election year, creating a political vulnerability at a time when Republicans will be fighting to hold their congressional majorities.

Capps said he agrees that the current health care system and its funding streams are imperfect. But for now, he’s pleading with lawmakers not to let things get worse for people like him.

“We need to at least kick the can down the road until we can figure out a better system,” he said. “Taking away from them in the meantime is not a solution. It’s a death sentence for some.”

WASHINGTON — The beginning of June marks the start of the traditional monthlong ruling season at the Supreme Court, when the justices hand down decisions in their biggest and most contentious cases.

But this year is different.

President Donald Trump’s second term has disrupted the court calendar, with the nine justices now spending as much time, if not more, juggling consequential emergency cases that need to be handled quickly as they do on the regular docket of cases that have gotten months of attention and deliberation.

“It underscores the degree to which Donald Trump and the Trump administration are sucking all of the oxygen out of the room,” said Leah Litman, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School and the author of a new book about the court, “Lawless.”

This can affect the public’s knowledge and understanding of what the court is doing in part because media organizations are used to devoting additional resources to coverage during June that are not necessarily available at other times of the year, she added.

It also changes the normal rhythms of the court’s operations. The court announces ahead of time when rulings in argued cases are expected, and they are always issued at 10 a.m. But emergency decisions can drop at any time of day, with no advance notice. One recent decision was released in the early hours of a Saturday morning.

Nearly all the emergency cases are related to the administration’s aggressive interpretations of federal law in executive orders that have regularly been blocked by federal judges.

As June begins, the Supreme Court has 33 cases to decide out of 62 on the so-called merits docket. Those are the cases in which the justices heard arguments in the current nine-month term, which started in October, and would be expected to decide by issuing lengthy written decisions. The next scheduled ruling day is Thursday.

In the meantime, the court since January has already issued rulings of some description in 11 Trump-related emergency cases via what has been dubbed the “shadow docket,” and it has several others pending. These are cases in which the justices do not generally hear oral arguments, and they are often decided by brief court orders without the lengthy, detailed reasoning associated with major Supreme Court decisions.

But the shadow docket decisions can be just as practically important as the cases decided on the merits docket, sparking concerns about transparency and process.

This term’s big Supreme Court decisions

Via the shadow docket, the court has already allowed Trump’s ban on transgender people in the military to go into effect, given a green light to the firing of independent agency members, and approved the administration’s removal of legal protections for thousands of Venezuelan immigrants.

The justices have also put the brakes on an attempt by the administration to use a wartime law to deport Venezuelans it claims are gang members and ordered Trump to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly sent to El Salvador.

On Friday, the court allowed the Trump administration to revoke legal protections for more than 500,000 immigrants.

In the meantime, the docket of merits cases has a relatively small number of headline-grabbing cases compared with previous years.

Of those cases yet to be decided, the biggest is a challenge to a Tennessee law that bans gender transition care for minors. The court is also set to rule on a conservative religious objection to LGBTQ-themed books in a Maryland county’s schools and an effort by Texas to restrict access to pornographic websites.

By comparison, last June, the court’s rulings included one granting Trump broad immunity from prosecution for events that took place during his first term as president, a trio of rulings that weakened federal agency power, a decision upholding a law that bars domestic abusers from possessing guns, and another rejecting a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.

In the summer of 2023, the court within a matter of days ended affirmative action in college admissions and killed President Joe Biden’s student loan debt relief plan.

And the previous summer, the court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights decision.

How the shadow docket is changing the court

“The emergency docket seems to have almost swallowed the court’s merits docket over the past month or so,” said Greg Garre, a Washington lawyer who regularly argues cases at the court. One case he argued, concerning Oklahoma’s attempt to launch the first religious public charter school, was poised to be one of the biggest of the term. But it ended up fizzling when the court deadlocked 4-4.

In fact, some cases that arise as emergency applications have ended up being converted into merits cases, creating what some view as a “rocket docket” — that is, major cases zooming immediately to the high court instead of taking months or years to navigate the normal appeals process.

“In a few years, we may no longer be able to say that the emergency docket is an ‘irregular’ procedure. It might become the normal procedure for all high-stakes litigation,” said William Baude, a University of Chicago Law School professor who coined the “shadow docket” phrase.

One high-profile example was the court’s January decision upholding a law that was intended to ban TikTok if its Chinese owner did not immediately sell it. The Supreme Court resolved the entire case within weeks after it reached the court via an emergency appeal.

The court also elected to hear oral arguments in a trio of shadow docket cases concerning nationwide injunctions issued by judges that blocked Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship, in a further blurring of the regular merits docket and the fast-moving shadow docket.

Some Supreme Court watchers have speculated that the justices deliberately kept their merits docket relatively light this term, knowing that there was the possibility of election-related cases in the fall and a potential wave of Trump-related cases if he won the election, based on what happened in his first term.

“I definitely feel like the court is reserving space in its schedule for emergency docket cases involving Trump administration initiatives,” said John Elwood, another lawyer who argues cases at the court.

“Lilo & Stich” and “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” dominated the box office charts again after fueling a record-breaking Memorial Day weekend. Theaters in the U.S. and Canada had several new films to offer this weekend as well, including Sony’s family friendly “Karate Kid: Legends” and the A24 horror movie “Bring Her Back.”

According to studio estimates Sunday, it added up to a robust $149 million post-holiday weekend that’s up over 120% from the same timeframe last year.

Disney’s live-action hybrid “Lilo & Stitch” took first place again with $63 million from 4,410 locations in North America. It was enough to pass “Sinners” to become the second-highest grossing movie of the year with $280.1 million in domestic ticket sales. Globally, its running total is $610.8 million. “Sinners,” meanwhile, is still going strong in its seventh weekend with another $5.2 million, bumping it to $267.1 million domestically and $350.1 million globally.

The eighth “Mission: Impossible” movie also repeated in second place, with $27.3 million from 3,861 locations. As with “Lilo & Stitch,” that’s down 57% from its opening. With $122.6 million in domestic tickets sold, it’s performing in line with the two previous installments. But with a reported production budget of $400 million, profitability is a ways off. Internationally, it added $76.1 million (including $25.2 million from China where it just opened), bringing its global total to $353.8 million.

“This is the year of longterm playability,” said Paul Dergarabedian, Comscore’s senior media analyst. “The currency of word of mouth and the strong hold is more important than opening weekend dollars.”

Leading the newcomers was Sony’s “Karate Kid: Legends,” with an estimated $21 million from 3,809 locations. The movie brings Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio together to train a new kid, the kung fu prodigy Li Fong (Ben Wang). Chan starred in a 2010 reboot of the 1984 original, while Macchio has found a new generation of fans in the series “Cobra Kai,” which just concluded a six-season run.

Reviews might have been mixed, but opening weekend audiences gave the PG-13 rated film a strong A- CinemaScore and 4.5 stars on PostTrak. It also only cost a reported $45 million to produce and has several weeks until a new family-friendly film arrives. “Karate Kid: Legends” opened earlier internationally and has a worldwide total of $47 million.

Fourth place went “Final Destination: Bloodlines,” which earned $10.8 million in its third weekend. The movie is the highest-grossing in the franchise, not accounting for inflation, with $229.3 million globally.

The weekend’s other big newcomer, “Bring Her Back” rounded out the top five with $7.1 million from 2,449 screens. Starring Sally Hawkins as a foster mother with some disturbing plans, the film is the sophomore feature of twin filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou, who made the 2023 horror breakout “Talk to Me.” It earned a rare-for-horror B+ CinemaScore and is essentially the only new film in the genre until “28 Years Later” opens on June 20.

A new Wes Anderson movie, “The Phoenician Scheme,” also debuted in New York and Los Angeles this weekend, where it made $270,000. It expands nationwide next weekend.

The summer box office forecast remains promising, though there’s a long way to go to get to the $4 billion target (a pre-pandemic norm that only the “Barbenheimer” summer has surpassed). The month of May is expected to close out with $973 million — up 75% from May 2024, according to data from Comscore.

Top 10 movies by domestic box office

With final domestic figures being released Monday, this list factors in the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore:

1. “Lilo & Stitch,” $63 million.

2. “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” $27.3 million.

3. “Karate Kid: Legends,” 21 million.

4. “Final Destination: Bloodlines,” $10.8 million.

5. “Bring Her Back,” $7.1 million.

6. “Sinners,” $5.2 million.

7. “Thunderbolts,” $4.8 million.

8. “Friendship,” $2.6 million.

9. “The Last Rodeo,” $2.1 million.

10. “j-hope Tour ‘HOPE ON THE STAGE’ in JAPAN: LIVE VIEWING,” $939,173.

HONG KONG — China on Monday accused the United States of breaching the 90-day trade truce agreed by the world’s two largest economies, after President Donald Trump said it was Beijing that had “totally violated” the agreement.

Last month, the U.S. and China announced a 90-day pause on most of their tit-for-tat tariffs, which had reached higher than 100%. Trump initially hailed the truce as a “total reset” but said Friday in a post on his Truth Social platform that China had “TOTALLY VIOLATED” the deal.

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce struck back at Trump’s remarks Monday, saying that while China had implemented and actively upheld the deal, the U.S. had introduced a series of “discriminatory and restrictive measures against China” that “severely undermine” the agreement.

The ministry said those measures included AI chip export controls, a reported pause on the sale of chip design software to China, and the announcement of U.S. plans to revoke the visas of Chinese students.

“Instead of reflecting on its own actions, it has falsely accused China of violating the consensus, which is a serious distortion of the facts,” the ministry said in a statement. “China firmly rejects these groundless accusations.”

The ministry urged the U.S. to “immediately correct its erroneous practices” and vowed to take “strong and resolute” measures if Washington “insists on acting unilaterally and continues to harm China’s interests,” without providing details.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that China was “holding back” exports of rare earths that it had agreed to release as part of the truce.

“That is not what a reliable partner does,” he said on the CBS news program “Face the Nation.”

Rare earth minerals are a crucial component of products that cut across the U.S. economy, including the tech sector, the energy industry and automobile manufacturing.

China supplies 60% of the world’s rare earth elements and is responsible for the refining of 90% of them, according to the International Energy Agency.

Bessent, who said last week that U.S.-China trade talks were “a bit stalled,” said he was “confident” that rare earths exports and other details could be “ironed out” in a call between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

“Maybe it’s a glitch in the Chinese system, maybe it’s intentional. We’ll see after the president speaks with the party chairman,” Bessent said, referring to Xi.

Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, also suggested Sunday that the two leaders could speak as early as this week.

“President Trump, we expect, is going to have a wonderful conversation about the trade negotiations this week with President Xi,” he said on the ABC news program “This Week.”

Hassett said he was unsure whether a specific date for that conversation had been set.

The last publicly known conversation between the U.S. and Chinese presidents was on Jan. 17, days before Trump’s inauguration.

WARSAW, Poland — Conservative Karol Nawrocki has won Poland’s weekend presidential runoff election, according to the final vote count. Nawrocki won 50.89% of votes in a very tight race against liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, who received 49.11%.

The close race had the country on edge since a first round two weeks earlier and through the night into Monday, revealing deep divisions in the country along the eastern flank of NATO and the European Union.

An early exit poll released Sunday evening suggested Trzaskowski was headed to victory before updated polling began to reverse the picture hours later.

The outcome indicates that Poland can be expected to take a more nationalist path under its new leader, who was backed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Eleven people were hospitalized after being stabbed at a homeless services provider in downtown Salem, Oregon, on Sunday night, police said.

A suspect was in custody after the violence at 7:15 p.m. at Union Gospel Mission, Salem police spokeswoman Angela Hedrick said.

The injured were taken to Salem Hospital, Hedrick said by email. Details about their injuries were unavailable.

The suspect was described only as a man, and no identity was available.

Salem Health, Salem Hospital’s corporate parent, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday night.

The incident took place at the Union Gospel Mission’s 50,000-square-foot Men’s Mission, which opened in 2021 a few blocks north of the mission’s old, circa-1960s facilities, according to the organization. It’s across the street from the Salem Police Department.

The nonprofit ministry was founded by a group of Christian businesspeople and today serves food, offers counseling and seeks to house roughly 150 people each night, according to its website.

Colorado coach Deion Sanders witnessed both of his sons plummet through the draft order. Shedeur lasted until found five. Shilo wasn’t drafted at all.

Appearing recently on Asante Samuel’s Say What Needs To Be Said podcast, Deion explained the impact of witnessing what his sons endured.

“It hurt,” Deion said, via Jack Carlough of SI.com. “But the bible says God uses the foolish things to confound the wise. There was some foolish stuff that went on, but that gave them something that they needed. . . . That edge that Tom (Brady) had, it gave them the edge that you had, it gave them the edge that I have. Folks said we weren’t gonna be nothing. But we had to prove that. It gave them the edge that they needed. Both of them.”

Deion took issue with reports that Shedeur was not properly prepared for pre-draft meetings, with teams like the Giants.

“When you sit up there and say something like he went into a meeting unprepared, like, dude,” Deion said. “Shedeur Sanders? Who has had six different [offensive] coordinators, who has still functioned and leveled-up every time we brought somebody new in, and you’re gonna tell me he was unprepared? You’re gonna tell me he had on headphones? Anybody who knows my son understands he’s a professional. He’s gonna go into a meeting with headphones on? Y’all, come on now.”

Still, credible sources have explained the perception that Shedeur was behaving as if he was being recruited, not interviewed. With other quarterbacks creating a much different impression, Shedeur’s draft stock suffered relative to his competition.

Deion nevertheless regards the incessant chatter about Shedeur to be “lying.” And he believes both Shedeur and Shilo (who wasn’t invited to the Combine and wasn’t expected to be drafted) will be better for the experience.

“You got to understand my kids are built for everything,” Deion said. “We had two TV shows, we had shows in high school with playing football junior and senior years. We’ve always been in front of the camera, so they know how to navigate, they know how to handle themselves. You’re not going to catch them in no foolery or no mess. You’re not going to do that whatsoever.”

Both Shedeur and Shilo are getting an opportunity. Both will have a fair chance to earn a Week 1 roster spot. And if they can turn draft-day disappointment into motivation, they’ll be better for it in the long run.

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