US President Donald Trump will not send federal security forces to San Francisco to enforce his controversial migration and security policies. Trump confirmed an agreement with the mayor of the Californian city, Daniel Lurie, on his network Truth Social on Thursday: “I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he very kindly asked me to give him a chance to turn things around.” The people of San Francisco have come together in the fight against crime, especially since he began “taking on this very nasty issue.”
US President Donald Trump’s administration announced a series of measures on Thursday to open up wilderness areas in Alaska for energy production and infrastructure. This includes resuming leasing of licenses for oil and natural gas production in the remote Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The development of the area has been hotly debated between environmentalists and the energy industry for decades.
US President Donald Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea next Thursday (local time), according to the White House. Trump will take part in a bilateral meeting with Xi in the morning before flying back to Washington in the evening, said his spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt. It was already known that Trump and Xi wanted to meet on the sidelines of the APEC economic summit, which begins on October 31st – but a date was not yet publicly known.
The US President recently announced the meeting with Xi again in the White House and held out the prospect of a trade agreement. “I think we will make a deal,” he told reporters. At the same time, the US President emphasized that if no agreement was reached, additional tariffs of 100 percent on imports from China would be introduced on November 1st. Beijing did not initially confirm the meeting between Xi and Trump.
US President Donald Trump has subsequently pardoned the co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao, a year after his release from prison. The White House justified the decision by saying that Zhao’s conviction for violations of money laundering legislation came as part of a “war” against the cryptocurrency industry waged by Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden. There were “no allegations of fraud and no identifiable victims” in Zhao’s case.
