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President Donald Trump signaled that he was open to sharply reducing his tariffs against China ahead of trade talks this weekend.

American and Chinese negotiators will meet over the weekend in Switzerland, and Trump posted Friday morning on Truth Social that 80 percent tariffs – a 65 percent reduction in the current 145 percent tariffs against Chinese imports – just "seems right," and Republican strategist Doug Heye said the president was reacting to political fallout from his trade war.

President Donald Trump seemed to recognize the political risk in raising taxes on the richest Americans but blamed Democrats for his retreat.

The president suggested to congressional Republican leaders that increasing income taxes on the highest earners to their pre-2017 levels, from 37 percent to 39.6 percent, would make room for his his promised cuts to taxes on Social Security, tips and overtime as GOP lawmakers attempt to pass the "big, beautiful bill" making his first-term tax cuts permanent.

Dr. Casey Means, President Donald Trump's new pick for U.S. surgeon general, is likely going to have “a bumpy road to confirmation as she faces pushback on multiple fronts,” according to NPR.

The outlet spoke with Trump’s surgeon general from his first term, Dr. Jerome Adams, who noted that historically the surgeon general has been "required to be a licensed physician."

An Australian woman accused of triple murder with a toxic mushroom-laced beef Wellington had rarely invited her four guests to eat at her home before, a court heard Friday.

Erin Patterson, 50, is charged with murdering the parents and aunt of her estranged husband in July 2023 by serving them the pastry-and-beef dish with death cap mushrooms.

CNN's Audie Cornish and one of her guests mocked vice president JD Vance's stated disinterest in a foreign policy crisis.

The vice president told Fox News that the conflict between India and Pakistan was "fundamentally none of our business," although he hoped that diplomatic efforts could convince the two nuclear powers to "lay down their arms," but "CNN This Morning" panelist Jerusalem Demsas said she's paying close attention to the clash.

One MSNBC guest believes there is a very telling reason Bishop Robert Prevost chose the name Pope Leo XIV.

Morning Joe guest Bishop Robert Barron, from the diocese of Winona, Rochester in Minnesota, pondered the name which was last selected by a pontiff in 1878.

Donald Trump early Friday morning posted a request to China.

The president took to Truth Social before the weekend, writing in all caps, "CHINA SHOULD OPEN UP ITS MARKET TO USA — WOULD BE SO GOOD FOR THEM!!!"

Republican congressional leaders seem to be scaling back the "big, beautiful bill" sought by president Donald Trump after deficit hawks warned they would vote against the sprawling tax legislation.

The permanent extension of Trump's 2017 tax cuts could be cut, as well as the president's promised tax relief for seniors and exemptions on tips and overtime earnings, as key committees struggle to hit their $2 trillion target for spending cuts to offset those reductions in revenue, reported Politico.

Gail Slater, President Donald Trump’s selection for assistant attorney general for antitrust, “is expected to be combating the scourge of ‘Big-Tech censorship,’” and Democrats couldn't be happier, according to Politico.

Former Yelp official Luther Lowe is one of those Democrats thrilled to see her appointment “because of what he sees as her early openness to constraining Google.”

The new pope is a balanced papal leader with a biblical message, but that hasn't stopped MAGA allies from being enraged about him being elected, a conservative political consultant said on Friday.

Rick Wilson, a consistent thorn in the side of Donald Trump, wrote leading up to the weekend that "MAGA hates the woke pope."

CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams didn’t hold back Thursday night as he delivered a scathing assessment of President Donald Trump’s pick of Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

Williams, himself a former federal prosecutor, slammed past comments Pirro made while amplifying false claims about the 2020 election on her Fox News show. He also reminded viewers that Pirro was cited in Dominion’s defamation lawsuit against the network.

President Donald Trump’s failed push to install Ed Martin as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia is a telling sign that his second-term power streak on Capitol Hill is beginning to slip, Mother Jones’ Dan Friedman wrote Thursday.

Martin’s nomination collapsed after Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) publicly opposed it, citing Martin’s support for January 6 rioters. The backlash forced Trump to back down and pick Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a MAGA favorite, to fill Martin's role on an interim basis.

President Donald Trump’s abrupt dismissal of Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden sparked outrage Thursday and a fierce rebuke from Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee.

“Every Member of Congress I know—Democratic or Republican—loves and respects Dr. Carla Hayden,” DeLauro said in a fiery statement. “A ‘fighter of freedom’ and a guardian of our nation’s truth and intellectual legacy, Dr. Hayden was just abruptly and callously fired by President Trump.”