A planned meeting in Switzerland will be the first direct talks over trade during Trump’s second term.https://www.wsj.com/world/china/fentanyl-crisis-provided-opening-for-u-s-china-trade-talks-6c8ed5c2
The former Islamist rebels who run the new government are looking to convince a skeptical Trump administrationhttps://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/syria-dangles-oil-peace-for-u-s-help-on-sanctions-bc0481a0
The President is pitching a plan to outdo Democrats on drug price controls.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/republicans-drug-prices-most-favored-nation-donald-trump-medicaid-7b48dbcd
An HHS report rebuts the false ‘consensus’ on treating minors.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/u-s-gender-dysphoria-report-hhs-donald-trump-wpath-9d145487
Beijing seeks to replace the Vatican’s approved bishop in Xinxiang.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/china-bishop-appointments-communist-party-papal-conclave-joseph-zhang-weizhu-li-jianlin-07caf1ee
This is a good exercise of the Senate’s advise and consent power.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/thom-tillis-ed-martin-nomination-u-s-attorney-donald-trump-4920e70b
If it’s hard for allies to buy U.S. chips, they will get them from other suppliers—including the Chinese.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/americas-self-defeating-ai-export-controls-technology-policy-china-e64fcaca
It spends only around 0.5% on overhead, compared with 20% for private insurers.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-social-security-could-teach-doge-about-efficiency-benefits-policy-245de678
After the garrulous Francis, the cardinals may conclude that they’ve heard enough.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/it-may-be-time-for-a-quiet-pope-papacy-catholic-church-8dad1514
He backs off the Houthis and considers giving Iran a better deal than Obama did.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trumps-blunders-put-israel-at-risk-a9c0af65
Not all his essays endure, but he had an exceptional talent for exposing political lies.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/orwells-tweets-and-podcast-would-be-great-career-novelist-writer-politics-94b8920b
‘Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band.’https://www.wsj.com/opinion/notable-quotable-v-e-day-history-world-war-ii-harry-s-truman-a0adfa66
Scott Bessent makes a valiant attempt to suggest otherwise.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-aims-at-economic-growth-and-misses-tarrifs-revenue-uncertainty-1ed7beca
A reader replies to Karl Rove.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-to-make-sense-of-an-unspeakable-tragedy-son-death-dc978fbf
A $5,000 bonus can’t compensate for the other harms that big government has inflicted.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/an-american-baby-boom-in-this-economy-baby-boom-bonus-subsidy-93b58065
A few GOP lawmakers are willing to sink tax reform to help their wealthiest constituents.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/champions-of-the-donor-class-3b9266d9
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Trump has called on the Fed to lower rates, despite a longstanding norm of political independence.https://abcnews.go.com/US/fed-expected-hold-interest-rates-steady-defying-trump/story?id=121510718
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was meeting recently with representatives from a teachers union when things quickly devolvedhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/sen-john-fetterman-raises-alarms-outburst-meeting-union-121583479
Washington state Gov. Bob Ferguson has signed a bill into law that sets limits on rent increaseshttps://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/washington-governor-signs-rent-control-bill-law-121576799