More things should be communicated by smoke signal.

Lateset on #USCHINA by Brian Schwartz and me: U.S. and Chinese officials wrapped up their first, high-stakes trade talks, with Beijing saying the two sides agreed to start a formal negotiation process and Washington touting progress toward a deal. wsj.com/politics/polic… via The Wall Street Journal

"A cabinet in a bathroom obscured the entrance to a tunnel where Guzmán escaped as special forces moved in." wsj.com/world/americas…

Trump's political team commissioned a poll that showed Marjorie Taylor Greene losing against Jon Ossoff by double-digits in Georgia, and Trump communicated the results to her in a bid to keep her out of the race. She fires back against Trump's team here. wsj.com/politics/elect…

NEW: Inside the battle with Elon Musk taking on Donald Trump and congressional Republicans trying to pass the president's signature tax reform legislation. Trump is not happy with Musk's broadsides against the bill. He's making the point privately that Musk's attacks reflect

Asked by Meridith McGraw what effect the attack on Iran could have on the markets, Trump said, "I think ultimately, it would be great for the market because Iran will not have a nuclear weapon." Dow / S&P / Nasdaq opened lower today wsj.com/livecoverage/i…

Unexpected bop on the playlist at the Army festival: Drake’s Nokia

"So it’s possible—even plausible—that these phones would initially come from China" wsj.com/tech/trump-t1-…

From Feb: “The [U.S.] intelligence analysis concluded Israel would push the Trump administration to back the strikes, viewing [Trump] as more likely to join an attack than former President Joe Biden” wsj.com/world/middle-e…

Trump giving TikTok another lifeline, will sign 90-day extension sparing app from ban. "As he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark." wsj.com/livecoverage/s…

NEW: President Trump told senior aides late Tuesday that he approved of attack plans for Iran, but was holding off on giving the final order to see if Tehran will abandon its nuclear program, three people familiar with the deliberations said.

Stephen Miller’s fingerprints are now on every issue from immigration to cutting university funding. Some of his colleagues say they are alarmed by some of the legal maneuvers he has proposed for executing the agenda—and Trump has gently ribbed him for being too “happy” about

Scoop: Meta has poached three OpenAI researchers: Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai, according to people familiar with the matter. An OpenAI spox confirmed the three have left the company.

It is just so incredibly meaningful that Detroit is getting its WNBA team back. This is not only continuing the momentum of Detroit’s overall resurgence, but it will allow the Shock to take its rightful place and continue a proud tradition. The Shock is the most disrespected

NEW: President Trump has completed at least 2 trade deals but “90 deals in 90 days” is proving difficult. Enter the private talks with Japan which have been tense with Trump admitting he doubts the sides can come to an agreement. Story with Gavin Bade wsj.com/economy/trade/…

Trump, in Iowa, says there will be UFC championship fight “on the grounds of the White House” as part of 250th celebration.

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NEW: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in recent days privately laid out his case to President Trump for why he believed Trump shouldn’t try to oust Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Story w/ Nick Timiraos wsj.com/economy/centra…

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico—Cesar Atencio and Lina Arias rushed with their two small children toward the U.S. border in January, aiming to beat the crackdown on immigration President Trump had promised when he returned to office. They didn’t make it. wsj.com/world/they-set…

NEW: Every living former Fed chair (Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellen) ... have joined several former Treasury secretaries (Rubin, Summers, Paulson, Geithner, Lew) ... and CEA chairs (Hubbard, Mankiw, Romer, Furman, Rouse, Bernstein) who served presidents of both parties ... in an