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Trump did not provide any timing on when Alexander is expected to be released.

Last Updated: May 11, 2025, 7:01 PM EDT

The White House said on Sunday that it reached a trade deal with China as the two countries negotiated for a second day in Switzerland. China has yet to comment on Sunday's talks.

"We’re confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese partners will help us to work toward resolving that national emergency,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told reporters in Geneva. But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said "substantial progress" had been made but stopped short of touting a full deal.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with the United Kingdom -- the first in what the White House said it hopes will be a flurry of agreements while the reciprocal tariff pause is in effect. With UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on speaker phone in the Oval Office, the leaders conceded that they are still working out the details of the agreement.

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May 05, 2025, 10:15 AM EDT

Trump will greet freed Russian-American ballerina Ksenia Karelina at the White House

President Trump on Monday will greet Ksenia Karelina, a freed U.S.-Russian dual citizen who was imprisoned in Russia, at the White House, a White House official confirmed to ABC News.

Karelina, a ballerina who was jailed for 12 years over donations to an organization that supported Ukraine, was released in a prisoner swap in early March.

Ksenia Karelina, a Russian-American dual citizen who was released from detention in Russia, reacts as she arrives at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, April 10, 2025.
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When she landed back on American soil, she thanked President Trump in a video posted by White House aide Seb Gorka. "Mr. Trump, I'm so so grateful for you to bring me home," Karelina said in the video at the time.

NBC was first to report that it was Karelina that Trump is set to meeting with at the White House Monday.

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart

May 05, 2025, 9:54 AM EDT

Trump to welcome home a returned citizen, sign executive orders

On Monday, President Trump will sign executive orders and "welcome home a returned Citizen," according to the White House schedule.

Trump is set to sign the orders at 3 p.m. ET before welcoming home the American citizen in the Oval Office at 3:30 p.m. ET. As of now, both events are closed to the press. The White House has not yet provided details on the subject of the orders or details of the returned citizen.

Later Monday evening, Trump will attend a MAGA Inc. dinner at his Virginia golf club.

May 05, 2025, 9:32 AM EDT

Trump to announce Washington is expected to host 2027 NFL draft: Sources

President Trump's Monday schedule includes making a "sports announcement" from the Oval Office.

The 1 p.m. ET sports event will be an announcement by Trump that Washington is expected to host the 2027 NFL draft, sources familiar with the matter said. The sources said the goal is to host the draft on the National Mall.

It comes as the Washington Commanders are set to return to the nation's capital, which Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser announced in a post on X last week.

-ABC News' Katherine Faulders

May 04, 2025, 10:25 PM EDT

Trump says judges he appoints won't demand deportation 'trials'

President Donald Trump addressed judicial nominations while speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday evening, saying, "Well, we're putting them in rapidly. We're trying to get very good ones."

"We need judges that are not going to be demanding trials for every single illegal immigrant. We have millions of people that have come in here illegally, and we can't have a trial for every single person. That would be millions of trials," the president said of the administration's sweeping deportations.

President Donald Trump waves as he steps off of Air Force One upon arrival at Tuscaloosa National Airport in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, May 1, 2025.
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Trump said his overhaul of U.S. immigration policies was "the No. 1 issue" he campaigned on, claiming "radicalized" judges are delaying that process.

"So, they come into our country illegally, and then we're supposed to take weeks, I guess, and months to have a trial on every criminal that we have, murderers all over the country. I don't think the Supreme Court will stand for that. I can't believe it, because, you know what, if they do, we're not going to have a country," Trump claimed.

-ABC News' Fritz Farrow

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