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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 08, 2025, 4:36 PM EDT

Schiff likens possible Pirro nomination to Hegseth

Sen. Adam Schiff responded to ABC News' reporting that Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro could be tapped to replace Ed Martin as US Attorney for DC after saying earlier on Thursday that he was "watching closely" who Trump would pick next.

The California Democrat, using sarcasm, suggested that Pirro's selection could be like Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's, another Fox News host who has been embroiled in controversy since being named nominee by the president.

"Because the other Fox News host in this administration is doing such a stellar job," Schiff said in a post on X, including a link to the ABC reporting.

-ABC News' Isabella Murray

May 08, 2025, 4:31 PM EDT

Homeland Security asks Supreme Court to OK end to humanitarian parole program

The Trump administration is back at the Supreme Court again seeking an emergency order allowing it to categorically revoke humanitarian parole for more than 530,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Solicitor General John Sauer argued in a petition to the justices that a lower court has "nullified one of the Administration's most consequential immigration policy decisions" and hamstrung Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's lawful authority to revoke an immigrant's status without judicial review.

Sauer claimed that the Immigration and Nationality Act gives the secretary broad power to terminate parole whenever in her opinion "the purposes of such parole have been served." Lower courts have said she can only terminate parole on a case-by-case basis.

The court called for a response from a group of plaintiffs challenging the policy by May 15.

-ABC News' Devin Dwyer

May 08, 2025, 3:57 PM EDT

Zelenskyy spoke with Trump, Ukrainian officials say

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Trump spoke on the phone Thursday, Zelenskyy’s spokesperson said.

There are no details on the call from the Ukrainian side.

-ABC News' Oleksiy Pshemyskiy and Ellie Kaufman

May 08, 2025, 2:58 PM EDT

Toyota says Trump tariffs will cost $1.24 billion for April and May

Toyota, the world's largest automaker, is the latest carmaker to revise its forecast downward, due to the trade war started by the White House.

The company's current forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026, (assuming average exchange rates through the fiscal year of 145 yen per US$1) assumes that the impact of U.S. tariffs will slash operating income for April and May, tentatively, by $1.24 billion (180.0 billion yen).

For the full fiscal year outlook, which ends at the end of next March, the company forecasts a 20.8% decrease in operating income and a 34.9% decrease in net income for the Toyota Motor Corporation because of tariffs and the ensuing weakness in the U.S. dollar. Chief Executive Koji Sato said Thursday that tariff developments are fluid and it is difficult to project further.

Toyota, which does manufacture some cars in the US, as well as Mexico and Japan, faces a 25% tariff on the ones it doesn't make in the US and outside of the USMCA trade agreement and on auto parts.

-ABC News' Soo Youn

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