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Trump admin live updates: Trump says Hamas will release hostage Edan Alexander
Trump did not provide any timing on when Alexander is expected to be released.
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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NY Gov. Hochul says Trump's 'dolls' comment shows he 'doesn't care'
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, in an appearance on CNN on Monday morning, said that President Trump's recent comments that children could "have two dolls instead of 30 dolls" as a result of tariffs on China and a trade war show that the president "doesn't care."
"It's so condescending," Hochul said. "Condescending on so many levels. But as a mom who has bought dolls for my little girl and my granddaughter, I mean, come on, the President of United States telling you that, oh, you don't need that. This is a millionaire, maybe a billionaire who really knows what his records show, but he has a lot more money than the average American."
Trump made the comments while answering questions at the end of his Cabinet meeting late last month, seeming to acknowledge the real impacts his trade war with China could have on Americans.
"It shows a disconnect with the people who voted him into office, many of them, that he doesn't care," Hochul said. "He doesn't care about the families… And I think they're starting to hear this and feel this, and they feel they've been betrayed. And that's a very overwhelming feeling across the state of New York."
-ABC News' Oren Oppenheim
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.
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
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.
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