President Donald Trump, speaking in the Oval Office on Wednesday, said he was not willing to pull back tariffs on China. The president also said a news of a new ceasefire and hostage deal proposal for Israel and Hamas could come in the “next 24 hours.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also on the foreign policy front, the administration said it is closely monitoring developments between Pakistan and India after the two nations exchanged fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Republicans are continuing to iron out their “big, beautiful bill” that includes Trump’s sweeping legislative agenda. Also, Trump officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, testified before various committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Donald Trump is expected to announce a trade deal with the United Kingdom on Thursday morning, according to sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The details of the agreement were not immediately clear. This will mark the first agreement after Trump imposed steep tariffs<\/a> on dozens of trading partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It comes as Trump said on social media he would announce a “MAJOR TRADE DEAL WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF A BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED, COUNTRY.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The White House didn’t immediately respond to ABC’s request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n President Donald Trump in a post on Truth Social said he would be hosting a “big news conference” on Thursday to announce a “MAJOR TRADE DEAL WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF A BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED, COUNTRY.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The news conference is set for 10 a.m. from the Oval Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump said the announcement would be “THE FIRST OF MANY.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an interview with Time magazine last month, Trump claimed to have already “made 200 deals<\/a>” with other countries on tariffs but did not elaborate on which countries or what the terms were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday announced the release of about 60,000 files on the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. That’s in addition to some 10,000 files released last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These \u201cadditional investigative materials corroborate this previously released information,\u201d Gabbard said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs was first uncovered in the initial tranche of 10,000 RFK files, there were rumors circulating on foreign soil that Senator Kennedy had been shot one month prior to his true assassination date,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Gabbard, the newly released files \u201chave been sitting in various storage facilities across the federal government for decades and had never been digitized or accessible to the public before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The latest release includes the Los Angeles Police Department\u2019s interviews with Sirhan Sirhan, the man who assassinated Kennedy, as well as recordings of interviews with eyewitnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n