🗞️Trump's historic meeting with Syria's leader

...also Newsom's budget problem and HBO Max is back

May 14, 2025

May 14th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

Trump meets Syrian leader in Saudi Arabia the day after announcing end of U.S. sanctions

Saudi Arabia and Turkey's leaders played a key role in convincing Trump to lift sanctions on Syria and meet with al-Sharaa.

www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/05/14/trump-meets-with-syrian-leader-in-saudi-arabia.html

  • President Trump met with Syria’s new interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, marking the first meeting between leaders of the two countries in 25 years and coming just a day after Trump announced the U.S. would lift all sanctions on Syria...President Trump reportedly urged the Syrian president to normalize relations with Israel and expel all foreign terrorists from their country

  • In a budget plan presentation, California Governor Newsom has proposed limiting and cutting back California’s free healthcare coverage for undocumented immigrants to address the state’s budget deficit

  • Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, declared support for a ban on members of Congress trading individual stocks

  • President Trump arrived in Qatar today and announced a $96 billion agreement for Qatar Airways to purchase up to 210 Boeing jets

  • UnitedHealth Group is under criminal investigation by the Justice Department for possible Medicare fraud, per WSJ

  • Warner Bros. Discovery is renaming its streaming service Max back to "HBO Max" to emphasize its reputation for high-quality content and restore the strong HBO brand identity…Warner Bros. Discovery originally removed the HBO name two years ago and this summer they are brining it back

  • Sanofi, the French drug making company, has announced they plan to invest at least $20 billion into the U.S. through 2030 to increase manufacturing and research

  • DOW down .21% / S&P up .10%

  • The latest Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have killed at least 70 people, including many civilians, as the conflict with Hamas escalates and humanitarian concerns mount

  • It appears Russian President Putin will not travel to Turkey for peace talks on the war in Ukraine which are set for Thursday, despite Ukrainian President Zelenskyy calling for him to attend

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