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President Trump heads back to the states after his big Beijing trip.

The Supreme Court deals a blow to the effort to end abortion by mail and Fed Chair Jerome Powell's troubled tenure officially ends.

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley.

It's Friday, May 15th, and this is Evening Wire.

President Trump departed Beijing this morning and said he made big progress on America's priorities. Daily Wire

Reporter's actual has the details. Donald Trump said China will invest, quote, hundreds of billions of

dollars in major American tech firms after he brought top CEOs, including Elon Musk, Tim Cook,

and Jensen Huang, into an unscheduled meeting with Xi Jinping. Trump said the CEO introduction was a surprise to President Xi, but after they, quote, got used to the fact that we're a little off schedule here, they, quote, really had a good time.

President Trump's itinerary change was a bold move, but he says it helped spur investment talks, while also claiming Xi pledged not to provide military equipment to Iran and express support

for keeping the Strait of Hormuz open amid ongoing regional tensions.

Iran was a key focus during the Beijing trip, and the standoff in the strait continues.

Daily Wire Foreign Affairs reporter Cassie Akiva has the latest.

President Trump said he immediately rejected Iran's latest proposal

to end the war, saying the opening line alone was enough to kill the deal.

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