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Tariff deal warning, strong tornado threat, female artist record sale & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

News, Daily News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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President Donald Trump has given 150 countries weeks to make a deal with the US or face more tariffs. Ukraine and Russia have agreed to a prisoner swap, but not a ceasefire. The eastern US is under threat from strong tornadoes. We’ll tell you what a veteran air traffic controller has to say about those Newark airport outages. Plus, a female artist has broken a sale record. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hi there, from CNN. I'm Joe Beck, with the five things you need to know for Friday, May 16th.

0:38.3

President Donald Trump has put 150 countries on notice.

0:43.3

He says trade negotiations are moving too slowly, so they have a few more weeks, but then tariffs

0:49.1

are going up.

0:50.2

It would be very fair, but we'll be telling people what they'll be paying to do business

0:55.5

in the United States.

0:57.2

Last month, Trump paused his massive, so-called reciprocal tariffs for a period that was

1:01.8

meant to last 90 days, to give countries time to negotiate.

1:06.1

But with so many looking to make trade agreements, it's a tall order for U.S. negotiators, and without those

1:12.0

deals, Trump could impose the original tariffs, some of which go as high as 50%, or introduce new

1:18.5

ones. So far, the Trump administration has announced two new frameworks for trade talks,

1:23.8

which led to lower duties or barriers with the UK and China. Trump's negotiators say they're in active discussions with a dozen or so countries,

1:32.3

and Trump says he's close to announcing several more agreements.

1:36.3

Well, after a lot of will-they-won't-they, Ukraine and Russia have had their first direct talks in three years.

1:43.3

And at the meeting in Turkey

1:45.4

today, they agreed to a large-scale prisoner swap, that the head of Russia's delegation says

1:50.9

will see 1,000 prisoners in each country released. But in terms of a ceasefire, there have been

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