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WSJ Minute Briefing

Trump Heads Home Following High-Stakes Xi Summit

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.1671 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: The Supreme Court preserves widespread access to abortion pills. And the head of the CIA visits Havana. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here is your morning brief for Friday, May 15th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.

0:31.9

President Trump has left Beijing, concluding a summit in which he worked to gloss over his

0:37.2

differences with

0:37.8

Chinese leader Xi Jinping, but which yielded few concrete deals. The lack of a substantial

0:43.8

outcome has sent global stock markets and futures lower. Trump told reporters that both he and

0:49.2

Xi want the conflict in Iran to end and for Iran to not have a nuclear weapon. He also said that the two

0:55.4

leaders had made fantastic trade deals without providing details. China's government, meanwhile,

1:01.1

has said it reached a series of new common understandings with the U.S., but didn't say what those

1:06.4

entailed. The Supreme Court is preserving mail access to a common abortion pill, issuing a brief

1:13.5

order yesterday, siding with a pair of drug makers that manufacture Mipha Pristone. The companies had

1:19.3

rushed to the court after a lower court in Louisiana earlier this month blocked Mitha Pristone

1:23.8

from being prescribed through virtual appointments and sent to patients by mail.

1:28.9

Anti-abortion groups have grown increasingly frustrated with the Trump administration for not

1:33.1

undoing Biden-era FDA regulations that expanded access to the drug during the pandemic.

1:39.2

And the head of the CIA has met with officials in Cuba after they reported running out of fuel as a result of an American energy blockade.

1:47.9

We report that director John Rackcliffe said that Cuba had limited time to stabilize its economy and engage with Washington.

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