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CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. I'm Kate Baldwin. It's Friday. Thank goodness, May 15th. Here are your five things. |
| 0:10.0 | Number one, the China Takeaways. President Trump is on his way back to Washington right now, after tea and a working lunch with China's leader, Xi Jinping. |
| 0:18.0 | On his way, he said a lot of different problems were settled. |
| 0:22.1 | But the end result of the visit, still a TBD. |
| 0:24.9 | It was heavy on pleasantries, for sure. |
| 0:27.5 | But so far has been light on actual concrete announcements |
| 0:30.7 | and deliverables, as they say, on the key issues of tariffs |
| 0:33.7 | and trade, Iran war, and Taiwan. |
| 0:37.6 | I think a lot of good has come of it. |
| 0:41.6 | We've made some fantastic trade deals, great for both countries. |
| 0:46.9 | He's a man I respect greatly. |
| 0:50.0 | The most concrete announcement so far, commitments from Beijing to buy 200 Boeing jets and billions of dollars in agricultural products over the next three years, |
| 0:59.0 | but U.S. soybean futures actually fell on the news, reflecting disappointment around the lack of specifics on future purchases. |
| 1:06.0 | President Xi promised to send seeds to the United States after President Trump marveled at the roses that he saw at the Communist Party headquarters. |
| 1:13.6 | On Iran, the Chinese government says the war should never have happened. |
| 1:17.6 | President Trump says China has pledged to not provide military equipment to Iran. |
| 1:22.6 | So, standby to stand by on that one. |
| 1:25.6 | Number two, the abortion pill. |
| 1:28.0 | The U.S. Supreme Court now says that for now, women can still access Mithipristone through |
| 1:33.7 | telehealth and get the pill by mail. |
| 1:36.6 | But this is not the end of the legal saga over the widely used abortion medication. |
| 1:41.4 | The injustices did not rule on the merits of this case, yet it was |
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