Trump’s Asia tour; Louvre heist arrests; Hurricane Melissa forecast; and more
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🗓️ 27 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | President Donald Trump is on a big trip to Asia. That's where we're starting the seven from the |
| 0:09.0 | Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Monday, October 27th. Let's get you caught up with today's |
| 0:16.2 | seven stories. In Malaysia yesterday, President Trump oversaw the signing of a ceasefire agreement |
| 0:26.4 | to resolve a border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia. But the main focus of his |
| 0:32.7 | five-day tour of Asia is trade. China has been a particular target in Trump's global trade war. |
| 0:41.2 | Yesterday, Chinese and U.S. negotiators reached a framework of a trade deal. It would avert |
| 0:47.4 | additional 100% tariffs that Trump had threatened to impose on imports from China. |
| 0:53.8 | The potential deal is a significant de-escalation |
| 0:57.2 | of the back-and-forth trade war between the world's two biggest economies. And it sets the stage for |
| 1:03.7 | the president's highly anticipated meeting on Thursday in South Korea with China's leader Xi Jinping. |
| 1:10.6 | Speaking on Air Force One earlier today, Trump also teased another possible meeting. |
| 1:16.5 | He made it clear that he really wants to sit down with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. |
| 1:21.6 | I haven't mentioned it. I haven't said anything, but I'd love to meet with him if he'd like to meet. |
| 1:27.3 | I got along great with Kim Jong-un. I liked him. He liked me. I'd love to meet with him if he'd like to meet. I got along great |
| 1:28.2 | with Kim Jong-un. I liked him. He liked me. If he wants to meet, I'll be in South Korea. |
| 1:38.3 | Number two, smaller law firms are taking on the Trump administration. An analysis from the post found that the |
| 1:47.4 | largest law firms in the U.S. have been far less likely to challenge President Trump's policies |
| 1:53.2 | than they were during his first term. That means smaller and medium-sized firms are picking up the |
| 2:00.0 | legal slack. They have taken on more of the |
| 2:03.7 | workload in the nearly 400 lawsuits related to Trump's moves filed between January and mid-September. |
| 2:11.6 | Trump signed more than 200 executive orders in that time period. Some of those orders have targeted major law firms. |
| 2:20.1 | So some large firms have cut deals with Trump to provide the administration with millions of dollars of free work. |
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