Trump’s Bromance Diplomacy With Arab Leaders

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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A.M. Edition for May 16. We’ll get the latest from White House reporter Alex Leary in the United Arab Emirates as President Trump winds down a four-day trip to the Middle East. Plus, a veteran FAA air-traffic controller, shaken after averting a midair collision, opens up about stress, staffing and tech problems. And with two weeks until hurricane season, the new head of FEMA admits to not having a fully formed disaster-response plan. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.3	President Trump wraps up a gilded Middle East tour that put bromance diplomacy with golf leaders on full display.
0:41.2	Plus, foreign direct investment into Europe plunges, and a senior air traffic controller tells the journal about the high-stress job of managing Newark's airspace.
0:51.6	You go straight in survival mode to separate those aircraft and make sure they go ahead.
0:56.6	And then when that's over, then it really hits you.
0:59.2	It's Friday, May 16th.
1:00.9	I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.
1:02.9	And here is the AM edition of What's News.
1:05.8	The top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
1:11.6	Hundreds of thousands of commuters across New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia are
1:15.9	facing disruption this morning as NJ transit workers went on strike just after midnight,
1:21.7	following a years-long battle over wages for train engineers.
1:25.6	New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
1:29.4	Union had rejected a deal giving train engineers virtually identical wages to those working for
1:35.2	the Long Island Railroad, but without blowing up the transit agency's budget. Like many mass transit
1:41.1	systems across the nation, NJ Transit Transit is facing a sobering fiscal reality.
1:48.0	That is a challenge we must balance with paying our engineers and every NJ transit worker
1:53.9	what they deserve.
1:55.3	While NJ Transit and the Union are at odds over wages for just 450 workers. Officials argue they can't strike a
2:03.8	narrow deal on compensation that could set a precedent for other negotiations. The strike could
2:09.2	snarl commutes for more than 350,000 people, with NJ Transit saying a substitute bus service
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