It's Friday, October 31st. Happy Halloween. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day. The show

reminding you that actually, it's very easy to avoid obviously haunted homes, haunted forests,

splitting up while running away from a serial killer, going to a camp haunted by a serial killer

who may be undead, and literally any other horror scenario.

If you're ever in a situation and think, wow, this seems like the start of a horror movie.

Just leave.

On today's show, trick-or-treat, or, if you're in Chicago, tear gas, as immigration and customs enforcement refuses to pause operations during Halloween festivities.

And the Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees allowed into the U.S. every year by a lot.

But let's start with China.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced a trade truce with Chinese president Xi Jinping after a 90-minute meeting in Busan, South Korea.

Following the meeting, President Trump said on Air Force One, it was the greatest meeting in the history of meetings.

We're going to issue a statement on some of the details. But overall, I guess on the scale of from

zero to ten with ten being the best, I would say the meeting was at 12. But what actually came out

of the truth seems less than meets the I. According to Axios, Trump reduced tariffs against

China in exchange for promises from the Chinese president to buy American soybeans and oil.

However, the deal appears to be largely temporary, with few actual binding details that would make

this agreement any different from those made during Trump's first term in office, or even

earlier this year.

It's also worth mentioning that the decision by the Chinese government to stop buying American

agricultural products came in response to Trump's Liberation Day tariff adventure in April.

Notably, even Trump's optimism about his wonderful time with President Xi seemed to lack

specifics.

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