The United States and India have reached a trade agreement and will begin lowering tariffs on each other’s goods immediately, President Donald Trump announced Monday. And the trump administration will be launching a $12 billion dollar rare earth stockpile, the White House confirmed after Bloomberg first reported on the move.
A small number of medical evacuees from Gaza entered Egypt on Monday as the Rafah border crossing reopened, marking a key step in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire but a mostly symbolic one. Few people will be allowed to travel in either direction and no goods will pass through.
A partial government shutdown took effect on Saturday after Congress failed to enact funding legislation before the deadline. The Senate had passed a funding package a day earlier, but the House of Representatives failed to pass the bill on time to prevent the shutdown. The funding bill is now pending in the House, which is expected to take it up this week.