Pakistan Army Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif has confirmed to CNN that two Indian fighter jets have been shot down.

A sliver of hope with US officials announcing a meeting this week with China on tariffs. One thing is for sure even if there is progress. Xi is never going to agree to sit in the Oval Office next to Trump and risk being contradicted the way Carney was today.

News just now: Treasury and USTR simultaneously announce that Sec. Bessent and Amb. Greer will both travel to Switzerland this week to meet with Chinese officials to talk trade. Comes after Bessent said today trade talks with China had not yet begun.

Pakistan responds to India's earlier attack according to Sky news.sky.com/story/pakist...

China, being hammered by Trump's trade war, was swift to congratulate Labor over its victory in Australia. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Reporter: I was watching your face during the meeting.. what was going through your mind when the President talked about erasing the border.. Carney: I’m glad that you couldn’t tell what was going through my mind Reporter: Oh I could

Trump: "I could announce 50 to 100 deals right now because I'm the shopkeeper and I keep the store. I know what countries are looking for and I know what we're looking for and I can just set those terms and they can go shopping or they don't have to go shopping, because everybody wants to shop here"

SCOOP by @mradamtaylor.bsky.social: Trump team urged Ukraine to take U.S. deportees, documents show --an extraordinary request of a nation at war & dependent on U.S. military & financial support. w/ Sarah Blaskey and @siobhanogrady.bsky.social wapo.st/430jcmO

India has launched strikes in several parts of Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled territory, in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals.

What do Europeans see as the biggest threats to peace on the continent? Russia 72%-85% of countries polled say tensions with it are a major or moderate threat Islamic terrorism 65%-78% Tensions with U.S. 38%-58% Intra-Europe tensions 26%-37% today.yougov.com/internationa...

Economist/YouGov Poll May 2-5 41% of U.S. adult citizens have a favorable view of Elon Musk 52% have an unfavorable view At the start of Trump's second term, 44% were favorable toward Musk and 48% unfavorable d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec... d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

"If there is a prolonged trade war, China will fight to the end, and there won’t be a winner — only two losers." From Henry M. Paulson Jr., who was treasury secretary from July 2006 to January 2009: wapo.st/4jHUqij

key point from @pkrugman.bsky.social: it's literally impossible for foreign governments to negotiate with Trump because he and his people can't/won't even articulate a consistent set of demands paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-t...

Equally, trying to parse what the President is saying is pretty close to impossible. There are many interpretations: 1. He's not making deals, but rather dictating tariff rates 2. He's looking to make deals, but if you don't like his terms you can walk away 3. He still hasn't figured any of this out

In a long monologue in the Oval Office beside Canadian PM Mark Carney this afternoon, the President appears to say the trade "deals" his team are working on are not deals in the traditional sense, as they will not have to be signed. This is really significant! More in thread.

Quite a few creepy people here sending direct messages just with the word "Hello" and no intro or message or reason.

"Putin has shown everyone that he is no longer able to support his allies. He just doesn’t care" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1... @robyndixon.bsky.social @ilyushina.bsky.social

Get to know my great colleagues at The Washington Post here. bsky.app/profile/did:...

"This is hardly the MAGA landslide that Trumpers have made the 2024 election out to be," @crampell.bsky.social writes. wapo.st/4eQVqxv

Trump barely won and many of his proposals barely crack the 50% mark in support, which even then is because of staunch Republican support. But there’s a reason he and his team insist they have a sweeping mandate. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

New in the live blog -- Improvement at the IRS is a major accomplishment of the Biden administration. It is answering taxpayer helplines. Audits of the super-wealthy are up. And now the IRS is set to lose $20B because a of quirk in a budget law, potentially unraveling a lot of that work.

The production company behind Blade Runner 2049 is suing Elon Musk for using AI-processed stills from its movie in his robotaxi event—after having asked for permission and being refused. The complaint has some zingers!

Pew asked Americans who they expected to benefit from Harris's and Trump's policies. Women, people said of Harris. And of Trump? The rich. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I am also worried about political violence if he loses.

Why Trump gets away with it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

More than a quarter of Americans think that Haitians actually are "eating the dogs, they're eating the cats."

New: I talked to the "feral 25-year-olds" helping run Kamala Harris' wild social media operation. They're rattling Trump, going viral and acting almost nothing like a traditional campaign: “Holy s--- 🔥🔥🔥 She just cooked him" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

In one week bluesky got video and the country of Brazil. We’re so fucking back.

To hear Donald Trump and JD Vance tell it, California is teetering on the brink of apocalypse. Californians shrug and call it jealousy.

These people have seen Harris in the Situation Room. Here’s what they have to say. One 4-star general said she is a lot more hard line than you would expect. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

If you wondered where the eating dogs/cats/pets racist conspiracy theory came from, it'a all here: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“I’ve read about this kind of thing happening to others. I never imagined it would happen to me.” I meet a doctor denounced by a patient for alleged anti-war comments, & others in Russia caught up in a wave of denunciations. rb.gy/h0ugy1 Producer Ben Tavener

As soon as the CIA shuts down on of Russia's covert disinfo operations in the U.S. run by RT, the Russians already have a bunch more popping up. Yet in the U.S., there's largely been a collective shrug.

This is hilarious. Russian state TV tries to prove North Korea, Putin's ally, is "normal" and misportrayed. You know, like Russia.

Please appreciate this sweetie who woke me up from a bad dream and purred me to sleep again last night like the good girl that she is

I am shocked — simply SHOCKED — to learn that one of the Twitter Files nonsense-peddlers spent his free time writing things like, "I want white identity politics to grow like wildfire," and, "Holy shit, Hitler actually had some decent points." Exceptional reporting by @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social.

We don't talk enough about what a problem this is. The proliferation of actual micro-news sites has basically stopped and collapsed. But ideologically-driven hatchetjob sites which exist just to spread anti-vaccine hokum and right-wing conspiracy theories are popping up daily.

This is the clearest analysis I’ve seen of the fundamental problem with Community Notes in crisis situations: The overwhelming majority of impressions on tweets happen in the first 1-3 hours after posting, but it takes an average of 10 hours and 44 minutes for Community Notes to publicly show up.

Wow - hourly sign ups to Bluesky hit almost 2000 *PER HOUR* overnight for a few hours! Twexit is gaining momentum! twexit.nl/statistics

X, formerly known as Twitter, removed the gold “verified” badge from the New York Times’ account amid ongoing complaints about the news organization from owner Elon Musk. The badge was the only symbol distinguishing the account from impostors amid two major global conflicts in Israel and Ukraine.

News of the attack on Israel was “the first real test of Elon Musk’s version of Twitter, and it failed spectacularly," a researcher says

Finnish govt will hold press conference today to discuss gas pipeline leak in Gulf of Finland. The leak reportedly "does not appear to be an accident," and press conference relates to "worrying change in Finland's security situation". yle.fi/a/74-20054419

Musk personally promoting popular spreaders of misinformation. Free and also true link: wapo.st/3rBg6XU

Catching spies in movies: *we can't trace him, he's routing his communications through 15 different satellite* Catching spies in real life:

Our former president ... www.axios.com/2023/10/04/t...

The story of one of at least 17 Tesla autopilot fatal accidents. At least 10 people are suing over claims Tesla is partly to blame.

Donald Trump allegedly shared the number of nuclear warheads US submarines carry and how close they can get to a Russian sub without being detected, with an Australian billionaire.