Live at Shangri-La Dialogue; Iran Strike Injures Americans | Bloomberg This Weekend: May 28
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Today’s show includes conversations with:
– Bloomberg Television Anchor Haslinda Amin from the Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore
– Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analyst Mandeep Singh
– Associated Press Reporter Phillip Crowther
– Bloomberg Law Reporter Bobby Iafolla
– Former CDC Director Tom Frieden
– Bloomberg News Texas Bureau Chief Julie Fine
– Bloomberg News Reporter Matthew Campbell
– Cisco Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel
Here are the stories we’re following:
-Several Americans were hurt in a missile attack on a Kuwaiti air base over the past day as a White House meeting to discuss extending the ceasefire with Iran ended without conclusion.
– A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump to respond to “grievous allegations” that his deal with the government to create a $1.8 billion fund to resolve his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was the result of a “fraud” on the court.
-President Donald Trump “remains in excellent health,” according to the White House doctor, after undergoing a physical earlier this week which included a cognitive test.
– The IISS Shangri-La Dialogue is Asia’s premier defense summit, bringing senior officials from around the world to Singapore for three days of discussions. They will tackle pressing security issues, from the fragile ceasefire in the Middle East to the war in Ukraine and the intensifying great-power rivalry between the US and China in the Trump era. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to attend, while Vietnam’s newly minted President To Lam is set to deliver the keynote address.
– The US and Iran have reached a preliminary deal to extend a ceasefire by 60 days and discuss the future of Tehran’s nuclear program, a person with knowledge of the matter said, buoying hopes for a resolution to a three-month conflict that has killed thousands and roiled the global economy.
– Earnings from technology stocks had a big week. Dell, Salesforce, Snowflake and several others saw shares surge after results and forecasts that blew past estimates.
– A White House plan to rapidly repeal regulations has flopped, with just a handful of rules dumped via the expanded use of an administrative shortcut since a widespread review effort was ordered more than a year ago.
– As Donald Trump celebrated Ken Paxton’s landslide win in Texas, Republican officials were busy gearing up for a brutal fight that may end up costing them more than $100 million to stop a Democrat from flipping a seat in a state the president won by 14 percentage points.
– Travel restrictions and border closures are hindering the response to Ebola as aid workers say they are battling to get to some of the areas where the outbreak has been the most vicious.
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