U.S. and China detail $30B tariff relief as Ukraine death toll rises and Trump marks Hunting Day
UN rights chief urges Ethiopia de-escalation; Trump attends Texas-Tennessee in Knoxville; third-country deportation response still due Monday.
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I'm Nora Vale with your Afternoon Update World Brief for Saturday, September 26th. The United States and China detailed $30 billion in reciprocal tariff relief on non-sensitive goods after President Xi's visit. China also committed to buy at least 10 million metric tons of U.S. coal in 2027 and 2028. What this means. For you at the checkout, lower tariffs on toys and car seats only help if prices follow. As Americans, we should also watch whether Beijing actually ships the coal and keeps its farm promises. In Ukraine, authorities say Russian and Ukrainian strikes killed at least 16 people over about 24 hours. President Zelenskyy said Russia is not preparing to end the war, and accused Putin of always finding a pretext to avoid talks. What this means. A rising civilian toll is not a peace process. For you and your family paying energy and grain costs, partners must raise the price of Russian escalation, not recycle talking points. At the White House, President Trump marked National Hunting and Fishing Day, citing recent orders to open more federal land to hunting, expand Sunday hunting, and cut red tape for saltwater anglers. What this means. Public land access is a liberty and family tradition. As Americans, we deserve gates that open on land we already own, not more process. And at the Supreme Court, no new Saturday orders. The response on third-country deportations is still due Monday at 4 p.m. Eastern. In national weather, from the National Weather Service: Hurricane Nolo, with top winds near 100 mph, has a hurricane watch, a tropical storm warning, and a tropical storm watch in effect for parts of Hawaii. Strong Nor'easter off the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast will bring coastal flooding, rip currents, strong wind gusts, and heavy rain to the region this weekend. Full stories and sources are at WorldBriefNow.com. I'm Nora Vale. Thanks for watching.
Russian and Ukrainian strikes killed at least 16 people over about 24 hours, authorities on both sides said Saturday, France 24 reported with AFP, raising the Saturday toll beyond the four deaths Ukrainian officials confirmed earlier in Zaporizhzhia and Sumy. Kyiv said Russian strikes killed at least six people in Sumy, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk — including a 17-year-old girl — while Russia said Ukrainian strikes killed people in Krasnodar and Belgorod and in occupied Zaporizhzhia. In his Saturday address, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia is “not preparing to end the war” and accused Vladimir Putin of always having “some pretext ready” to avoid talks, as Ukrainian drones again hit an oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region and a plant in Rostov, Zelenskyy said.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday urged Ethiopia’s government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and its allies to de-escalate immediately, warning of a mounting civilian toll as fighting intensifies, JURIST reported Saturday. The UN Human Rights Office said Ethiopian National Defence Force airstrikes, some reportedly by drone, struck five schools in Tigray on Sept. 22, and that a mortar strike in Kobo in the Amhara region on Sept. 23 also caused civilian deaths. Türk cited disruptions to internet and phone service in Mekelle and parts of Amhara, road blockages in Afar, and Ethiopian Airlines suspensions after the TPLF took over airports in Mekelle, Axum and Shire on Sept. 23, and raised allegations of forced mass recruitment — including of children — by the TPLF and of arbitrary conscription by government forces.
The White House said the United States and China reached consensus under their Board of Trade on recommendations for more favorable tariff treatment on $30 billion of non-sensitive goods in each direction after President Xi Jinping’s state visit, a fact sheet dated Sept. 25 and amplified by Fox News, the New York Post and the Washington Examiner on Saturday. Favorable treatment for U.S. exports would cover agricultural goods, fish and seafood, logs and wood products, cosmetics and medical devices; U.S. imports covered include small appliances, toys, holiday decorations and children’s car seats. China also committed to import at least 10 million metric tons of U.S. coal in 2027 and again in 2028; Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Saturday the visit “opened a new chapter” in ties, and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told CNBC more details are expected Monday.
In a Sept. 26 presidential message on National Hunting and Fishing Day, President Donald Trump saluted American hunters and anglers as stewards of public lands and the outdoor economy, the White House said. The message highlighted signing the Great American Outdoors Act in his first term, unlocking more than 2.3 million acres for sportsmen, and a recent executive order he said reinvigorates hunting heritage by opening new hunting opportunities on federal lands, expanding Sunday hunting, and directing the Cabinet to work with states on game populations and youth and veteran incentives. Trump also pointed to an order aimed at restoring saltwater angling by cutting regulations on boaters and outdoor businesses, modernizing catch reporting, rebuilding stocks such as Atlantic striped bass, and turning retired offshore platforms into artificial reefs, and to reestablishing the Hunting and Shooting Conservation and Access Council.
President Donald Trump attended Saturday’s college football game between No. 1 Texas and No. 14 Tennessee at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, landing at 11:28 a.m. ET ahead of the noon kickoff after an Air Force One low-altitude flyover as teams warmed up, the Associated Press reported. His motorcade arrived as the national anthem was sung at 11:59 a.m., and he was shown on the videoboards seated between Tennessee’s U.S. senators, including Marsha Blackburn, who is running for governor. University officials opened the stadium 30 minutes early for Secret Service screening; ABC/ESPN reported both schools worked with the Secret Service on audio channels after coaches warned that presidential movements can interrupt headset communications between coaches and players.
As of Saturday afternoon, the Supreme Court’s public docket for Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D., No. 26A406, still showed only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Sept. 24 order directing respondents to file a response by 4 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 28, with no further Saturday order on the government’s stay application. The application, docketed Sept. 24 after submission to Justice Jackson, seeks a stay of lower-court limits on third-country removals while the case proceeds. Regularly scheduled order lists typically post on Mondays the Court sits; miscellaneous orders can issue any day, and none altering the Monday deadline appeared on the Court’s orders page Saturday.
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