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An American hostage finally released. I'm John Saucier, Fox News. 584 long days and now this American hostage freed from captivity in Gaza. We do now have confirmation that Edon Alexander, that 21-year-old native of Tenafly, New Jersey, is out of the ugly hands of Hamas and
and back in safety in the West. The transfer has happened. It started in Khan Yunus. That's a town in Gaza. That is where Hamas brought
brought the 21-year-old, and then they transferred him over to a set of Red Cross vehicles. Fox's Greg Polk out there. The United States and China announcing the temporarily eased tariffs on each other. Fox Business Network's Edward Lawrence at the White House with more. The reciprocal tariffs on the U.S. side goes to 30%, and the tariffs on the Chinese side, the retaliation, go to 10%. Here's how the U.S. gets to that 30%. They are lowering the reciprocal tariffs to 10% on Chinese imports.
and then adding the additional 20% regarding the fentanyl emergency. Yeah, I think they're going to follow through. I think they want it very badly. I think they want the deal very badly. Again, this doesn't include the steel tariffs. This breakthrough agreement allows the ships that are right now stuck in the Chinese harbors to now come to the United States and sell their goods. The Trump administration says the tariff plans are a response to decades of unfair trade on the U.S. Critics claim, though, the president's tariff's agenda creating economic uncertainty and fears a recession.
The Qatari royal family gifting President Trump a $400 million jet to use at Air Force One, but it raises legal and ethics concerns. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levin on Fox & Friends promises the administration is going to follow the law. The Qatari government has graciously offered to donate a plane to the Department of Defense. The legal details of that are still being worked out. America's listening to Fox News.
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President Trump is putting pressure on drug makers to drastically reduce the price of prescription drugs. Fox's Jared Halpern reports from the White House. An executive order from President Trump puts drug makers on the clock, setting a 30-day deadline to lower prices or see lower caps on what the government will pay for prescription drugs. Our country has the highest drug prices anywhere in the world by sometimes a factor of five, six, seven, eight times.
The president says the U.S. is subsidizing lower drug prices around the world. His order could force pharmaceutical makers to sell prescription drugs under Medicare and Medicaid for less. Industry representatives warn threats to profits will limit the ability to research new drugs.
At the White House, Jared Halpern, Fox News. House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole says he does not believe there will be a debt limit suspension. Some, though, in the Trump administration don't feel the same way. Fox's Lauren Simonetti with more. Lawmakers are trying to get that massive legislation package to enact the Trump agenda done and
address the nation's borrowing at the same time. The Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson, has echoed the president's call. Just raise the debt ceiling. In fact, Besson wrote a letter to the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, flagging, hey, Congress is going to be in recess in August. That's when we think the government's cash will likely be exhausted. So just suspend it or raise it before August and July. The debt ceiling was last addressed in 2023 when Congress suspended it until January 1st, 2025 under the Fiscal Responsibility Act.
And the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanch, who once represented Donald Trump during his 2024 criminal trial, has now been appointed Acting Librarian of Congress. The Justice Department made the announcement today. Blanch replaces longtime librarian Carla Hayden, who the White House fired last week after criticism from some conservatives that she was advancing a woke agenda. She was nominated by President Obama back in 2015. I'm John Saussure, and this is Fox News.
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