President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the United States will get magnets and rare earth minerals from China under a new trade deal and that tariffs on Chinese goods will rise to 55%. In return, Trump said, the U.S. will provide China “what was agreed to,” including allowing Chinese students to attend American colleges and universities. The Republican president had recently begun to clamp down on the presence of Chinese nationals on U.S. college campuses. The new 55% tariff rate would mark a meaningful increase from the 30% levy set in Switzerland during talks in May. “OUR DEAL WITH CHINA IS DONE, SUBJECT TO FINAL APPROVAL WITH PRESIDENT XI AND ME.,” Trump wrote Wednesday on his social media site.

U.S. inflation picked up a bit last month as food costs rose, though overall inflation remained mostly tame. Consumer prices increased 2.4% in May compared with a year ago, according to a Labor Department report released Wednesday. That is up from a 2.3% yearly increase in April. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 2.8% for the third straight month. Economists pay close attention to core prices because they generally provide a better sense of where inflation is headed. The figures suggest inflation remains stubbornly above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, which makes it less likely that the central bank will cut its key short-term interest rate. President Donald Trump has repeatedly urged the central bank to reduce borrowing costs.

In a dramatic and unprecedented decision, the committee overseeing the United Kingdom’s World Zionist Congress elections has disqualified the Eretz HaKodesh chareidi party from participating in the current vote.
The ruling, handed down by the Area Election Committee (AEC) on Monday night, came in response to false accusations that the chareidi party encouraged its supporters to violate election regulations by registering others on their behalf.
The decision bars EHK from competing in the race to select British delegates for the 39th World Zionist Congress.
This marks the first time the party has entered the UK election.

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A frivolous Israeli tweet, which explic

With tensions mounting and the fate of the Knesset hanging in the balance, the Knesset is set to convene today to vote on a bill that could dissolve the government amid a protracted impasse over the controversial military draft law for yeshiva students.
Weeks of stalled negotiations between Likud and the chareidi parties over a new draft bill have brought the coalition to the brink. In a notable shift from past approaches—when legal clearance was sought after a political deal was reached—officials are now attempting to begin with a version that can withstand scrutiny from the High Court of Justice and only afterward present it to the chareidi factions.

During a fiery address delivered Tuesday from Fort Bragg, President Donald Trump portrayed the ongoing unrest in Los Angeles as an assault by outsiders and promised aggressive federal intervention to bring the city under control.
Speaking before a crowd at one of the country’s most prominent military bases, Trump declared that Los Angeles was under siege following several days of violent demonstrations that erupted in response to immigration enforcement operations carried out by ICE agents.
“This anarchy will not stand,” Trump said. “We will not allow federal agents to be attacked, and we will not allow an American city to be invaded and conquered by a foreign enemy.”

The commander of U.S. Central Command told Congress on Tuesday that the United States is prepared to respond militarily against Iran if nuclear negotiations were to fail.
Speaking to the House Armed Services Committee, Gen. Michael Kurilla briefed lawmakers on U.S. military force posture in the Middle East.
“President Trump has made it clear that if Iran doesn’t permanently give up its nuclear enrichment, military force by the United States may be necessary,” said Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), the committee chair.
“If the president directed, is CENTCOM prepared to respond with overwhelming force to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran?” the congressman asked the general.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk issued a rare public mea culpa Wednesday, admitting that his social media attacks on President Donald Trump last week had crossed the line. “I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far,” Musk wrote on his platform X, just days after igniting a firestorm by suggesting that Trump was named in the sealed Jeffrey Epstein files and had suppressed their release. Musk also endorsed calls for Trump’s impeachment, urging his removal in favor of Vice President J.D. Vance — a post that has since been deleted.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a stark warning on Tuesday, emphasizing the growing risk of a nuclear conflict in a video message shared with the public.
Her remarks followed a recent visit to Hiroshima, where she met with survivors still living with the long-term consequences of the atomic bombing that occurred eight decades ago during World War II.
“As we stand here today, closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before, political elite and warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers,” she said in the clip.
Gabbard expressed concern that leaders may be emboldened in their aggressive posture toward nuclear-armed adversaries due to their own perceived immunity.

JERUSALEM  (VINnews)-Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Tuesday slammed Britain’s decision to impose sanctions on two

Dramatic conversations are taking place in the halls of the Knesset and l’havdil in the homes of Gedolei Yisrael on Wednesday, after the opposition parties announced earlier in the day that they are advancing the bill to dissolve the Knesset, with the hope that the Chareidi parties will help them bring down the government. As YWN has reported, HaRav Landau and HaRav Hirsch have instructed the UTJ members to vote for the dissolution of the government due to the lack of a bill to regulate the status of lomdei Torah. The bill being advanced by Yuli Edelstein, the head of the Knesset’s Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, calls for draconian financial sanctions against bnei yeshivos and was not approved by the Chareidi MKs.

Yamam special forces and IDF and Shin Bet forces eliminated the terrorist Raed Basharat, the head of the terrorist organization in the Palestinian town of Tamun, overnight Tuesday, Israel Police announced on Wednesday morning. “He was involved in planning and carrying out attacks against security forces and Israeli civilians,” the police statement said. “During the operation, two additional terrorists were arrested in their hideout.” (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

The Trump administration on Tuesday slammed the “extremely unhelpful” sanctions imposed on Israeli ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich by the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway. “They should focus on the real culprit, which is Hamas,” State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said. “We remain concerned about any step that would further isolate Israel from the international community,” she continued. “If our allies want to help, they should focus on supporting special envoy Witkoff’s negotiations and backing the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation when it comes to food and aid.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio also issued a statement slamming the move.

Brig. Gen. Shay Tayeb, a senior official in the IDF’s Personnel Directorate, declared on Wednesday morning in a discussion in the Knesset’s Subcommittee on Human Resources in the IDF that beginning on June 30, approximately 54,000 conscription orders will be sent to bnei yeshivos. “During the month of July, 54,000 summons for initial conscription will be issued, spread over the coming year until June 2026, in addition to the 24,000 orders that have already been sent,” Tayeb said. Tayeb also revealed that IDF policy has been changed in order to significantly shorten the process of declaring draft dodgers and enable the military police to carry out increased enforcement measures.

President Donald Trump held a tense 40-minute phone conversation with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday night, telling him that the “war in Gaza has run its course” and demanding that Israel refrain from attacking Iran, Channel 12 News reported. The report, based on unnamed sources, said that Trump demanded that Netanyahu make efforts to end the war in Gaza, emphasizing that the end of the war would help the US in its negotiations with Iran and in promoting normalization with Saudi Arabia. Regarding the US talks with Iran, Netanyahu told Trump that Iran “is deceiving you” and that the negotiations should be halted as they are futile.

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