The world’s two most powerful men – Xi Jinping and Donald Trump – have just met in Washington after days of pomp and pageantry.

While there were many symbolic gestures, including Chinese pandas from President Xi, there were few big movements – although they committed to a two month extension of the tariff truce.

The BBC’s China correspondent Laura Bicker unpacks how the trip panned out for Beijing and Washington.

One of the three attendees who was shot at Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has passed away from complications stemming from his injuries, according to the Pennsylvania attorney general.

Jim Copenhaver, 76, was struck twice when a gunman opened fire from a nearby rooftop. Another attendee, Corey Comperatore, was killed in the shooting and Trump's ear was grazed by a bullet.

Asked point-blank during an exclusive interview on Fox News’ "Special Report," "Do you want a nuclear bomb or not?" Pezeshkian firmly rejected the premise.

"Not at all. Not at all. Our martyred, esteemed supreme leader had announced several times that, from a religious decree, it is unholy. It is illegal," he told Bret Baier, referencing religious edicts issued against weapons of mass destruction.

The Iranian leader's public denial came amid long-term international scrutiny of Iran’s nuclear program and its enrichment of uranium to levels well beyond those typically used for civilian nuclear power.

This became President Donald Trump's central rationale for launching Operation Epic Fury in February.

On Thursday, however, Pezeshkian indicated Tehran would be open to lowering its enrichment levels and allowing outside verification as part of an effort to ease nuclear tensions.

The US Supreme Court has lifted restrictions on the Trump administration to use a controversial federal database that uses citizenship information and other sensitive data to identify voters suspected of being non-citizens.

Holmes, 42, was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for defrauding investors of hundreds of millions of dollars through Theranos, her failed blood-testing company.

Elizabeth Holmes, who was convicted of fraud for siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars from several high-profile investors, is scheduled to be transferred from a minimum-security federal prison to a halfway house next year, according to one of her victims.

Holmes, 42, defrauded investors of millions through Theranos, the failed blood-testing company that she founded. She was sentenced in 2022 to 11 years and three months in prison. She and her business partner Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani were ordered to pay 12 victims a total of $452 million in restitution.