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How much did Mideast countries promise to invest in the US? Trump keeps jacking up the number

By JOSH BOAK
Updated 3:34 PM CDT, May 20, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump loves big numbers — and he’s always happy to talk them up.

Trump, who coined the phrase “truthful hyperbole” in his book “The Art of the Deal,” over the last few days has been steadily increasing the amount of money he says that countries in the Mideast pledged to invest in the U.S. when he visited the region last week. He didn’t provide underlying details.

The figure has gone from $2 trillion last week to potentially as much as $7 trillion as of Tuesday, according to statements by Trump and the White House.

A look at how the number has bounced around:

THURSDAY: With his Mideast trip still under way, Trump told reporters on Air Force One: “We just took in $4 trillion.”

FRIDAY: A White House statement said Trump’s “first official trip was a huge success, locking in over $2 trillion in great deals.”

MONDAY: “We brought back about $5.1 trillion,” Trump said in remarks to the Kennedy Center’s leadership. “That’s not bad. And, it’s being credited as one of the, maybe, the most successful visit that anybody’s ever made to any place. There’s never been anything like this.” ...

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Some Afrikaners say Trump is being lied to about a "White genocide"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Refugee admissions to the United States have all but ground to a halt — except for one group, or a "small subset," as Secretary of State Marco Rubio called them on Tuesday: Afrikaners. They are members of the White ethnic minority that once led South Africa's brutal, four-decade apartheid regime, which ended in 1994 with the election of Nelson Mandela as president.

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Adam Schiff tells EPA's Lee Zeldin he’ll cause cancer after shoutfest: ‘Could give a rat’s a--'

  • News source: FOX News
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The typically calm confines of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee were the site of several clashes Wednesday between Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin and Democrats on the panel adjudicating his annual budget request.

Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., rattled off a list of cancers he claimed Zeldin's actions at the agency could cause, remarking the New York Republican must be proud of how many regulations he’s slashed in such a short time.

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Texas doctor sentenced to 10 years in prison in one of the ‘most significant’ cases of patient harm

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A Texas-based doctor was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for healthcare fraud after he carried out what prosecutors said was a nearly two-decade scheme that involved falsely diagnosing thousands of patients with degenerative diseases and profiting handsomely off their treatments.

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Trump DHS issues stark warning to Dems harassing ICE agents: ‘Not playing games’

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The Trump Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is warning Democrats and leftists doxxing ICE agents and impeding immigration enforcement operations that it is "not playing games."

In response to an online video of a Democratic state representative in Tennessee allegedly stalking ICE agents, DHS said, "This Administration is not playing games with the lives and safety of our ICE officers."

The DHS statement claimed that "people doxxing our officers and impeding ICE operations are siding with vicious cartels, human traffickers, and violent...
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Tom Homan applauds ‘big beautiful bill’, says legislation would ‘solidify the success’ at the border

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In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Trump border czar Tom Homan outlined the progress that has been made at the border, and detailed how the president’s "big beautiful bill" could solidify items that have improved border security.

"All those accessories on the border, we can lock it in to make it permanent," Homan explained. "So we're going to put more border walls up. We'll put more water buoys in. That's going to save lives, right, because people see the water buoys, you can't get over them, which many people won't attempt to go into...
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Judge says US deportations to South Sudan violate court order

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The Trump administration says it is deporting eight criminal "monsters", as immigration attorneys challenge the move.
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Columbia University's acting president booed when noting absence of Mahmoud Khalil

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Despite a stern warning from school authorities, a crescendo of boos were heard Wednesday at Columbia University's campus, as acting President Claire Shipman acknowledged the absence of their graduate student and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil during her commencement address.

Instead of attending graduation, Khalil is fighting his immigration detention and deportation in Louisiana.

A few Palestinian and Israeli flags peeked through the sea of light blue graduation gowns, as nearly 16,000 students marched into the New York City campus at...
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GOP outperformed Dems on voter registration in key battleground states, new analysis reveals

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FIRST ON FOX: Republicans outperformed Democrats on voter registration in four key battleground states between the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, according to research by the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC).

The bipartisan political consultant non-profit teamed up with analysts from Data Trust, a conservative organization, and Target Smart, which has aligned with Democrats in past election cycles. Compiling data from the 2020 and 2024 elections in Arizona, North Carolina, Nevada and Pennsylvania, the research suggests a...
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Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' faces crucial hours as Johnson courts Freedom Caucus

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The marquee event in the run-up to potentially passing the so-called "big, beautiful bill" began at 3 p.m. ET as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and members of the Freedom Caucus headed to the White House to meet with President Donald Trump.

The White House is really amping up the pressure now on the Freedom Caucus. A White House statement says "The Administration strongly supports passage of H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act." It adds that "President Trump is committed to keeping his promises, and failure to pass this bill would be the...
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Trump faces another deportation setback with 4th Circuit appeals court

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A U.S. appeals court ordered the Trump administration this week to comply with a lower court judge's order to return a 20-year-old Venezuelan migrant deported from the U.S. to El Salvador in March, marking another setback in legal battles over its use of the Alien Enemies Act.

The 2–1 decision from the 4th Circuit leaves in place U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher’s earlier ruling that Daniel Lozano-Camargo, previously identified in court documents as "Cristian," must be allowed back into the country.

Gallagher, a Trump appointee, ruled that...
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ICE to release Georgia teen arrested after now-dismissed traffic charges

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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A Georgia teen who was detained by federal deportation officers following local traffic charges that have since been dismissed was granted bond on Wednesday, paving the way for her to be released from immigration detention, her mother and attorney told CBS News.

Ximena Arias Cristobal, who came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 4, has been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since earlier this month, when she was stopped by local police in Dalton, Georgia, over allegations that she had made an improper turn while driving.

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What is the Golden Dome? Here's what to know about Trump's plan.

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President Trump's missile defense project, called the "Golden Dome for America," aims to protect the U.S. from foreign threats. But it has been criticized by China as threatening to increase the risks of militarizing space and a global arms race.

The president on Tuesday said his administration had "selected an architecture" for the "state-of-the-art system," which could cost hundreds of billions of dollars and put U.S. weapons in space for the first time in history.

The Golden Dome is a multilayered defense system that the president, speaking in...
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Trump confronts South African president with claim of Afrikaners being 'persecuted'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Cyril Ramaphosa responds that black people are likelier to be victims of violence in South Africa than white people.
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'The mood is changing': Israeli anger grows at conduct of war

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Support for the war in Gaza is waning, with some Israeli political and military figures criticising the conflict in recent days.
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Anti-Hamas protests in southern Gaza enter third day

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Protesters were seen in videos calling for an end to the war and the removal of the armed group from Gaza
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