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I want to thank President Xi, my friend, for this magnificent welcome.
President Donald Trump wrapped up his first full day in China earlier today with an extravagant banquet in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, where he toasted to growing ties between the US and China.
Just as many Chinese now love basketball and blue jeans.
Chinese restaurants in America today outnumber the five largest fast food chains in the United States all combined.
That's a pretty big statement.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping meanwhile, through an interpreter, struck a warm tone, praising the great people of both their nations and spoke of high stakes.
We both believe that the China-US relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world.
We must make it work and never mess it up.
Earlier, the two leaders met face to face for nearly two hours.
Both sides described it as a positive conversation.
The Chinese readout made note of a warning from Xi over Taiwan, saying if the issue is mishandled, Washington and Beijing could quote collide or even enter into conflict, pushing the entire China-US relationship into a highly dangerous situation.
China claims Taiwan as its sovereign territory, despite never controlling the self-governing democracy.
The Trump administration has sent mixed messages on Taiwan.
A White House official also said Trump and Xi discussed the war with Iran and agreed that the Strait of Hormuz quote must remain open.
They also said Xi expressed an opposition to Iranians charging a toll to ships attempting to pass.
Coming up, CNN gets a peek inside Iran.
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So it's clear that Trump and Xi talked about Iran, but whether those discussions will lead to any breakthrough in peace talks remain to be seen.
But what is actually going on inside Iran during this ceasefire?
CNN chief global affairs correspondent Matthew Chance is there right now.
Matthew, where are you?
What are you seeing?
Hey, David.
Well, I'm out on the bustling and hot streets of Tehran, while Iranians many of them at least are closely watching President Trump in China their implacable enemy, I suppose meeting a powerful threat.
One headline I read on state media says Trump visits China in the shadow of failure and stalemate around there, suggesting Trump needs China to help him clean up his Mideast mess.
But the truth is, both the US and Iran seem to be looking to China for a way out of their deadlock.
Washington wants Beijing to pressure Tehran to accept its terms.
Iran wants China to mediate a favourable end to the damaging war.
It's important to note that CNN is operating inside Iran only with government permission, but we maintain full editorial control over what we report.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer suffered another major blow today and it could threaten his hold on power.
British Health Secretary Wes Streeting sent Starmer a letter of resignation saying he'd lost confidence in the Prime Minister's leadership.
The move comes after days of speculation about whether Streeting would formally challenge Starmer's leadership of the Labour Party.
However, Straining did not say whether he would formally challenge Starmer in a contest.
To do that, he would need backing from about 81 Labour members of Parliament.
Calls for Starmer to step down have been mounting since Labour's poor performance in local elections in England last week.
Nearly 90 Labour Party members have publicly called for him to resign.
Let's go, go!
That's how it sounded as protesters gathered outside of a Wichita, Kansas ICE office yesterday.
They were demonstrating against the detention of the former mayor of Coldwater Kansas, Joe Ceballos, who was taken into custody by immigration authorities.
The 55-year-old legal permanent resident was born in Mexico and had been living in the small, conservative Kansas town.
Ceballos resigned as mayor in December while facing state charges tied to illegally voting as a non-citizen.
While Ceballos was seeking citizenship in 2025, his lawyer says he admitted during an interview that he had voted not realizing.
Green card holders are not allowed to vote in federal elections.
Ceballos' lawyer says that at age 18 his client was encouraged to register to vote on the spot during a school field trip to a county courthouse.
Ceballos was charged with voting illegally but pleaded guilty in April to misdemeanors in a deal with the Kansas Attorney General.
The case has since drawn the attention of the Trump administration.
His attorney says he now fears Ceballos could be deported.
CNN sent an email to the Department of Homeland Security seeking comment.
It was not immediately returned.
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We're less than a month away from the World Cup and FIFA has announced that Shakira, Madonna and K-pop superstars BTS will headline the first ever halftime show, for the final, on July 19th.
Now here's the thing soccer halftimes are 15 minutes, usually on the dot, and that's a lot of star power to fit into 15 minutes.
It's unclear whether that time window will be changed to accommodate the performance like they are during the Super Bowl halftime show.
Anyway, the organization said the halftime show will benefit the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund.
That's an initiative aiming to raise 100 million to expand access to quality education and soccer for children around the world.
A dollar from each World Cup ticket sold will be donated.
Reggaeton star J Balvin is also headlining the World Cup's opening ceremony in Mexico City.
That's all we got for now.
Next update comes your way later this evening.
I'll talk to you later.
I'm CNN tech reporter Claire Duffy.
This week on the podcast, Terms of Service.
What do we know about how much AI is contributing to energy consumption, energy demand right now?
And how does that compare with other industries?
The best resource for that is the International Energy Agency, which is sort of the global energy think tank that collects data on all of this.
And what they predict is that about 8 of the additional electricity that we're going to need by 2030 that will be for data centers.
The other 92% is for other things, industry electrification, electric vehicles.
And AI is really only driving part of that increase in demand.
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