{"id":137367,"date":"2025-05-14T06:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-gives-syria-chance-at-greatness-with-promise-of-sanctions-relief-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T06:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:17:03","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-gives-syria-chance-at-greatness-with-promise-of-sanctions-relief-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-gives-syria-chance-at-greatness-with-promise-of-sanctions-relief-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: president gives Syria \u2018chance at greatness\u2019 with promise of sanctions relief – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump announced Syrian sanctions relief alongside a $142bn arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Key US politics stories from Tuesday 13 May 2025 at a glance
Donald Trump<\/a> has announced plans to lift sanctions on Syria after holding talks with Saudi Arabia\u2019s Mohammed bin Salman and Turkey\u2019s Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, describing it as an effort to \u201cgive them a chance at greatness\u201d.
The announcement came as the White House also confirmed that Trump would meet with Syria\u2019s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa<\/a>, the former rebel commander whose forces helped overthrow Bashar al-Assad in 2024. It would be the first face-to-face meeting between a US president and a Syrian leader since 2000, when Bill Clinton met with the late leader Hafez al-Assad in Geneva.
Sharaa\u2019s pitch to Trump for sanctions relief included access to Syrian oil, reconstruction contracts and to build a Trump Tower in Damascus, according to sources who spoke to Reuters.
\u201cI will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness. It\u2019s their time to shine,\u201d Trump said at an investment forum on Tuesday in Riyadh. \u201cWe\u2019re taking them all off. Good luck Syria, show us something very special.\u201d
Here are the key Trump administration<\/a> stories of today:
The United States and Saudi Arabia<\/a> have signed a $142bn arms deal touted by the White House as the \u201clargest defence sales agreement in history\u201d. Trump announced sanctions relief on Syria alongside the Saudi arms deal, in the first stop of his four-day diplomatic tour<\/a> to the Gulf states aimed at securing big deals and spotlighting the benefits of Trump\u2019s transactional foreign policy.
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The Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer<\/a>, announced on Tuesday he would obstruct all Trump administration<\/a> justice department nominations until the White House provided answers about plans to accept a luxury aircraft from Qatar<\/a> for presidential use.
The move has ignited controversy over the constitutional and security implications of accepting a foreign government\u2019s offer to provide what would become the new Air Force One. Schumer called the proposed arrangement \u201cnot just naked corruption\u201d, likening it to something so corrupt \u201cthat even [Russian president Vladimir] Putin would give a double take\u201d.
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A swath of US technology firms announced deals in the Middle East as Trump trumpeted $600bn in commitments from Saudi Arabia to American artificial intelligence companies during a tour of Gulf states.
Among the biggest deals was a set signed by Nvidia. The company will sell hundreds of thousands of AI chips in Saudi Arabia<\/a>, with a first tranche of 18,000 of its newest \u201cBlackwell\u201d chips going to Humain, Saudi Arabia\u2019s sovereign-wealth-fund-owned AI startup, Reuters reported. Cisco on Tuesday said it had signed a deal with G42, the AI firm based in the United Arab Emirates, to help the company develop that country\u2019s AI sector.
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A federal grand jury has indicted a Wisconsin<\/a> judge who was arrested by the FBI last month<\/a> on allegations that she helped an undocumented immigrant avoid federal authorities.
Hannah Dugan, a county circuit court judge in Milwaukee, was charged on Tuesday with concealing a person from arrest and obstruction of proceedings.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he hopes the current period<\/a> of frantic diplomacy and high-stakes gambits between Russia and Ukraine will end with Trump understanding that Vladimir Putin is the real obstacle to a peace deal.
\u201cTrump needs to believe that Putin actually lies. And we should do our part. Sensibly approach this issue, to show that it\u2019s not us that is slowing down the process,\u201d said Zelenskyy, speaking to a small group of journalists, including the Guardian, in his office at the presidential administration in Kyiv.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a>, has revealed that he went swimming with his children in a Washington DC<\/a> creek that authorities have said is toxic due to contamination by an upstream, aging sewer system.
The \u201cMake America healthy again\u201d crusader attracted attention for the Mother\u2019s Day dip in Dumbarton Oaks Park with his grandchildren Bobcat and Cassius, which he posted about on X<\/a>. He was also accompanied by relatives Amaryllis, Bobby, Kick and Jackson.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Eight federal agencies will terminate a further $450m in grants to Harvard University<\/a>, the Trump administration<\/a> announced on Tuesday, escalating its antagonization of the elite institution over what officials frame as inadequate responses to antisemitism on campus. The latest cuts follow a $2.2bn freeze, bringing total federal penalties against Harvard to $2.65bn.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The pace of inflation slowed in April, the month that Donald Trump announced his sweeping \u201cliberation day\u201d tariffs on the US\u2019s largest trading partners<\/a>. The annual inflation rate was 2.3% in April, down from an annual rate of 2.4% March, according to a new inflation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Stars of Trump\u2019s Make America great again movement are speaking out in unambiguous terms<\/a> against the plan for him to be donated a jet described as a \u201cpalace in the sky\u201d<\/a> and convert it into Air Force One
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 12 May 2025<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Trump announced Syrian sanctions relief alongside a $142bn arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Key US politics stories from Tuesday 13 May 2025 at a glanceDonald Trump has announced plans to lift sanctions on Syria after holding talks with Saudi Arabia\u2019s Mohammed bin Salman and Turkey\u2019s Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, describing it as an effort to \u201cgive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}