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President Donald Trump said Friday there's "no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during his upcoming trip to South Korea after China restricted exports of rare earths needed for American industry.

Trump suggested he was looking at a “massive increase” of tariffs on Chinese products in response.

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Scores of Palestinians headed back to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire began.

The agreement raises hopes for ending the Israel-Hamas war, with the remaining hostages set to be released within days. 

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More than a dozen people are missing after an explosion at a Tennessee munitions plant, Accurate Energetic Systems.

The company makes and tests explosives at a facility 60 miles southwest of Nashville.

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Maine’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year.

This sets up a potential matchup between the parties’ best-known figures in a state where Democrats hope to gain a Senate seat.