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At a White House meeting with President Trump, El Salvador\u2019s president, Nayib Bukele, said yesterday that he would not return a man<\/a> who was wrongly deported from the U.S. and sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course I\u2019m not going to do it,\u201d Bukele said when reporters asked if he was willing to help return the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. The deportation case is at the heart of a legal battle that has gone to the Supreme Court. Here\u2019s what else to know<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bukele said that returning Abrego Garcia would be like smuggling \u201ca terrorist into the United States.\u201d As the Salvadoran president spoke in the Oval Office, Trump smiled in approval.<\/p>\n Background: <\/strong>The Trump administration has said that the deportation was an \u201cadministrative error,\u201d and has been ordered by the Supreme Court to \u201cfacilitate\u201d Abrego Garcia\u2019s return. But Trump has defied the order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Quotable: <\/strong>\u201cThis meeting is one of the starkest examples of a foreign leader fawning over and placating Trump during a visit to the Oval Office,\u201d said Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White House reporter for The Times.<\/p>\n Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, took the witness stand<\/a> yesterday on the first day of a landmark antitrust trial that could dismantle his company.<\/p>\n The U.S. government has accused Meta of illegally creating a monopoly by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp when they were tiny start-ups. The trial poses the most consequential threat yet to Zuckerberg\u2019s business empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In a packed courthouse in Washington, federal lawyers presented Zuckerberg with emails and internal communications about his acquisition strategy. In response to a 2012 email, in which he discussed keeping Instagram going without adding more features, Zuckerberg said he viewed that as \u201crelatively early thinking.\u201d He added that, in practice, \u201cwe ended up investing a ton\u201d after acquiring the platform.<\/p>\n What\u2019s next: <\/strong>Zuckerberg is expected to resume testimony today. During the eight-week trial, the government and Meta are expected to tell competing versions of Meta\u2019s 20-year growth story. <\/strong>If the judge rules against Meta, Zuckerberg may be forced to sell Instagram and WhatsApp, potentially altering a long pattern in Silicon Valley of Big Tech companies snapping up younger rivals.<\/p>\n President Xi Jinping of China arrived in Vietnam yesterday at the start of a tour of Southeast Asia. The Chinese leader will try to rally other nations<\/a> to Beijing\u2019s side, as U.S. tariffs threaten economic growth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In an essay published just before his arrival, Xi called on other countries to join China in defending stability, free trade and \u201can open and cooperative international environment.\u201d<\/p>\n While the Chinese leader will be welcomed during his tour, Vietnam and its neighbors are also trying to appease Trump to get tariffs lowered, which may make them resistant to making bold pro-China pronouncements.<\/p>\n Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin rocket launched the singer Katy Perry and five other women, including his fianc\u00e9e, yesterday. Blue Origin pitched the space tourism flight as a way to encourage more women to pursue careers in science.<\/p>\n Amanda Hess, one of our critics at large, writes that the effort may have fallen short. \u201cIf the flight proves anything, it is that women are now free to enjoy capitalism\u2019s most decadent spoils alongside the world\u2019s wealthiest men,\u201d she wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, who died on Sunday at 89<\/a>, was the last surviving member of the Boom movement of socially conscious Latin American writers that included Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez and Carlos Fuentes, among others.<\/p>\n He was the world\u2019s savviest and most accomplished political novelist, our book critic Dwight Garner writes. Vargas Llosa\u2019s political novels are morally complex and meticulously observed, but life\u2019s absurdity sneaks into them. Read Dwight\u2019s appreciation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMore on the trade war<\/h2>\n
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