U.S. Inks Long-Awaited Minerals Deal With Ukraine

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  The US and Ukraine finally seal a minerals deal.

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  Plus,

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  a journal report reveals that Tesla's board began searching for Elon Musk's successor a month ago.

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  And we'll look at how the rush to get goods into the US ahead of Trump's tariffs is distorting global trade and economic data.

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  Companies aren't taking any chances,

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  so they are still scrambling to get everything from Christmas tree ornaments in Germany to Heineken beer.

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  They want to get it to the U.S., potentially avoid some of those tariffs.

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  It's Thursday, May 1st.

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  I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News,

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  the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

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  After months of negotiations, several false starts, and a testy White House meeting,

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  the U.S. has reached a deal with Ukraine to give Washington access to the country's mineral wealth.

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  Reporter Jane Litvinenko is in Kiev this morning.

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  Jane, when we first reported on the negotiations around this deal back in February,

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  Ukraine's president wasn't happy with some of the terms,

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  namely that Ukraine would be forced to pay back hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. aid.

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  Volodymyr Zelensky also wanted security guarantees from the U.S.

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  Where did this final agreement net out?

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  So one of the biggest concessions the U.S. has agreed to is for Ukraine to not repay past military assistance funds.

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  This is something that Zelensky has said was a red line for him,

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