-  President Trump reached a trade war truce with China’s President Xi in their high-stakes meeting. President Trump agreed to lower some tariffs on Chinese imports in exchange for China suspending restrictions on rare-earth minerals, stopping the flow of fentanyl into the U.S., and buying more soybeans from American farmers. NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell reports.
-  King Charles announced he will remove his brother’s royal titles after growing pressure about Andrew’s connection to Jeffrey Epstein. NBC News’ Molly Hunter reports from Buckingham Palace.
-  After Hurricane Melissa destroyed entire towns in Jamaica, emergency crews are still working to clear roads into the hardest hit areas. Commercial flights have begun taking off, but thousands of tourists are still trying to get home. NBC News’ George Solis reports from Montego Bay.
-  Britain's Prince Andrew will have his royal titles formally removed and will move out of his home in Windsor, Buckingham Palace said Thursday, as the royal faces growing pressure over his ties to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
-  GYEONGJU, South Korea — There were declarations of a new “golden age” of alliances, photo stops in a gift store stocked with Trump memorabilia and even a golden crown
-  Ancient treasures belonging to pharoah Tutankhamun will go on display at the Grand Egyptian museum which holds its opening ceremony Saturday.
-  From fentanyl to rare earths, President Donald Trump’s highly anticipated meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping saw the world’s two biggest economies ease their trade tensions, or at least some of them.
-  The storm was making its way to the Bahamas and Bermuda Thursday morning after killing at least seven in Jamaica and 27 more across the Caribbean this week.
-  Five new suspects have been arrested in connection with the Louvre heist in Paris, officials said Thursday, though the jewels themselves remain missing
-  President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will meet in Busan, South Korea, to discuss tariffs, fentanyl and rare-earth minerals.
-  YICHANG, China — Behind a large glass wall, a worker in full protective gear watches as hundreds of tiny glass bottles whizz by every minute, sterilized, filled and packaged by a ballet of robotic arms
-  Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall in Jamaica and Cuba this week, followed what has become a familiar pattern for major storms as the climate changes.
