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• Trump says Iran has to 'make a deal'
• White House says Trump, Xi agree on need to open strait and prevent Iran gaining nuclear weapons
• China says war should never have happened

A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday indefinitely extended a freeze on strict new restrictions for dispensing the widely used abortion pill mifepristone while an underlying legal fight over the drug plays out.

Why it matters: The widely expected order provides legal certainty for pharmacies, telehealth companies and clinicians caught up in the latest battle over accessing the pill.

• Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented.
• Teleprescribing and mailing of abortion drugs now account for more than 60% of all abortions in the health system.

Trump departed China on Friday touting business deals that gave markets little to cheer.

Beijing warned Washington ​about mishandling Taiwan and said its war with Iran should never have started.

The second day featured a visit to the Zhongnanhai secret garden.

"It's been an incredible visit. I think a lot of good has come of it," Trump told Xi at their final meeting at the Zhongnanhai complex.

Senators will now go without pay during future shutdowns in a bid to instill the same pain on lawmakers that federal workers have felt several times in recent months. 

The upper chamber unanimously passed a resolution to prevent senators from being paid in the event of a shutdown in a move that could thwart future closures by making the consequences real for lawmakers. 

China will use its influence on Iran to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC in an interview Thursday.

“It’s very much in their interest to get the strait reopened,” Bessent told CNBC’s Joe Kernen. “I think they will be working behind the scenes to the extent anyone has any say over the Iranian leadership.”

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is placing a moratorium on new Medicare enrollments from home health care and hospice providers, as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to combat fraud. 

The six-month freeze went into effect immediately on Wednesday, according to the department’s announcement. The decision will prevent these providers from signing up to receive reimbursements from Medicare, a government health insurance program that services people who are over the age of 65 or have a disability. 

Political organizer Denise Powell has defeated State Sen. John Cavanaugh to win the Democratic primary in the race for Nebraska's second congressional district, according to a race call by the Associated Press on Wednesday.

With the race too close to call as polls closed Tuesday night, Powell ultimately defeated Cavanaugh by about 2 percentage points with 89 percent of votes counted so far, according to estimates from the AP Wednesday evening. That margin could change as the remaining ballots in the race are counted.

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Alabama's elections got more complicated on Tuesday, while redistricting appeared to stall out in South Carolina.

In Alabama, the state will hold a special primary election for four of its seven congressional districts, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for Alabama to use a map that had been blocked by the courts.