President Donald Trump departed Abu Dhabi on Friday following his tour of the Gulf region. Trump said on Friday the United Arab Emirates and the United States had agreed to create a path for the Gulf country to buy some of the most advanced artificial intelligence semiconductors from U.S. companies. Trump wrapped his Gulf tour of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE with a pledge by Abu Dhabi to hike the value of its energy investments in the U.S. to $440 billion in the next decade.
New Jersey Transit train engineers went on strike on May 16, halting service to 350,000 riders in the New Jersey and New York area. The strike began at 12 a.m. on Friday after an agreement was not reached in the latest round of negotiations on Thursday. The strike shut down NJ Transit rail services as well as Metro-North rail lines west of the Hudson River. NJ Transit has a contingency plan to operate more commuter buses in the case of a strike, but estimates it could handle only 20 percent of the usual train customers….