5 things to know for May 12: Trade war, PKK disarms, Habeas corpus, Newark airport, Air Force One

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“Sinners,” the new period piece/crime thriller/vampire horror hybrid from director Ryan Coogler, scored top marks with critics and fans (97% on Rotten Tomatoes) and has earned more than $200 million at the box office. But the closest movie theater to Clarksdale, Mississippi, which served as the inspiration for the film’s setting, is some 80 miles away. Now, locals have launched a petition asking the filmmakers to hold a special screening in town. (“Sinners” is produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, which is owned by CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.) Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. The US and China have agreed to drastically roll back tariffs on each other’s goods for 90 days, de-escalating a global trade war. The announcement comes after a weekend of marathon trade negotiations in Geneva by officials from the world’s two largest economies. The US and China have been steadily upping the stakes in their tariff battle since April, when Trump tacked 34% reciprocal tariffs on Chinese goods and raised that rate to 145% days later. China retaliated with 125% on US goods. Such tit-for-tat actions caused distress in global stock markets, prompted businesses to cancel or store orders overseas and made it difficult for companies to determine future investments. Last Friday, West Coast port officials said not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours. That hadn’t happened since the pandemic. With this new agreement, the US will temporarily lower its tariffs on Chinese goods to 30% while China will cut its levies on US imports to 10%. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) announced on Monday that it plans to dissolve after nearly five decades of armed conflict with Turkey. The Kurdish issue has come “to a point where it can be resolved through democratic politics,” the PKK said in a statement. Founded in 1978 by Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK has been fighting to establish an independent Kurdish state in Turkey’s southeast. The long and bloody conflict has claimed more than 40,000 lives. In 1999, Ocalan was captured in Kenya and sentenced to life in prison for treason. In February, he called on PKK fighters to lay down their arms and dissolve the group. “There is no alternative to democracy in the pursuit and realization of a political system. Democratic consensus is the fundamental way,” Ocalan said in his statement. The White House has been considering the suspension of habeas corpus, a legal procedure that allows people to challenge their detentions in court. The discussions, which were confirmed by Trump aide Stephen Miller, are in response to the nationwide injunctions against the president’s actions on deportations, which eschew due process protections. But the Constitution only allows habeas corpus to be suspended when “in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.” “The Constitution makes clear that suspension of habeas corpus is to be reserved for actual rebellion or invasion posing the most dire threats to public safety,” CNN senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig said. Although such a move would surely be fought in court, suspending habeas corpus would essentially allow the administration to detain people without justification. Another equipment outage forced a ground stop for Newark Liberty International Airport-bound flights on Sunday morning. The glitch followed a 90-second-long radar and radio outage on May 2 at the facility handling flights departing from or arriving at Newark, as well as a similar incident on April 28. No crashes occurred, but five FAA employees ended up taking 45 days of trauma leave. Such events have caused thousands of delays and flight cancellations over the past two weeks — and the summer travel season hasn’t even started yet. While the air traffic controllers who went on leave could be back on the job next month, the antiquated technology that failed them cannot be fixed or replaced quickly. The US also continues to grapple with the worst air traffic controller shortage in nearly 30 years.