The preliminary agreement is the first of dozens of tariff-lowering deals that Trump is trying to land in coming weeks after blitzing the global economy with steep new import taxes in a bid to reshape global trade in U.S. favor and shrink a $1.2 trillion U.S. goods trade deficit.

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year