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CNN has been barred from traveling on Air Force One with President Donald Trump and the White House press pool during the president’s trip to Tennessee on Saturday, the outlet said.CNN reported on Friday that is was supposed to be part of the television pool traveling with Trump to Knoxville,... Read more

President Donald Trump canceled nearly $1 billion in unspent federal funding on Friday night, marking the second “pocket” rescission overall in 50 years, each issued by Trump during his second term.Trump’s Friday evening rescission strips back $810 million in funding for several immigration and refugee programs, foreign debt-relief programs, grants... Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will not be the first AI czar to lead the so-called AI Force, President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday.The president appeared to be addressing a Semafor report that listed Bessent as a top contender for the new role.“Scott Bessent will not be going to be Super... Read more

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping may have just said goodbye to one another after Xi’s state visit to the U.S., but the two superpower world leaders have already pledged to meet two more times before the end of the year.“President Xi and Madam Peng have just left... Read more

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping compared the lengths of their respective countries’ histories during a visit to the National Archives.“We’re just comparing,” Trump told reporters Thursday in the National Archives’ rotunda. “Ours goes 250 years. Which is great, and we’re proud of. Theirs goes 6,000 years. So... Read more

Major networks in the White House television press pool are resuming their coverage on Friday after press passes were reinstated for CNN, Politico, and MS Now.The development comes one day after a Trump-appointed federal judge ordered the administration to lift its ban on the three news outlets for two weeks.... Read more

Washington Examiner executive editor Bob Cusack reacted to a new anti-communist ad featuring President Donald Trump, arguing that Trump is not popular enough to run an ad like that.“If you had shown me that ad a year ago, I would have said, ‘OK, well, Trump’s numbers probably have to be... Read more

President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will meet with executives of top AI companies at the White House on Tuesday, the Washington Examiner confirmed.The expected meeting underscores the pressure Republicans are under to regulate the industry ahead of the November midterm elections. Johnson has rejected calls to act quickly... Read more

President Donald Trump heralded Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s second state visit to the U.S. as a success, with one day remaining in their three-day summit.“Very productive meeting with President Xi for both the U.S.A. and China,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday. “Tremendous things will be happening. Like almost... Read more

Behind the glamor of red carpets, military bands, and a state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping, the tension between press freedoms in the two nations — and the underlying battle of President Donald Trump’s own war on the media — punctuated Thursday’s White House state visit.Xi’s 10 a.m. White... Read more

President Donald Trump is trying to thread the political needle of addressing economic concerns while keeping important and powerful constituencies happy before November’s midterm elections.Proposals, from a temporary, limited beef tariff suspension to a U.S. diesel export ban, are an attempt to decrease consumer prices amid polling that indicates inflation... Read more

President Donald Trump is trying to strike a balance between domestic political fights and diplomatic demands as he rolls out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping while, at the same time, hammering Democrats for embracing communist candidates.Trump became the first U.S. president since John F. Kennedy in 1962... Read more