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Former White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) president Weijia Jiang on Sunday said President Trump's ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW reporters from covering the White House was an "attack" on all other news outlets. "This is not a tantrum by three media outlets who are upset because they can't get into the White House...
NEW YORK — President Trump offered rare praise for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) Monday, saying he has “great potential.” The two leaders chatted inside Gracie Mansion before holding a press conference ahead of Tuesday's United Nations General Assembly in the city. “No, I certainly hope he will be a great mayor,” Trump...
President Trump railed against the judge who has been assigned to a case seeking to challenge his ban on three media outlets from covering the White House and telegraphed he might be forced to let the journalists working for the trio back in the building. "They have drawn a great Judge, for them," Trump said...
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story AI fears hit Trump-Xi agenda, but challenges abound Apocalyptic warnings about the danger of uncontrolled artificial intelligence are adding new urgency to talks between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping set for later this week. © Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP, File Trump has dismissed AI’s existential...
President Trump’s approval rating has dipped to a historic low with the midterms only about six weeks away, according to a new poll. In the Reuters/Ipsos poll, Trump’s approval rating was sitting at 32 percent, the lowest of his second term and, according to Reuters, a record low for his entire political life. The fresh...
More Democrats plan to vote in person as President Trump ramps up his attacks on casting mail-in ballots, according to a new poll released Sunday. NBC News's latest poll shows that 36 percent of registered Democratic voters plan to cast their ballots in person at an early voting site, a 6-point increase from this point...
President Trump’s abrupt move to withdraw White House press credentials for three news organizations triggered a rare moment of unity among television networks, which on Monday said they would not cover the president’s daily activities while the ban was in place. Both Trump and the White House have shown no signs of backing down on...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Sunday went after President Trump for his triumphal arch and pressed for statehood for Washington, D.C. The president in a Truth Social post on Sunday said that the plans for the massive arch bridging D.C. and Virginia will incorporate a “top grade military complex” and house snipers and drones. “Does...
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee, spoke out on Monday against the White House's reported plans to give political appointees more control over the National Institute of Health's (NIH) grantmaking process. Multiple outlets reported over the weekend that the White House is planning to impose more political...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday he has “great confidence” in Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh, after the central bank raised interest rates by a quarter point against the wishes of President Trump. “I have great confidence in Chair Warsh,” Bessent told host Joe Kernen on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “More importantly, the president has great...
President Trump was inaudible in live footage at a ribbon-cutting ceremony unveiling the new South Lawn helipad at the White House on Monday after major television outlets covering Trump said they would not participate in the TV pool over his ban of three outlets. While Trump was seen cutting a ribbon on the walkway to...
Belarus’s authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Monday that there are no available volumes of fertilizer to send to the U.S. This came after President Trump announced that he was working on a “massive Deal” to buy potash from Minsk at a steep discount amid the trade war with Canada. “Even if we wanted to supply...
Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, said Monday that he thinks Pentagon funding should not be used toward the construction of President Trump’s triumphal arch. Simpson told reporters Monday “there’s a lot of things that we need the military funding for — in fact, we’re short on military funding...
The Trump administration is reportedly putting together an executive order to move the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) grant approval process away from the agency and giving political appointees more control. Reports emerged over the weekend that the Oval Office was considering enforcing more political oversight into NIH's grantmaking process. The Washington Post was first...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday officials from the U.S. and China are considering lowering tariffs on “noncritical” products, as President Trump prepares to host Chinese President Xi Jinping this week in Washington, D.C. During an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Bessent said the two sides “floated” a deal to reduce tariffs on $30 billion...
But government access to the president should not become a reward for favorable coverage. The job of the White House press corps isn't to make the president look good. It is to report what the president says and does.
Representative Mike Lawler, a Republican seeking re-election in a swing district in New York, was backed by Representative Jared Golden, Democrat of Maine.
Democrats are jockeying to embrace new safeguards, while Republicans have aligned with President Trump’s warnings against slowing down the technology.
Presented by American Policy Ventures — 🍎 Plus: UN General Assembly kicks off in New York {beacon} It’s Monday. We’re already drinking from a firehose of news so far today, so let’s dive in. In today's issue: Press pushes back on White House ban UN General Assembly kicks off in New York Trump...
Vice President Vance will rally Republican voters Monday in North Carolina as the party fights to hold a key Senate seat in November. Vance is set to appear in Greensboro, less than a week after President Trump traveled to the Tar Heel State, to campaign alongside GOP Senate nominee Michael Whatley. The ex-Republican National Committee...
The judge who will decide whether President Trump constitutionally banned a trio of media outlets from the White House is one of the president’s own nominees — and he’s no stranger to Trump’s clashes with the press. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, whom Trump nominated to the federal bench in the nation’s capital during his...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended the White House’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters from the White House grounds Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box." Bessent joined the financial news show just days after President Trump banned members of three news agencies from the White House in response to what he deemed “fake news.”...
While artificial intelligence leaders call for regulation to prevent existential risks, President Donald Trump continues to dismiss AI fears as a hoax to protect a stock market heavily reliant on AI speculation.