President Trump touched down in Beijing on Wednesday evening local time ahead of his high-stakes summit with China's president, Xi Jinping. Trump was seen exiting Air Force One followed by his son Eric Trump, daughter-in-law Lara Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete...
President Trump on Wednesday demanded that a GOP staffer be fired for making Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) look “out of it” while leading a recent Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing. “The guy that came up to Mitch McConnell today when McConnell thought the hearing was over and started speaking in his ear for Mitch to belatedly...
President Trump arrives in China on Wednesday morning for a high-stakes meeting with President Xi Jinping. The meeting marks the first state visit to China since Trump’s last trip in 2017. The two leaders last met in October in South Korea. Here's what to watch. The president is facing growing calls from Republicans and Democrats to...
Supreme Court decision season is here. President Trump’s firings of officials long considered independent. His birthright citizenship restrictions. Transgender athlete bans. Guns. Campaign finance rules. It’s a packed docket. At least one of the 35 remaining argued cases is expected to be decided on Thursday at 10 a.m. EDT, when the justices will take the bench to unofficially kick off the end-of-spring dash. If historical trends hold, Thursday opinion drops will become a weekly cadence, with additional days typically added in the final...
President Trump on Tuesday said he’ll ask Chinese President Xi Jinping to “open up” the country to top business executives who are traveling with him during the state visit to Beijing. “I will be asking President Xi, a Leader of extraordinary distinction, to “open up” China so that these brilliant people can work their magic,...
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Peter Finch delivered that line repeatedly as Howard Beale in the 1976 film "Network." Five decades later it lands harder than ever. For years I watched legacy media spoon-feed partisan scripts while real stories gathered dust. Bernard Goldberg called it out in...
In today's issue: ▪ Warsh to be confirmed ▪ Makary out as FDA head ▪ Trump to arrive in China ▪ Housing bill hurdles Kevin Warsh is poised to take leadership of the Federal Reserve at the end of the week, but that may not lead to the imminent interest rate cuts that President Trump has...
Rep. Tom Kean Jr. will remain absent from Congress for over two months due to an unspecified health issue, with his office saying he will return to a full schedule soon.
Former President Barack Obama appeared in Texas to boost Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, who has struggled to gain support of black voters.
