Trump welcomed Xi Jinping for a rare state visit featuring military spectacle, a state dinner, and planned talks that could cover trade, artificial intelligence, detained individuals, and China’s increasingly competitive technological ambitions.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new policy removes NYPD officers from 311 encampment responses, leaving social services teams to assess sites and offer shelter while police remain assigned to sweeps and 911 public safety calls.
Newsom's admission that California's beach closures were "insane in hindsight" unleashed fierce criticism from figures who say the governor was warned from the beginning, while renewed scrutiny follows other pandemic restrictions and prolonged school closures.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says a Pine View School teacher should be fired if allegations that she targeted an eighth grade student, disparaged his father and spread a damaging misogynist label are proven true.
Pope Leo’s sweeping statement about warriors and prayer faces a biblical challenge, while Archbishop Vigano warns that Leo is advancing Pope Francis’s agenda behind a calmer smile and with little visible resistance.
Vance and Oz say canceling subsidies for roughly 760,000 questionable Obamacare enrollments will save taxpayers $2.2 billion, while another 419,000 accounts face verification and new brokers are frozen out for six months.
Hasan Piker says he softened his rhetoric after political backlash, even as Democratic leaders and candidates distance themselves from his controversial statements and Republicans continue highlighting his campaign appearances.
Kara Swisher says she wants out of CNN after Paramount settled a lawsuit blocking its Warner Bros. Discovery merger, while Scott Galloway mocked both her prospective departure and the regulatory case brought by state attorneys general.