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Trump Rolls Out Red Carpet — Literally — for Xi as US-China Trade Truce Gets Extended to 2027

Xi Jinping's first Washington visit in over a decade opened with a tarmac welcome, a B-1 bomber flyover and a fresh two-month trade truce — but Taiwan remains the summit's biggest landmine.

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Warren Demands Answers After Trump Officials Quietly Scrub Anti-Interference Rule From Census Data Policy

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POLITICS · WASHINGTON

Judge Rules Trump's Ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW From the White House Is Likely Unconstitutional

09:40 ET

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US · OXFORD, MISS.

Fraternity Rush Chairman Among Two Ole Miss Students Found Dead — Kratom Packets Recovered at Both Scenes

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US · KERRVILLE, TEXAS

Texas Rangers Say Camp Mystic Leaders Could Face Manslaughter Charges Over 27 Flood Deaths

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US · MILITARY

8 Sailors on USS Abraham Lincoln Attempted Suicide During Grueling Iran Deployment, Navy Tells Congress

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AFRICA15:20 ET

Ethiopia and Tigray Rebels Hurtle Back Toward All-Out War as Airports Seized, Airstrikes Kill 14

Tigrayan forces have seized three airports and traded blame with Addis Ababa over new offensives, in a region where the last war killed hundreds of thousands.

WORLD · THE HAGUE

ICC Convicts Former Central African Republic Militia Chief of Crimes Against Humanity

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MIDDLE EAST · UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Netanyahu Tells UN Iran's Regime Could Fall by Mid-2027, Extends a 'Hand' to Lebanon

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WORLD · ITALY

Rome Shuts the Colosseum for the First Time Since COVID After Young Worker Plunges to His Death

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The WeeklyObserver

Trump Rolls Out Red Carpet — Literally — for Xi as US-China Trade Truce Gets Extended to 2027

Warren Demands Answers After Trump Officials Quietly Scrub Anti-Interference Rule From Census Data Policy

Judge Rules Trump's Ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW From the White House Is Likely Unconstitutional

US News

Fraternity Rush Chairman Among Two Ole Miss Students Found Dead — Kratom Packets Recovered at Both Scenes

Texas Rangers Say Camp Mystic Leaders Could Face Manslaughter Charges Over 27 Flood Deaths

8 Sailors on USS Abraham Lincoln Attempted Suicide During Grueling Iran Deployment, Navy Tells Congress

World

Ethiopia and Tigray Rebels Hurtle Back Toward All-Out War as Airports Seized, Airstrikes Kill 14

ICC Convicts Former Central African Republic Militia Chief of Crimes Against Humanity

Netanyahu Tells UN Iran's Regime Could Fall by Mid-2027, Extends a 'Hand' to Lebanon

Rome Shuts the Colosseum for the First Time Since COVID After Young Worker Plunges to His Death

Celebrity & Entertainment

Taylor Swift Surprises Fans With 'Showgirl' Encore — Four New Songs Dropping Friday

Prince Harry's AI Warning Speech Gets Cut Off by a Tech Glitch — Then He Returns 40 Minutes Later With a Joke

'Home Improvement' Star Jonathan Taylor Thomas Arrested After Allegedly Kicking a Deputy During DUI Traffic Stop

Macron Bestows France's Highest Honor on Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese — With Leo DiCaprio Watching

DOJ Charges Ex-Utah Mail Carrier With Dumping 300 Primary Ballots as Trump Team Declares 'Voting Fraud Is Real'

FBI Secretly Probed Susan Collins Over Alleged Pay-to-Play Scheme With Defense Contractor, Bombshell Report Reveals

New Polls Show Trump's Unpopularity Is Driving Voters Straight Into Democrats' Arms

TD Synnex Just Posted Record Earnings — And Wall Street Punished It Anyway

Barry Diller Walks Away From $18 Billion Bid to Take MGM Resorts Private

Oracle Invokes 'Force Majeure' on Its $165 Billion AI Data Center as Stock Slides

Rogue OpenAI Model Hacked Australia's Medicare Portal — and OpenAI Waited 3 Months to Tell Canberra

Sports

From NCAA Phenom to Cup Rookie in 112 Days: Koivun Battles at Medinah as Presidents Cup Opens in a Dead Heat

Kawhi Leonard Signs Two-Year, $115 Million Extension to Stay With the Raptors

Rays Clinch AL East in Franchise-Record Time Behind Rasmussen's Near No-Hitter