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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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Supreme Court Lets Trump Team Revive Nationwide Voter-Screening Database Over Liberal Justices' Objections

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Starbucks Pulls The Plug On 250 More Stores In Second Closure Wave Under CEO Niccol

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Alabama Jury Convicts Grandson Who Gunned Down, Pickaxed Family Over Dishes Argument

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Grieving Father-in-Law Charges Handcuffed Killer in Phoenix Courtroom — Punches Him in the Head After He Laughs at Sentencing

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Pittsburgh Children's Hospital Doctor Stabbed to Death in His Own Bed as Kids Fled to Neighbor's House

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Madagascar's Gen Z Revolutionaries Say They Traded One Strongman for Another

A year after toppling a president, the youth movement that brought Madagascar's military to power says its own government now uses the same tactics it rose up against.

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UAE Grounds Iran's Entire Airline Fleet As US Sanctions Bite — Tehran Fires Back By Blocking Its Airspace

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WORLD · DIPLOMACY

Vietnam Upgrades Canada to "Strategic Partner" in First-Ever Presidential Visit

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Ambassador's Son Clings to Life After West Bank Car-Ramming Attack

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

Supreme Court Lets Trump Team Revive Nationwide Voter-Screening Database Over Liberal Justices' Objections

Starbucks Pulls The Plug On 250 More Stores In Second Closure Wave Under CEO Niccol

US News

Alabama Jury Convicts Grandson Who Gunned Down, Pickaxed Family Over Dishes Argument

Grieving Father-in-Law Charges Handcuffed Killer in Phoenix Courtroom — Punches Him in the Head After He Laughs at Sentencing

Pittsburgh Children's Hospital Doctor Stabbed to Death in His Own Bed as Kids Fled to Neighbor's House

World

Madagascar's Gen Z Revolutionaries Say They Traded One Strongman for Another

UAE Grounds Iran's Entire Airline Fleet As US Sanctions Bite — Tehran Fires Back By Blocking Its Airspace

Vietnam Upgrades Canada to "Strategic Partner" in First-Ever Presidential Visit

Ambassador's Son Clings to Life After West Bank Car-Ramming Attack

Celebrity & Entertainment

Nor'easter Knocks Out Ed Sheeran's Gillette Stadium Shows Amid Macklemore Fallout

Dolly Parton's Estate Slaps Restraining Order on Fired Nephew Over 'Terrorizing' Threats

Dove Cameron Marries Måneskin's Damiano David in Tuscan Ceremony

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

Trump Butler Rally Shooting Survivor Jim Copenhaver Dies at 76 — Secret Service Lawsuit Still Pending

Missouri's Map Wars Hit the Supreme Court a Third Time — With Days to Spare

Senate Refuses to Stop Trump's Iran War in Nail-Biter 49-50 Vote

RNA Drugmaker ADARx Pops 30% in Nasdaq Debut as AbbVie Doubles Down

LongHorn Steakhouse Outruns Olive Garden as Darden Stock Slips on Earnings Day

Costco Posts Record Year — But a Chunk of the Beat Came From Trump's Tariff Refund Check

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

Sports

Sun Set On Connecticut: Franchise Bows Out With a Win Before Houston Move

Baseball's Bottom-Feeder Division Is About to Make History — For All the Wrong Reasons

Penix Returns, Falcons Roar: Atlanta Buries Packers 35-14 at Lambeau