Trump News for Thursday, September 24, 2026

Trump, Xi seek stable US-China ties at the White House, but differences over Iran, Taiwan and trade remain unresolved.

President Fernandez dismisses foreign minister over his attendance at the "Shield of the Americas" meeting in New York.

Susan B. Glasser writes that the President’s waning popularity is causing Republican candidates to break with him before the 2026 midterm elections.

A bill has been introduced to provide a filming tax incentive at a federal level. But how effective will it be in making the U.S. competitive?

He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.

By Simon Lewis, Trevor Hunnicutt and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House on Thursday, with talks on trade and artificial intelligence and the growing strategic riv…

Israeli prime minister denounces Iran, NYC Mayor Mamdani and critics accusing Israel of crimes against Palestinians.

Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House on Thursday, giving him a tour of the Oval Office and the new helipad.

When the AI apocalypse becomes regular dinner-table conversation, you know we’ve reached the freakout stage. Rogue AI agents are hacking into competitors. Former Big Tech employees are posting Skynet-style warnings on social media. CEOs are crying for help in…

GOP incumbents are seeking distance from President Trump, but that’s not likely to save them.

The summit so far has focused on "positive vibes", says one analyst, with several pressing issues awaiting discussion.

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The media outlets President Donald Trump banned from t…

Who needs to know things like your own phone number or home address or how to solve a simple equation like 3x2?

US President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington for talks on trade, AI, Taiwan and Iran.

Dozens of delegates walked out in protest as he took the podium, with the Israeli leader labelling them "moral cowards".

The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new AI models with the UK's testing agency until US government review.

Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Rand Paul and Thom Tillis joined all but one Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman, in voting in favor of the resolution.

Virginia agency says the Park Service hasn't tried to resolve opposition.

The 30-second spot includes the disclosure "Paid for by the U.S. Government."

The lawsuit comes two months after the state filed a similar lawsuit against competitor Kalshi.

Billionaire Peter Thiel says he's more interested in what Democrats decide to do in 2028.

"It is all hands on deck to stop this full-blown constitutional crisis," said the head of NIAC Action, which filed suit on behalf of Iranian Americans. The post Congress Failed Again to Stop Trump’s Iran War. This Group Is Trying Through the Courts. appeared …

This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. President Donald Trump rolled out the literal red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday after…

The vote on a war powers resolution introduced by Democrats came at a moment when some Republicans have begun to distance themselves from President Trump over the ongoing conflict.

The suit comes two months after New York sued Kalshi.

The administration says it will ask the Supreme Court to let it continue swiftly deporting immigrants to third countries that are different from their country of origin.

Shahid Beheshti University in the Velenjak district of Tehran, Iran, after a US military strike on 6 April.Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic effort to end the US war with Iran, voting 49-50 against a Hous…

With a buzzy movie on the way and growing legion of MAHA fans, the Theranos founder could be making a comeback.

The AI freakout of the past few weeks has centered on nothing less than the risk of human extinction — on the possibility that artificial intelligence could wipe us all out. But the reality is, AI programs are already having a direct and sinister effect on pe…

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly has granted a temporary restraining order reinstating Politico, MS NOW, and CNN to the White House press pool. He doesn't think DOJ has much chance of pulling this off. Reporters immediately reported for work, only to find th…

Ranting about "transgenderism" in Congress, U.S. Senator Thomas "Tommy" Tuberville (R—Alabama) briefly diverted his attention to a different group: furries. "Many" airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers, he said, are part of the furry …

Trump’s Bureau of Land Management is pushing to aggressively expand solar farms into the Mojave Desert, which advocates say would decimate its vast biodiversity. The post Green Energy Is Coming for the Desert appeared first on The Intercept.

It is unclear whether her plea to pardon broker and President of the United States Donald Trump helped speed this along, but Elizabeth Holmes is getting out of prison quite a bit early. Just four years into an eleven-year term, Elizabeth Holmes will head to a…

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping discussed trade tensions, technology and AI risks at the White House

You may recall that after he had won the 2024 Presidential election, the sorest winner in the history of sore winners, Donald Trump sued retiring pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register for… having reported the — admittedly surprising and, in retrospe…

As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI's impact on our planet in the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. But…

Heidi Overton also said at the hearing on Thursday that Tylenol does not cause autism

Plaintiffs have families in Iran who have been harmed by the US war, they say.

Proxy adviser Glass Lewis has combined with Clarity AI, which sells sustainability data and AI analytics. The two firms announced the deal on Thursday. The deal closed on 23 September, and no financial details were disclosed. The combined company will make Ma…

Some analysts say extending the truce is pure optics - others say it's a useful step towards a more durable deal.

Earlier on Thursday, a POLITICO reporter was denied entrance to the White House despite a judge's order to restore access.

A US federal judge had ordered the White House to 'immediately return, reinstate and restore' the three outlets' access.

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US Secretary of State Rubio said the summit would be an 'opportunity' for Putin to engage with other world leaders.

Guantanamo Bay has always been shorthand for disappearing people. It’s a place where people cease to exist, along with any rights they may have been afforded if they’d been imprisoned inside the United States. Its name is synonymous with torture and indefinit…

By Samia Nakhoul, Parisa Hafezi and John Irish Sept 24 (Reuters) - US and Iranian negotiators in New York are exploring a phased path out of war that would involve Tehran reopening the Strait of Hormuz and Washington lifting its economic blockade of Iran, sou…

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Dr. Heidi Overton, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the embattled US FDA, told senators on Thursday that all vaccines on the US market are safe and effective, as the health committee's Republican chairm…

The acting Secretary of the Navy said there were eight suicide attempts across the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group during its deployment.

CNN, MS NOW, and Politico requested an emergency hearing after the White House continued denying access to the grounds despite court order.

Trump welcomes China’s Xi Jinping to White House

A federal judge is giving Donald Trump until 12:30 p.m. ET on Thursday to explain why White House credentials are still being denied to CNN, MS NOW and Politico, even after the court’s order to have them restored. The three outlets altered U.S. District Judge…

After first continuing to bar reporters from the White House, the Trump admin finally seemed to admit defeat on Thursday.

US President Donald Trump grimaced as B-1 bombers staged a noisy flyover (Brendan SMIALOWSKI) Xi Jinping called Thursday for the United States and China to manage their superpower rivalry and keep AI under human control as President Donald Trump gave his Chi…

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., issued a temporary restraining order on Thursday, ordering the White House to restore access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters who had been banned by President Trump.In his 8-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Timothy Ke…

Dr. Heidi Overton is appearing before a Senate committee on Thursday for her confirmation hearing as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

The leaders are set to have a day of meetings as well as a state dinner on Thursday.

Lawyers for CNN, Politico and MS Now are seeking an emergency court hearing, saying the White House "repeatedly violated" the order.

At least 21 people have been shot by federal immigration agents during the second Trump administration, according to an ABC News count.

Flock is in the hot seat in Washington, even if its CEO declined to actually face senators at a hearing about its "AI Surveillance Network" on Wednesday. "There's many players in this industry, but there's one name that really stands out above the rest, and t…

US secretary of state's warning comes after he and Trump met the Iraqi PM on the sidelines of the UNGA.

By Alexander Cornwell and Emily Rose TEL AVIV, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to use his UN address on Thursday to berate New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for calling him a war criminal, a feud that highlights the Israeli leader's growing iso…

On Thursday, the two leaders will hold meetings where Trump and Xi are expected to talk about artificial intelligence, rare earths, trade and geopolitics such as Iran and Taiwan.

The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge's decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process rights of three outlets whose White House access has been rev…

Xi’s first White House visit in more than a decade comes amid ongoing disputes over trade, AI, Taiwan and war in Iran.

Nick Clegg has dismissed fears that artificial intelligence could one day turn on humanity and wipe it out, calling that view hand-wavy. The former UK deputy prime minister, who later ran global affairs at Meta, spoke on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thurs…

With Donald Trump and Xi Jinping set to discuss AI safety, the growing popularity of Chinese open-weight models highlights the limits of developer-controlled safeguards

The roughly 5,000-strong crew on board the Lincoln were at sea for more than nine months with only one brief port stop.

Alice and Bill have identical Apple devices. Only one gets Apple’s strongest iCloud protection.

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Seven years after warning against US regime change, Venezuela’s interim president thanked the man who delivered it.

Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research.

<em>Education staff are being scattered across several other federal agencies. Despite the Trump administration's claims, employees say it's adding bureaucracy and making it harder to serve students.</em>

Its deal to take deportees is the latest in a long history of unequal agreements with the US.

Trump-nominated judge rules that outlets are likely to succeed in claim they were denied due process.

As criticism of Israel intensifies, Israeli PM Netanyahu heads to the UN with his own political future in focus.

A judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's White House ban on three news organizations, calling it likely unconstitutional and ordering their access restored. Trump announced a ban on reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico on Sept. 18, saying t…

Former MAGA allies are running ads against Trump, against immigration policy, and removing mentions of Donald Trump from their websites.

The US dominates AI spending and computing power, but China is ahead in research and closing the gap on advanced models.

President Donald Trump announced the ban last week, accusing the outlets of publishing false reporting.

The leaders of the US and China are expected to discuss trade, AI and Iran in their third in-person meeting in a year.

A federal judge has granted CNN, Politico and MS NOW a temporary restraining order requiring the White House to restore the outlets’ hard-pass press credentials.

Trade, AI and security are on the agenda, but experts say rebuilding trust may take priority over major deals.

Venezuela's acting president, delivering her first address to the U.N. General Assembly since coming to power, promised elections and said the nation's people will determine the "right moment."

The executive director of the Kennedy Center said in a court filing Wednesday the closure of the performing arts venue will extend another week.

Canberra expressed extreme concern to Sam Altman after OpenAI took three months to report the breach.

Iran’s president delivered his UN General Assembly address after US President Trump threatened to ‘annihilate’ Iran.

I'm starting to think these CEOs would like the world to regulate their industry.

Rodriguez says Venezuela is transitioning to full democracy and has opened dialogue with opposition sectors.

On The Political Scene Podcast, As measles cases reach a thirty-five-year high, disagreements over vaccines are putting new strains on families—and bringing the politics of MAHA into the home.

US President Donald Trump welcomes his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping ahead of talks and state dinner.

Industry leaders urge global regulation, as Trump administration baulks at setting up new guardrails.

An OpenAI agent accessed secure data on an Australian health-care website, but the incident wasn’t reported for months.