Washington — President Trump called his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea Thursday “amazing,” and said the two reached agreements on a number of items, including the resumption of U.S. soybean sales to China and a short-term deal for access to rare earth minerals. No documents formalizing the agreements have been released
Taylor Taranto, a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant who was later convicted of 2023 charges stemming from livestreaming a bomb threat as he drove around former President Barack Obama’s D.C. neighborhood, was sentenced Thursday to time served and three years of supervised release. A day earlier, the Justice Department withdrew its initial sentencing memo in the
Washington — Former FBI Director James Comey is urging a federal court to dismiss the two federal charges brought against him over allegedly false testimony he gave to Congress in September 2020. He’s arguing that the questions he answered, which were asked by GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, were “confusing” and “fundamentally ambiguous.” In a new
Senators at the Capitol continued to express cautious optimism about the state of conversations to end the shutdown on Thursday. Sen. Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican, told reporters he’s “seeing some movement,” noting that “there’s a lot of negotiating going on right now among members.” “I’ve seen more discussions. Some of the Democrats I’ve
The federal government is now in the midst of its second-longest shutdown, after Congress has repeatedly failed to pass a bill to fund the government on a temporary basis. The 2025 shutdown is a few days shy of the record set by the 2018-2019 shutdown, which lasted 35 days and took place during President Trump’s
The Trump administration on Thursday announced it would set the lowest refugee admissions cap in U.S. history, allocating just 7,500 spots for this fiscal year, mostly for Afrikaners who it has claimed are facing racial discrimination in South Africa for being White. The previous lowest refugee ceiling was set by the first Trump administration in
Washington — The Senate voted Thursday to approve a resolution that would block President Trump’s tariffs on countries around the world, the third in a trio of rebukes of the president’s trade policy this week. In a 51 to 47 vote, four Republicans joined Democrats to approve the resolution. Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand