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Topline President Donald Trump hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping at a state dinner Thursday night, where theyll be joined by billionaire tech moguls collectively worth trillions of dollars amid a backdrop of warnings about AI potentially threatening human civilization. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump listen during a dinner at the State Dining Room of the White House on Sept. 4 2025. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images Key Facts Trump sai

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 rivalry between the countries all in the spotlight during an elaborate state visit. Here are some major takeaways from the talks: TRADE DEAL EXTENDED, FOR NOW The US secured an extension of its trade truce this week - but only a short one. US T

Tel Aviv Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday as his country faces broad condemnation and growing isolation over Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank . As Netanyahu took the stage, many attendees walked out. If there are any other moral cowards who haven't yet left this hall, please do so now, Netanyahu began. Netanyahu arrived in New York early Thursday morning and is due to leave just a few hours after his

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 House-passed war powers resolution as the conflict passed the 200-day mark, with 19 American service members killed. The measure passed the House earlier with bipartisan support. Senate Democrats, led by the minority leader, Chuck Schumer, and the

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, sources close to the talks said. The strait has become the central bargaining chip in efforts to end the nearly seven-month US-Iran conflict, with Iran seeking relief from the US blockade that is choking its economy and Washington seeking free

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 chairman pressed her on immunization at her confirmation hearing. In his opening statement, US Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana pressed Overton to affirm the safety of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and to commit to keeping politics out o

A fifth teacher and her student died during a field trip to an Iowa nature reserve this week, investigators and school officials said. Hannah Jorgensen, 24, a fifth-grade teacher at Borlaug Elementary School in Coralville, and Ahmed Osman, 10, died while on the trip at the MacBride Nature Recreation Area on Tuesday, the Iowa City Community School Districtsaid in a statement. The Johnson County Sheriff's Office received a call around noon of two persons in the water near the Coralville Reservoir

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 Kelly, a Trump appointee, ordered the White House to immediately return, reinstate, and restore access to the news outlets for a period of 14 days, saying their lawsuit against the president was likely to succeed in showing that their press

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 Chinese counterpart a lavish welcome at the White House Trump shook hands with Xi at the start of a day full of pomp and pageantry, but their talks will focus on tense issues -- particularly how to handle the rising challenges posed by artificia

Hurricane season is showing no signs of slowing down, with three storms brewing in the Pacific. Powerful Category 5 Hurricane Polo is sending bands of heavy rain and strong winds across Mexico's southwestern coast, while Tropical Storm Nolo is forecast to intensify into a hurricane late Thursday, threatening Hawaii's Big Island with potentially catastrophic flooding. Some areas of Hawaii are expected to see up to 35 inches of rain, according to the National Hurricane Center . A third storm, Hurr

Macklemore has announced the Free Palestine tour, with three shows set for Dublin (Oct. 26), Paris (Oct. 29) and London (Oct. 30). The news comes after the Grammy-winning rapper was infamously dropped as opener from Ed Sheerans U.S. tour after making Free Palestine speeches while on stage at two concerts at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. Per Live Nation, the Free Palestine tour will bring Macklemore together with artists and friends for a series of performances that center Palestine and Palestin

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 Kelly, a Trump appointee, ordered the White House to immediately return, reinstate, and restore access to the news outlets for a period of 14 days, saying their lawsuit against the president was likely to succeed in showing that their press

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 isolation ahead of elections at home that he may lose. Addressing the mayor directly in a video statement this week, Netanyahu said he was going to New York to tell the truth about our heroic soldiers and to tell the truth about you. He falsely

Hawaii's Big Island was under a hurricane watch late Wednesday night after Tropical Storm Nolo formed in the Pacific Ocean earlier in the day, the National Hurricane Center said. Nolo is expected to become a hurricane by Thursday night and could become a major hurricane by the weekend, the center said. A storm is considered a major hurricane when it reaches Category 3 or higher on the hurricane scale , meaning it has maximum sustained winds of at least 111 mph. Maps show Tropical Storm Nolo's pa

By Renju Jose and Chris Thomas SYDNEY, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Australia said on Thursday an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal in June, gaining unauthorised access to files, in what could be the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a government website. The breach is one of the highest-profile incidents of AI agents accessing external systems outside the United States, coming on top of several recent breaches globally by rogue AI agents that have alarmed governments and co

In a closed-door meeting with lawmakers, the chair of the Senate GOP's campaign arm made the case that the party can still outrun a difficult political environment and hold on to the Senate in the November midterms, multiple people in the room confirmed to CBS News. We're in the fight for our lives with a record number of toss-up races, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), told his colleagues during Wednesday's meeting, CBS News has le

Aircraft on the deck of the US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as it docks for a rest stop at Laem Chabang Port, Thailand, on September 3, following a long deployment in the Middle East. - Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters EDITORS NOTE: This story contains discussion of suicide. Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. In the US, call or text 988 for help. The International Association for Suicide Prevention and

Theranos founder and convicted felon Elizabeth Holmes has been approved for placement in a community correction center, or halfway house, and is scheduled to be placed there next year, according to an update from the Department of Justice's Victim Notification System, ABC News has learned. Holmes is scheduled to be placed in the Austin Transitional Center in Del Valle, Texas, on Aug. 23, 2027, according to the notification. Benjamin Fanjoy/Bloomberg via Getty Images - PHOTO: Elizabeth Holmes, fo

UNITED NATIONS (AP) The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to set controls over the burgeoning technology they are designing in order to save the world or, at least, its people. If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole, said Dario Amodei, the chief executive officer of Anthropic. We could lose control of the future to AI, said his competitor, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. Both said the countries of the world

By Parisa Hafezi, Humeyra Pamuk and Jana Choukeir UNITED NATIONS/DUBAI, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Iran and the United States remain far apart on how to end their war but diplomacy must continue, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Wednesday, after Iran's president told the UN General Assembly that Tehran would never surrender to US pressure. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in his speech in New York, condemned what he called signs of a bullying mentality from US President Donald Trump, who h

By Parisa Hafezi, Humeyra Pamuk and Jana Choukeir UNITED NATIONS/DUBAI, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a speech at the UN on Wednesday that Tehran would never surrender to the US but still believes in diplomacy, a day after President Donald Trump used the same forum to threaten to annihilate Iran. The duelling speeches at the annual UN General Assembly in New York bookended the first shuttle talks between the United States and Iran for months, which appeared to h

In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Donald Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions and corroborating documents reviewed by The Washington Post. James McCrery II withdrew from the project last October after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate em

NATO military aircraft were deployed in Polish and Romanian airspace overnight and on Wednesday morning, in response to the latest wave of Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, officials in both allied nations said. Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 161 drones -- of which 82 were jet-powered -- and an unspecified number of Banderol cruise missiles into the country overnight. Air defenses intercepted or suppressed 119 drones and three cruise missiles, the air force said, with impac

WASHINGTON (AP) The fight over Missouri's congressional map returned to the U.S. Supreme Court for a third time late Tuesday, after an appeals court ordered the revival of new districts backed by President Donald Trump. The new map was drawn to help Republicans gain a U.S. House seat in the pivotal midterm elections, which will determine control of Congress. The Supreme Court has twice blocked efforts to use it in November. The latest emergency appeal comes after an unusual federal appeals cour

In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with ABC News' David Muir, French President Emmanuel Macron said the main objective of his meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday was to find the right deal in order to open the Strait of Hormuz and address the escalating global energy crisis that has caused the price of gas, diesel and jet fuel to spike. Macron told Muir that when the war started, the Iranian regime discovered they had this card in their hands, in their ability to close the strait. W

By Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump used his UN General Assembly speech on Tuesday to make the case for his war on Iran, arguing he has prevented Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and warning that he could annihilate the Islamic Republic if no deal is reached to end the conflict. While predicting his administration would strike a peace deal with Iran following the November 3 US midterm elections, Trump called on other nations to j

President Trump said Tuesday that he would support banning exports of diesel fuel. I've said let's not send out the diesel, the president said on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. We make a lot of diesel. It could have a little bit of an effect on regular automobile gasoline because when you do that, you know, it's a sort of a flow. It's a balance. Trump added, But no, I've called for it. I've called for it within my people. I've been talking about it. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sa

By Gram Slattery and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump and the leaders of Greenland and Denmark signed an agreement on Tuesday that permits a larger US military presence on Greenland and may resolve a standoff over the strategically located and mineral-rich island. The agreement, signed during Trump's visit to the UN General Assembly in New York, stops short of Trump's demand that the US annex Greenland as a US territory to head off the growing

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Venezuelan delivery driver in Austin, Texas, on Sunday was not wearing a body camera at the time of the shooting, sources familiar with the investigation told CBS News. An ICE officer shot Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a 28-year-old native of Venezuela who federal officials said has a deportation order, in the upper torso on Sunday afternoon while Garces Perez was working for DoorDash, according to local authorities and his attorney. The s

By Gram Slattery, Parisa Hafezi and Antoni Slodkowski UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Washington and Tehran were moving toward a settlement, while a senior Iranian official said Tehran could reopen the Strait of Hormuz within days if the US eased military pressure and lifted its blockade on Iranian ports. Trump's remarks came just hours after he repeated a threat at the UN General Assembly to annihilate Iran if it failed to strike a deal. Speaking

By Bo Erickson and Christy Santhosh WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is halting enrollment in Obamacare health plans for more than 760,000 people it believes were fraudulently signed up, Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday, part of an anti-fraud effort he estimated would save $2.2 billion in taxpayer money. The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services canceled about 315,000 plans last month, citing unverified citizenship or immigration documentation and suspected i

A Venezuelan man who was shot by an immigration officer while delivering a DoorDash order in Austin, Texas, was transferred from the hospital to a detention center with a bullet still in his back, his lawyer said Monday. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot in the back by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer after the officer sideswiped the 28-year-old's car early Sunday afternoon, attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch told reporters at a news conference. Garces Perez was then taken to the ho

Utah Republican Sen. John Curtis is calling on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ranking Member Dick Dubin, D-Ill., to subpoena both Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden as part of an investigation into the use of presidential family relationships for private financial benefit, preferential treatment or access by domestic and foreign interests that Curtis is urging the senators to open. Curtis' letter comes after he posted a video on X Friday saying that reports that D

By Gram Slattery and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump and the leaders of Greenland and Denmark signed an agreement on Tuesday that permits a larger US military presence on Greenland and may resolve a standoff over the strategically located and mineral-rich island. The agreement, signed during Trump's visit to the UN General Assembly in New York, stops short of Trump's demand that the US adopt Greenland as a US territory to head off the growing

Washington President Trump defended his handling of conflicts around the world in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, saying he could annihilate Iran while predicting that its leaders would make a deal to end the war after the U.S. midterm elections. He framed his approach to foreign policy over his first two years back in office as deploying American power to solve decades of intractable challenges that previous U.S. leaders have failed to address. I do not believe

Sept 22 (Reuters) - The Venezuelan man who spent Sunday night in an ICE detention center with a bullet lodged in his back after being shot by a federal immigration agent in Austin, Texas, has been taken back to a hospital, according to public statements from his lawyer on Monday night. I have finally received notice that Wilber was taken back to another hospital to receive treatment regarding paralysis in his left side, wrote Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, the attorney for Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, o

The fallout from President Trumps decision to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters from the White House continued on Monday, with the news organizations filing a federal lawsuit, other outlets dropping their coverage in protest and the administration launching a live YouTube stream branded TRUMP TV. In response to the ban, four major TV networks ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News refused to participate in the White House pool, the rotating group of reporters, photographers and videographers that doc

President Donald Trump lashed out at CNN s Kaitlan Collins before his address the U.N. General Assembly in New York amid the White House ban to deny CNN, MS NOW and Politico access. Those three news outlets are suing the president for violating the First Amendment . Collins asked Trump as he entered the U.N. building, Two thirds of Americans dont think the U.S. is winning the war with Iran. When will it end? Arriving with First Lady Melania Trump, Trump brushed aside the question and told Collin

A network boycott affected live TV coverage of Trump's ribbon-cutting event at the White House [EPA] When Donald Trump unveiled a helipad at the White House on Monday, his remarks were barely audible in live footage of the event. This was due to a row over an institution that rarely makes the news the White House Press pool. Yet it is at the heart of relations between the US president and the media, and this dispute could have constitutional implications. Coverage of upcoming presidential engag

President Donald Trump's push to convert his planned triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery into a military complex has complicated a required federal review process and raised new legal and safety concerns. Trump unveiled his new national security rationale Sunday in a post to Truth Social, saying that the 250-foot arch project - which he has framed for nearly a year as a tourist attraction - will now house drones, snipers and ammunition. The president said he was making the change at

Infographic with map showing route of Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline Yemen's Houthis on Tuesday accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out a spate of deadly strikes that killed civilians and prison inmates, as Riyadh seeks to repel an offensive that has seen the Iran-backed group seize strategic territory. The recent Houthi takeover of Yemen's Red Sea coast has left hundreds dead and heightened fears over global trade and shipping through the vital Bab al-Mandab strait. It has also forced thousands

Our long, hot summer is finally coming to an end this eveningwith the autumnalequinox, which marks the beginning of fall here in the Northern Hemisphere. At a precise moment each September, usually on the 22nd or 23rd, the sun is directly above the equator, marking the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. (South of the equator in the Southern Hemisphere, it's known as the vernal or spring equinox and marks the beginning of spring.) But what weather will the U.S. see this fall, given the

The grand jury reviewing the evidence in the death of Nolan Wells has found that no criminal charges are warranted at this point, according to the Jackson County Grand Jury Report released late Monday night. The report says that the position of, condition of, time of discovery, and location of the 18-year-old's body off the coast of Mississippi this July is consistent with drowning. Wells vanished after he and friends had gone out celebrating the Fourth of July holiday on barrier islands off the

NEW YORK (AP) President Donald Trump's trip to New York for a speech at the United Nations started Monday with a detour to Gracie Mansion for an hourlong chat and a trip down memory lane with Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The president, appearing with Mamdani after their meeting , reminisced about his previous visits to the official residence of the city's mayors and recalled great ones and some not so great ones who have led the city in the past. Hopefully you're going to be a great one, he said, gi

Flyers across the United States are facing massive disruptions to their travel plans on Monday after equipment outages stopped flights at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania, with no estimated time for resuming. More than 700 flights have been canceled nationwide and another 4,000 are delayed on Monday, with Newark hit the hardest. The issues began when a circuit blew at a Philadelphia air traffic control facility Monday morni

Tyler Hassens initiation into Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, started as a series of tests. The Houston oil executive says he was given vague instructions to show up at an unfamiliar D.C. address. He hastily packed three suitcases and flew east, taking an Uber to a building that he soon learned belonged to Elon Musks SpaceX. He was whisked to a private office, acutely aware that his tailored suit stood out among the hoodie-clad engineers too locked in to their laptops to

Three news organizations whose journalists were banned from the White House last week are suing President Trump and three of his top advisers in federal court, demanding that access for their reporters be immediately restored. This morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes, CNN, MS NOW and Politico said in a joint statement on Monday.

By Mohammed Ghobari and Jana Choukeir DUBAI, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Houthi fighters pushed to seize strategic heights in Yemen on Monday to cut off the Red Sea coast from remaining areas held by Saudi-backed forces, after a report that President Donald Trump had called off US strikes on the group at the last minute. A lightning advance by the Iran-backed group this month has extended the wider Middle East conflict to a new theatre and further threatened global energy supplies. Washington has so far

Patrick Clancy shared how he has coped with the deaths of his three children and started rebuilding his life in his first televised interview after the murder trial of his ex-wife , Lindsay Clancy. The case has drawn widespread media attention, with the former labor and delivery nurse facing murder charges over the deaths of her three children 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan whom she admitted killing on Jan. 24, 2023. In an extensive interview with 60 Minutes aired on

Three news organizations whose journalists were banned from the White House last week are suing President Donald Trump and three top advisers, calling the abrupt lockout a direct assault on the First Amendment. POLITICO, CNN and MS NOW said in a joint statement Monday that they are bringing the federal lawsuit in a bid to immediately restore access for their reporters, who were denied entry to the White House complex on Saturday and had their credentials confiscated by the Secret Service. This