From Rivals to Partners? Trump, Xi Set the Stage for Fall Summit

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Something shifted in the air Thursday night in Beijing. President Trump stood in the Great Hall of the People and did something that required a certain nerve. He extended an invitation — to Xi Jinping and Madame Peng, for September 24, at the White House — and spoke warmly of what he called the “rich and enduring ties” between two peoples who have spent much of the past decade being told they are adversaries. It wasn’t a concession. It was a bet. Trump spoke for ten minutes, and much of it was history: Chinese workers laying the transcontinental railroad. American

Dealmakers at the Gate: America’s CEOs Fly Into History

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A president does not bring the chief executives of Apple, Tesla, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Boeing, Citigroup, Mastercard, Visa, Micron, Meta, GE Aerospace, Blackstone, Qualcomm, Cargill, Coherent, and Illumina to a foreign capital unless he is trying to say something. What Donald Trump is saying, in the language of delegation lists and boarding manifests, is this: America means business. Air Force One touched down at Beijing Capital International Airport on Wednesday, greeted by a brass band and flag wavers as Trump descended the steps. The choreography was unmistakably deliberate — and so was the passenger list It marks Trump’s first visit

The Shutdown Racket Has a New Cure, If the Senate Will Take It

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Something has shifted in Washington, and not for the better. The government shutdown — once a rare and dramatic last resort, a sign that the system had genuinely broken down — has become routine. A tool. A tactic. A lever pulled with increasing comfort by those who calculate that chaos serves them. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., wants to change the calculus. Quietly, without fanfare, he set up a vote this week on a resolution from Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., that is simple in concept and pointed in implication: if the government shuts down, senators don’t get paid. Kennedy,

Dinner Gunman Enters Not-Guilty Plea as Defense Targets Pirro’s Entire Office

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Cole Tomas Allen said nothing. Handcuffed, shackled, dressed in an orange jail uniform, the 31-year-old from Torrance, California, stood before a federal judge Monday morning and let his lawyer speak for him. The plea was not guilty. The charge: attempted assassination of the President of the United States. Allen is accused of breaching a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on April 25, armed with guns and knives, and firing a shotgun at a Secret Service officer who moved to stop him. The officer — struck once in a bullet-resistant vest — survived. Allen was injured in

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