The Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday that 19 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire who it had previously identified as journalists or media workers were actually militants or participants in combat. After a review of its tally, it says Israeli forces have killed 191 Palestinian journalists and media workers since the start of the war in Gaza.
The New York-based CPJ says it regularly updates its findings as new information comes to light. It removed another three Palestinians from its list because their role as journalists could not be established. It reinstated six cases, including two Israeli journalists killed in Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack that started the war.
“The accuracy and credibility of CPJ’s research are fundamental to our mission,” CEO Jodie Ginsberg said in a statement. “We base the determinations we make solely on whether individuals meet our definitions of who we consider to be a journalist, not an individual’s affiliation or views, nor in response to pressure or intimidation from any government or interest group.”
The group said that even after the review, its figures show that Israeli forces were responsible for “by far the majority of killings of journalists and media workers worldwide since 2023.”
Among those killed during the war was Mariam Dagga, a visual journalist who worked for The Associated Press and other outlets. She was killed, along with 21 other people, including rescue workers and other journalists, when Israel carried out a double strike on a Gaza hospital in August 2025.
Israel denies targeting journalists and has said a number of slain journalists were members of Hamas or other armed groups posing as reporters. In some cases, it has provided evidence of such ties that was rejected by their employers.
In a statement, the Israeli military said the revised numbers showed CPJ's “hypocrisy and lack of professionalism in its fact-checking of events on the ground.”
Critics accuse Israel of deliberately targeting journalists to silence war coverage. Israel has barred foreign reporters from entering Gaza outside of brief military-run visits since the start of the war, while officials at the same time have questioned the credibility of Palestinian journalists inside the territory. CPJ says that it considers all Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza to have been killed in connection with their work since they can do their work anywhere and because they are not allowed to leave the territory.
CPJ said obituaries for Hamas and other militants released after the October 2025 ceasefire deal identified fighters who the rights group had previously classified as journalists.
That prompted CPJ to launch an internal review in June and commission an auditor the following month to examine its findings.
Since the Oct. 7 attack, CPJ has removed a total of 27 people from its list of slain journalists after finding that they participated in combat or belonged to a militant group. It removed another nine for other reasons. The updated list also includes a Palestinian journalist killed by a Palestinian militia and four Israelis killed by Hamas.
Journalists are considered civilians under international law regardless of their political views or affiliations, unless they participate in hostilities. Israel says militants posing as journalists have used such protections to collect intelligence and help target Israeli forces.
Hamas and other armed groups operate media outlets, as well as political parties, charities and other civilian institutions alongside their highly secretive armed wings. They also have military media units embedded with fighters that film attacks and release propaganda and hostage videos.
CPJ said it initially did not consider membership in a military media unit alone as proof of engagement in combat, but has since revised its criteria to exclude "anyone with active membership of any military arm of a state or non-state actor." Five of the 19 were removed because of those new criteria, it said.
AP Executive Editor Julie Pace is on the CPJ board.
Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the Oct. 7 attack and abducted 251 people. The last remaining hostages were released, or their remains were returned, under the ceasefire deal reached nearly a year ago.
Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed nearly 74,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its figures but says around half were women and children. The ministry, part of the Hamas-run government, maintains detailed records, and its figures are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts.
Israel says it only targets militants and takes extraordinary measures to avoid harming civilians, blaming their deaths on Hamas because it operates in dense residential areas. Major rights groups and experts have accused Israel of genocide, allegations it vehemently denies.
Palestinians walk amid war-damaged buildings in Gaza City, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
President Donald Trump on Thursday hailed the “truly great friendship” he's forged with Xi Jinping as the Chinese leader began his highly anticipated state visit. While Trump has many thorny issues to discuss with the president of America’s biggest economic rival, he focused on his long relationship with Xi as the two gathered with aides for opening remarks before formal talks. On Thursday evening, Trump will hold a state dinner for Xi with a tech industry-heavy guest list.
Reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico returned to the White House Thursday afternoon, hours after a federal judge temporarily blocked Trump’s ban of three news outlets. Despite the ruling, the journalists were initially denied access Thursday morning. The back-and-forth was the latest in an extraordinary showdown between Trump and media outlets whose coverage he dislikes.
Trump’s pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration voiced support for the safety of long-established vaccines at a hearing Thursday, even as senators questioned her about the White House’s efforts to upend childhood immunizations.
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After they wrap up some private time in Trump’s private living quarters, the couples will come downstairs and pose for photographs before they head to the East Room for dinner.
At tonight’s state dinner, Trump is surrounding Xi with the one group in which America leads the world — billionaires.
The tuxedoed soiree is a far cry from the Republican candidates attempting to brand themselves as being a party for workers.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and LVMH’s Bernard Arnault are roughly worth a combined $680 billion.
Add in OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and the financiers Jamie Dimon and Larry Fink and that number keeps going up.
Of course, Trump is worth about $7 billion, helped out in large by gains in crypto tied to his political resurgence.
Trump, clad in a tuxedo, and first lady Melania Trump, in a tuxedo-style jumpsuit with a large necktie bow, greeted Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan in front of the White House.
Xi, in a black suit, and Peng, in a red gown, emerged from their limousine onto a red carpet at the North Portico, where they shook hands with the Trumps.
The four then posed for pictures before going inside.
The crowd standing behind a fence along Lafayette Park held flags and signs and appeared to have speakers that carried their voices across the park and all the way to the North Portico of the White House, where an honor guard and red carpet were laid out for guests attending the state dinner.
The protesters could be heard chanting “Xi Jinping has got to go” and “Shame! Shame Xi Jinping!” as their chants grew louder.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sanchez Bezos, arrived at the White House for the state dinner.
Trump has bragged about the wealth gathering in the East Room for the meal, and Bezos brings with him a net worth of $369.3 billion, according to Forbes.
First lady Melania Trump has ordered a three-course meal that will be served on the red china dishes from Ronald Reagan’s presidency.
The meal will open with a starter of yellow squash velouté and wild mushroom fricassee with crispy pancetta beneath a drizzle of scallion oil.
It will be followed by an entrée of sesame-crusted sea bass with braised baby bok choy, roasted eggplant and herb sauce.
The meal will be capped by a vanilla crémeux with a sour cherry confit center on top of a walnut frangipane and a serving of ice cream made using honey from bee houses at the White House.
Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, famous for wearing black leather jackets at public events worldwide, came to the White House with his wife, Lori, looking far more formal in a well-tailored tuxedo.
The chipmaker whose products power AI is worth an estimated $192.7 billion, according to Forbes.
Open AI CEO Sam Altman autographed baseballs and other items as he arrived at the White House. Altman has warned about AI models creating major risks for the world, but he’s coming to the state dinner as something of a celebrity.
The buildout of AI has been powering U.S. economic growth, and Altman is worth $3.3 billion, according to Forbes.
Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, lambasted Trump’s deferential treatment of Xi and said Trump hadn’t pressed China hard enough to keep its commitments on trade.
“In return for China breaking nearly every trade promise it has made, Trump is rolling out the red carpet for President Xi,’’ Wyden said in a statement. “Trump has not even succeeded in forcing China to live up to the weak deal that he struck.”
Wyden referred to unfulfilled promises made by China to buy more U.S. farm goods and release rare earth minerals, which he said is “harming our manufacturers and American jobs.”
“There is no evidence that Trump is using this opportunity to push back on the Chinese government policies that hurt our workers and businesses, from forced labor to state subsidies,” Wyden said.
Danny Russel, a former U.S diplomat serving in the Obama administration, expressed concern that the two leaders spent more time on social and ceremonial events than the actual talk, which was about 90 minutes.
“Pageantry and protocol don’t add up to progress. Pandas are cute, but what America needs are rare earths,” said Russel, now a distinguished fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute.
“What we’re seeing isn’t diplomacy so much as ‘diplotainment,’ which won’t do much to solve the serious problems in the U.S.-China relationship,” Russel said. “No amount of flattery and pomp translates into leverage over China.”
The president posted online that TV networks “refused to cover one of the Biggest and Most Beautiful Events to take place in many years.”
He added, “The event was magnificent — Actually made for Television” but no network covered it “because they knew how good it would be, they didn’t want credit to be given to “TRUMP.”
The event actually wasn’t covered because the White House’s five-network television pool rotation has refused to cover Trump’s events after he moved to ban one of its members, CNN, along with MS Now and Politico, from the White House grounds.
A judge issued a temporary order on Thursday allowing the three outlets back at the White House. But the network pool has continued not to cover Trump because CNN hasn’t yet had its place in the pool rotation covering presidential events restored.
The two leaders exchanged views on global and regional issues such as the Middle East, Ukraine and the Korean Peninsula, according to the official Chinese government readout of the meeting at the White House.
Xi and Trump also confirmed their mutual support for hosting regional meetings in the coming weeks, the statement said.
China is to host the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation grouping in November, and the U.S. is holding this year’s G20 summit in Florida. The statement didn’t say if the leaders will attend each other’s summit.
Xi also said the two leaders decided to build a “constructive strategic and stable China-U.S. relationship.” Such a relationship benefits not only the Chinese and American people, but the people of the world, the statement said.
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow continued quick deportations of immigrants to third countries where they have no ties.
The federal government claims these countries have assured the U.S. no harm will come to the deportees. The administration is asking for an immediate halt to lower court orders finding that these people must have the chance to object before the U.S. government deports them to countries other than their homelands.
The justices previously allowed the deportation flights to continue temporarily — when the case came before them last year. Since then, an appeals court has upheld a Boston-based judge’s final ruling that migrants must have a meaningful chance to argue a third-country deportation would put them in danger of persecution or torture.
Any White House state dinner guest list is shrouded in secrecy until just before the event, but at least one Republican lawmaker is confirmed to be attending Thursday’s state dinner.
At the last Xi dinner in Washington, then-President Barack Obama made some bipartisan outreach, including then-Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee and then-Rep. Charles Boustany of Louisiana, both Republicans, on the guest list.
It doesn’t seem likely that there will be that kind of cross-party outreach from Trump. During the first state dinner in his second term, honoring King Charles, the lawmakers invited were only Republicans.
In meeting with Trump, Xi said China supports the U.S. and Iran returning to an interim deal that was signed in June in an effort to wind down the war, according to the Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television.
Xi said China hopes the two sides can return to dialogue and negotiations as soon as possible for an eventual, comprehensive deal, including on Iran’s nuclear program.
The interim deal broke down soon after it was signed as the sides traded renewed fire over control of the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway for energy shipments. China is Iran’s biggest oil buyer and its largest trading partner.
The Chinese state broadcaster is authorized to release official statements.
An international body known for monitoring elections in 57 countries says it has not been invited to observe the U.S. midterm elections, as it has for every federal election there since 2002.
The United States is a founding member of the group, the Organization for Security and Cooperation and Europe, which was created during the Cold War to help ease East-West tensions.
Maria Telalian, the director of OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, said the office had built a constructive relationship with U.S. authorities and electoral stakeholders over the years. She said the organization regrets not being able to continue that work.
The State Department said: “The United States is one of the world’s oldest constitutional democracies. ODIHR should focus its limited resources on elections where it can have the greatest impact.”
A key Senate committee has delayed a vote on the nomination of Trump’s choice for surgeon general, Dr. Nicole Saphier, a radiologist and former Fox News Channel contributor.
Saphier’s nomination, which is Trump’s third pick for the role, was expected to move this week out of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
However, a committee statement says her nomination vote has been postponed and will not take place this week. A new date has not yet been set.
Meanwhile, the nomination of Chris Klomp to serve as deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has advanced out of the Senate Finance Committee — on a 14 to 13 vote. It’s unclear, however, when a full Senate vote will take place on that nomination.
The Energy Department said Thursday that it will spend almost $2 billion to try to squeeze more electricity out of the nation’s aging and stressed power grid.
That announcement comes as the Trump administration steps up efforts to avoid blackouts amid skyrocketing energy demand spurred by artificial intelligence.
Officials say the money will go toward 31 projects across 26 states that are expected to produce enough additional electricity to power 16 million homes. The projects are to use new technologies such as sensors to ensure safe transmission or direct power away from congested or overloaded paths.
The Energy Department says the upgrades could improve power reliability and lower electricity costs for about 100 million Americans. It comes as electricity bills rise faster than inflation in many parts of the U.S.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told world leaders at the United Nations that attacking Iran “was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever had to make.”
He denounced as “moral cowards” a mass of delegates who walked out of the U.N. General Assembly when he took the podium to speak. When Netanyahu walked to the rostrum, a mix of cheers, boos and mass walkouts erupted.
The Palestinian delegation had called for a mass walkout.
Netanyahu also thanked Trump for taking decisive action against Iran, and he insisted Israel would prevail: “We will continue to win because we have no other choice.”
The Chinese leader left from the North Portico of the White House around 1:30 p.m.
Before he climbed into his limo, Xi shook hands with Trump and the men briefly spoke about the meeting they had.
Xi will return later Thursday evening for the state dinner.
In his remarks at the White House, Xi said the two countries “may also increase direct flights to facilitate two-way travel and trade.”
The number of direct flights between the U.S. and China fell during the COVID-19 pandemic and has yet to recover to the pre-pandemic level.
Xi also said China is willing to strengthen cooperation with the U.S. on counternarcotics and law enforcement and that the two militaries “should maintain regular dialogue, and improve mechanisms for crisis communication and prevention.”
“We had a great meeting” Trump said as the leaders approached the helipad with a green presidential helicopter parked on it. Xi said nothing.
Trump could then be seen gesturing as he showed Xi the letters of the helipad’s presidential seal, prompting Xi to nod.
The leaders later climbed aboard the presidential helicopter, which is known as Marine One when the president is aboard. They could be seen talking to the pilots, though what was said was unclear.
Trump and Xi also appeared to point at the sweeping construction site that is Trump’s planned ballroom, which is being built nearby.
Trump has bragged for weeks about rushing to finish the helicopter landing area in time for a visit by the head of China’s Communist Party — setting up his chance to show it off for Xi.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the Trump administration is asking diesel exporters to voluntarily cut exports while prices are high and supplies are tight.
Wright told reporters after an event in Allentown, Pennsylvania, that exporters were told: “‘You got to put Americans first. Reduce a little bit your exports overseas, put some more diesel into the United States. Let’s grow our diesel inventories, let’s push prices down.’”
Wright said wholesale diesel prices dropped over 15 cents on Wednesday in the U.S. He added, “We need to see more of that diesel staying here to bring immediate relief to American buyers of diesel.”
Wright said the administration is working on other measures to bring down diesel prices and help refiners produce more but he couldn’t discuss those ideas yet.
The president’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration faced questions Thursday from senators who will vote on her nomination to lead the federal agency.
A physician and top White House adviser, Dr. Heidi Overton has worked on administration health efforts. That included a plan from Trump announced last month to break up longtime combination vaccines for children over safety concerns.
Overton said Thursday that FDA-approved vaccines remain safe and effective. She also responded to questions about FDA’s oversight of the abortion pill and vaping products.
The committee with vote on her nomination later.
In her current role as a domestic policy adviser, Overton also worked on White House health initiatives including the revamped food pyramid. Previously she was an executive at the America First Policy Institute, authoring papers critical of abortion and transgender care.
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The agency is laying out potential threats to election systems and listing services it can offer to election officials to protect the vote.
Its report comes just 40 days before Election Day in the midterms and after state election officials have complained that they’ve not been getting the level of cooperation from the agency they’ve had in previous elections.
The Trump administration gutted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s election work last year. It cut some 1,000 employees and slashed $10 million from two cybersecurity initiatives. That forced state and local election officials to pay for private services to ensure they were prepared for this year’s midterms.
CISA, as the agency is known, is housed under the Department of Homeland Security. Since its founding in 2018, it has helped warn state and local election officials about potential threats from foreign governments.
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At least one group has low expectations for what might come out of Trump’s meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping — Human Rights Watch.
“Human rights are not likely to be on the agenda, as both leaders have shown disregard for international human rights norms meant to constrain state power,” said Maya Wang, HRW’s Deputy Asia Director, writing in an emailed statement.
Trump and Xi were cited in HRW’s World Report 2026 as being major factors in imperiling a rules-based international order.
After the previous U.S.-China summit in May, the White House announced that China agreed to buy $17 billion annually in American agricultural products. That was atop China’s earlier commitment in October 2025 to purchase soybeans.
The deal restored an export market for farmers struggling with high fuel and fertilizer prices. But while soybean purchases have doubled since last year, China had only bought $3.9 billion worth of other U.S. agricultural products in the first seven months of 2026, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
That rate is only slightly higher than during the trade war in 2025, and it’s unclear if China will reach the committed level by the end of the year. The USDA forecasts that China will purchase $21.5 billion worth of U.S. agricultural products in the fiscal year starting in October.
Reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico have returned to the White House, hours after a federal judge temporarily blocked Trump’s ban of three news outlets.
The judge said early Thursday that CNN, MS NOW and Politico must have their access restored.
Early Thursday afternoon, CNN and MS NOW journalists were back at the White House after the latest back-and-forth in an extraordinary showdown between Trump and media outlets whose coverage he dislikes.
The president announced Friday he was banning the outlets, assailing what he called “fake news.” The outlets argued they were singled out over the content of their coverage.
White House Press Operations Director Micah Stopperich wrote in a court filing that officials were notified at 7:10 a.m. Thursday to restore access, and the reporters got their badges back shortly after 10 a.m. once the Secret Service located and reactivated them.
Increasingly anxious about the Iran war, senators are set to vote Thursday on a war powers resolution seeking to halt Trump’s military action, which has been largely blamed for the spike in fuel prices and become a flashpoint in the midterm election.
The Senate vote, days after Trump’s bombastic address to the United Nations in which he threatened to “annihilate” Iran, is likely to be the last chance for lawmakers to go on record about the war ahead of November. More Republicans are peeling way from the president as the war drags on, a rare slap back to Trump, as they campaign for control of Congress.
“They have been carrying water for this ridiculous and illegal war for months and months and months and not listening to their constituents,” said Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, who pushed the war powers resolution forward. “And now they finally are.”
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In the late morning, Trump and Xi participated in a military review in the Rose Garden that was smaller in scale compared to the troop review Xi prepared for Trump in May.
With military band members positioned on the roof of the West Wing, the two leaders and their spouses watched as other musicians played, dressed in colonial wear and white wigs in homage to America's 250th anniversary. Twelve Marines later performed rifling tossing and formations. The military review concluded with a flyover of a B-2 bomber and four fighter jets soaring over the White House.
The Chinese president announced that as a measure of good faith, China would send two pandas to Zoo Atlanta after Beijing reclaimed four pandas in 2024 as diplomatic tensions between China and the U.S. intensified.
China and the zoo first announced in April that two pandas, male Ping Ping and female Fu Shuang, would be coming to the U.S. as part of a giant panda conservation agreement with the China Wildlife Conservation Association.
He called the panda loan programs with the U.S. “an envoy of friendship.”
Xi touched on artificial intelligence in his opening remarks, saying the two superpowers have a responsibility to ensure that humans always operate AI.
“We have both the capability and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good and ensure that a development of AI is always under human control and serves the well being of the people,” the Chinese leader said.
The two countries’ finance ministers earlier this week met, with the U.S. proposing a new “notification mechanism” for AI incidents between the two nations.
The U.S. president noted that he and the Chinese leader have met all over the world, including in China and in Palm Beach, Florida, at the president’s club.
But this is actually the first time the two are meeting at the White House proper, Trump noted.
“We have spent time together all over the world,” he said.
During those visits, Xi and Trump have “forged a friendship, a truly great friendship, actually,” the U.S. president said.
Trump noted that a lot has changed at the White House since Xi was last there for an Obama-hosted state visit — a nod to his renovation projects.
Just after 10 a.m. ET, the official state visit by China’s Xi Jinping was underway.
To the blare of trumpets, Trump and first lady Melania Trump walked out of the White House residence onto the South Lawn, where they were to greet Xi and Madame Peng.
China’s leader and his spouse then walked out of a black vehicle, where they warmly shook hands with the Trumps. Then the four posed for the cameras.
The presidents of the U.S. and China are scheduled to deliver remarks Thursday morning at the White House and again in the evening as part of a state dinner.
The schedule does not include a news conference, and it’s unclear whether Trump and Xi will take questions from either American or Chinese reporters.
In a 2015 meeting, Xi and President Barack Obama held a joint news conference as part of a White House summit. In the Rose Garden, which Trump has since turned into a patio, each president made opening remarks. Then they each answered one question from a U.S. reporter and another from a Chinese reporter before taking additional, nation-specific questions.
The Trump-Xi summit comes as U.S. networks are boycotting White House pool coverage in protest of Trump stripping credentials from MS Now, Politico and CNN.
President Donald Trump, center right, first lady Melania Trump, right, China's President Xi Jinping, center left, and his wife Peng Liyuan watch a military review in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump, front right, first lady Melania Trump, background right, China's President Xi Jinping, front left, and his wife Peng Liyuan arrive to watch a silent drill platoon review on the new helipad from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A military flyover is pictured as President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, China's President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan watch a military review in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump, left, speaks with China's President Xi Jinping on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
First lady of China Peng Liyuan, left, and first lady Melania Trump react as children perform during a visit to the Smithsonian's National Museum Of Asian Art, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in Washington. (Finn Gomez/Pool Photo via AP)
President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping, along with first lady Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan walk along the Colonnade of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, China's President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan watch a military review in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
First lady Melania Trump, Peng Liyuan participate in an arrival ceremony in the Grand Foyer of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in Washington, with President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, China's President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan, participate in an arrival ceremony in the Grand Foyer of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping participate in an arrival ceremony in the Grand Foyer of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive at the White House on Marine One, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, in Washington, after greeting China's President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump greet Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan as they arrive at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Flags are marched in as an Air China airplane with Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan aboard, arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping participate in an arrival ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
