The meeting comes as the White House said it is set to announce a more than $100 billion investment in the United States by a chipmaker from Taiwan, amid a push by Trump to encourage investments in American manufacturing.

The United States is drawing up a plan to potentially give Russia sanctions relief as President Donald Trump seeks to restore ties with Moscow and stop the war in Ukraine, a U.S. official and another person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The Foreign Investment Memo represents an explicit shift in how the United States regulates foreign direct investment. Going forward, partners and allies are likely to see some regulatory burdens ease while investors from China and other countries identified as adverse will see significantly expanded restrictions.

Peter Baker, a veteran journalist and former Moscow correspondent for the New York Times, compared the White House’s decision to Kremlin tactics.

A Democratic congresswoman is facing heat after she told DOGE Chief Elon Musk to "go back to South Africa" in a comment that conservatives on social media called xenophobic.

The White House is stripping the White House Correspondents’ Association of its role in managing the White House Press Pool, taking control of deciding who will be a part of the small rotating group of journalists and photographers who accompany the president.

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