Xi is expected to depart Washington after touring the nation\u2019s vault of records, where the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are held<\/p>\n
Sign up for US Breaking News emails<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Journalists for CNN and MS Now were denied access to the White House state dinner in honor of Xi Jinping, China\u2019s president, on Thursday evening, hours after a federal judge ruled the Trump administration<\/a> must allow them in after imposing a ban last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAbout an hour before Xi\u2019s arrival was scheduled, the White House said CNN could cover the event, but only with a photojournalist and audio technician, notably excluding the network\u2019s editorial team consisting of a reporter and producer,\u201d CNN reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Donald Trump welcomed Xi Jinping<\/strong> to the White House for a state dinner in honor of the Chinese leader that was not televised because the White House continued to deny full access to the event to CNN journalists on Thursday, despite a court order.<\/p>\n Writing on his social media platform, Trump complained<\/a> that two of the three outlets he banned from the White House, CNN and MS Now, \u201crefused to cover\u201d his elaborate welcome of Xi to the White House. He did not mention that the two broadcasters were not in position to cover the event live because his own actions and those of his aides, who continued to block their reporters.<\/p>\n As Israel\u2019s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/strong> attacked him at the UN, New York\u2019s mayor, Zohran Mamdani<\/strong>, doubled down on his support for Palestinians by making public video of himself hosting Palestinian families from Gaza.<\/p>\n Darializa Avila Chevalier<\/strong>, the Democratic socialist congressional candidate from New York, was among dozens of activists arrested near the United Nations on Thursday at a protest against Netanyahu\u2019s appearance organized by Jewish Voice for Peace.<\/p>\n The Trump administration used taxpayer funds to air a White House-produced, pro-Trump ad on Fox News this week.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Xi is expected to depart Washington after touring the nation\u2019s vault of records, where the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are held Sign up for US Breaking News emails Journalists for CNN and MS Now were denied access to the White House state dinner in honor of Xi Jinping, China\u2019s … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}