Politico Top Stories News55714 stories between 11/10/2009 at 18:33:04 and 01/26/2025 15:36:06
Bessent discusses investment board, expanding US-China trade with Trump in Beijing
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on Thursday and discussed topics ranging from market access for U.S. businesses in China to the Strait of Hormuz.
01:27 PM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories Taiwan emerges as flash point in Trump-Xi talks
A Chinese summary of the meeting stressed the self-ruling island was the "most important issue" in bilateral relations between Washington and Beijing.
05:15 AM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories Vance takes fraud fight to Maine
The vice president visited Bangor, Maine, to tout his fraud crackdown, stump for Paul LePage and offer an olive branch to Sen. Susan Collins.
02:00 PM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories One of the safest Florida seats for Democrats faces a candidate fiasco
Redistricting, a looming federal criminal trial and a primary with racial undertones are just a few of the dynamics shaping the race to represent the Broward County district.
03:45 AM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories How the largest LGBTQ+ rights group is approaching the midterms and anti-trans attacks
Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson on its $15 million plan to help Democrats win the House, and push back on anti-trans political attacks.
04:00 AM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories MAGA world is giving the House GOP cover on Trumps housing push
In a barrage of social media posts and interviews with right-wing media, administration officials and prominent conservatives are urging the GOP to give the president an affordability win.
04:15 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories White House cuts $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California
CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz has repeatedly targeted the state over hospice care.
03:02 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories Maryland gerrymandering push reignites after major losses nationwide
An earlier push to redraw the state was snuffed out in the state Senate, but prominent Marylanders argued that the recent Supreme Court decision targeting the Voting Rights Act has changed the calculus.
04:30 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories Trumps disappearing China hawks
The once vocal GOP wing that warned against making deals with Beijing has largely left the conversation ahead of Trump’s China summit.
02:57 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories Iran war is fueling Chinas clean energy surge ahead of Trump-Xi talks
The Iran war is driving countries toward Chinese EVs, solar and batteries — strengthening China's hand as Trump seeks trade wins in Beijing.
03:30 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories Trumps immigration policies chill Japanese shipyard investment
Japanese investment in the U.S. shipbuilding sector is years away due to administration hostility to skilled foreign labor, analysts and foreign government officials say.
05:42 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories 10,000 rulings: The courts overwhelming rebuke of Trumps ICE policies
A POLITICO analysis reveals judges have ruled against ICE detention practices in roughly 90 percent of cases since the agency mandated that millions of immigrants must be locked up while they face deportation proceedings.
04:00 AM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories Explore the data: 10,000 rulings against Trump in ICE cases
Here’s POLITICO’s database of how the courts have ruled on Trump’s mass detention policy.
04:00 AM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories They dont care: Our poll shows Congress crypto push isnt catching on with voters
Voters are broadly skeptical of the crypto industry and don’t view it as an important issue for political candidates, the survey showed.
03:30 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories Wall Street-crypto clash creates strange bedfellows in the Senate
Banks are at odds with their longtime GOP allies — and themselves — over a landmark crypto bill.
05:18 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories Lutnick sought to clean up Epstein revelations in closed testimony to House committee
A transcript of the secretary’s interview with Congressional investigators lays out his interactions with the convicted sex offender.
07:26 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories Kevin Warsh confirmed as Fed chair, ushering in new era for central bank
He enters the job at a fraught moment, with President Donald Trump aggressively pushing for the Fed to sharply lower interest rates.
02:12 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories USDA employees allege Easter religious message violated First Amendment
A federal lawsuit alleges Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has "adopted a practice of sending increasingly proselytizing communications" to her employees.
01:41 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice leaves Democratic Party over antisemitism concerns
David Wecht is becoming an independent due to "acquiescence to Jew-hatred” from prominent Democrats.
03:15 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump eyes MAGA-friendly fentanyl win in China
Trump’s challenge is to extract commitments from Beijing that go beyond “performative” gestures from Xi.
04:01 PM on 05/13/2026 Politico Top Stories Gasoline tax holiday push already sputtering in Congress
Republican leaders remain lukewarm about an idea President Donald Trump pitched Monday.
04:26 PM on 05/13/2026 Politico Top Stories Why Kevin Warsh is likely to run afoul of Trump at the Fed
Price spikes because of the war in Iran and internal divisions on the central bank will make it difficult for the incoming Fed chair to cut interest rates quickly.
12:49 PM on 05/13/2026 Politico Top Stories Michigan Senate hopeful El-Sayed calls himself a physician but has little history treating patients
“It’s a weird thing to hang your hat on in terms of a biographical detail if you never actually practiced medicine,” one Dem operative said.
02:12 PM on 05/13/2026 Politico Top Stories Newsom appoints former CFPB head to lead California consumer agency
Rohit Chopra was ousted as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by the Trump administration last year.
05:01 PM on 05/13/2026 Politico Top Stories Pahlavi criticizes Trump for sending mixed signals on Iran
Reza Pahlavi urged Trump to “finish the job” in Iran at the POLITICO Security Summit.
01:11 PM on 05/13/2026 Politico Top Stories South Carolina Republicans tank redistricting, for now
Tuesday’s vote doesn’t mark a definitive end for efforts to redraw the state’s maps — but it does make it harder to accomplish this year.
03:40 PM on 05/13/2026 Politico Top Stories New York and New Jersey are turning the World Cup into an interstate turf war
With dueling plans to cut transit costs for fans, neighboring governors Mikie Sherrill and Kathy Hochul are both claiming home-field advantage.
08:34 PM on 05/13/2026 Politico Top Stories With latest lifelines from Hochul, Mamdani balances NYC budget
The mayor released a spending plan that hinges on a controversial delay on city pension payments.
04:49 PM on 05/13/2026 Politico Top Stories FEMAs acting administrator is out, for the third time under Trump
Karen Evans, who had led the agency since December, is the latest official to be removed from FEMA.
03:14 PM on 05/13/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump administration elevates former private prison company exec to lead ICE
David Venturella will lead the agency on an acting basis when Todd Lyons retires at the end of the month.
07:28 PM on 05/13/2026 Politico Top Stories Out of control: Inflation surges to highest point in 3 years, driven by energy
Gasoline has risen above $4.50 per gallon, nearly $1.40 more than what it was a year ago.
08:45 AM on 05/13/2026 Politico Top Stories It Took Charles a Lifetime to Be King. Now He Has to Deal With Trump.
There’s a lot at stake during the monarch’s visit to Washington. Will he pull it off?
11:01 PM on 05/13/2026 Politico Top Stories A bad look: Republicans want more details on ballroom security funding request
The $1 billion line item in a party-line bill otherwise focused on immigration enforcement is causing political headaches.
07:07 PM on 05/12/2026 Politico Top Stories Inside the House vs. Senate rifts threatening the GOP agenda
Republicans in the two chambers are divided over key pieces of legislation, and animosity is running high.
03:45 AM on 05/12/2026 Politico Top Stories This moderate Republican senator is already eyeing the exits 16 months into his term
Sen. John Curtis is looking at returning home to run for governor.
03:17 PM on 05/12/2026 Politico Top Stories Trumps Redistricting Push Could Cost Republicans More Than It Gains
Republicans chasing extra House seats risk energizing Democrats and alienating key new voters.
04:00 AM on 05/12/2026 Politico Top Stories Supreme Court allows Alabama GOP to erase Black House district
The high court voted 6-3 to allow state to proceed with plan likely to squeeze Democrats to single seat
06:14 PM on 05/12/2026 Politico Top Stories Virginia Democrats ask Supreme Court to restore their new map
It’s a longshot bid to overturn the decision by the state’s highest court to strike down Democrats’ redistricting referendum.
04:55 PM on 05/12/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump picks Cameron Hamilton to run FEMA
The president nominated the man he fired as leader of the nation's disaster agency a year ago.
04:42 PM on 05/12/2026 Politico Top Stories U.S. oil rush into Venezuela tests Trumps democracy promises
The White House is full steam ahead on growing the oil industry in Venezuela. Elections are another matter.
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