Both leaders gave versions of what they discussed, but the Chinese president’s take made clear the issue of the island was front and center.

The White House confirmed a meeting would take place after days of conflicting reports on the talks’ timing, location and format.

A year into President Trump’s second term, his threats, retreats, twists and turns appear to be wearing on allies and adversaries.

A number of potential presidential candidates are releasing memoirs as the shadow primary heats up.

The Trump administration announced that the company, a pharmacy benefit manager, had agreed to make significant changes to its practices.

The Republican chairman’s successful targeting of a former president who faces no charge of wrongdoing was the sort of tactic typical in an autocracy where leaders fear being jailed when they are out of power.

In a House committee hearing, the Treasury secretary declined to say if the president has the power to fire a member of the central bank’s board.

The state’s Republican Party had asked the justices to step in and block the new congressional maps, which give an advantage to Democrats, before the midterms.

Democrats’ push to rein in federal agents, and Republican opposition, reflect opposite views of whether the deportation drive should be bound by standard law enforcement rules.

The prosecutor, Julie T. Le, told a judge that she and her colleagues in the U.S. attorney’s office were overwhelmed by the White House’s immigration operation in Minnesota.

About 2,000 personnel will be left in the city, where the killings of two protesters against President Trump’s immigration crackdown by federal officers have generated outrage.

A moderate Democrat from Indiana for 34 years, he led the House Foreign Affairs and Intelligence committees and helped investigate the Iran-contra scandal and the Sept. 11 attacks.

The county filed a motion demanding the return of ballots and other election materials that were seized by the F.B.I. in a highly unusual move by the Trump administration.

Some top state election officials, who run voting across the country, worry that the federal government has become hostile to them and their work.

Mr. Dunn, who rose to prominence for defending the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, will run for a hotly contested Southern Maryland seat.

“It’s like living in fear all the time,” a teenager said about the federal raids that have shattered families.

Senator John Cornyn, once seen as a potential Republican leader in his chamber, is now depending on wealthy party donors to survive a right-wing challenge.

Brian O’Hara, who took over a troubled police force and has spent years rebuilding community trust, fears the long-term damage wrought by federal agents.

The legislation will impose new restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers, giant companies like CVS Caremark, Optum Rx and Express Scripts that oversee prescription drug benefits.

The anchorman, who was arrested over a protest in Minnesota, told an audience in Manhattan, “I’m not going to let them turn me around,” and sang lines from a civil rights era freedom song.