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White House press secretary Katie Zacharia has acknowledged that she never passed a bar exam, days after telling reporters she had passed one “when I moved to China”. In an interview with the conservative commentator Jack Posobiec on right-wing streaming channel Real America’s Voice on Thursday, Zacharia said she sat the California bar exam after graduating from Pepperdine University’s law school in 2011 but did not pass. She said the results were “somewhat inconsequential, because I knew I...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said he felt “betrayed” on Wednesday after access was seemingly restricted to US intelligence and Space X satellite services, raising new questions about US commitment to Ukraine. With Trump under pressure over rising fuel prices, is the White House hoping criticism of Kyiv can help shift the blame? 

Katie Zacharia does not appear to be registered to the legal bar in any state where she has lived.

CNN, MS Now and Politico can continue to access White House as judge maintains Trump's ban likely illegal.

The White House said on Tuesday it had asked US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign after a series of news reports raised concerns she sold access to Trump administration officials in exchange for money, gifts and favors. US President Donald Trump had said on Monday that he ​was considering firing Guilfoyle, ‌who was once engaged to his son Donald Trump Jr. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Rochelle Ferguson Bouyahi tells us more.

Katie Zacharia, US President Donald Trump’s newly appointed White House press secretary, faces questions about her legal credentials after telling reporters on Tuesday that she passed a bar exam “when I moved to China”, without identifying the jurisdiction. Zacharia, who has repeatedly described herself as a lawyer, made the remark after her first official White House press briefing. According to her LinkedIn profile, she worked as an associate at Zhong Lun Law Firm, one of China’s largest, in...

New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia made her briefing room debut on Tuesday by taking remarkably few questions from journalists while leaving no doubt who she believes has all the answers – Donald Trump. “I get to do what I was doing on the outside already, which was hoping to amplify, multiply and expand upon President Trump’s incredible agenda for the American people,” she said, describing her vision for the job. Zacharia, a 41-year-old devotee of Trump’s hard-right Maga movement,...

The BBC's Sarah Smith was in the room and describes Zacharia's performance and the moment she broke news about Kimberly Guilfoyle being asked to resign.

The White House had blocked access for CNN, MS Now and Politico, leading them to restrict pool coverage.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he has appointed Katie Zacharia, a communications adviser for his Truth Social platform, to serve as White House press secretary following Karoline Leavitt’s departure in August. He said Zacharia ‌has an “unblemished record of support, and has been a loyal and brilliant supporter”. “I am confident that Katie will deliver strong results for our Country as the next White House Press Secretary, as she has the respect of, and will work fantastically...

The conservative commentator currently works as a communications adviser at Trump Media & Technology Group.

The role has been vacant since former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt left in August.

Oil edged higher after a report that the White House asked the Pentagon to draw up strike options against Iran that could be executed before the midterm elections, and as a storm shut some US output.

Standing alongside prominent technology executives, US President Donald Trump announced a voluntary agreement under which major artificial intelligence (AI) companies will use internal controls and monitoring, outside audits and board oversight to manage risks. The White House calls the commitments “morally binding”, but the accord does not create a comparable system of legal enforcement. The administration’s logic is understandable. AI is becoming a source of economic and military power, and...

Bloomberg Opinion Columnist Gautam Mukunda tells Bloomberg This Weekend that voluntary safeguards may not be enough to manage AI risks because competitive and financial pressures can push companies to prioritize growth over safety. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Mukunda discusses the White House’s new AI task force, Anthropic’s planned IPO and broader questions about whether increasingly advanced AI systems can be safely governed. (Source: Bloomberg)

Chinese President Xi Jinping has left Washington, but he still has a place at the White House. At least two, in fact. Two different photographs of Xi with US President Donald Trump feature on its walls: a handshake image that Trump showed his guest during last week’s state visit, and another beside a Palm Room doorway showing the presidents standing side by side. Journalist Jacqueline Alemany shared an image of the Palm Room display on X, noting that photographs of Trump with Xi and Russian...

As American billionaires gathered at the White House to honour Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan last Thursday, a group of Chinese business leaders spent the evening on the sidelines. They had travelled to the US capital to join the state dinner. But their invitations never arrived. For weeks, their participation was the subject of intense discussion between Washington and Beijing. While it was under consideration until the summit’s final hours, they were ultimately excluded...

Washington, Sept. 26 (Jiji Press)--The U.S. White House has released a fact sheet on the results of Thursday's summit with China, calling the Asian country a World War II ally in line with a recent remark by President Donald Trump. "The two leaders recalled that (the) United States and China were allies in World War II and fought side by side to win the war," said the fact sheet on the summ...

US news outlet CNN has been removed from a press pool that is accompanying President Donald Trump on a trip to Tennessee on Saturday. Last week, CNN, along with MS NOW and Politico, was barred from White House access by the Trump administration, but a judge ordered it temporarily restored, saying the move was likely unconstitutional.

The White House signalled on Friday night that CNN would be left off Air Force One for President Donald Trump’s Saturday trip, the latest media restriction from the administration in an ongoing dispute with First Amendment implications. The news organisation was replaced by Real America’s Voice News, a conservative network, for the president’s trip to Knoxville, Tennessee, according to White House guidance. Trump is scheduled to attend a college-football game between the University of Tennessee...

US television networks resumed their coverage of President Donald Trump’s White House events on Friday, amid an ongoing court fight over the administration’s decision to block CNN, MS Now and Politico from the presidential grounds. The White House television press pool on Friday aired video of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s arrival at the White House for tea as well as the two leaders’ tour of ‌the National Archives, which houses the US Constitution. CNN along with ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC...

Amid the polished silverware and fine crystal stemware on display at the state dinner in the White House on Thursday sat the vacuum flasks brought by Chinese President Xi Jinping and first lady Peng Liyuan. The couple’s flasks, black for Xi and white for Peng, were spotted on their table during the formal dinner, signalling a subtle self-assurance as cultural authenticity met high diplomacy. Extending this everyday practice to the White House banquet was in tune with the host nation’s own...

Property developer-turned-president Donald Trump appeared to relish showing off the White House’s latest building works to Xi Jinping on Thursday, eager to give his Chinese counterpart a glimpse of his construction ambitions since they last met in China. In May, Trump was hosted at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, a sprawling complex that the US president compares with his planned White House ballroom. After their talks in the Oval Office, Trump led Xi out to the South Lawn, where his...

Zhou Hongxu, the official who oversees President Xi Jinping’s security, made an appearance at the White House state banquet on Thursday night, alongside a cohort of other rising Chinese officials. The banquet’s guest list described the 55-year-old People’s Liberation Army (PLA) major general as both director of the Central Guard Bureau and deputy director of the Communist Party’s General Office – the ruling party’s powerful administrative nerve centre. Earlier this month, Zhou joined Xi for a...

While their husbands held talks at the White House, Melania Trump hosted Peng Liyuan at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art on Thursday, where the famed Chinese soprano softly hummed along to a youth choir’s performance of a familiar classic. Footage shows the Hope Chinese School youth choir waving Chinese and American national flags during their rendition of the song “Jasmine Flower”, while Peng watches with a smile, her lips moving along to the lyrics. As the performance ends, she...

Chinese President Xi Jinping broke into rare laughter as his US counterpart Donald Trump showed him a framed “autopen” displayed in place of the former American leader Joe Biden’s portrait during a White House tour. The viral moment stood out against the Chinese leader’s otherwise restrained demeanour during his first state visit to the United States in more than a decade. A video released by the White House on social media showed Trump taking Xi along the White House colonnade on Thursday...

The US president’s eldest daughter Ivanka Trump had a front-row seat at a White House welcome ceremony for President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan on Thursday, wearing a dress by Chinese fashion designer Guo Pei. Trump, in a robin’s egg blue dress and matching jacket, and her 15-year-old daughter Arabella Kushner occupied a prominent position at the ceremony, alongside Vice-President J.D. Vance and his wife, Usha Vance. The arrangement drew attention since members of Donald Trump’s cabinet...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump have been holding talks in the Oval Office at the White House today.  President Donald Trump gave the visiting leader of communist China a personal tour of several of his favorite White House features. He took him aboard the Marine One helicopter, presented the new granite landing pad he had built for it, and pointed out the massive adjacent construction site where a ballroom will eventually stand. 

A US federal judge had ordered the White House to 'immediately return, reinstate and restore' the three outlets' access.

Asia Intelligence Brief — Thursday, 24 September 2026 Beijing at dusk. Xi Jinping was received at the White House on Thursday morning, and what the closed talks produced was not known when this edition closed. Asia… The post Asia Intelligence Brief — Thursday, September 24, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.