From three news outlets’ restored access to the White House to the Chinese president’s state visit to the U.S., here’s notable news that made headlines this past week.
Judge blocks Trump’s ban on 3 news outlets
WASHINGTON — The White House said Thursday it reinstated journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico after a federal judge deemed President Donald Trump’s ban of the three news outlets likely unconstitutional and ordered their access immediately restored.
The midday reinstatement came after a chaotic few hours when the journalists continued to be blocked from entering the White House grounds.
U.S. District Judge Tim Kelly, acting in a lawsuit brought by CNN, MS NOW and Politico on Monday, ordered a halt to Trump’s ban for 14 days, finding it likely violated the journalists’ “constitutional due process rights.” Trump said the ban was due to what he claimed was false or negative coverage.
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Deportation battle heads to high court
President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to continue to deport migrants to countries other than their own without offering them the chance to show the harms they may face — a key tool in his immigration crackdown.
In an emergency filing, the administration asked the justices to pause Boston-based U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy’s ruling that the Department of Homeland Security’s policy to remove migrants to so-called third countries is unlawful, while it appeals to the Supreme Court.
The dispute escalated after the Boston-based 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld Murphy’s decision on Sept. 18, put that decision into effect late Wednesday. More than 25,000 migrants have been deported to 29 countries under the policy.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, his wife, Peng Liyuan, U.S. President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, U.S. Vice President JD Vance and others attend a ceremony Thursday at the White House in Washington.
Trump welcomes China’s president for summit
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping for a lavish state summit, with both leaders keen to showcase stable ties despite a host of thorny issues such as artificial intelligence, trade, Taiwan and the war with Iran.
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a Venezuelan man who said he was out working as a DoorDash food delivery driver when he was shot by a federal immigration agent, holds his shoulder because of the wound during his Sept. 20 arrest in Austin, Texas, in this still image from police body camera video.
In other news
Shooting: A Venezuelan man who was shot by a federal immigration agent in Austin, Texas, was treated at a hospital Tuesday for paralysis on his left side after he spent a night in a detention center with a bullet in his back, according to his lawyer.
Merger deal: Paramount Skydance emerged victorious Monday from a legal battle over its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery after settling with a California-led group of U.S. states and a Hollywood writers union, paving the way for one of the largest media mergers in history.
Air traffic: The head of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said a series of error messages in a telecommunications circuit prompted the agency last Sunday to switch to a backup fiber line before an outage snarled thousands of flights along the East Coast.
US President Donald Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen attend a trilateral signing event Tuesday for a deal on Greenland's security during the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
Greenland: President Donald Trump and the leaders of Greenland and Denmark signed an agreement Tuesday that permits a larger U.S. military presence on Greenland and may resolve a standoff after Trump’s threats to take over the Arctic island.
Hacked: FBI data the hacking group ShinyHunters claimed it stole Tuesday contains details about bureau officials’ job assignments, including sensitive work against Chinese spies, Russian intelligence, drug cartels and more.
Refugees: The Trump administration plans to set a refugee admissions ceiling of 17,500 over the next 12 months, consisting “primarily” of white Afrikaners from South Africa, according to a notice sent to Congress on Tuesday.
Harvey Weinstein appears Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court to be sentenced for sexual assault in New York City.
The water cooler — trending news
Record hit: Ella Langley made Billboard history, USA Today reported Wednesday. Her song “Choosin’ Texas” spent 23 weeks at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving the Alabama-raised country singer the longest-running No. 1 song in the chart’s history. Mariah Carey’s holiday classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You” held the prior record.
Panettiere’s death: Investigators searching the Greenville, S.C., apartment where actor Hayden Panettiere, 36, died Aug. 16, found fentanyl and drug paraphernalia, according to a report Tuesday from the Greenville County Coroner’s Office. The coroner’s office said Panettiere died from a mixture of fentanyl, 4-ANPP, alprazolam, methocarbamol and quetiapine. The manner of death was ruled an accident.
Weinstein: A New York judge sentenced former film producer Harvey Weinstein, 74, to 15 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting former production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006, after the ex-movie mogul’s conviction at a retrial last year. Weinstein was convicted in June 2025 of first-degree criminal sexual act. More than 100 women accused Weinstein of misconduct. He denied the allegations.
Muse: At a Meta event Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed a pocket-watch-sized device that carries Meta’s viral Muse artificial intelligence agent, bypassing AI apps on smartphones. Some analysts said Muse, which drew millions of downloads, could be the biggest app launch in the U.S. since ChatGPT kicked off the AI boom in 2022.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance, flanked by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr Mehmet Oz and U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson, speaks Tuesday during a news conference on anti-fraud initiatives at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington.
Big number
760,000+: The number of enrollees whose Obamacare health plans were halted, part of an anti-fraud effort Vice President JD Vance estimated Tuesday would save $2.2 billion in taxpayer money.
U.S. President Donald Trump and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gesture Tuesday after addressing the 81st United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City.
Quote of the week
“I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?” U.S. President Donald Trump said in a speech Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
