Trump media ban ruling lands overnight; Xi Jinping makes rare Washington visit

A late night loss for the White House. A federal judge blocks Trump's media ban and orders CNN, MSNOW and Politico back in

Plus, Xi Jinping is in Washington. The red carpet is out, but today Trump and Xi get down to business

And one blood draw, dozens of cancers. An FDA panel backs a first-of-its-kind test despite questions about what it can miss

The stories that matter, the facts you can trust from across the country to around the world

This is unbiased updates from straight arrow. Hey everybody. I'm Christian Bryant. Thanks for

starting your day with us. We begin with breaking news overnight. A federal judge has ordered the

White House to immediately restore access to CNN, MS now and Politico just days after president

Trump banned all three from the White House. And this ruling came down just before one o'clock this

morning. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, says the White House did not give the

journalists due process required before taking away their press credentials. The order means

reporters from all three outlets can return to the White House at least for now. Kelly's temporary

order lasts 14 days while the larger case continues. And Kelly also took direct aim at one of the

White House's main arguments for the ban. The administration says the outlets published

reporting that raised national security concerns, but Kelly says the record doesn't back that up

Quote, nothing in the record that predates this suit suggests that the revocation of

plaintiffs' hard passes was motivated by national security concerns. Kelly pointed out that when

Trump first announced the ban, he didn't cite national security. He complained about what he

called the outlet's untruthful and negative reporting. The ban had also disrupted the White

House TV pool. After CNN was blocked from its scheduled pool duties, ABC, CBS, Fox News, and

NBC joined CNN in suspending coverage. The three outlets argued Trump punished them for coverage

he didn't like. In their filing, the Justice Department said the president has the authority

to restrict access and pointed to national security concerns. Kelly sided with the outlets

for now, saying they're likely to succeed on their due process claim

Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Washington and today he and President Trump get down to business Trump and the First Lady gave Xi and his wife Peng Li a rare plain side welcome at Joint Base Andrews Wednesday complete with the red carpet and a military flyover

The two presidents sit down for talks today, but before that even happens, the U.S. and China have already bought themselves more time on trade

In an interview on Fox News, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says the two sides agreed to

extend their current trade truce by two months from November 10th through January 10th

We have agreed today that we will extend what we call the Busan agreement, the

the day time economic day time between the two countries that was scheduled to end on November

10th. That is going to be extended until January 10th to give us more time to see what we can do

on the economic front. That gives both sides another two months to see if they can get to a

bigger trade deal. Xi, for his part, arrived saying China and the U.S. should be partners

not rivals. And there's plenty else on the table today. The two leaders are expected to talk AI

fentanyl, and trade, with China's control of rare earth minerals also a major issue between

the two countries. Iran's president used the U.N. stage Wednesday to push back directly on

President Trump just one day after Trump threatened to, quote, annihilate his country

President Masoud Pazeshkin said Iran has, quote, only defended ourselves since the U.S. and Israel

attacked in February. And his message to Trump was pretty direct. Quote, yes, they did hit us

but we did not bend the knee. Pazeshkin said Iran is still open to negotiations with the U.S.

but rejected U.S. demands to restrict its nuclear program. At one point, he held up photos of the

late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and more than 150 schoolchildren killed during the opening days

of the war. And during the speech, a U.S. delegate walked out. It's not clear why. The White House

responded afterwards saying, quote, the Iranian regime has murdered thousands of its own people

killed Americans overseas, executed acts of terrorism in the Strait of Hormuz

and launched indiscriminate attacks against its neighbors in the region. And it defended Trump's

approach, saying he is quote, courageously ensuring that such an evil country never possesses a nuclear weapon, which will make the entire world safer and more stable

We been talking a lot about AI lately and how fast this technology is moving Well two of the people leading that race just went to the UN with a warning

We need to start figuring out some rules here. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropics CEO Dario Amadei both spoke to the UN Security Council Wednesday

They run rival AI companies, but on this, they're pretty much saying the same thing

The technology is moving fast enough that countries need to start working together on

how to keep it safe. We've been talking about artificial intelligence for years, but it feels

different in recent weeks and months. Rapid model progress has made the timeline feel more compressed

the upside more tangible, but also the stakes and the risks more immediate. We have a choice in front

of us. AI can either be more like a new renaissance of creativity and discovery or more like a new

industrial revolution of upheaval and disarray. Altman wants countries to come up with common ways

to test these models, what they can do, where the risks are, and whether the safeguards actually

work. Amadei went further, saying poorly managed AI could become a risk to humanity

We should establish common global standards for testing AI models for loss of control risks

and misuse risks, and a notification system for AI incidents that are significant to global

security. Now, nothing was actually agreed to here. That wasn't really the point of this meeting

and President Trump has already made clear he doesn't want global rules slowing down AI development

He told the UN this week the U.S. is going to, quote, encourage it, not rein it in

This morning, we're learning eight U.S. service members attempted suicide during the USS Abraham

Lincoln strike group's extraordinarily long deployment. Acting Navy Secretary Hong Kao confirmed the number in a letter to Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand this week

The eight attempts have happened across the Lincoln strike group since it left San Diego last November, two during active fighting with Iran

No suicides have occurred on board. The Lincoln has now been deployed for more than nine months, far longer than originally planned, with much of that time spent supporting the war with Iran

And for months, families have been raising concerns about conditions on board, including food and supply problems, faulty plumbing, and the mental health of the crew

The Pentagon has pushed back on reports of a mental health crisis saying it has not seen an increase in suicide attempts and that counselors chaplains and other support are available The Navy also sent additional counselors and social workers to the ship last month The Lincoln has now been replaced in the Middle East by the USS

George Washington and is heading back towards San Diego after stops in Thailand and Guam

Finally this morning, a blood test designed to screen for dozens of different cancers at once

just got a big boost from an FDA advisory panel. It's called Galeri and with a single blood draw

it looks for DNA signals linked to more than 50 types of cancer. The test is intended for people

50 and older, and in a large study of more than 140,000 people, it detected about a third of the

cancers that were eventually diagnosed. But there are limitations. The test was much better at

finding later-stage cancers than early ones, and FDA reviewers also worry a negative result

could give some people false reassurance and lead them to skip routine screenings

Galeria is already available in the U.S., but it's not yet FDA approved and patients generally have

to pay for it themselves. Full approval could make insurance coverage more likely. The FDA doesn't

have to follow the panel's recommendation and hasn't said when it will make a final decision

A very busy day ahead. Here's what we're tracking today. President Trump has a full day with China's

President Xi Jinping. Trump and the First Lady greet Xi and Madam Pong this morning

followed by a military review with a state dinner tonight. Then Trump and Xi get down to business

with bilateral talk starting at 1130. Also at 1130, Attorney Ben Crump reveals new findings

from an examination of Nolan Wells' cell phone. And tonight at 7, former President Joe Biden

speaks at a Planned Parenthood event in Delaware. Unbiased Updates gives you the headlines

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