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CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil traveled halfway around the world to broadcast from China, but a logistical blunder is keeping him from completing his journey.

The embattled news network suffered another public embarrassment after failing to secure a visa to China for Dokoupil, who will instead broadcast from Taiwan this week as President Donald Trump and U.S. business leaders for a highly anticipated summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, reported Semafor.

Vice President JD Vance suggested he felt like a child without a parent after President Donald Trump decided not to take him to China this week.

"Good afternoon, everybody. How we doing?" Vance said on Wednesday at an event to promote his anti-fraud task force. "So as you know, the president just landed in China a few hours ago. I always, you may know that because of Secret Service protocols that I don't travel outside of the country, with the President of the United States."

The Department of Homeland Security, or DHS's, inspector general has launched an audit of a controversial $38 billion program that converted commercial warehouses into immigration detention centers under former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and adviser Corey Lewandowski.

The audit will review all warehouse purchases made by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, expanding on an existing investigation into DHS contract handling and political appointees' roles, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum (R), the former governor of North Dakota, insisted that the "data is lying" after being told that energy prices in his state were lower because of renewable energy.

During a Wednesday hearing before the House Natural Resources Committee, Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-RI) pointed out that President Donald Trump had claimed windmills cause cancer, among other false statements about renewable energy.

President Donald Trump landed in China on Wednesday ahead of his high-stakes summit with President Xi Jinping, reportedly hoping for help with his deeply unpopular war against Iran – but Beijing residents interviewed by CNN were quick to pour cold water on the idea.

“I don't have a good impression of President Donald Trump at all,” one Beijing resident, identified as Mr. Liu, told CNN. “The U.S.-Iran conflict was stirred up by him, too. Look at the trade and economic war before, wasn't that him too?”

A North Carolina Republican congressman currently under investigation by the House Ethics Committee sent a young female staffer a guilt-laden text message after she declined his dinner invitation — and later wept while reading her a rhyming poem at her going-away party as the entire office looked on in discomfort, according to new reporting from Axios on Wednesday.

Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC), 65 and married since 1980, told the staffer it was "disappointing to feel something that used to be easy has gotten complicated" after she pushed back on his dinner request in May 2025, citing rumors about their interactions. Edwards responded that he "didn't expect outside chatter to change that."

The Department of Justice is holding internal discussions about settling President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his 2019 tax returns, according to the New York Times.

Trump claims the IRS failed to prevent his returns from being publicized.

President Donald Trump made the stunning admission Tuesday that he doesn’t “think about Americans’ financial situation” when making major decisions, and when asked about the remark by MeidasTouch’s Pablo Manriquez, several Republican lawmakers refused to weigh in.

Speaking with reporters on the White House lawn Tuesday, Trump was asked “to what extent” did “Americans’ financial situations” motivate him to secure an end to his war against Iran.

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Father Emilio Biosca Agüero, a pastor critical of the Trump administration deportation policies, as Bishop of Naples. The Father will oversee a conservative southwest Florida diocese.

According to Christopher Hale's Letters from Leo, Biosca Agüero has led the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in D.C. since 2019, serving a primarily Salvadoran congregation of 5,600 members. Since immigration enforcement intensified last August, over 40 parishioners have been detained or deported, with six arrested in a single stretch; including an usher, a man preparing for marriage, and a confirmation student.

FBI Director Kash Patel didn't win any new fans inside the bureau after his testimony on Capitol Hill, according to MS NOW's Ken Dilanian.

The FBI director faced tough questions from Democratic lawmakers during a Justice Department budget hearing about his alleged drinking and his investigations of President Donald Trump's political enemies, and Dilanian told "Ana Cabrera Reports" that Patel enjoys little support from the bureau's rank-and-file employees.