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President Donald Trump landed in Beijing, China Wednesday ahead of his high-stakes summit with President Xi Jinping, but critics soon noticed a key figure was absent during Trump’s arrival.

“Donald Trump has arrived in China to find that President Xi did NOT greet him at the airport,” reads a statement from the progressive advocacy platform Call To Activism, run by digital strategist and political influencer Joe Gallina.

The Trump administration is being investigated for concealing a murder warrant from a federal judge in Rhode Island, Melissa DuBose, so she would release a potentially dangerous immigrant from detention, all so they could attack that judge's record. But even now, Trump administration officials are trying to pretend all of this was the judge's fault, prompting outrage.

On Wednesday, the official X account for the Department of Homeland Security posted a quote from their general counsel James Percival in response to an article about DuBose from the far-right website The Federalist, saying, “Given the radical activists President Biden installed across the country, this case of judicial misconduct is neither surprising nor uncommon.”

Senior Director for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka, a former radio host, revealed that President Donald Trump left orders for Vice President JD Vance in case he is assassinated in China.

As Trump was visiting China this week, Pod Force One host Miranda Devine asked Gorka what would happen if the country's leaders "take him out" during the trip.

South Carolina's Supreme Court has overturned the double murder of Alex Murdaugh and ordered a new trial in the slayings of his wife and son, according to reports.

The State reported Wednesday morning that the court ruled that the actions of former Colleton County Court Clerk Becky Hill deprived the prominent Lowcountry attorney of his right to a fair trial and returned the case to circuit court.

The U.S. Army is facing a severe budget crisis as the armed service expands its footprint at home and abroad to meet President Donald Trump's demands, according to reporting.

The military service branch is cutting training programs across the force to address a budget shortfall of as much as $6 billion, triggering a wave of abrupt cancellations at elite military schools and unit-level exercises months before the fiscal year ends, according to multiple U.S. officials and internal documents reviewed by ABC News.

President Donald Trump's blunt statement that he doesn't think about Americans' financial situations when making deals has sparked rare pushback from within his own movement, with prominent MAGA influencers accusing him of betraying his base.

When asked by a reporter, "To what extent are Americans' financial situations motivating you to make a deal?" Trump responded directly: "Not even a little bit…I don't think about Americans' financial situations."

President Donald Trump's Truth Social account has become a round-the-clock amplification machine since his return to the White House, and an aide who helps him generate the posts has reportedly frustrated other insiders.

A Wall Street Journal analysis found the 79-year-old president has posted more than 8,800 times since January 2025 — including dozens of late-night bursts that spread conspiracy theories, personal attacks and fringe content to his 12.6 million followers.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faced backlash after claiming the U.S. Supreme Court would strike down the parts of the Voting Rights Act that protected districts with Black U.S. representatives.

During a Wednesday interview with Fox News, host Brian Kilmeade asked Johnson how much easier it would be to retain the House majority without majority-Black districts.

Just moments after President Donald Trump and his entourage of officials and business leaders landed in Beijing, China, CNN data analyst Harry Enten dropped a series of brutal poll numbers on how Americans rate the president’s handling of China.

“In term number one, China was a strength for Donald Trump, Americans really liked what he was doing vis-à-vis China, and no longer is that the case,” Enten said on Wednesday, moments after Trump landed in China ahead of his two-day summit with President Xi Jinping.

Pope Leo XIV has once again named a pastor critical of the Trump administration's mass deportation policy to a high-ranking church position — this time overseeing a deeply conservative diocese.

According to Christopher Hale's "Letters from Leo," Father Emilio Biosca Agüero, who runs the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in D.C., will now be the Bishop of Naples, a diocese that covers much of southwest Florida.

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

The inspector general is expected to announce an "audit of ICE's acquisition of detention space" that will review all warehouse purchases made under the program, reported the Wall Street Journal, and the probe expands on an existing investigation into contract handling at DHS and the role of political appointees in awarding them.

The ex-girlfriend of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is alleging that he arranged a hush payment to her to bury allegations against one of his colleagues and close allies, Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN), offering her $5,000 to end a wrongful termination complaint.

According to Axios, "After she broke up with Massie, West said, she was fired by Spartz, who has a reputation as one of the 'worst bosses on the Hill,' according to Legistorm. This March, according to a proposed agreement obtained by Axios, West was offered a $60,000 settlement in her wrongful termination complaint against Spartz. But it came with a nondisclosure agreement that West refused to sign, she said."