October 24, 2025

Pres. Trump starts trip to Asia, will meet Chinese Pres. Xi on trade & tariffs; Day 24 of gov't shutdown; NY Atty Gen James pleads not guilty to mortgage fraud

53 minutes

President Donald Trump gets ready to fly to Southeast Asia for meetings with leaders of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and one-on-one with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. We will talk about it with Politico

trade reporter Ari Hawkins (3); President Trump ends trade negotiations with Canada after Ontario's government runs a TV ad with former President Ronald Reagan expressing opposition to tariffs; Inflation report from the Labor Department: Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose in September at an annual rate of 3 percent, highest since last January; U.S. government shutdown Day 24. House & Senate are not in session. Over 600,000 civilian federal workers miss their first full paychecks. We will talk with The Hill's Senior Staff Writer Mike Lillis about bipartisan warnings that SNAP food assistance that over 40 million Americans receive will soon be in jeopardy (31); New York Attorney General Letitia James pleads not guilty in federal court in Norfolk, Virginia to charges of mortgage fraud, saying outside the courthouse, she said, "There is no fear. This is not about me. This is about all of us and a weaponized justice system"; Pentagon says the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford is being deployed to the Caribbean Sea to support military operations against drug traffickers and there was another strike today on small boat, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said "six male narco-terrorists" were killed; Secretary of State Marco Rubio visits the operations center in Israel that is the headquarters of the U.S.-led effort to maintain the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, and to plan for rebuilding and securing Gaza.

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