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Trump on China: Is a Taiwan deal in the works?

President Donald Trump, right, points as reporters raise their hands to ask questions during a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, obstructed at left, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Monday, October 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

President Trump disclosed this week that talks with China on trade and other issues could result in some type of deal on Taiwan, an unofficial U.S. ally facing the prospect of a future Chinese military takeover.

Trump: Cattle ranchers ‘don’t understand’ his efforts to protect beef industry, grocery consumers

Cattle graze on a ranch in Lufkin, Texas, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Trump pleaded Wednesday for understanding from American cattle ranchers after the industry and GOP lawmakers criticized his plan to buy beef from Argentina to bring down consumer prices.

Cattle graze on a ranch in Lufkin, Texas, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Trump: Cattle ranchers ‘don’t understand’ his efforts to protect beef industry, grocery consumers

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, who founded The Washington Times alongside her husband, the late Rev. Sun Myung, delivered the keynote address at the Global Rally for the Reunification of Korea at Seoul’s World Cup Stadium. (PHOTO CREDIT: HSA-UWC) (sponsored)

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Halloween candy and decorations are displayed at a store, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Freeport, Maine. U.S. sales of In this year of the pandemic, with trick-or-treating still an uncertainty, Halloween candy were up 13% over last year in the month ending Sept. 6, according to data from market research firm IRI and the National Confectioners Association. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Trick or tariff: Halloween industry predicts record revenues as Trump import duties raise prices

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, A Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II aircraft flies alongside a U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bomber in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility, Oct. 15, 2025. (U.S. Air Force via AP)

U.S. strikes 8th alleged drug vessel

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls on reporters for questions during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington, Sunday, June 22, 2025, after the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel's effort to destroy the country's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Pentagon says ‘new generation’ of more than 60 journalists signed restrictive new rules

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

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In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, A Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II aircraft flies alongside a U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bomber in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility, Oct. 15, 2025. (U.S. Air Force via AP)

U.S. strikes 8th alleged drug vessel

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls on reporters for questions during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington, Sunday, June 22, 2025, after the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel's effort to destroy the country's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Pentagon says ‘new generation’ of more than 60 journalists signed restrictive new rules

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi looks on during a meeting with director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, at Tahrir Palace in Cairo, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Khaled Elfiqi) ** FILE **

Iran: ‘Excessive U.S. demands’ derail nuke talks

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Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks at a town hall at the Franco Center in Lewiston on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. (Libby Kenny/Sun Journal via AP)

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A gavel rests on the bench inside a courtroom. The District of Columbia's attorney general secured a record $40 million payout Monday from a billionaire and his business after officials said the entrepreneur skirted city income taxes by posing as a nonresident. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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Alyssa Esquivel, a former American Sign Language special-education instructional aide at Del Mar High School in San Gabriel, California, sued after being fired in 2024 for bringing her Trump-themed backpack and water bottle to school. (Advocates for Faith & Freedom photo)

School aide fired over Trump backpack, water bottle declares ‘victory’ in legal settlement

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Visitors queue to enter the Louvre museum three days after historic jewels were stolen in a daring daylight heist, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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Smoke bellows in the background at dusk in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Russia stepping up attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid as winter approaches: British military analysis

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Trump anti-DEI education compact still waiting for a ‘yes’ as Arizona declines, Vanderbilt dodges

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

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Cattle graze on a ranch in Lufkin, Texas, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

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Ian Roberts, then-superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, delivers an annual address at North High School in Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 11, 2025. (Jon Lemons/Des Moines Public Schools via AP) ** FILE **

Maryland kept printing ballots for illegal immigrant Ian Roberts long after he moved to Iowa

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President Donald Trump, right, points as reporters raise their hands to ask questions during a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, obstructed at left, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Monday, October 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Trump on China: Is a Taiwan deal in the works?

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Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, who founded The Washington Times alongside her husband, the late Rev. Sun Myung, delivered the keynote address at the Global Rally for the Reunification of Korea at Seoul’s World Cup Stadium. (PHOTO CREDIT: HSA-UWC) (sponsored)

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