Sign up for US Breaking News emails<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.<\/p>\n Donald Trump is taking Chinese president Xi Jinping to visit the National Archives later today, showing off the sacred texts of US democracy to the leader of the world\u2019s most powerful communist country.<\/strong><\/p>\n Donald Trump welcomed Xi Jinping<\/strong> to the White House for a state dinner in honor of the Chinese leader that was not televised because the White House continued to deny full access to the event to CNN journalists on Thursday, despite a court order.<\/p>\n Writing on his social media platform, Trump complained<\/a> that two of the three outlets he banned from the White House, CNN and MS Now, \u201crefused to cover\u201d his elaborate welcome of Xi to the White House. He did not mention that the two broadcasters were not in position to cover the event live because his own actions and those of his aides, who continued to block their reporters.<\/p>\n As Israel\u2019s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/strong> attacked him at the UN, New York\u2019s mayor, Zohran Mamdani<\/strong>, doubled down on his support for Palestinians by making public video of himself hosting Palestinian families from Gaza.<\/p>\n Darializa Avila Chevalier<\/strong>, the Democratic socialist congressional candidate from New York, was among dozens of activists arrested near the United Nations on Thursday at a protest against Netanyahu\u2019s appearance organized by Jewish Voice for Peace.<\/p>\n The Trump administration used taxpayer funds to air a White House-produced, pro-Trump ad on Fox News this week.<\/p>\n
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Xi is expected to depart Washington after touring the nation\u2019s vault of records, where the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are held