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Two Catholic bishops who took part in a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump last week at the White House are now publicly saying they regret it.

Two Catholic bishops have expressed regret that they agreed to a White House meeting that produced a publicly distributed photo of them praying with President Donald Trump.

" I wish I had been more shrewd and less simple, like those who exploited our meeting for partisan political purposes," said one bishop after the Oval Office gathering.

Six citizens sued President Trump and administration officials over bans from the White House against news outlets in a lawsuit filed Monday. The complaint – which named Trump alongside White House communications director Steven Cheung and chief of staff Susie Wiles – argued new White House policy surrounding press access “deprives the public of the...

Trump says he's considering relocating the White House press corps to a different location but denies plans to replace the briefing room with an indoor pool.

President Donald Trump called Bill Maher a "complete and total loser" on Truth Social, after the two met for a dinner at the White House earlier this month.

Harvard economist Jason Furman told Axios that if he were to return to his old job as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers today, he would rely on AI tools over staff economists for much of the council's day-to-day analytical work. The big picture: Unsurprisingly, this made some waves in the online discourse, particularly the loose-knit community formerly known as Econ Twitter. Many veterans of the economic policy trenches see real risks in future policymakers becoming overly reliant on AI — or at a minimum think that Furman is underestimating the importance of human economists in advising the nation's leaders. What they're saying: "CEA work, at least in my experience, is highly bespoke as you're explaining the data flow (and much else) to very busy people who don't want only market-shop analysis," Jared Bernstein, the CEA chair under President Biden, wrote on Substack . "Yes, they want and need that — what will the markets make of this CPI, jobs, GDP, etc. report — but more so they want to know how this report fits into our narrative, our agenda, the president's trip today to Iowa." He adds that within a White House, "the human skill of reading-the-room is paramount. I'm far from an AI expert, but my sense is it sucks at that and probably always will, a conclusion that derives in no small part from listening to its creators!" Zoom in: Claudia Sahm, a former Federal Reserve economist, raised an issue that we've often heard from senior people in fields like consulting and investment banking: If you get rid of junior positions, where will future senior leaders come from? Furman's staff "went on to found the Yale Budget Lab, run Treasury economic policy and a Fed institute, serve in later [administrations], and publish research on trade, environment, and taxes. That's what '20 staff' become," she wrote on X . "No model does that." Bloomberg chief U.S. economist Anna Wong argues that the "ability to now not depend on anyone, as a senior person, is very, very empowering. Now, with just the idea, a senior person can go far." Zoom out: "Entering into sci fi speculation," Wong wrote on X , "as humans [we're] not about to replace the aging experts due to low pipeline of young human experts, AI themselves, through the training over the years, became the one spawning the ideas." "That seems like a disaster waiting to happen that current social policy needs to address." Yes, but: Casey Mulligan, who served in President Trump's first-term CEA and now as chief economist at the Department of Health and Human Services, said that the implications of AI for human labor in policymaking are not so obvious. "I built AI tools at two federal offices," Mulligan wrote on X . "Able to do economic research better and more quickly, we needed more economists rather than fewer due to the added demand for what we do. This pattern is also evident in the small business sector." This concept — that labor-saving tools can actually increase demand for labor — is known as Jevons Paradox . The bottom line: "Be the labor-augmenting technological change you want to see in the world," wrote Stanford economist Neale Mahoney. "It's on us olders to build organizations where people and AI complement each other, and to prepare the youngers for a world with better and better AI," he adds.

The archbishop claimed the White House did not ask permission before posting photos and video of a private prayer

There will be more than pumpkins and candy at the White House's Halloween celebration — this year's fright-filled festivities are also poised to scare up some support for Trump Accounts. The first lady's press office on Monday announced plans for the annual spooky tradition at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. President Trump and Melania Trump will hand...

President Donald Trump said he was considering converting the White House briefing room into "very badly needed space," which would force media members to be moved elsewhere.

President Trump confirmed Monday that he is considering moving White House reporters from their longtime briefing room.

Two Catholic bishops have expressed regret about agreeing to a White House meeting that produced a publicly distributed photo of them praying with President Trump.

Trump lobbed insults at the late-night comedian, claiming he was drunk during their recent White House dinner and disputing Maher’s claim that the dinner lasted four hours.

President Trump confirmed on Sunday he is considering moving the White House press corps from its historic location. “Also, I am not building a swimming pool in the White House Briefing Room, and never had any intention of doing so,” he wrote on Truth Social in a lengthy post about comedian Bill Maher. “I am...

The US announced plans to remove tariffs on certain Canadian products after an embattled Republican senator in Maine lobbied for the move as the White House looks to bolster its candidates ahead of Nov. 3.

Two Catholic bishops have expressed regret about agreeing to a White House meeting that produced a publicly distributed photo of them praying with President Donald Trump.

Iconic rapper Nicki Minaj is being teased as a possible replacement for the position of White House press secretary. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung posted a clip on X of Minaj discussing President Donald Trump’s tenure and success as a businessman. The video included a caption from Cheung stating: “Ladies and gentlemen, I think […]

On Sunday, the White House teased rapper Nicki Minaj as the next press secretary. “Ladies and gentlemen, I think we may have found the new White House Press Secretary! Nicki Minaj,” Steven Cheung, the White House director of communications, joked on X, alongside a video of the two sitting across a table aboard Air Force ...

James Blair’s data-driven approach delivered victory in 2024 but president’s unpopularity and idiosyncratic style do not bode well this time They are both young, bald and fathers of four. They are also the brains behind Donald Trump. But while Stephen Miller is infamous as the US president’s ideological enforcer, James Blair could, in the words of Time magazine , “be the most important person in Donald Trump’s Washington you’ve never heard of”. That imbalance is deceptive, however. Blair has sufficiently impressed Trump to earn the nickname “Brilliant James”. And a well-positioned source told the Guardian: “I would say that James is probably twice, five times, 10 times more effective than Stephen Miller .” Continue reading...

Latinos helped fuel President Trump’s return to the White House. But Democrats have won back the trust of many Hispanic voters over the past two years.

Former President Barack Obama poked fun at President Trump's various Washington, D.C.-area renovation projects during a campaign stop in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was stumping for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton and Senate candidate Sherrod Brown. In his speech, Obama zeroed in on the changes President Trump has made to the White House during his...

Barack Obama compared Trump's White House renovations to a Cheesecake Factory run by Saddam Hussein at a Cleveland rally for Ohio Democrats.

Bill Maher fired back at critics during his "Real Time" monologue after attending a second White House dinner with Trump, Stephen A. Smith and Kid Rock.

SpaceX's Starlink and Starshield are fully operational in Ukraine after days of throttling that capped communications at speeds over 100 mph.

Senior White House adviser Peter Navarro is calling for Dr. Anthony Fauci to face criminal prosecution in a blistering new book accusing the government's former top infectious disease official of helping conceal the origins of COVID-19 and promoting pandemic policies that...