A full-scale military attack on Iran was still possible at a moment’s notice, the US president warned, if an agreement was not reached.

Authorities are now piecing together the horrific hate crime that left five people dead – including the two suspected teenage gunmen – and has rocked California and the US.

The settlement will create an “anti-weaponisation fund” to compensate people who claim to have been victims of US government lawfare, possibly including those convicted over the January 6 riots, stunning his Democrat opponents.

A series of primary election results in red states shows that among Republicans, Donald Trump remains as potent a political force as he has ever been.

The US president teased an imminent decision on arms sales to Taiwan after the topic featured prominently in his discussions in Beijing, and said Xi asked directly if the US would defend Taiwan in a war.

For a summit low on expectations but high on optics, Xi delivered a carefully crafted spectacle designed to project China’s status as the foremost peer to the US.

Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, who spent more than 1000 days detained by China, says middle powers will be anxious to avoid an ambiguous summit that leaves them uncertain about what Trump has actually promised.

The US president also called two female journalists “stupid” and “dumb” – one asked about surging inflation and Iran, the other pressed him on the rising costs of his White House ballroom project.