President Donald Trump’s administration will ask a U.S. federal appeals court on Thursday to pause a judge’s ruling lifting access restrictions the White House imposed on the Associated Press for referring to the Gulf of Mexico in its coverage.

The Associated Press and Trump administration were back in a Washington court as part of a high-stakes battle over who can control which journalists can question the president.

President Donald Trump welcomed Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni to the White House Thursday, as she became the first European leader to have face-to-face talks with him since he announced and then partially suspended 20% tariffs on European exports.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is scheduled to visit the White House on Thursday for a meeting and lunch with President Donald Trump. Meloni, leader of Italy’s most right-wing government in decades,

Meloni is walking a tightrope between her ideological affinity to the president and her ties with European allies, who have criticized Trump's tariff hikes and his decision to exc