Why Xi Is Coming to Washington, and White House TV Feeds Go Dark

Plus, the man who helped put bugs on the menu. Here’s what we’re covering: With Time on His Side, Xi Seeks to Extend Truce With Trump, by David Pierson Networks Suspend Pool Coverage of Trump After White House Bars CNN, by Michael M. Grynbaum and Ali Watkins Paramount Reaches Deal to Clear Way to Create News and Media Giant, by Benjamin Mullin, David McCabe, Shawn Hubler and Laurel Rosenhall German Leaders Prepare to Deny Far Right Access to Secret War Plan, by Jim Tankersley, Christopher F. Schuetze and Philip Kaleta David George Gordon, Apostle for Bugs on the Dinner Plate, Dies at 76, by Michael S.