President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about ending the war in Ukraine, hosted the president of South Africa at the White House and threatened more stringent tariffs against the European Union this week.

President Ramaphosa pushes back against discredited claims from the US president that white South Africans are facing "genocide".

The South African president calmly challenged claims that minority Afrikaners were the targets of a "white genocide". The once fringe theory has been exponentially amplified by Trump and Elon Musk.

Ordinarily, Donald Trump isn’t the kind of guy who’s overly concerned with evidence. The president relies on preconceived ideas, assorted conspiracy theories, rumors he’s heard via conservative media and routine assumptions he creates out of whole cloth,

Live updates and the latest news as Trump hosts South Africa's president and the House Rules Committee meets on the Republicans' budget bill.