AAMER MADHANI

White House reporter

Madhani covers the White House for The Associated Press. He is based in Washington.
President Donald Trump, right, listens as France's President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)
Trump expresses hope Russia’s war in Ukraine is nearing an endgame as he meets with France’s Macron
 
U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
White House and Ukraine nearing rare earths deal that would tighten relationship, AP source says
 
White House national security adviser Mike Waltz speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
US official says Trump’s frustration with Zelenskyy is ‘multifold’ and blasts ‘insults’ from Ukraine
 
President Donald Trump speaks at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute summit in Miami Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Trump warns Zelenskyy to quickly negotiate war’s end with Russia or risk not having a nation to lead
 
President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Trump Tower, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
Ukraine and Europe worry about being sidelined as Trump pushes direct talks with Russia on war’s end
 
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio tours Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Jerusalem, Israel, Sunday Feb. 16, 2025. (Evelyn Hockstein, Pool Photo via AP)
Rubio leading US delegation to Saudi Arabia for talks with Russia on Ukraine, according to AP source
 
United States Vice-President JD Vance addresses the audience during the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
US Vice President JD Vance meets German far-right leader as he criticizes ‘firewalls’ in Europe
 
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, attends a meeting with United States Vice-President JD Vance on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Zelenskyy to Vance: Ukraine wants ‘security guarantees’ as Trump seeks to end Ukraine-Russia war
 
U.S. Vice President JD Vance enters the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site outside Munich, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Vance visits the Dachau concentration camp memorial with Holocaust survivor before Zelenskyy meeting
 
United States Vice-President JD Vance delivers a speech during the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
Vance offers an ‘America First’ argument on AI deregulation in his first foreign policy speech
 
United States Vice-President JD Vance addresses the audience at the Grand Palais during the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
JD Vance rails against ‘excessive’ AI regulation in a rebuke to Europe at the Paris AI summit
 
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during the briefing with President of the European Investment Bank Nadia Calvino in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
White House officials ready to meet with Zelenskyy in Munich for talks on Russia’s war on Ukraine
 
French President Emmanuel Macron, second right, meets with China's Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing, second left, at the Elysee Palace during events on the sidelines of an Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (Mohammad Badra, Pool Photo via AP)
Vance makes his debut as VP on the international stage at a high-stakes AI summit in Paris
 
President Donald Trump speaks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump tells Ishiba at the White House that he wants to slash the US trade deficit with Japan
 
President Donald Trump attends the National Prayer Breakfast at Washington Hilton, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
After prayer breakfast, Trump creates task force to root out ‘anti-Christian bias’
 
President Donald Trump speaks before Pam Bondi is sworn in as Attorney General by Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
With Gaza rehab and other global policy ideas, Trump goes from America First to America Everywhere
 
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump says he’s given advisers instructions for Iran to be ‘obliterated’ if it assassinates him
 
President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump won’t rule out deploying US troops to support rebuilding Gaza, sees ‘long-term’ US ownership
 
This photo provided by U.S. Africa Command, the U.S. military conducts coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (U.S. Africa Command via AP)
US military conducts airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia
 
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump says he and Putin could do something ‘significant’ toward ending Russia’s war in Ukraine
 
President Donald Trump listens to a question as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump says he’ll place tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China on Saturday
 
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta, makes a point during an appearance at SIGGRAPH 2024, the premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, Monday, July 29, 2024, in the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle lawsuit from Trump after Jan. 6 suspension
 
President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One en route to Florida at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
In the early going, Trump 2.0 approach on foreign policy is to talk loudly and carry a big stick
 
The White House is seen, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
Loyalty tests and MAGA checks: Inside the Trump White House’s intense screening of job-seekers
 
First lady Melania Trump looks on as President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump leans in on targeting Russian oil revenue as he tries to fulfill pledge to end Ukraine war
 
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, Friday, March 3, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Trump revokes protections for former Secretary of State Pompeo and top aide threatened by Iran
 
A man waves a Palestinian flag as he returns home to Rafah, after a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect, in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)
To secure Gaza ceasefire, dealmakers overcame enemies’ deep distrust
 
Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., speaks during a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Capitol Hill, Feb. 29, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
160 national security staffers are sent home as the White House aligns its team to Trump’s agenda
 
This family photo shows Ryan Corbett holding rabbits with his daughter Miriam and son Caleb in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2020. (Anna Corbett via AP)
White House cheers release of two Americans freed in a swap with Taliban brokered by Biden, Qatar
 
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a nominee for Secretary of State, attends the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)
A wave of Trump-demanded departures hits the State Department
 
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