Marc Filippino Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Friday, February 28th and this is your FT News Briefing. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited the White House and the pound is headed toward its best run in months. Plus, the AI Start-Up DeepSeek is pretty much everywhere you look in China these days.

Covering a president as part of the White House press pool dates back to the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The pool assignments are done on a rotating basis, which the White House Correspondents Association handled until this week.

The Donald Trump administration is limiting access to the White House for AP and Reuters, raising concerns about press freedom, reports "The New York Times". As reported by "The New York Times", these actions might pose a threat to press freedom in the United States.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that going forward, White House staff will determine which media outlets have access to the president.

White House to decide which journalists have access to Trump The Trump administration is changing how journalists get access to the White House. The president's press team will now have the exclusive right to decide who gets to be a part of the press pool.

The White House denied reporters from Reuters, HuffPost, and Der Tagesspiegel access to President Donald Trumps first cabinet meeting, enforcing a new media policy that limits coverage in smaller spaces like the