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The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing an additional 3-day extension to patients telemedicine

access to the abortion film of a prison.

The justices are seeking time to decide key issues of a lawsuit out of Louisiana.

The state argues that the FDA's decision to allow telemedicine access undermines Louisiana's abortion ban. A federal appeals court agreed, but the nation's top court pause a decision. President Trump is expressing pessimism about the fate of the cease far between the U.S. and Iran. It's been in question after recent attacks by both sides. The U.S. and Iran have traded cease far proposals, but still, no agreement.

Here's NPR's Daniel Kurtz-Labin. "Trump is not putting a positive spin on where things are." "I would say the cease fire is on massive life's support when the doctor walks in and says, "Sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living." He did not elaborate on what might end that cease fire or what would come next.

He said he didn't even finish reading Iran's latest response to a U.S. cease fire proposal calling it a "piece of garbage."

Trump has expressed disappointment with the negotiation process before and threatened military action,

but has so far not followed through on those threats. Daniel Kurtz-Labin and PR news, the White House. President Trump is later to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week in Beijing. Trump had rescheduled that visit a China after the war with Iran broke out. The issue of the war is likely to be a main topic, but in PR's deep-a-ship around reports,

the AI race is also expected to come up. When it comes to AI technology from American companies like OpenAI and Thropic and Google, experts say those models are better than what China's putting out. The U.S. is by some estimates about six to 12 months ahead of China. So, Trump is right that the U.S. is leading the AI race in that regard.

But where China is inching ahead is on AI adoption. How integrated AI is in their society and how accessible their AI products are.

In the meeting this week, Trump and Xi are expected to talk about global risk management

when it comes to the rise of AI, deep-a-ship around and PR news. More than 20 countries are preparing to receive or are treating people from a cruise ship that was stricken with a hand-of-ivirus outbreak. The United States receive 18 individuals, one American test positive for the road and born disease.

But the Assistant Secretary for Health, Admiral Brian Christine says the risk to the general public is low. The endies variant of this virus does not spread easily and it requires prolonged close contact with someone who is already symptomatic. Even so, we have taken this situation very seriously from the very start. 16 people are being monitored in Nebraska too are in Georgia.

This is NPR News. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is warning Republican colleagues in a letter today

that his party will challenge attempts to spend $1 billion for a ballroom security upgrades.

Senate Republicans proposed a measure after a man allegedly attempted to assassinate President Trump during Washington, DC event last month. Today, that suspect Cole Allen, the California Manicuse of the Fuld attack of the White House correspondent's dinner, pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. Some plants appear to have a special trick to survive periods of environmental upheaval,

science reporter Ari Daniel, has details. There are species whose entire genomes get duplicated and stuffed into every one of their cells. It can ultimately impact survival, but it's pretty common today, especially in plants. Why is that? Researchers scour of the DNA of several hundred plants for evidence of genome duplication events

that occurred long ago, and look to see when they happened. "They do not occur randomly, they are clusters in time." In particular, says Gent university plant biologist Evendipir.

They cluster during periods of turmoil over the last 150 million years,

times of dramatic cooling or warming or widespread extinction. Genome duplication appears to allow plants to survive extreme environmental stress. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel. "I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News." Dr. Eric Topel says health influencers make big claims about longevity,

but he's offering us a reality check. "We can accept that we're going to age, but we don't have to accept heart disease and cancer or neurodegenerative disease." Straight talk about how to grow old and stay healthy. That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast, listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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