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President Trump heads to China tomorrow, and he's taking a sizable business delegation
“with him, including some of the biggest names in corporate America, and he has John Ruach”
reports this comes during a period of relative calm in the U.S.-China trade relationship. According to the White House, more than a dozen top U.S. executives will be on the trip this week, including Apple's Tim Cook, Boeing CEO, Kelly Yorpeg, and Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX fame, Musk also co-led Trump's Department of Government efficiency early in his second term.
There are financiers in the group, too, from BlackRock, Blackstone, City Group, and Goldman Sachs.
This trip will be the first to China by a U.S. President since Trump visited during his
first-term nearly nine years ago, and while Geopolitik's loomed large, especially the war in Iran, the parade of executives signals an interest in promoting business and potentially striking deals despite a festering trade war. John Ruach and PR News, Washington. The Treasury Department wants U.S. banks to monitor suspected Iranian money laundering networks.
These networks allegedly use funds to smuggle sanctioned oil through shell companies in crypto networks.
“The U.S. and Iran are an impasse over ending the war with the ceasefire growing shaky.”
President Trump said the ceasefire is on life support after rejecting Iran's latest proposal. The Supreme Court has paved the way for Alabama to eliminate a congressional district that's represented by a Black Democrat for this year's midterm election. As in PR's Honsi-Lawong reports, the ruling comes as Republican officials push to redraw
Alabama's congressional districts after the Supreme Court further limited the voting
rights act. Republican state officials in Alabama had lost a legal fight last year over the state's congressional map. After finding that a proposed map by state lawmakers intentionally discriminated against black voters, a lower federal court ruled Alabama should keep using a court drawn map to
get in line with the Voting Rights Act. That map includes two districts where Black voters in Alabama have a real stick opportunity to like their preferred candidate. But after the Supreme Court recently weakened the Voting Rights Act's protections against racial discrimination and redistricting, Alabama Republicans asked the justice
to speed up their consideration of whether to review their state's congressional map again. The high court agreed, and has thrown out the lower court ruling that required Alabama to use its current map for this year's midterms. On Zilawong and PR news. A substantial number of Americans doubtful legitimacy of recent attempts against President
Trump's life. That's according to a newsguard, U.G. of poll released today. It finds that 30% of Americans think at least one of those incidents was staged. Trump has been the subject of three assassination attempts over the last two years. The findings come weeks after a gunmen attempted to storm the White House Correspondent
Center, which Trump attended in the weeks since a wave of misinformation around the event has spread online. U.S. stocks inched up to new records today, the S.M.P. 500, and Dow both rose less than a quarter of a percent, the NASDAQ added a fraction of a percent. This is NPR news from Washington.
A Washington-based non-profit is suing to stop the Trump administration from altering the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
The project's cost surged from President Trump's initial promise of $1.8 million to $13.1 million.
The cultural landscape foundation says the administration's planned to paint the pool-bottom American flag blue violates federal preservation laws. The family of one of the two people killed in the shooting at Florida State University last year, suing open AI, Douglas Sol of Member Station W. U.S. F. reports the lead shooter consulted with Chad G.P.T. before the attack.
Tivoo Chaba was a 45-year-old father of two when he was shot and killed. His family's legal team says there weren't enough safeguards on Chad G.P.T. when the accused gunman asked it questions like how many victims it would take to make the news and the busiest time at the student union building where the shooting took place. Attorney Robby Bell calls it a landmark case.
"Our job as lawyers for the Chaba family and for the public is to make a wrong right and to try to prevent this from ever happening again." Lawyers also alleged the chatbot inflamed and encouraged the accused shooter's delusions, leading up to the violence. Open AI said, "Shat G.P.T. is not responsible for the shooting and that it provided factual responses with information that can be found across the internet.
For MPR News, I'm Douglas Sol, in Tallahassee."
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