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President Trump is about to head to China for a state visit he's currently taking reporters
questions before he leaves.
“He and his hosts will likely talk about getting Iran to agree to U.S. terms for ending”
their war. Iran is a close ally of China, and Piers Tamerkeef says trade between the U.S. and China of the world's two biggest economies is also on the agenda. The White House says President Trump intends to deliver more good deals on behalf of the country to rebalance trade with China.
There is currently a trade trip between the U.S. and China after an all-out trade war last year. Melanie Hart is the senior director of the global China hub at the Atlantic Council. The U.S. wants big purchase announcements, more access to China's where Earth's progress on fentanyl and made for TV diplomatic spectacle.
China is going to deliver on the spectacle, trying to can do spectacle better than anybody. They will also deliver on the purchases. There will be bilateral meetings, so welcome ceremony and a banquet. Tamerkeef and PR news.
“The Justice Department says the mayor of Arcadia and a flu and suburbing California's Los”
Angeles County has agreed to plead guilty in the coming weeks to committing a felony. Yesterday, Ilyne Wong was charged in federal court with acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government, the charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.
A right-leaning legal group has filed the first lawsuit to challenge a state-level voting
rights act after a recent Supreme Court ruling that further weakened the federal voting rights act. And PR's Hansi low-wong reports the group is suing over Illinois state-level protections against racial discrimination in redistricting. Fewer than a dozen states have passed state voting rights acts.
Mavicets of these laws have seen them as a bull work against efforts that ship away at the federal voting rights act of 1965. Last month, the Supreme Court limited federal protections against racial discrimination in redistricting. And that has opened the door for the conservative public interest legal foundation to sue
over the Illinois voting rights act. In places where racial minority voters and majority voters tend to prefer different candidates,
Illinois's law requires state legislative districts to be drawn in a way that gives minority
voters a chance to, like, there prefer candidates. But the right-wing legal group cites the Supreme Court's latest ruling to argue that the Illinois voting rights act requires an improper use of race in redistricting. Azila Wong and PR news. Well, voters are deciding more primary races today in West Virginia and Nebraska.
The outcomes will determine mid-term contests in November and help determine the balance
“of power and Congress when the key races is for the second congressional district in Nebraska”
where Democrats are vying to fill a seat that will be left vacant by retiring Republican incumbent. This is NPR news. Some pancreatic cancer patients are expressing hope following successful clinical trials of new treatments and peers you can know Gucci with details.
Vicky Stinson has defied odds typical for pancreatic cancer patients. And Arizona native was diagnosed at a late stage. A doctor gave Stinson months, not years, to live. Two years on, Stinson is alive and has felt well. Thanks to a drug in a clinical trial, directs and rasps that is so promising, the food
and drug administration expanded access for patients prior to its approval. Stinson notes that there are other promising treatments as well. It feels like it's so close and I kind of feel like a right tomato on a vine. And it's like if I can just keep holding on for a little bit longer, just might work for me.
You can a Gucci and PR news. Triple A says regular gasoline in the U.S. is now averaging $4.50 a gallon. Your sent here is Camilla Dominozki. The app gas buddy shows drops and states like Michigan and Ohio helped bring the national average down slightly.
Diesel prices meanwhile are at $5.64 up from yesterday thanks in part two ongoing refining and reissues. Diesel prices drive up inflation across the entire economy. President Trump has endorsed the idea of a federal gas tax holiday that would require an act of Congress and would save consumers a little more than $0.18 per gallon on gasoline,
which Trump acknowledged was a small percentage of the consumer gasoline burden. Camilla Dominozki and PR news. I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR news in Washington. New shows, new music, new movies, keeping up with pop culture sometimes feels like a full-time job.
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