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The U.S. war with Iran is hitting energy prices and help drive annual inflation to the highest level and roughly three years.
“The Labor Department says consumer prices in April were 3.8% higher than the same time”
a year earlier. President Trump is in route to China for a high-stakes meeting with leaders Xi Jinping and PR's Emily Feng is covering the state visit.
Pauling China's Seizing Ping an amazing man, Trump said the meetings with Xi later
this week will cover energy prices, the war with Iran, and Taiwan, the Democratic Island China hopes to control one day. Asked about a delayed, multi-billion-dollar U.S. weapons sale to Taiwan, Trump has said he would talk about it, with China's Seizing Ping. "A lot of good things can happen, we'll be talking about, I mean, he'll bring up Taiwan."
American legislation requires the U.S. to provide for Taiwan's defense and that includes selling Taiwan arms. Trump has also said who raised the case of imprisoned Hong Kong activist and publisher Jenny Lai, as well as an imprisoned Christian pastor in China, Emily Feng and Pernus. Trump is being accompanied by several powerful corporate executives with significant business
interests in China. They include billionaire Elon Musk, who is an illegal battle with open AI chief Sam Altman that could have major implications in artificial intelligence at a California trial. He testified to date and defend his business record against Musk's allegation that he betrayed their shared vision for open AI, NPR's John Ruich's more.
Musk helped found the company and put in $38 million, but he left in 2018 after dispute
over who would run the for profit. He's seeking a rollback of the for profit entity, and the outer of Altman and Brockman
“changes that could reshape one of the most important AI companies in the world.”
NPR's John Ruich referencing open AI president co-founder Greg Brockman. This is primary day in Nebraska, where Democratic candidates are competing for the party's nomination in the second congressional district. Molly Ashford with Nebraska Public Media says the winner will face Republican Brinker Harding in November.
With the retirement of five term Republican Congressman Don Bacon, Democrats are hoping to flip a house seat in the so-called blue dot of Nebraska's second district. Democratic voter Emily Anderson says this year presents the best chances for that flip since she moved to Omaha eight years ago.
This definitely doesn't feel like the best shot we've ever had.
The Democratic primary is crowded with seven names on the ballot. One of those candidates has already dropped out and three of them are likely to garner most of the vote. But in Nebraska, much of the conversation about the race has been dominated by an influx of
“negative advertising. A dozen packs have spent more than five million on ads during the”
primary, mostly supporting candidate Denise Powell and opposing John Kavanaugh. For NPR News, I'm Molly Ashford. From Washington, this is NPR News. Members of a Senate panel grilled FBI director Cash Patel today about reported allegations of excessive drinking on the job, Patel spared with Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollin.
Unlike racist reports, the only person that was sling in Margarita as an assaviter on the taxpayer dollar with a convicted gang banging rapist was you. You know, the only person that ran up a $10,000 bar tab in Washington, DC, the lobby charts. This was you.
The only evidence in this room out against drinking on taxpayer dime during the day following you, director Patel, come on. These are serious allegations that were made against you. Patel testifying today before the Senate appropriations committee. Questions are being raised after transportation secretary Sean Duffy turned a family
road trip into reality TV series, sent here as Rachel Treesman. Back in the 1990s, Duffy starred in one MTV show and met his wife on another. The couple and their nine kids are now the focus of the great American road trip, a five-part series that will air on YouTube. The show urges other families to hit the road, too.
But critics say that is hard to do when gas prices are so high because of the US war in Iran. Some also wonder if taxpayers footage the family's bill. Duffy says production costs recovered by a non-profit, which in turn credits sponsors like Boeing, Toyota, and Shell.
The Department of Transportation says the series was filmed in one to two day production windows during which Duffy conducted business, including air traffic control tower visits, Rachel Treesman, and PR News. I'm Lakshmi Singh, and PR News in Washington. Every single complex society is as ever existed in the history of the world so far has collapsed.
Do we think we're in different? Are we doomed? The new podcast about the end of the world? I don't like where this is headed. I'm Ben Bradford, join me for "Are we doomed?"
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