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President Trump is flying to Beijing today.
“There he'll meet with China's top leader Xi Jinping, and PR's Emily Feng reports one”
of the issue's front and center will be China's relationship with the island of Taiwan.
Calling 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. He asked about a delayed multi-billion-dollar U.S. weapons sale to Taiwan, Trump has said he would talk about it, with China's Xi Jinping. "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 in prison, Hong Kong activist, and publisher Jimi Ly, as well as an imprisoned Christian pastor in China, Emily Feng and PR News.
The Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to change its congressional maps in a way
“that consolidates Republican power, and PR's a Debbie Elliott reports it's part of”
a broader push in a Republican-controlled southern states to redistrict after the court ruled its unconstitutional to draw district lines based on race. The Supreme Court is allowing Alabama to use a map that eliminates one of two largely black congressional districts now represented by black Democrats, and a social media post Republican state attorney general Steve Marshall lads the victory.
"We have fought for years against court's forcing Alabama to sort its citizens by race, and we were right to fight." "Freshman Democratic Congressman Shimari figures of Mobile holds one of the targeted seats." "This is a last-ditch effort, you know, led by the top Republican officeholder in this country, Donald Trump, to be able to stand a position where he, you know, has unchecked
power." Some pancreatic cancer patients are expressing hope, following successful clinical trials of new treatments and PR's Yuki Naguchi reports some hope that science might outrun the deadly cancer.
“"Viggy Stinson has defied odds typical for pancreatic cancer patients.”
The Arizona native was diagnosed at a late stage. Dr. 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 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, just like if I can just keep holding on for a little bit longer, just might work for me." "You can goochy and PR news." Oil prices rose more than 3% today's the war with Iran threatens to drag on.
This is NPR news. Instructure, the company behind the online learning system, Canvas, says it has reached to deal with hackers to delete data stolen in a cyber attack that terms were not disclosed. The breach caused chaos for students, many in the middle of finals, the hacking group
Shiny Hunters has threatened to leak data from nearly 9,000 schools in 275 million individuals.
In Nigeria, at least 100 civilians have been killed in an air strike by the military. That's according to Amnesty International, and Piers Emmanuel Akhen-Wo-2 reports, it's the third such reported strike on civilians by the military in the last month. The air strike hit a crowded market in Zamfar State, northwest Nigeria, it's a remote region where armed groups are at large, and where the U.S. launched air strikes targeting Islamic
state militants on Christmas Day. In this attack, Amnesty International and local media, say more than 100 people were killed, some 200 people died when the Nigerian military struck a different market last month. Air strikes, wrongly targeting innocents have repeatedly been blamed on the Nigerian military, who in a few cases have promised to investigate or have apologized, blaming
faulty intelligence. And it's continued since the U.S. sent troops to Nigeria early this year to share intelligence and training. Emmanuel Akhen-Wo-2, N.P.R. News, Lagos. Christo Fernandez, the actor who portrayed Danny Rohas on the Ted Lasso series will play
professional soccer with El Paso locomotive FC of the U.S.L. Fernandez earned the deal after a two-month trial with the team appearing in a pre-season match against New Mexico United. He played soccer at the U.S. level before an injury at the age of 15 led him to acting. This is N.P.R. News.
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