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President Trump is on his way to China for a summit with President Xi Jinping.
“The Iran war is expected to dominate the conversation, but it's also critical for trade”
talks between leaders of the world's two biggest economies, as NPR's Scott Horsey explains. The White House is the president wants reciprocity and fairness, and to be sure lots of countries around the world are concerned that China is distorting markets by producing too much and dumping the excess elsewhere.
Trump also wants China to buy a lot more stuff from the United States. China has made commitments to buy more in the past, and then often fall in short of those promises. U.S. farmers, in particular, have paid a price when China started buying soybeans from Brazil instead, for example.
NPR Scott Horsey reporting, Michigan congressional Democrats, Debbie Dingle, and Republican John Wolinar have introduced a bill to ban Chinese cars in the U.S. from a member station W.E.M.U. Kevin Merchart reports. Called the Connected Vehicle Securities Act, the Legislation Woodbury Hibbert, the importation, manufacturer and sale of vehicles, software, and hardware linked to China.
“Dingle says the timing is important with this week's upcoming China U.S. summit.”
We are not competing on a level playing field when Chinese subsidizes its manufacturers. It manipulates its currency, it uses slave labor. That's not a level playing field. China has been accused by the U.S. government of using technology to collect and transmit sensitive information from vehicles it produces.
The legislation expands on orders from the first Trump and the Biden administrations
by putting the protections into law. For NPR News, I'm Kevin Merchart in Ipsilami, Michigan. Alabama officials are holding a special primary election for four of the state's seven congressional seats. This was announced after the Supreme Court yesterday cleared the way for a Republican lead state to use a map that had previously been blocked by the courts and appears Ashley
Lopez reports. After the Supreme Court weakened the voting rights act two weeks ago, there's been a flurry of GOP redistricting efforts in the South. And now, Alabama can use a map that has one more seat that favors Republicans compared to
“the now-to-funked map that the lower court ordered.”
This ruling, however, came a week before the state's primary Republican governor, K.I.V. announced that the state will hold a special primary for the four seats affected by the change. This is expected to cause some confusion for voters, particularly because this change was announced when absentee mail voting was already underway.
The new special primary election will be held on August 11th, Ashley Lopez MPR News. Meanwhile, Missouri's Supreme Court today upheld new congressional districts that could help Republicans win an extra seat, but South Carolina's Republican lead state Senate rejected a move to hold a redistricting session, nationwide Republicans have gained about an eight seat advantage over Democrats in the redistricting push set off by President Trump.
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eBay has rejected an unsolicited $56 billion takeover from GameStop calling the proposal
neither credible nor attractive. GameStop saw eBay as a vehicle to compete with Amazon, and that its 1,600 stories could become drop-off in shipping locations. Kuwait says it detained four men with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who tried to infiltrate the country, Iran says the men were performing a patrol mission when their navigation
system failed, sending them into Kuwaiti waters, more from NPR's A.A.B.Trowy. Kuwait's Interior Ministry says a group of six men landed on its boobian island on May 1st, the rented fishing boat to quote "carry out a mission that included hostile acts against the state of Kuwait. It named all six and listed their rank in Iran's Navy.
The statement says Kuwaiti forces exchanged fire with the group and that a member of Kuwait's armed forces was wounded in the clashes. Kuwait says two of the men fled while the other four were arrested and confessed during
interrogation to belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
One has attacked Gulf Arab states with missiles and drones throughout the US is really war on it. But this incident in Kuwait marks the first time a Gulf Arab state says its forces clashed with Iranian forces on its soil. A.A.B.Trowy and Pyrnus Dubai.
Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay player, has died. He was a pioneer for inclusion and ambassador for the league. He had an eight-month battle with an aggressive form of a brain tumor. Collins played 13 years in the league for six different franchises. The announced he was gay in 2013 toward the end of his playing career.
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