"Li from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, President Trump has arrived...
for a two-day state visit and talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Piers Jennifer
Pack has more from Beijing."
“Trump was the last U.S. President to visit since 2017, and after all of the ceremonial”
pump, Trump still launched a trade war with China. He imposed even more tariffs in sanctions last year when he returned to office. These officials retaliated, and the two sides reached a sort of pause last fall. But it's fragile. The two leaders are keen to stabilize the relationship.
Chinese media showed roads leading out of the Beijing capital airport were lined with U.S. and Chinese flags side-by-side to greet Trump's arrival. An editorial in the state-owned people's daily said, China U.S. relations cannot go back to what it was in the past, but there could be a better future.
Jennifer Pack and PR News Beijing.
One of the issues Trump and Xi are also likely to discuss is the war in Iran. China is one of the largest buyers of Iranian crude oil. Iran has choked off oil supply shipments to much of the world. The Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, Dr. Marty McCary, is resigning after 13 months on the job.
There was turmoil at the FDA during his tenure. Supporters of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s effort make America healthy again, felt McCary moved too slowly on their agenda. But McCary also began work with significant cuts to the FDA by the Trump administration. One of his predecessors, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, says that was a challenge.
“I think that the biggest challenge at the U.S. faces and faced was just a loss of senior”
personnel.
If you look at overall, they lost thousands of staff members, thousands of medical reviewers.
If you look at the oncology division, the agency went from about 100 medical reviewers that was starting strength to about 50 now. He spoke to NPR's morning edition. A congressional watchdog office finds that coal miners, who are looking to get federal disability payments for black lung disease, face a host of barriers.
For member's station KNAU, Chris Clements has more. The U.S. government accountability office found coal miners can wait for years while seeking benefits. That's true for Alex Ossif, who is Navajo, Hopi, and Pima, and a former coal miner who worked on the Navajo nation.
He says the coal companies that are on the hook for paying miners' benefits can slow
“the process down by not providing employment histories.”
The program needs to view these operators and continue to make sure that they stand up to their promise to the miner. The report also found that even when they get benefits, many coal miners face obstacles accessing the medical coverage they're entitled to. For NPR News, I'm Chris Clements in Flagstaff.
On Wall Street, Delf is down about 200 points. This is NPR. The federal civil trial continues in Oakland, California today, against artificial intelligence company OpenAI. Billionaire Elon Musk, who has a rival firm, is also suing OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman.
Musk alleges, Altman and the company betrayed their original principles. From Member Station KQED, Rachel Myro reports, Altman, took the stand yesterday. Sam Altman said no single person should control AGI artificial intelligence, or AI that surpasses human intelligence. So he told the court, Elon Musk's insistence on majority control made him a poor fit
for OpenAI. On cross-examination, Musk's attorney asked whether Altman had repeatedly been called a liar by people with whom he'd done business. Altman replied, quote, "I have heard people say that." This case turns on how OpenAI, which began as a public interest-non-profit, has come
to be a for-profit industry leader, closing arguments for Thursday, for NPR News, I'm Rachel Myro. New York City Democratic Mayor, so Ron Maldani, says that he has balanced the city's budget. He's done it without raising property taxes.
Mymdani received significant help from New York State Democratic Governor, Kathy Hockel. Mymdani says the New York City budget rejects past austerity measures and does not burden working class families in the city. However, critics say Mymdani is using short-term measures that won't solve long-term budget problems.
I'm Corvacolman, NPR News, and Washington. I'm David Remnick, and each week on the New Yorker Radio Hour, I'll try to make sense of what's happening alongside politicians and thinkers like Cory Booker, Nancy Pelosi, Liz Cheney, and so many more. That's all the New Yorker Radio Hour.
