"Li," from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi, saying,
"President Trump is on a high stakes visit to China."
“NPR's Tamarky reports the welcome Trump received at the airport is,”
"Only the beginning." There was a red carpet rolled up to Air Force One and a military ban started playing as Trump appeared at the top of the stairs. Trump was greeted by the Vice President of China and 300 Chinese teens in matching outfits, who waived small Chinese and U.S. flags in sync,
while chanting a welcome to Trump. A much larger ceremony is planned for when Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomes Trump at the Great Hall of the People. Trade is on the agenda for the visit and to drive that home, Trump was joined on the flight over by Nvidia CEO, Jensen Wong,
and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk.
Tamarky and Pair News Beijing. The Trump administration says it's imposing a moratorium on new Medicare and Romans by hospice and home health agencies in order to route out fraud. For the next six months, new providers of the affected services will be unable to sign up for reimbursement from the federal insurance program
for older adults and individuals with disabilities. President Trump is expected to name David Ventrella as the next acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, and Pair's Humanibustio with more. Ventrella was recently worked for the department overseeing contracts between ICE and various detention facilities.
He previously worked for ICE during the Obama and George W. Bush administration. He left the agency to work for Geo Group, a private prison company that contracts with the federal government for immigration detention. The selection comes as leadership at DHS led by news secretary Mark Wayne Mullin, are looking to shift away from controversial surges of enforcement and build up the tension
and deportation capacity. Ventrella will inherit a much larger workforce about 12,000 new employees were added in the last year. Humanibustio and Pair News, Washington. The federal civil trial continues in Oakland, California today against artificial intelligence
company open AI, billionaire Elon Musk, who has a rival firm is also suing open AI CEO Sam Altman, we have more from KQED's Rachel Myrow. 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 open AI.
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 open AI, which began as a public interest non-profit, has come to be a for-profit industry leader."
Closing arguments her Thursday, "Friend Pair News, I'm Rachel Myrow." This is NPR News. The show called "Clipping Economy" is booming. NPR's Bobby Allen reports on the thousands of freelance video editors who turn long content into short videos to make money from Clip for cash campaigns.
Behind the flurry of short video clips flooding, Instagram TikTok and X are people who edit down hundreds of videos a day into viral snippets, in response to bounties put up by companies and influencers typically paying around 50 cents per thousand views. Several Clippers told NPR they quit their day jobs to Clip full time. An agency founder said Clipping is the new TV commercial, or Billboard, in the age of scrolling.
At Executive Loop Ask Ellis says this shadow economy is a race to the bottom. The movie trailer gets a lot more views than the movie.
“So it's not a new phenomenon, but I think the reality is that”
in the attention deficit economy that we now live in, if you can't say it's shorter, people aren't going to see it. A leading Clipping Agency executive said most Clippers are between the ages of 16 and 24. Bobby Allen and pure news soon fans will explore the story of the Corleon crime family at the center of the godfather novels and epic films through the eyes of Connie Corleon.
Penguin Random House says it acquired a godfather novel authorized author by the estate of Mario Puso and written by bestselling author Adriana Trejani. In a statement Rejani says Connie is a novel about how a woman works to forge her own way in a world that's already decided who she is, what she's about, and how she should be traded. It's NPR news.
As Hurricane season approaches, a political storm is brewing at the federal disaster agency.
"I've never been a big fan of FEMA. I really don't see getting the job done."
But can we afford to lose this vital agency?
“Whenever there's a disaster, the first thing people say is, where's FEMA?”
American emergency, the movement to kill FEMA is a brand new series from WNYC's on the media.
