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President Trump is on a long anticipated state visit to China.
“He told reporters earlier that trade would be the main focus of his talks with leader”
Xi Jinping, a new NPR Chicago Council Ipsos poll finds most Americans believe U.S. tariffs have been bad for both economies and driven up consumer costs here. More from NPR as Frank Langfit. Lisa Kajiwar is a physical therapist and greater Chicago, which he bought a Chinese-made board game.
She knows tariffs added up to $20 to the price. "I think the tariffs are bad. Making a worse deal for a country's trade does not mean we'll get more stuff out of it." David Morgan lives in North Carolina and supports tariffs, low-age competition from China's sank is furniture company.
"This is dried up. We need to have the orders. We found chapter 11 and sold off a lot of our stuff."
“The poll shows most American see a potential solution.”
Cut tariffs on China in exchange for China buying more U.S. agricultural goods. Frank Langfit and PR news, Washington. The Pentagon says the costs of the war with Iran continues to rise by billions of dollars. With a ceasefire, the President Trump describes it as being on life support lawmakers and Congress are expressing frustration.
Here's NPR as a call to get East Atlas.
Pentagon officials estimate the Iran war has cost $29 billion so far, but that does not include
repairs to U.S. facilities attacked by Iran that could add billions more to that price tag. The Pentagon plans to ask for supplemental funding on top of a $1.5 trillion budget proposal for the next fiscal year that Defense Secretary P. Hexith argues will remake the military. "This is admittedly a historic budget. It is a fiscally responsible budget and it is a warfighting budget."
But amid an unpopular war, many lawmakers are expressing by partisan frustration over
“the administration's shifting plans concerning Iran and a lack of information tied to their”
historic spending plans. The Secretary of State of Alabama says it'll hold a special primary election for four of the state's seven congressional seats. The U.S. Supreme Court had clear the way for the Republican-led state to use a congressional map that had been previously blocked by the courts and appears to actually low-pads.
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-defunct map that the lower court ordered. This ruling, however, came a week before the state's primary Republican Governor-K.
IV 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 male voting was already underway. The new special primary election will be held on August 11th, Ashley Lopez and PR news.
From Washington, this is NPR News. In London, mounted soldiers escort the British monarch to deliver the King's speech for the ceremonial state opening of Parliament today, weeks after visiting the U.S. today King Charles III laid out the United Kingdom's priorities, including on foreign policy. This has been a source of friction with the Trump administration.
My government will also uphold the United Kingdom's unbreakable commitment to NATO and our NATO allies, including through a sustained increase in defense spending. A head of the speech, Prime Minister Kear Starmor, Exit at 10 Downing Street, and encountered reporters shouting questions about his political future. Starmor is under growing pressure to resign following dismal performances in local elections
last week. Alec Murdach, the South Carolina former attorney, sent to prison for life. For the 20-21 murders of his wife and son, is getting a new trial. Today, the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously accepted the defense's argument that a court clerk tampered with the jury in Murdach's initial murder trial.
A new trial does not mean Murdach walks free. The 57-year-old is also serving lengthy prison sentences for state and federal financial crimes. U.S. stocks are mixed this hour, the Dow is down more than 100 points. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News.
This week on up first, President Trump heads to China on the agenda, Taiwan, AI, and the
war with Iran, a close Chinese ally and trade partner. When big question will Trump ask China to pressure Iran to reopen the state of Hormuz. We're reporting from Beijing on a week of major news that affects the world and your wallet on up first, listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
