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The leaders of the world's two largest economies, the U.S. and China hold bilateral talks
“this week, and Pierre Scott Horsley's monitoring the summit in China.”
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. And Pierre Scott Horsley reporting.
Vice President J.D. Vance has announced that the administration will defer more than a billion
dollars in Medicaid funding for California. He accuses the state of not doing enough to combat fraud and programs that assist low income individuals and people with disabilities. Under Vance's oversight is fraud, ZAR, Medicare, the program designed to help older adults
“and younger people with disabilities, is also targeted.”
"We are going to very aggressively encourage the states to take Medicare fraud more seriously." The administration says it is requiring a six-month moratorium on new Medicare enrollments by hospice and home health agencies. The South Carolina Supreme Court has overturned former attorney, Alec Murdoch's murder conviction for the 2023 deaths of his wife and son, South Carolina Public Radio's Victoria
Hanson reports.
"The ruling was unanimous.
The justice is said Murdoch was denied a fair trial. Specifically, they said the Colleton County Clerk of Court attacked Murdoch's credibility by telling jurors to watch him closely as he testified. The justice is also said the presiding judge should not have admitted evidence of Murdoch's financial crimes into the six-week-long trial.
The ruling is a win for Murdoch, who has long denied shooting his wife and son in 2021.
“But, the 57-year-old won't be getting out of prison.”
He's serving a lengthy sentence for state and federal financial crimes, including stealing millions from former clients. For MPR News, Auditoria Hanson, in South Carolina." Federal Judging Colorado's ordering more training for immigration agents.
Colorado Public Radio's Allison Sherick's plane.
The senior judge had already found that immigration and customs enforcement officers were not following their own laws in arresting and detaining people in Colorado. Congress authorizes warrantless arrests, but only in narrow circumstances. And if ICE agents decide to detain someone, they're supposed to put them through a flight risk assessment.
They weren't doing that in 2025, according to lawyers, and the ACLU sued. ICE has yet to get into compliance, though, on a ruling from last year. So now a judge this week ordered more training on warrantless arrests for ICE agents. That's Allison Sherick reporting its NPR News. A report out today offers new details on math and reading scores for students in the United
States. NPR's Corey Turner reports the researchers say big losses in learning did not begin with the coronavirus pandemic some six years ago, but in fact, years earlier. The annual report is called the Education Scorecard, and it comes from researchers that Stanford, Harvard, and Dartmouth, pouring over decades, math and reading scores.
The researchers say America's students hit a learning recession, not during COVID-19, but around 2013. Stanford researchers Sean Reardon. In fact, you wouldn't really know there was a pandemic effect if you just looked at the last 10 or 12 years of test course.
There's been just a steady kind of decline. As for why learning got so derailed, the researchers have two theories. One, a big federal education law was essentially abandoned around 2013, meaning school leaders started feeling less pressure to improve, and two, social media use among US youth started to skyrocket, Corey Turner and PR news soon fans will explore the story of the Corleone
crime family at the center of the godfather novels and epic films for the eyes of Connie Corleone. Penguin Random House says, "It acquired a godfather novel authorized by the estate of Mario Puso and written by best-selling author Adriana Trejani." In a statement, Trejani says, "Coney is a novel about how women works to forge her
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