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President Trump arrived in Beijing today for a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
“Trump was greeted by a military honor guard, a military band, and hundreds of young”
Chinese people waving flags and chanting "warm, welcome." The greaders were decked out in white and Robins' egg blue outfits that matched the paint job of the iconic presidential plane. The main part of the summit with President Xi starts tomorrow when they hold bilateral talks visit the temple of heaven and take part in a formal banquet.
The talks are expected to focus on the Iran War, trade, and U.S. arm sales to Taiwan. The Senate, once again, nearly defeated a war power's resolution that would have forced President Trump to end the war in Iran, three Republicans joined almost all Senate Democrats to vote in support of the bill, and PR's A.V. burger is at the Capitol. The vote is the seventh and an effort largely led by Democrats to constrain Trump's ability
to continue to engage in the conflict with Iran. The resolution was defeated 49-50, senators Lisa McCowski, Rand Paul, and Susan Collins voted with Democrats, while Senator John Fetterman, the Pennsylvania Democrat, joined with Republicans to defeat the bill.
“The vote came one day after Secretary of Defense, Pete Hague-Seth, told Congress that the”
cost of the conflict had risen to nearly 30 billion.
He asked lawmakers for record 1.5 trillion to fund the Pentagon next year. Eva Burger and PR news, the Capitol. One year after President Trump's executive order to shelter 6,000 homeless veterans and PR's Quill Lawrence reports Democrats and Republicans say they've seen little progress. The President's order aimed to create what he called a center for warrior independence
on the sprawling VA campus in West Los Angeles, but adhering Republican Congressman Mike Boss said the administration has blocked oversight with non-disclosure agreements. If agreements, planning decisions or delay are hiding behind NDAs, the American taxpayers and our veterans deserve to know how the land is being used and why progress has been so slow.
On going construction at the campus has taken decades, the secrecy also worries LA veterans advocate Rob Reynolds. I want to see President Trump's executive order be successful, but again, we need to get rid of these non-disclosure agreements.
“The administration's budget request funds minimal new housing on the campus, Quill Lawrence”
and PR news. The Trump administration is expanding its fraud busting initiative in federal health programs
by President JD Vance today announced a $1.3 billion pause in Medicaid reimbursements
to California. The administration is also imposing a six-month freeze on some new Medicare enrollments and warning states to investigate Medicaid fraud or risk-losing funding. It's a legitimate concern, but some have pushed back on the administration's aggressive tactics.
A rebound for tech stocks today led Wall Street to new records, even though the majority of U.S. stocks fell following another discouraging update on inflation. You're listening to NPR news from Washington. Florida, Republican Attorney General James Uthmeyer says he has issued an investigative subpoena to the NFL regarding the RUNE rule, that's the rule that requires teams to interview
at least two minority candidates for head coach, general manager and coordinator positions. Uthmeyer sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Gaudell in March saying the rule amounts to blatant race and sex discrimination. Abesity is rising faster in poorer countries than in wealthier ones, according to a new study, and PR is a Jonathan Lambert reports.
Around the 1980s, obesity started ticking up in many parts of the world. Back then, it was mostly a problem for wealthy countries, but as time went on, it grew into a global phenomenon. Now a new analysis finds that obesity levels are plateauing in most wealthy countries, a few, including France and Portugal, are even seeing declines.
But across many low and middle income countries, rates are accelerating. Some of those countries, including many Pacific Island nations, now have some of the highest obesity levels of any country. The study can't say for sure why this is happening, increased availability of sugary drinks and processed foods could be a factor of the author's say, and blacks or food regulations
may also be contributing. Jonathan Lambert and PR News. The usually colorful packaging on some Japanese snacks is turning a somber black and white as the Warren Iran disrupts the supply of an ingredient in colored ink, Calbee, which normally makes potato chips and a bright orange bag says what's inside remains the same, even though
new packaging just has monochrome lettering. It's the latest impact of the closure of the straight-of-home moves through the war in the Middle East. This is NPR News. On Consider This, NPR's afternoon news podcast, we cover everything from politics to the
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