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meetings with Chinese leaders, Xi Jinping will lead to their relationship better than
ever before. "We're going to have a fantastic future together, such respect for China, the job you've done. You're a great leader. I say it to everybody.
You're a great leader." President Trump's speaking inside the great hall of the people in Beijing, very met with President Xi for two hours on issues such as trade in the ongoing war in Iran, which has impacted the global oil supply for many countries including China, according to the Shenhua News Agency, the Chinese state news agency.
“President Xi said Taiwan is the most important issue, and that if it is not handled”
well, ties could be pushed to a dangerous place.
Southern legislators continuing their redistricting efforts following the Supreme
Court's ruling last month at Week in the Landmark Boating Rights Act, Brooke Thorington of Memorization WRKF reports at Louisiana Lawmakers are moving forward with a new map after a meeting that ended shortly before dawn Wednesday. After heated debate and opposition from members of the public, a state Senate committee advanced a redistricting plan that could help Republicans flip a house seat now represented
by a Democrat. After the plan that state would have five Republican-leaning districts in one Democratic one, Democratic state Senator Royce De Plessis opposed it. Hundreds of people showed up to support the diversity and true democracy of this state in the way ignored.
The bill's author said he wanted to give Republicans an advantage in the midterms. Governor Jeff Landry suspended House primaries after the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act.
“The plan goes before the full Senate on Thursday and the House next.”
For MPR News, I'm Brooke Thorington, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
To Washington now, where the House over-site committee is investigating prediction markets and threatening subpoenas. The move comes as reports of military and political insider trading mountain Washington in PR's Luke Garrett reports. Oversight committee chairman, James Comer, says he's requesting data from prediction markets.
Those are exchanges that host bets on future events. Here's Comer, a Kentucky Republican on Fox Business. Well, we're starting to request information. That's the process. That's how it begins.
We'll request information. And if we have trouble getting it, then subpoena will follow. The probe comes after representative Chris Papas, a Democrat from New Hampshire, called on Comer to investigate suspicious bets on military actions and political outcomes.
“Billions of dollars are wagered each week on prediction markets, like Polymarket and Kalshi,”
where users can bet and win money on everything from sports, culture to even elections. Comer did not specify which prediction markets are being investigated. Luke Garrett and Pyrenees, Washington. And you're listening to NPR news. President Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Reserve as the next chair, Clench Senate
Approval Wednesday, the 54 to 45 vote by the full Senate on Kevin Worsh's nomination was along party lines, and may concern about the Fed's independence under President Trump. And Democrats, Pennsylvania's John Federman, cross party lines, to vote with the Republican majority. The drug counselor who provided friend star Matthew Perry with a ketamine that killed him
has been sentenced to two years in prison. They are claiming received the sentence Wednesday and Los Angeles Federal Court, flaming now the fourth person sentence of the five who have pleaded guilty. A high school band in Wisconsin will not be allowed to perform a song at their spring concert because of the music's ties to LGBTQ history.
Wisconsin Public Radio's Karine Hes reports. It watered on school board outside of Milwaukee removed a mother of a revolution from next week's concert program. School board members said the piece could incite political violence. Its composer Omar Thomas dedicated it to a transgender activist.
School board member Sam O'Neill said the decision to pull the music reflects the platform members campaigned on which was ending indoctrination in the classrooms and ending radical curriculum. Come on, a civilist, a trombone player in the middle school band asked the board to reconsider. I don't think you guys understand how hard it is to listen to you guys, not accept them
because I know it's like not the accepted. She explained she's gender fluid and has been bullied. Students have been practicing the piece all school year. For NPR News, I'm Corinne Hes in Milwaukee. If the brain is like a computer, then Kyle Madonna Kenny's was crashing.
The room was spinning and I was shaking, but only on one side. Doctors couldn't see anything physically wrong with Kyle's brain, with the hardware so to speak. The problem was with the software, and the condition she was eventually diagnosed with is called functional neurological disorder.
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