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grand welcome before he started a series of meetings, which Chinese leader Xi Jinping impures
to hammer Keith as traveling with the president. President Trump was greeted by Chinese President Xi Jinping in front of the great hall of the people here, in Beijing, if there was a military display, a marching band playing the U.S. National Anthem among other songs, and a large group of children waving Chinese and American flags and artificial flowers jumping up and down, chanting a welcome President
Trump was clearly charmed by the children. Shortly after arriving at the Great Hall, Trump and his delegation sat down with President Xi, and during opening remarks inside the hall, Trump praised the Chinese leader. "It's an honor to be with you. It's an honor to be your friend and the relationship between China and the U.S.A is going to be better than ever before."
President Trump speaking inside the Great Hall, where he met with President Xi for about two hours on issues such as trade and Taiwan.
“The official Xinjiang News Agency says President Xi said Taiwan is the most important issue,”
and that if it's not handled, well-tized could be pushed to a dangerous place. The Senate once again narrowly defeated a war power's resolution that would have forced President Trump to end the war to Iran. And here's Eva Berger reports that three Republicans joined almost all Senate Democrats to vote in support of the bill. 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 to 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 Higgs-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.
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Now to Georgia, where Governor Brian Kempp is calling for a special legislative session next month to read dog, congressional, and state maps. The move is in response to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act, through Obolea, member station W.A.B.E. reports these new maps would be for the 2028 election. Campus face backlash from fellow Republicans for not stopping early voting that was already
underway for the May 19th party primaries to redraw the lines for this year's elections. Georgia Democrats face the likelihood that redistricting will cost them congressional and state legislative seats. An NPR analysis done before the Supreme Court's ruling founding decision affecting the Voting Rights Act could put all five Democratic congressional seats in Georgia at risk.
Georgia's Congressional map has nine Republican-leaning seats and five Democratic-leaning seats.
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This is NPR News. Democrats have a nominee for Nebraska's second congressional district, the so-called blue dot that could help decide control of the House. According to an associated press, race call, political organizer Denise Powell is advancing to the November mid-term elections, and will face Republican Omaha City Councilman
Brinker Harding. An energy company that drills deep into the earth and wrong the opening bill on the NASDAQ Wednesday, but it's not an oil and gas company.
NPR's Julia Simon reports fur-vo energy, a geothermal company, raised $1.8 billion in its
initial public offering. Houston-based fur-vo energy sold about 70 million shares, giving it an initial valuation of around $7.6 billion. Geothermal energy involves digging deep into the earth's surface, and the U.S. has a lot of geothermal potential.
Geothermal companies like fur-vo are a good bet for investors right now. There's a lot of demand for energy, but the Trump administration has put up roadblocks for solar and wind projects, yet the administration looks favorably on geothermal. Geothermal is another way to drill baby drill, and it provides reliable energy with far less climate pollution than fossil fuels, Julia Simon and Pernus.
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