Live from NPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, President Trump in Beijing saying he's h...
meetings with Chinese leaders, Xi Jinping, will lead to their relationship better than
ever before. "And 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, right, met
with President Xi for two hours on issues such as trade and the ongoing war and Iran, which has impacted the global oil supply for many countries including China, according to Shenhua, the official 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. Georgia will redraw its congressional maps during a special legislative session this summer
Georgia Public Broadcasting Sarah Callis reports.
Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Camp issued a proclamation calling a special session to redraw the state's congressional and state legislative districts. After the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act. Georgia's new maps will take effect in 2028, since early voting is already underway in this year's primaries.
Other states like Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, and South Carolina have proposed new voting maps that will likely add Republican seats to Congress. The redistricting announcements come after President Donald Trump encouraged states to redraw the maps to help him during the midterms. The special session is set to begin on July 17th.
“For NPR News, I'm Sarah Callis and Atlanta.”
"The country's largest civil rights group, the NAACP, as filed a federal lawsuit challenging
Tennessee's new congressional map. The group says Tennessee Republicans intentionally discriminated on the basis of race against black voters. Lawmakers approved the new map last week following U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that weakened the landmark voting rights act.
The State Department says it will suspend a requirement that some World Cup fans pay a bond of up to $15,000 to come to the U.S. this summer and PR's Becky Sullivan has more." Visitors from 50 countries are subject to the bonds payments, which were imposed by the Trump administration last year, as part of a crackdown on immigration. Five of those countries have teams participating in the World Cup, all of them from Africa,
Algeria, Kabul, Verde, Cote de War, Senegal, and Tunisia. Now visitors with verified World Cup tickets will be allowed to skip those bond payments
“so long as they opt in to the FIFA past system unveiled by the White House law's fall.”
All participating countries, a little band, including Haiti, Iran, and Senegal, though the White House has committed to making exceptions for players, coaches, and staff. Becky Sullivan, in PR news, Washington. "And you're listening to NPR news. The South Carolina Supreme Court has overturned a case that captivated the nation.
Former high-profile attorney Alex Murdoch will get a new trial after being convicted in 2023 for the murders 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 another 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. "You talk mother who wrote a children's book about grief following her husband's death
will serve life and prison without parole for his murder," a judge in Park City handed down the sentence Wednesday saying, "A quarry richards is simply too dangerous to ever be free," Richins maintains her innocence and plans to appeal the conviction. The drug counselor, who provided a friend star, Matthew Perry, with a ketamine that killed him, has been sentenced to two years in prison.
Eric Fleming received the sentence Wednesday, and Los Angeles Federal Court Fleming now, with a fourth person sentenced five who have pleaded guilty. I'm trial Snyder, this is MPR News. On Consider This, NPR's afternoon news podcast, we cover everything from politics to the economy to the world, but every story starts with a question.
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