"Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, President Trump and Chine...
Xi Jinping are about to open a state banquet in Beijing.
“It will be held in China's opulent Great Hall of the People.”
Trump is hoping to come to terms on trade agreements with Xi. NPR's Chamber Keith says Trump arrived in Beijing with company." More than a dozen top corporate leaders from the U.S. are part of the delegation here.
And Trump highlighted their presence in his remarks at the start of his first meeting
with Xi. "We're here today to pay respects to you and to China. And they look forward to trade and doing business and it's going to be totally receptacle on our behalf." This is basically a year after Trump launched a trade war and then China struck back and
both countries are now looking to put the trade relationship on at least a little bit more of a stable footing. NPR's Chamber Keith traveling with the President in Beijing. The White House says President Trump and Chinese President Xi have agreed to enhance economic cooperation.
“The White House also says both leaders agreed the straight of Hormuz should remain open”
to support the flow of energy.
But the White House statement made no mention of the issue of Taiwan. Chinese state media is reporting she did bring up the issue. China claims Taiwan is its territory. Taiwan says it is self-governed. The Chinese report says she told Trump if the issue of Taiwan is not handled well.
The U.S. and China will clash. Trump years Anthony Cune reports Taiwan has responded. Taiwan is a cabinet spokesperson, Michelle Lee, responded to Xi's warning by saying that the sole source of instability in the Taiwan state and the region is China's military threat against Taiwan, or put another way the risk of authoritarian expansion.
Previously, the official line of out of Taipei has been that the government is concerned but not overly worried.
The U.S. and the U.S. and the House oversight committee is investigating prediction
markets and threatening subpoenas. The move comes as reports of military and political insider trading grow in Washington and 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 a 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 in Calshy, 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 PR News, Washington. Andrew listening to NPR News from Washington. Closing statements will start today in the federal civil trial brought by billionaire Elon Musk against artificial intelligence company OpenAI and its chiefs, Sam Altman, Musk,
who runs his own AI company, alleges Altman and OpenAI betrayed the founding principles of the company, which he helped create. From member station KQED, Rachel Myrow reports. After three weeks of testimony wrapped, the judge told the jury all the pieces of the puzzle are now in the box.
The puzzle Elon Musk wants them to solve did his fellow OpenAI co-founders abandon their duty to the nonprofit's mission while making themselves billionaires. Musk brought the lawsuit against OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman and other co-founders, saying they stole a charity. They saved it.
What this case doesn't address is that Musk just folded his own AI company, XAI, into SpaceX, ahead of what could be the biggest IPO in history, and OpenAI is buying a public offering of its own at a similarly high valuation.
“What happens if OpenAI is ordered to unwind its corporate organization is anyone's guess?”
For NPR News, I'm Rachel Myrow. Today's the deadline set by the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a national ban on telemedicine access to the abortion pill, Miffa Pristone. The case comes from Louisiana, the state strictly limits abortion and wants to stop out of state providers from giving Miffa Pristone to Louisiana residents, a decision to stop
it could stop all healthcare providers in every state from providing the medication, even in states that protect abortion rights. This is NPR. Check out the summer guide from Pop Culture Happy Hour, listen on the NPR app, or wherever you get podcasts.
