"Lie from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
President Trump's heading back to the Washington D.C. area aboard Air Force One,
capping a state visit to China. The leaders of the world's two biggest economies talk trade, including three major items the U.S. wants to sell, beans, beef, and Boeing aircraft. And Piers Tamerke reports on whether China's committed to buying. "We haven't seen anything in writing yet, but administration officials and President Trump
have been making the rounds doing interviews and the pictures coming together. And there's been some movement to allow U.S. beef producers to resume exports to China. And President Trump in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News said China would be buying lots of soybeans and Boeing aircraft."
“Trump says he and she also spoke at length about the U.S. war with Iran, a key trade partner”
to China. Both the greedy Iran should reopen the state of Hormuz and should not have a nuclear weapon. However, it does not appear Trump has secured China's commitment to press Iran to deliver on either demand.
The death toll in Ukraine has risen to at least 24 people following Russia's latest barrage of missile and drone strikes. He's targeted the capital and other areas than Piers, Joannica Kisses, as more. The Russian strikes turned a nine-story apartment building into rubble. The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, left flowers there for those killed.
He said in a video address that Russia bombed Ukraine virtually nonstop for two days to exhaust Ukraine's air defenses. We must find countermeasures for such attacks as soon as possible. In 48 hours, Russia used more than 1,500 drones and 56 missiles in the strikes.
“Zelensky said Ukraine was able to intercept 94 percent of the drones and 73 percent of the”
missiles. He said the number one priority is securing air defense that can take down more missiles. Joannica Kisses and PR news, Kia. CIA directed John Ratcliffe made a surprise visit to Kubey yesterday and delivered a stern message from President Trump.
This coming at a time when Kubey says, "It's out of fuel and suffering massive power blackouts." His NPR's Greg Mairin directed Ratcliffe's trip wasn't announced in advance, but the spy agency said afterward that he met the head of Kubey's intelligent services and the Interior Minister. A CIA official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Ratcliffe traveled to the island
to present Trump's position. The official said, quote, "The United States is prepared to seriously engage on economic and security issues, but only if Kubey makes fundamental changes." Trump has threatened on several occasions to take some unspecified action against Kubey.
“But is suffering a debilitating energy crisis.”
The government says the country is out of oil causing power blackouts of 20 hours or more per day. That's Greg Mairin reporting, it's NPR. Immigrant rights advocates in Minnesota say the Trump administration's surge of federal officers in Minneapolis led to a spike in donations to community support groups, however,
now they say the money is dried up since the surge ended. NPR's serial Martinez-Biltran has the tales. In April, eviction filings in Minneapolis spiked 26% in comparison to April of last year. That's according to Homeline, a tenant, Advocacy Group. Alexandria Guzman Gomez has been helping migrants with housing.
She started a rent relief effort in Minneapolis in January that has paid over $1.5 million
in rent. But as of lately, community members are not donating as much. They think a lot of people are just burnt out. They're burnt out. They don't have the time.
They also don't have the money anymore. Food and gas have gotten pricier and volunteers as well as donors have lives to return to. They hope others will step up. Sergio Martinez-Biltran NPR News Minneapolis.
Deadline's approaching to a vertical strike on the long island railroad North America's busiest commuter railroad, the L.I.W.R. serves New York City's Eastern suburbs, the transports
roughly quarter million customers each weekday.
It has been unable to reach an agreement with Union officials representing local mode of engineers, signalmen, and other train employees. Both sides haven't until 1201 AM Saturday to reach a labor contract agreement if not Union workers could strike or be locked out by management. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News.
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