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President Trump is returning home from a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

He says both leaders spoke at length about the U.S. War with Iran.

They also discussed the U.S. alliance with Taiwan, the self-ruled island, China claims as its own territory.

Trump said on Air Force One that he's going to think about weather to advance an $11 billion

military arms package for Taiwan, after meeting with Xi who opposed any such aid to Taipei. The government of Cuba has freed a prominent political dissident after years in jail, NPR's aid-apurral to reports this came just as a CIA director, flew to Havana for talks. Xi Xi have a skulls somewhat up as a member of the opposition group ladies and white.

She was arrested back in the summer of 2021, when she joined thousands in street protests. Abaskal said state security agents gave her a choice, "We'll free you," they said, "but you have to go into exile." Abaskal accepted and on Thursday, she flew to Miami in freedom, she held a press conference. My heart is in pieces, she said, "It's stayed with all my brothers, we're still

in prison with those who the government has been unable to silence in their fight against totalitarianism.

The U.S. has enacted a de facto oil blockade on Cuba and threatened military action if

the government doesn't make fundamental reforms.

It'll prompt up NPR news, Mexico City. Possible challengers to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's job are emerging, following weeks of political upheaval and criticism about UK leadership. The United Kingdom has been at odds with its longstanding U.S. ally over the Trump administration's war with Iran, NATO, Ukraine assistance, and tariffs, and PR's law and fair has more.

He's seen as kind of wooden unable to connect with regular folks in contrast to the populist chain-smoking Nigel Farage who cast himself as a man of the people. And his anti-immigrant party trounced labor in municipal elections last week, that has sent the political establishment into a frenzy fearing the same could happen at the national level."

NPR's law and frayer Canada qualifying closes today in Tennessee for new House District signed in a law last week. Republicans re-juru the boundaries to eliminate one safely democratic district.

The new United District stretches from Memphis through rural Tennessee and into the Nashville

suburbs. Republicans in PR spoke with argued that's actually more representative of the state's population than packing black voters who overwhelmingly support Democrats into a single Memphis seat. Murray County GOP chair Jason Gillum.

"And a lot of people say, "Well, you know, you're going to have a complete diverse population within that district." "Well, that's kind of the way we are here, right in America. We're a melting pot. We're diverse."

Democrats and voting rights groups disagree and several pending lawsuits argued the lines are illegal, Stephen Fowler, in PR news. This is NPR. Harvey Weinstein's re-trial for rape has ended in a mistrial in New York City. Juris have notified the judge that they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the

charge, Weinstein's accuser, actor Jessica Mann, has testified against the former movie industry mogul in three separate trials. In a statement today, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office says it's considering next steps. Weinstein has been convicted of other sex crimes on the East and West Coast, and remains

in prison for crimes that the most prominent catalysts of the Me Too movement continues to deny. jury deliberations are expected to begin next week in the federal civil trial, brought by billionaire Elon Musk against Open AI and at CEO Sam Altman, Musk helped to launch Open AI and now owns a rival company, Rachel Miro with a conversation KQED reports on

the trial's closing arguments. Elon Musk claims his former co-founder at Open AI betrayed their nonprofit mission to enrich themselves, to win his lawyers need the jury to doubt CEO Sam Altman's credibility. Open AI's lawyers need the jury to doubt Musk's. Musk's attorney argued Altman and others failed to prioritize AI safety, and allowed

Microsoft's $13 billion investment to put the technology under the control of one company.

Open AI's attorney argued Musk was suing for revenge, not redress, saying quote, "Mr. Musk abandoned Open AI for debt in 2018, and it was only after he left that the maker of chat GPT became a stupidist success. For NPR News, I'm Rachel Miro." This is NPR News. From Spider-Man to a new Steven Spielberg movie, we know that TV and movies you'll want

to watch this summer. I'm excited about this film, I just know suspense, intrigue aliens, and I'm like, "Alright, Spielberg, I'm in." Check out the summer guide from Pop Culture Happy Hour, listen on the NPR app, or wherever you get podcasts.

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