"Lie from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
President Trump is heading back to Washington, D.C. after meetings with Chinese President
Xi Jinping in China.
“Some American soybean farmer say their disappointed the talks did not produce more specific”
discussion about tariffs and agricultural exports. Your ZNPR is Windsor-Johnston. "Keyla Wrigland is a soybean farmer and Kentucky who voted for Trump. He says growers are struggling to compete while China increasingly turns to countries like Brazil for soybeans."
"Once they make that investment and they leave, it's going to be hard for us to get them back. As a farmer, that's concerning to me." "Bragland says farmers want more than promises from trade talks. They want action."
"We don't just need commitments that are made with lips and put down on paper. We need to see beans floating across the ocean and go into China." Trump says farmers will be happy with his trade deals and predicts China will buy billions of dollars worth of soybeans, though he didn't provide details about any new purchases.
“Windsor-Johnston and PR News, Washington.”
Ukraine's president and a top United Nations official say Russia deliberately targeted a UN vehicle in southern Ukraine with the tax-drowns. And PR's Joannica Kisses has more from Kiev. A vehicle carrying staff from the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs
was hit twice by small first-person view drones.
No one was injured, Tom Fletcher, the UN's emergency relief coordinator, told a briefing he was awoken in the middle of the night to news of the drone strike. "There are people very, very lucky to escape with their lives in what looks like a targeted attack. We are furious about that and we will demand accountability and full investigations."
The attack took place in Ukraine's southern Arizona region where Russian troops used drones to hunt civilians on foot and in vehicles. Ukrainians call this practice the human safari, Johanna Kichesis and PR News, Kiev. There have been no new hand-of-virus deaths reported to the World Health Organization.
“In nearly two weeks, however, contact tracing continues around the globe for the rare”
rodent-borne virus that could take anywhere from days to weeks to present symptoms. Today, WHO Director General Tedros Adenom Gibrisis said the global health body knows
of 10 cases including three deaths stemming from the outbreak on a cruise ship last
month. "The operation to transfer the ship's passengers from Tenerifeh has been successfully completed with more than 120 people now being carried in their home countries or quarantine in host countries in route to their final destination." In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is now monitoring at
least 41 people across the country for symptoms. CDC says 16 of them were on a flight to Johannesburg exposed to someone known to be infected. It's NPR News. After eight to multiverse years, as chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell is stepping down.
He hands the reins now to Kevin Warsh who was confirmed by the U.S. Senate this week. Now says he will continue serving on the governing board to help safeguard the central banks independence. That had been a major point of contention between him and President Trump, who often sought to pressure the Fed to aggressively reduce interest rates and publicly scolded Powell over
it. Of late the Fed has kept rates unchanged as inflation remains above the central banks to percent target. As immigration and birth rates decline, the U.S. population is not growing the way it used to.
However, new census data shows smaller cities are bucking that trend, and PR's Amy Held has details. Growth in many smaller cities is outpacing big urban centers. Census statisticians say that's in part because of new housing. The Dallas suburb of Selina is the fastest growing city in the nation.
It's population surged by about a quarter last year. My in-tubs is mayor. We have a whole lot of single family housing growth, but our commercial growth is catching up to that. A different story is playing out in big cities across the U.S. their average growth rates
fell by at least half. New York City's population last year shrank by more than 12,000 people. By 2030 the government estimates there will be fewer babies born in the country than there are deaths. Absent immigration, that means the U.S. population would shrink.
Amy Held and PR News. I'm Lakshmi saying NPR News in Washington. This week on the NPR politics podcast, President Trump in China, the latest on a summit that was built as a major meeting on trade and AI being overshadowed by the war in Iran, a close ally and trade partner of China.
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