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to buy US agriculture products, but Beijing hasn't confirmed that. And that leaves some
“US soybean farmers to support it at the lack of details. And here's Windsor Johnston”
has more. "Keyla Brighland 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." "Brighland 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. The U.N. is trying to raise more money for aid to Cuba
“where a major energy crisis threatens health care and food production on the island.”
But in Pierce, Michelle Kellerman reports the U.S. says it won't donate to the U.N.'s efforts. The U.N.'s office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs says it has raised only 30%
of the $94 million that needs for Cuba. Fuel shortages have created what one top official
called a multi-faceted emergency. The State Department tells NPR that the U.S. will not give any money to the U.N. in Cuba, stating, quote, "The U.N. in Cuba has long colluded with the regime." The statement goes on to explain that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has offered $100 million in goods to be delivered by the Catholic Church or other, quote, "independent and respected organizations. Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department."
The World Health Organization says Hontavirus may be able to spread through casual contact, but that the risk to the general public is low. And Pierce Gabriella Emmanuel has more. Initially, when this outbreak attracted headlines, the WHO said it's spread human
human in close, prolonged contact within households between intimate partners and when a patient
was being cared for by a medical professional. The WHO's Maria Van Kirkoff now says, looking at a past outbreak in Argentina, there was spread at a birthday party, where guests were seated near each other, but not at the same table. There has been more casual contact where infection may have occurred, so we simply want to learn a bit more. And in the meantime, up our precautions, she says, "This is why everyone on the
ship is being monitored and treated as high risk. There are ten cases and three deaths, according to the WHO. Gabriella Emmanuel and PR News." While street lower by the closing bell, the Dowdown 537 points. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to sue the New York Times for defamation over allegations of sexual and physical abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israeli guards.
As impairs David Fokenflick reports, the Israeli government is calling the allegations of blood libel. A note, this material may be disturbing for some listeners. Pulitzer Prize-winning column is Nicholas Christoff, wrote of quote, "A pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children, buys soldiers, settlers and interrogators in the Shinbed Internal Security Agency, and above all,
prison guards." This really government is denied and condemned the peace. The Israeli embassy in DC did not respond to a request for comment, but critics have taken issue with the peace's sources and its specifics, including a claim that dogs have been trained to sexually assault prisoners. The Times has defended Christoff Netanyahu also threatened a defamation suit against the Times last year, but didn't file one. David Fokenflick and PR News.
In New York, the biggest commuter rail system in the country, LIR, could be hit with a strike tomorrow, as the window for contract negotiations with union workers is set to expire at midnight. A strike almost happened last fall, but intervention from the Trump administration got the two sides to agree to six months of talks to try to come to an agreement on a new contract, so far though they haven't. The LIR is the busiest commuter rail in North America with around 250,000
travelers daily, officials say limited free shuttle bus service will be provided. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington. This week on the MPR 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
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