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The Supreme Court today rejected a bid from Virginia to restore a voter-approved congressional map that would have given Democrats the opportunity to pick up more seats in the closely divided U.S. House. That decision leaves in place a state Supreme Court ruling on maps that voters narrowly passed last month.
Virginia acted after President Trump pushed Republican-led states to redraw their maps to favor GOP candidates ahead of the midterms. Recently a Supreme Court ruling weakened the Voting Rights Act saying race can't be the only consideration in designing a map and the high court sided with Republicans in Alabama and Louisiana who hoped to redraw their congressional maps to produce more GOP-leaning seats.
President Trump is back in the U.S. after meeting with China's leader Xi Jinping in Beijing this
week impures Emily Fang reports while Trump hailed the meetings as quote "incredible,"
few concrete agreements have emerged yet, including on the issue of Taiwan. China warned during the meetings that Taiwan is still its top issue. Taiwan is a democratic island China wants to control one day and Beijing has threatened military action of needed. Trump said on Air Force One after the meetings that he and China's Xi discussed quote
"in great detail," delayed $14 billion American weapons sale to Taiwan. A sale that would include weapons to help Taiwan defend itself against China. But whether to go through with the sale was his decision Trump said, though he added,
“"I think the last thing we need right now is a war, that's 9500 in most of it."”
And with regards to a war that is going on on Iran, the U.S. and China did agree that the blockaded straight-of-war moves should be opened, Emily Fang and Pyre News. The news study finds no significant link between the use of anti-depressant medications during pregnancy and autism and ADHD in children. As Empire's retouchative report, the researchers recommend that pregnant women with depression
who are already on these medications should continue to take them. The study was a meta-analysis of 37 existing studies looking at use of anti-depressant medications during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders in children. Together, the studies included data on more than 600,000 pregnant women taking anti-depressants
and nearly 25 million women who didn't use these medications while pregnant.
At first, the researchers found a 69% increase in risk of autism in the children of moms who'd use the medications while pregnant. They also found a 35% higher risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. But when the researchers controlled for confounding factors like the mother's mental health and family genetics, the elevated risk for these disorders went away.
Retouchative and Pyre News. Wall Street Lower by the closing bell, you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Africa's top public health agency says that at least 65 people have died in an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Michael Coloki has more. In the statement, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is closely
monitoring the confirmed outbreak of Ebola in the Italy region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The health agency has urged those in the affected areas to report any symptoms they experience.
“I think that it was working with Congoliso authorities as well as officials from neighboring”
South Sudan and Uganda to boost surveillance of the disease and to contain the outbreak as quickly as possible over the past few decades, the Democratic Republic of Congo has witnessed a number of outbreaks of Ebola, 45 people died last year, after an outbreak of the diseases witnessed in the country's Casay Province according to the World Health Organization. For NPR News, Michael Coloki in Nairobi.
The judge has declared a mistrial in the rape retrial of Harvey Weinstein after once again the jury failed to reach a verdict.
Weinstein and erudifying figure of the Me Too movement was first convicted of assaulting Jessica
Man in 2020, but that verdict, along with another charge, was later overturned. A second trial ended with a hung jury last year. The 74-year-old disgraced movie mogul remains behind bars in California, where he's been since 2020. In 2022, he was convicted in Los Angeles of rape and sexual assault in sentenced to 16 years
in prison. He's appealing that verdict. I'm Janine Herbst and you're listening to NPR News from 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,
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