"Live from MPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
President Trump says the U.S. forces have killed one of the top leaders of ISIS. In a social media post, Friday night Trump said a joint U.S.-Nicor, a Nigerian mission, led to the death of Abu Balal al-Manukhi.
He was the second and command of ISIS.
Trump says the military action took place in Nigeria. President Trump headed home to the U.S. Friday after three days of meetings with China's President and Beijing, the two leaders discussed trade and the war with Iran, speaking and Fox News Friday night. Trump talked about the most significant thing he got from the trip.
“"I think the most important thing is relationship.”
It's all about relationship. I have a very good relationship with President Xi and with China. And it sounds like something that doesn't mean anything when it's everything in deal-making and problems we've solved. The two of us have solved a lot of problems between that somebody else would have maybe
then very badly with." U.S. relationship with China dominated some of the discussions on his way home, Trump suggested to reporters. He may now rethink a plan major arms deal with Taiwan that he approved in December. Workers for the nation's largest commuter railroad are on strike.
As Stephen Nesson, a member of the station, W.NYC reports, "This is the first such strike
at New York's Long Island Railroad in more than 30 years. Five unions representing more than half the long-an railroad workers walked off the job at 1201AM. They've been locked in a bidder dispute with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority over their last contract.
The unions want a 5% raise in the final year.
“The MTA says it's too much money and if it does agree to that, they want major changes”
to work rules to pay for it. As a result, nearly 300,000 daily commuters will have to find a different way to get into Manhattan. The agency is running shuttle buses during the morning and evening rush, but there won't be enough for everyone.
Even her Kathy Hockel is urging residents to work from home if they can. For NPR News, I'm Stephen Nesson, in New York."
President Trump says China has agreed to buy more agriculture products from the U.S.
but Beijing hasn't confirmed that, which leaves some U.S. soybean farmers disappointed. And here's Wenzu, Johnston has a report. "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. No, he didn't provide details about any new purchases. Wenzu, Johnston and PR News, Washington.
"And you're listening to NPR News." Iran's Foreign Minister says a lack of trust in the U.S. is the major obstacle to finding peace in the region. Abbas Arragachis said Friday that contradictory messages from the Trump administration has made Iran uncertain about U.S. intentions in the Stalled Seas Fire negotiations.
Earlier this week, President Trump dismissed Iran's latest formal proposal calling it garbage. Candidate Qualifying closed Friday for New House District signed into the law last week in Tennessee. Republicans there, redrew the boundaries to eliminate one safely democratic district. And Pierce Steven Father has more reaction from the states.
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 a diverse." Democrats and voting rights groups disagree and several pending lawsuits argued the lines are illegal. Steven Fowler in PR News. Colorado Governor Jared Pollis Friday commuted the sentence of election conspiracy theorist
Tina Peters, the decision by the Democratic Governor came after President Trump put pressure on Paulus. The 70-year-old Peters was sentenced to nine years behind bars after being convicted for trying to make a copy of recounting election computer system in the letter to Peters, Governor Pollis called his sentence unusually long for the crime.
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