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What did President Trump say about journalists after the White House state dinner?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. CNN and MS now say their reporters were blocked from covering President Trump's state dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House. That comes after journalists from those outlets and politico returned to the White House today, following a federal judge's order for Trump to restore their access. NPR's Brian Mann reports on the president's response to the ruling.
Writing on his truth social platform, Trump again accused US journalists without offering evidence of conspiring to make up false stories about him. Then according to a pool report from press photographers with Trump today during his meeting with Xi, Trump reportedly made a joke about China having the friendliest press corps. China, of course, is a communist nation with overwhelming government control over free speech and the press.
Nine man reporting. New York City police arrested more than a hundred people outside the UN headquarters today. As Walter Wothman of WNYC reports, activists protested Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the General Assembly.
Why did activists and politicians get arrested outside the UN headquarters in New York?
Dozens then refused police orders to leave the area, including Daria Lisa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist, and the nominee for an upper Manhattan congressional seat. Somebody, if it won't be um our presidential administration or other elected officials, needs to know that accountability must happen, that you cannot enact a genocide and walk freely through the streets of New York. The Israeli leader used his speech to dismiss accusations of genocide. Many of those arrested are political allies of Mayor Zoran Mamdani, whom Netanyahu frequently criticized in that speech. For NPR News, I'm Walter Wothman in New York.
African leaders at the UN General Assembly are demanding reform at the Security Council to include permanent seats for African countries. Many African heads of state have expressed frustration over the continent's lack of permanent representation as they navigate global security issues. A grand jury has issued no indictments in the case of Nolan Wells, the teenager found dead off of the Mississippi coast in July. Attorneys for the family are sharing their findings, though, as questions remain. Elise Gregg of the Gulf States Newsroom has more on findings from Wells' cell phone.
How are African leaders at the UN pushing for Security Council reform?
Forensic investigator Andrew Garrett at a press conference in Orlando talked through findings from the cell phone extraction.
Things were deleted on the phone from the time he last had the phone up until the time that his parents got the phone.
Garrett and his team have been working with attorney Ben Crump in his office, they comb through phone data, including Snapchat messages and group conversations. And what they eventually found appears to contradict earlier statements by the Jackson County prosecutor, who said a preliminary report indicated no messages were deleted since Wells' last use. For NPR News, I'm Elise Gregg in Jackson, Mississippi.
US stock indexes ended roughly back where they started today after an up and down day. The S P five hundred was virtually unchanged. This is NPR News. Major Chinese auto group Geely has unveiled new charging technology that can recharge an electric vehicle battery from ten percent to seventy percent in just four and a half minutes. It's an attempt to narrow the gap with the conventional five-minute gas refueling time.
What challenges are federal education workers facing after the department’s reorganization?
Chinese cars are effectively banned in the U.S. When President Trump took office, he vowed to dismantle the Education Department, saying that changes wouldn't affect sending money to America's neediest students. But as NPR's Janaki Meita reports, federal education employees tell a different story.
NPR spoke to five current employees at the agency who all asked not to be named because they fear losing their jobs. The education department told NPR the changes will increase efficiency, but workers say being scattered across several federal agencies makes sending money to states and schools less efficient, partly because staffers used to manage grants with one system at education.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What did President Trump say about journalists after the White House state dinner?
0:00–1:06
2
Why did activists and politicians get arrested outside the UN headquarters in New York?
1:06–2:14
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How are African leaders at the UN pushing for Security Council reform?
2:14–3:15
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What challenges are federal education workers facing after the department’s reorganization?
3:15–4:14
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What breakthrough did Stanford scientists announce about the brain’s structure?
4:14–4:53