Janine Herbst

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is meeting Chinese leaders, pressing for fairer trade rules and more help in ending the war in Ukraine.

Merz says global crises, including the war in Ukraine, can't be settled without Beijing.

European governments say China hasn't pushed Russia hard enough to end its war, but Beijing says it's staying impartial in the conflict.

You're listening to NPR News from Washington.

A Senate committee will consider President Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management this morning.

The Mountain West News Bureau's Hannah Merzbach reports some veterans want senators to vote no on the nomination of Steve Pierce.

In the Northeast, people are still digging out from the massive winter storm that dumped up to two feet of snow in places.

This as the area deals with power outages and flight delays.

In Massachusetts, more than 160,000 people are still without power and crews from around the country are helping restore electricity there.

Hundreds of flights have been canceled, more than 8,000 delayed.

Meanwhile, the National Weather Service says another storm is expected to move into the northeast late tonight.

But forecasters say this one's a fast-moving storm and it will only drop around an inch of snow.

U.S.

futures contracts are trading higher at this hour.

All three major indices are up about three-tenths of a percent.

I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

The U.S.

may be on the verge of taking military action against Iran, but NPR's Franco Ordonez reports President Trump didn't make much of a case for why that may be necessary during his State of the Union address last night.

The House narrowly rejected a bipartisan aviation safety bill that was written after the deadly mid-air collision near Washington, D.C.