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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump is flying to Beijing today. There, he'll meet with China's top leader, Xi Jinping. NPR's Emily Fang reports one of the issues front and center will be China's relationship with the island of Taiwan.
What are the key issues in President Trump's meeting with Xi Jinping?
Calling China's Xi Jinping an amazing man, Trump said the meetings with Xi later this week will cover energy prices, the war with Iran, and Taiwan, the democratic island China hopes to control one day. Asked about a delayed multi-billion dollar U.S. weapons sale to Taiwan, Trump has said he would talk about it with China's Xi Jinping.
A lot of good things can happen. We'll be talking about, I mean, he'll bring up Taiwan.
American legislation requires the U.S. to provide for Taiwan's defense, and that includes selling Taiwan arms. Trump has also said he'll raise the case of imprisoned Hong Kong activist and publisher Jimmy Lai, as well as an imprisoned Christian pastor in China. Emily Fang, NPR News.
The Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to change its congressional maps in a way that consolidates Republican power. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports it's part of a broader push in Republican-controlled southern states to redistrict after the court ruled it's unconstitutional to draw district lines based on race.
The Supreme Court is allowing Alabama to use a map that eliminates one of two largely black congressional districts now represented by black Democrats. In a social media post, Republican State Attorney General Steve Marshall lauds the victory.
We have fought for years against courts forcing Alabama to sort its citizens by race. And we were right to fight.
Freshman Democratic Congressman Shamari figures of Mobile holds one of the targeted seats.
This is a last-ditch effort led by the top Republican officeholder in this country, Donald Trump, to be able to stay in a position where he has unchecked power.
Other southern legislatures are moving ahead with similar redistricting plans. Debbie Elliott, NPR News.
Some pancreatic cancer patients are expressing hope following successful clinical trials of new treatments. NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports some hope that science might outrun the deadly cancer.
Vicki Stinson has defied odds typical for pancreatic cancer patients. Arizona native was diagnosed at a late stage. A doctor gave Stinson months, not years, to live. Two years on, Stinson is alive and has felt well, thanks to a drug in a clinical trial, Deraxan RACIP, that is so promising, the Food and Drug Administration expanded access for patients prior to its approval. Stinson notes there are other promising treatments as well. It feels like it's so close, and I kind of feel like a ripe tomato. on a vine. And it's like, if I can just keep holding on for a little bit longer, this just might work for me. Yuki Noguchi, NPR News.
Oil prices rose more than 3% today as the war with Iran threatens to drag on. This is NPR News. Instructure, the company behind the online learning system Canvas, says it has reached a deal with hackers to delete data stolen in a cyber attack. The terms were not disclosed. The breach caused chaos for students, many in the middle of finals. The hacking group Shiny Hunters has threatened to leak data from nearly 9,000 schools and 275 million individuals. In Nigeria, at least 100 civilians have been killed in an airstrike by the military. That's according to Amnesty International. NPR's Emmanuel Akinwotu reports it's the third such reported strike on civilians by the military in the last month.
The airstrike hit a crowded market in Zamfara State, northwest Nigeria. It's a remote region where armed groups are at large and where the U.S. launched airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants on Christmas Day. In this attack, Amnesty International and local media say more than 100 people were killed. Some 200 people died when the Nigerian military struck a different market last month. Airstrikes wrongly targeting innocents have repeatedly been blamed on the Nigerian military, who in a few cases have promised to investigate or have apologised, blaming faulty intelligence.
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