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What are the key issues addressed in the U.S.-China bilateral talks?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The leaders of the world's two largest economies, the U.S. and China, hold bilateral talks this week. And Pierre Scott Horsley is monitoring the summit in China.
The White House says the president wants reciprocity and fairness. And to be sure, lots of countries around the world are concerned that China is distorting markets by producing too much and dumping the excess elsewhere. Trump also wants China to buy a lot more stuff from the United States. China has made commitments to buy more in the past and then often fallen short of those promises. U.S. farmers in particular have paid a price when China started buying soybeans from Brazil instead, for example.
NPR Scott Horsley reporting. Vice President J.D. Vance has announced that the administration will defer more than a billion dollars in Medicaid funding for California. He accuses the state of not doing enough to combat fraud in programs that assist low-income individuals and people with disabilities. Under Vance's oversight as fraud czar, Medicare, the program designed to help older adults and younger people with disabilities, is also targeted.
How is the U.S. administration tackling Medicaid fraud in California?
We are going to very aggressively encourage the states to take Medicare fraud more seriously.
The administration says it is requiring a six-month moratorium on new Medicare enrollments. by hospice and home health agencies. The South Carolina Supreme Court has overturned former attorney Alec Murdoch's murder conviction for the 2023 deaths of his wife and son. South Carolina Public Radio's Victoria Hanson reports.
The ruling was unanimous. The justices said Murdoch was denied a fair trial. Specifically, they said the Colleton County Clerk of Court attacked Murdoch's credibility by telling jurors to watch him closely as he testified. The justices also said the presiding judge should not have admitted evidence of Murdock's financial crimes into the six-week-long trial. The ruling is a win for Murdock, who has long denied shooting his wife and son in 2021. But the 57-year-old won't be getting out of prison. He's serving a lengthy sentence for state and federal financial crimes, including stealing millions from former clients. For NPR News, I'm Victoria Hanson in South Carolina.
Federal judge in Colorado is ordering more training for immigration agents. Colorado Public Radio's Allison Sherry explains.
What was the outcome of Alec Murdoch's murder conviction appeal?
The senior judge had already found that immigration and customs enforcement officers were not following their own laws in arresting and detaining people in Colorado. Congress authorizes warrantless arrests, but only in narrow circumstances. And if ICE agents decide to detain someone, they're supposed to put them through a flight risk assessment. They weren't doing that in 2025, according to lawyers, and the ACLU sued. ICE has yet to get into compliance, though, on a ruling from last year. So now a judge this week ordered more training on warrantless arrests for ICE agents. That's Alison Sherry reporting.
It's NPR News. A report out today offers new details on math and reading scores for students in the United States. NPR's Corey Turner reports the researchers say big losses in learning did not begin with the coronavirus pandemic some six years ago, but in fact years earlier.
The annual report is called the Education Scorecard, and it comes from researchers at Stanford, Harvard, and Dartmouth. Pouring over decades of math and reading scores, the researchers say America's students hit a learning recession, not during COVID-19, but around 2013. Stanford researcher Sean Reardon.
In fact, you wouldn't really know there was a pandemic effect if you just looked at the last 10 or 12 years of test scores. There's been just a steady kind of decline.
What changes are being mandated for immigration agents in Colorado?
As for why learning got so derailed, the researchers have two theories. One, a big federal education law was essentially abandoned around 2013, meaning school leaders started feeling less pressure to improve. And two, social media use among U.S. youth started to skyrocket. Corey Turner, NPR News.
What does the latest Education Scorecard reveal about student performance?
Soon fans will explore the story of the Corleone crime family at the center of the Godfather novels and epic films through the eyes of Connie Corleone.
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Chapters
6 chapters
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What are the key issues addressed in the U.S.-China bilateral talks?
0:01–1:07
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How is the U.S. administration tackling Medicaid fraud in California?
1:07–2:21
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What was the outcome of Alec Murdoch's murder conviction appeal?
2:21–3:44
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What changes are being mandated for immigration agents in Colorado?
3:44–4:07
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What does the latest Education Scorecard reveal about student performance?
4:07–4:42
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What new insights are shared about the upcoming Godfather novel?
4:42–5:03