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Why is President Trump meeting European leaders in Scotland and what trade issues are discussed?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. President Trump is in Scotland where he's meeting at this hour with Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission to discuss trade. Tomorrow he's to meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. George Eaton is a senior editor of politics at the New Statement magazine. He says Trump and Starmer have a warm and cordial relationship.
I think it's gone well for two reasons. One is that Donald Trump is very sen sentimental about his connections to the UK through his Scottish mother. He has great admiration for the royal family. And Keir Starmer has appealed to all of this. He's given him a historic second. State visits, uh, which is planned for uh the autumn, and he's increased defense spending and he's avoided picking fights.
Trump arrived in Scotland Friday.
How is the U.S. responding to Hong Kong's new arrest warrants and security law enforcement?
His visit has sparked anti Trump protests in several cities. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is condemning the Hong Kong government's latest round of arrest warrants and bounties targeting overseas activists. The nineteen include US based individuals accused of seeking to overthrow the governments of Hong Kong and China. Young Thompson Broomy has more.
Hong Kong police have issued rewards for information that leads to the arrest of the group that the city's police allege set up an illicit Hong Kong parliament and constitution, contravening a strict national security law brought into effect in 2020 following mass protests against Beijing's rising influence. In a statement issued by the State Department, Secretary Rubio accused the Hong Kong government of continuing to erode the financial hub's autonomy. Army. Rubio said, quote, We will not tolerate the Hong Kong government's attempts to apply its national security laws to silence or intimidate Americans or anyone on US soil.
Texas state lawmakers met in Houston this weekend to take public testimony. It's part of a rare mid decade round of congressional redistricting. Houston public media's Andrew Schneider has more on the story.
The Justice Department has identified four districts in which black and Latino residents dominate as quote unconstitutional racial gerrymanders, which it is ordering Texas to redraw.
What are the allegations of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering in Texas and how is the Justice Department intervening?
Dallas Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett told state representatives that the twenty twenty one maps are already heavily gerrymandered against the state's non white majority.
To comply with the Voting Rights Act, we should have 60% of the seats that allow people of color to elect their representatives. That would be 24 seats. Instead, we currently only have 14.
Crockett is one of three black Democrats in the Texas congressional delegation and the only one whose district is not targeted in the Justice Department letter. For NPR News, I'm Andrew Schneider in Houston.
This is NPR News in Washington. Authorities in Michigan say a forty two year old man is in custody after a mass stabbing at a Walmart yesterday. The local sheriff's office says the man had entered the store in Traverse City shortly before five PM and stabbed eleven people with a folding knife. People in the store helped apprehend the suspect and treat the victims. Investigators say it appears the stabbings were carried out at random. Some Harvard alumni are quietly urging University President Alan Garber to reach a deal with the Trump administration, similar to the two hundred and twenty million dollar agreement Columbia announced last week.
What happened in the Michigan Walmart mass stabbing and how did witnesses help?
From member station GBH in Boston, Kirkarapesa reports.
Several alumni say they'd like Harvard to agree to certain reforms in order to restore billions of dollars in federal research funding. They say Columbia simply agreed to follow existing laws related to race conscious admissions and student discipline policies. The most prominent example might be former Harvard President Larry Summers. He posted on X that the Columbia deal is, quote, an excellent template for other colleges. Others view the Columbia Deal as a dangerous warning for civil society, and they want Harvard to resist what they see as purely political attacks on American higher education.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Why is President Trump meeting European leaders in Scotland and what trade issues are discussed?
0:00–0:56
2
How is the U.S. responding to Hong Kong's new arrest warrants and security law enforcement?
0:56–2:21
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What are the allegations of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering in Texas and how is the Justice Department intervening?
2:21–3:37
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What happened in the Michigan Walmart mass stabbing and how did witnesses help?
3:37–4:39