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What did President Trump say about his upcoming meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Sang. President Trump says he will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping this fall and travel to China early next year as relations appear poised to break out of a rut. The two leaders had a phone call today that Trump said yielded progress on a range of thorny issues. Here's NPR's John Ruit.
Trump says the call with Xi was very productive and Chinese state media call it pragmatic, positive, and constructive. It's unclear though how far the two got in negotiations over a pivotal issue: the fate of the short video app TikTok. The Trump administration has been trying to broker a deal for US companies to take control of the app from Beijing-based ByteDance. and prevent it from going dark in the US in line with a law passed last year.
How are the FCC and First Amendment issues being debated over broadcaster licenses?
Trump said on social media the talks yielded progress on quote the approval of the TikTok deal. An official Chinese readout of the meeting was ambiguous though, as was a statement from Byte Dance that thanked Trump and Xi for their efforts to preserve the app in the US. John Ruich, NPR News.
Anna Gomez, the only Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission. Tells NPR is here and now the FCC does not have the constitutional authority to revoke the license of a broadcaster. That airs content President Trump does not like. Gomez says the First Amendment prohibits the FCC from censoring broadcasters that way, as does the Communications Act. This comes in the fallout of ABC's decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel's late night show from air over remarks he made about Charlie Kirk's assassination last week.
What new sanctions is the European Commission proposing against Russia and why?
President Trump applauded ABC's action and suggested broadcast licenses be withheld from any entity that speaks badly of them. The European Commission is proposing another round of sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine, Terry Schultz has a latest
European Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen notes that in the last month Russia's attacks on Ukraine have intensified, with an airstrike even damaging the EU's own diplomatic mission in Kyiv. So we are banning imports of Russian LNG into European markets. It is time to turn off the tap. She says since the beginning of Russia's full-scale war on Ukraine, Moscow's oil revenues from sales to Europe have been reduced by more than ninety percent. Other measures in the package include blacklisting more tankers that transport Russian fuel. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz.
Who was songwriter Brett James and what were the circumstances of his death?
The music industry is remembering songwriter Brett James. The North Carolina State Highway Patrol says the Grammy Award winning country songwriter was among three people who died in a plane crash yesterday afternoon. The Associated Press quotes the patrol and reporting the other two people on the plane were Melody Carroll and Merrill Maxwell Wilson. It's unknown what caused their small plane to crash in the woods in Franklin. James wrote a string of top hits, including Jessica Andrews's Who I Am
Brett James was fifty seven years old. From Washington, this is NPR News. In a surprise move today, a panel of vaccine advisors to the federal government tabled
Why did vaccine advisers pause a proposed change to the childhood vaccine schedule?
their proposed change to the vaccine schedule. That schedule would have dropped the current recommendation That all children receive the hepatitis B shot at birth. Panel, which Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stacked with people who have long questioned the safety of vaccines. We're also now saying that the vaccine for children program should not cover a combined shot known as MMRV, measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox. The Taliban government of Afghanistan has released an elderly British couple who had been detained for the past eight months.
How did the Taliban’s release of a British couple relate to U.S. access to a Kabul airbase?
The couple Lived in Afghanistan for decades and ran a charity in central Afghanistan, and PRC Hadid has more from Mumbai.
Barbie Reynolds, seventy five years old, and her husband Peter, eighty years old, had been held without charge since February. The Reynolds children said their parents were mistreated in detention. They said their mother was only fed one meal a day, and their father was shackled and chained. They were released following mediation by the Gulf State of Qatar and a British envoy.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What did President Trump say about his upcoming meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping?
0:01–0:43
2
How are the FCC and First Amendment issues being debated over broadcaster licenses?
0:43–1:28
3
What new sanctions is the European Commission proposing against Russia and why?
1:28–2:14
4
Who was songwriter Brett James and what were the circumstances of his death?
2:14–3:07
5
Why did vaccine advisers pause a proposed change to the childhood vaccine schedule?
3:07–3:39
6
How did the Taliban’s release of a British couple relate to U.S. access to a Kabul airbase?
3:39–4:39