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What new tariff reductions were announced between the U.S. and China?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Linda Kenyon. It's one of the few concrete outcomes from China's state visit to Washington this week. Both the U.S. and China have confirmed they are reducing tariff rates on a small fraction of goods they trade with each other. NPR's Emily Fang reports.
After Trump visited Beijing in May, the two countries have been working to find $30 billion of non-sensitive goods each to reduce tariffs on. But that's a small slice of the more than $400 billion volume of U.S.-China annual trade. And two ongoing trade investigations into China on potentially unfair trading practices will likely raise overall U.S. tariff rates on China again in the coming weeks. Following Xu's visit to the U.S., the two countries have also agreed to start an AI dialogue starting in November. The U.S. and China held high-level AI dialogues during the Biden administration, where both Biden and Xi Jinping agreed AI should remain under human control.
How will the upcoming U.S.–China AI dialogue address human control of artificial intelligence?
Xi repeated the need for humans to control AI in his opening remarks while visiting Washington on Thursday. Emily Fang, NPR News, Washington.
What impacts is the nor'easter having on the Mid‑Atlantic and New England communities?
A nor'easter is bringing powerful winds, local floods, and canceled events from the mid-Atlantic to New England. And Piers Averberger reports.
In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Talia Mano saw a car totaled from flooding on her street. She said she hadn't seen so much water since Hurricane Sandy. The water was just like, you could literally see waves on my steps. You could see waves on the steps. That's how much water was there. Jessica Lisboa was out on an Atlantic Ocean cruise as the storm grew. It felt honestly like a roller coaster. And Olga Ostrovetsky had planned to tie the knot on a beautiful fall day in September.
Why are deported Venezuelans challenging their removal under the Alien Enemies Act?
Instead, her small New York wedding continued. just
with a lot more wind. But it's kind of fitting, to be honest, because my fiancé and I met, and it was a torrential downpour, so we met in a day like this, and we're also getting married on a day like this.
Coastal flooding, heavy rain, and high winds are expected to continue to pummel the East Coast. Several states have made emergency declarations. Ava Berger, NPR News.
An appeals court heard arguments Friday on whether to bring back to the U.S. more than 100 people deported to Venezuela last year. Here's NPR's Nate Perez.
The Venezuelans were deported under the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely used policy previously reserved for wartime. They were sent to El Salvador's infamous prison, Secot, despite a court ordering the return of their flight. Lawyers for the deported men said the U.S.
How will ending federal oversight of school desegregation orders affect segregation trends?
government violated their due process rights, as most of the plaintiffs were in immigration proceedings prior to being detained. But some on the three-judge panel were skeptical whether this appeals court is capable of determining whether the deported men could challenge their imprisonment in a foreign country. The case could be decided by next week. Nate Perez, NPR News.
You're listening to NPR. The Justice Department says it's ending oversight of more than 50 school desegregation orders. As NPR's Nirvi Shah reports, research shows racial segregation has actually grown.
Desegregation orders became a tool, especially in the South, for enforcing the 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. the Board of Education, which said racially separate schools are inherently unequal and unconstitutional. The orders established federal oversight of some districts' efforts to integrate students in classrooms and provide access to quality school buildings and extracurricular activities. In announcing plans to drop those orders, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said, "...the effort does not reflect the reality of those classrooms today." Yet federal data show many public schools remain highly segregated. Some House Democrats posted on social media that schools are, quote, just as segregated today as they were in the late 1960s.
What safety measures did TikTok agree to implement in its Alabama settlement?
And this move is, quote, turning us back toward the Jim Crow era. Nirvi Shah, NPR News.
TikTok has reached a settlement with the state of Alabama.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What new tariff reductions were announced between the U.S. and China?
0:01–0:56
2
How will the upcoming U.S.–China AI dialogue address human control of artificial intelligence?
0:56–1:04
3
What impacts is the nor'easter having on the Mid‑Atlantic and New England communities?
1:04–1:40
4
Why are deported Venezuelans challenging their removal under the Alien Enemies Act?
1:40–2:31
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How will ending federal oversight of school desegregation orders affect segregation trends?
2:31–3:55
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What safety measures did TikTok agree to implement in its Alabama settlement?
3:55–5:05