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What new tariff reductions are the US and China negotiating?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Both the US and China say they're reducing tariff rates on a small fraction of goods they trade. The two countries have been negotiating on these reductions for months. It's one of the few concrete outcomes from China State visit to Washington this week, as MPR's Emily Fang reports.
After Trump visited Beijing in May, the two countries have been working to find thirty billion dollars of non-sensitive goods each to reduce tariffs on. But that's a small slice of the more than four hundred billion dollar volume of US China annual trade. And two ongoing trade investigations into China on potentially unfair trading practices will likely raise overall US tariff rates on China again in the coming weeks. Following Shi's visit to the US, the two countries have also agreed to start an AI dialogue starting in November. The US and China held high level AI dialogues during the Biden administration, where both Biden and Xi Jinping agreed AI should remain under human control. She repeated the need for humans to control AI in his opening remarks while visiting Washington on Thursday.
Emily Fang and Pure News, Washington.
The White House barred CNN from accompanying President Trump on his trip to watch a college football game in Tennessee earlier today. The network was scheduled to provide TV pool coverage of that trip.
Why did the White House bar CNN from the President’s football‑trip pool?
This comes just hours after the Trump administration restored access for the network's journalists to the White House along with Politico and MS Now. And here's David Fokenflick has more.
Right now, uh all of the other members of the pool are refusing to step in. So the CNN is joined by CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox News. So those guys are all stepping away. So what you have instead are kind of these other outfits which are not part of the pool and are essentially aligned with the president. You have RAV, which is Real America's voice, manning this flight uh to Tennessee today, and in town you have Lyndell.
How is the nor’easter affecting the Northeast coast and what warnings are in place?
TV that's named for Mike Lindell, the my pillow guy.
And Pierce David Fokenflick reporting. A powerful nor'easter is slamming the northeast, prompting states of emergency to be declared in parts of New York and New Jersey, where flooding's already taking place. Steve Kastenbaum reports more than thirty-one million people are under coastal flood warnings and advisories from the Carolinas up through New England.
With wind gusts between forty and sixty miles per hour, New York governor Kathy Hokel said the impact of the storm would be felt most along the coast.
Lots of coastal flooding, perhaps even some erosion that could lead to down trees, and that means down power lines.
A foot or two of water covered low lying coastal areas of New York during high tide. The storm was pushing water up into several New Jersey shore towns. Streets in Surf City looked more like canals. In Delaware, the storm surge pushed an ocean buoy up into Rehoboth Beach.
Why are major platforms refusing ads for the Elon Musk documentary?
The effects of this nor'easter are expected to last until Monday. For NPR News, I'm Steve Kastenbaum in New York.
And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok are refusing to run advertisements for an upcoming documentary on billionaire Elon Musk. As MPR's Bobby Allen reports, Musk has threatened to sue over the nearly four-hour film, which he calls a quote hit job.
The documentary is called Musk. It's by Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney, and it's set for release next month. The film is a scathing look at the Tech Mogul's life from his childhood in South Africa, his rise in Silicon Valley, including his takeover of the site formerly known as Twitter, along with his time in the White House. Gibney asks, How did one man become so powerful? It's a message deemed too political by Meta, YouTube, and TikTok, all of which have refused to carry ads about the film.
What happened when OpenAI’s models accessed US government sites without permission?
That's according to a person close to the production who wasn't authorized to speak publicly. Earlier this month, lawyers for Musk threatened to file a defamation lawsuit over the film.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What new tariff reductions are the US and China negotiating?
0:00–1:15
2
Why did the White House bar CNN from the President’s football‑trip pool?
1:15–1:51
3
How is the nor’easter affecting the Northeast coast and what warnings are in place?
1:51–2:47
4
Why are major platforms refusing ads for the Elon Musk documentary?
2:47–3:44
5
What happened when OpenAI’s models accessed US government sites without permission?
3:44–4:09
6
What surprising story does Ira Glass share on This American Life?
4:09–5:03