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    U.S. President Trump visits China

    China offers Trump grand welcome, but issues warning on Taiwan

    5/14/2026 - 6:55 pm

    Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted President Trump and offered the U.S. a "new vision" of relations more focused on trade and collaboration than on confrontation. Trump in turn, offered a future in which he and Xi were "united and together." But China's president also had a stark warning to his American counterpart about Taiwan. Nick Schifrin reports from Beijing.

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    U.S. President Trump visits China

    Analysts break down Trump-Xi meeting and calls for stability and cooperation

    5/14/2026 - 6:45 pm

    For perspective on President Trump's trip and the broader U.S.-China relationship, Geoff Bennett spoke with Myron Brilliant and Liza Tobin. Brilliant is at the DGA Group and is the former executive vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Tobin is a former intelligence officer and was the China director at the National Security Council during the Trump and Biden administrations.

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    U.S. Capitol building in Washington

    News Wrap: Senate votes to withhold their own pay during future shutdowns

    5/14/2026 - 6:40 pm

    In our news wrap Thursday, the Senate voted to withhold their own pay during future government shutdowns, the CDC says 41 people are currently being monitored for hantavirus in the U.S.. rare protests have broken out in Cuba over fuel shortages and crippling blackouts and soul legend Clarence Carter has died.

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    Used boxes of Mifepristone, the first pill in a medical abortion, line a trash can at Alamo Women's Clinic in Carbondale

    Supreme Court extends access to mifepristone, for now

    5/14/2026 - 6:37 pm

    The Supreme Court again extended access to mifepristone, for now. Thursday, justices extended a pause on a lower court ruling that would have blocked telehealth prescriptions and mail distribution of the abortion pill. Amna Nawaz discussed what this means for people seeking the medicine and the legal fight still to come with Mary Ziegler of the University of California Davis School of Law.

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