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"Let me Martinez and I'm Rachel Martin. Good morning. The White House is facing some difficult times internationally. The way the withdrawal from Afghanistan is playing out, has some allies questioning us competence and resolve. Last night, the Biden administration tried to get the focus back on its top foreign policy objective. China President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping had a phone call only their second since Biden took office. NPR, China Affairs correspondent John Ruit is with us on the line. Hi, John. Hi there what they talk about? Well. The conversation, according to the White House was broad and strategic. They talked about areas where the U. S and China have interest that converge and areas that values interests and perspectives diverged in there. A lot of those, the Chinese readout was pretty similar to the U. S. One. And interestingly, it struck a more conciliatory and sort of hopeful tone. Then then, state rhetoric has done in the past year. Relations are really bad now between China and the US and inviting, and she Both talked about how the two countries have a responsibility to ensure that competition doesn't veer into conflict. But you know, it's hard to know at this point. Just how much of this call will really help relations? I mean, it's the first call since February, which is a pretty long hiatus right for something that's so important. I understand. The Biden administration says it asked for this phone call right? Yeah, it did. Relations. As I said, have been pretty icy. Their interactions that there have been to date have been frustrating to the U. S. According to a senior U. S. Administration official. This person said Chinese officials were basically showing up to meetings to read out tough sounding talking points and that might be good for domestic propaganda in China, but really didn't amount to what the US saw his engagement or diplomacy. So The idea for this call was to kind of re ignite dialogue at the highest level, try to unstick things. Also the Afghanistan withdrawal is still reverberating right? Biden's poll numbers are down. So this is the way it really to show that he's at the helm on this key foreign policy issue, but is the issue that she, Jean Ping doesn't want to engage as much as the U. S. Would would prefer. Yeah, that's what they were trying to probe with this. You know, they're not happy in Beijing with the Biden policy towards China. They didn't like Donald Trump right. He launched a trade war, then took a series of unprecedented steps near the end of his presidency that harden US policy towards China. They thought Beijing hopes bit. Biden would be different. So far, he hasn't rolled back many of Trump's big China policies. He's working with allies to try to get tough on China. And the U. S mantra has been that the relationship will be competitive in some areas and cooperative and others. Chinese officials aren't having it. I mean, they've they've said it's foolish for the US to expect cooperation when there Doing things that Beijing sees as undermining China's interests. Whether that's on technology, trade or core issues like Hong Kong, Taiwan, a Xinjiang and meanwhile the G twenty's coming up in October is Xi Jinping, and go We don't know. It's a good question. You know, the big question here is whether this all trickles down and changes the way things work at lower levels. Yeah. NPR China Affairs correspondent John Ruit. Thank you. Thank you. Time now for StoryCorps to mark the 20th anniversary of 9 11. We have a story of two identical twin brothers who were alike in every way Rich and Ronnie Palazzolo did everything together. They.
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"Fresh sanctions on a handful of US individuals. It's retaliation for sanctions the bite and administration imposed on Chinese officials last week. Over Beijing's crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong. Its latest attack comes just days before a visit to China by Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and US China ties are already tense, though, as NPR's John Ruit reports there is no sign China's sanctions will derail the visit. Sanctions are the first imposed by China under a new law passed in June, which facilitates retaliation for foreign sanctions. Among those it hits a former Commerce secretary Wilbur Ross, and the China director at Human Rights Watch Sophie Richardson. For years, Beijing's responded to US sanctions and tariffs with tit for tat measures in Beijing's calculation, it had to respond to the US Bonnie Lynn, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says doing so before Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman's trip makes sense would disappear better if it happened a couple days after Deputy Secretary Sherman's trip that she says might risk being interpreted as a signal that the meeting didn't go well. And Sherman will be the most senior U. S official to travel to China since President Biden took office. Relations are at their worst in decades. But there's speculation that the trip could start to lay the groundwork for a meeting sometime this year between Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. There is a desire to be able to showcase that the two world leaders can work together and part of that is being able to meet and discuss issues they agree on as well as those where they have differences, and I really hope As we see more of these incidents is on either side that they won't derail progress towards the usual meeting because both sides, she says, have significant incentives for Biden and she to meet sooner rather than later. John Ruijin
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"Live from NPR NEWS. I'm Barbara Klein. The Justice Department has announced its inspector general is conducting an internal review of the use of subpoenas by the DOJ under President Donald Trump. The investigation has been promoted by revelations that the Trump Administration issued subpoenas to get electronic data of two leading House Democrats. NPR's Windsor. Johnston has details. The former Trump Administration secretly seized data from the Apple accounts of the committee's top two Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell as part of an investigation into the disclosure of classified information. The Justice Department also targeted the records of Democratic staffers and their families, including a minor congressman, ship calls the actions and abuse of power, adding that lawmakers need to know more. In a statement. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she supports calls for an investigation. Top Democrats in the Senate, including majority leader Chuck Schumer, are demanding that former attorneys General William Barr and Jeff Sessions be called to testify. Windsor Johnston NPR news British prime minister bars Johnson opened the South G seven summit in Cornwall, England, today, declaring he and his counterparts must learn lessons from the coronavirus pandemic Prime among them inequality. I think what's gone wrong with this? Pandemic award risks being a lasting scar is that I think that inequalities may be entrenched, and we need to make sure that as we Recover. We level up across our societies and we we build that better. Meanwhile, China's top diplomat says Beijing is gravely concerned about the theory that the coronavirus might have escaped from a Chinese lab as NPR's Jon rule, which reports that's not the only thorny issue he discussed today, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken Young yet sure who heads the Chinese Communist Party's Foreign Affairs Commission. Says the lab league theory is absurd and called on the US to respect facts and science and refrain from politicizing the issue, China's state TV reported. He also said America should address its own human rights abuses rather than interfere in other's affairs. Lincoln repeated US concerns on the call about Hong Kong and the treatment of Muslim leaders in China's Xinjiang region. US. China ties are at their worst in decades with friction across the board. Young urged Washington to work with Beijing to get relations back on what he called the right development trajectory. John Ruit NPR news The newly retired chief of Israel's intelligence service, has told the main Israeli television channel that Mossad was behind a recent attack on an Iranian nuclear facility. It's the closest acknowledgement that Israel was involved. This is NPR. This is 90.9, WB, you arm. I'm Jack Lepi Ours in Boston. The second Braintree Police officer wounded in a shootout is back at home. Officer Bill Cushing was released from the hospital today, one week after he and another officer were wounded by a suspect. Cushing's police dog kit was killed. The other officer was released from the hospital last weekend. The suspect was killed as well. The state.
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"The White House put out a statement saying President Biden applauded the passage of the bill that would heads to the House for consideration. John Ruit. NPR news later on, all things considered, prices for consumer goods have been going up, but the Biden administration insists the hikes are just temporary. Listen, ask your smart speaker to play NPR or your member station by name. This is NPR news. It's morning edition on W. N. Y. C and Michael Hild Indian Americans are the second largest immigrant group in the country after Mexican Americans and they have the highest median income. It is w N. Y. C is a ruin, Vidigal Paul explains. A new report helps shed additional light on their attitudes and experiences of discrimination Mill Invasion of is a co author of the new report and director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He says the wealth and high socioeconomic status of Indian Americans has allowed many Americans to think the community is relatively inoculated from discrimination. We know that now not to be true Vision of says the report was based on a survey of 1200 Indian Americans last summer. What was really surprising to us and somewhat shocking is that one in two respondents 50%. Personally experienced discrimination in the past 12 months, Uh, the majority point to bias on the basis of their skin color. But then they were asked how their experience compares to that of other groups. Whether racial or, say LGBTQ or women as bad as they might have it, Uh, they actually think they're relatively better off than many other minority populations in the US and within the community. There are big differences. Someone who's younger and was born here for Example, is more likely to have felt discriminated against then say their immigrant parents, despite the older generations distinct Indian accents. Davis Kapoor is a scholar at Johns Hopkins University and Co authored the report. He says. Younger Indian Americans are also more willing to be critical of India is that country engages in what he calls democratic backsliding. They are less willing to cut India slack if the government engages in actions that Adversely affect my daughter. Keys or otherwise have you know intolerance is younger Indian Americans age and increasingly shape political discourse. This could very well have foreign policy implications. Room vinegar. Paul W. N. Y. C news W N. Y C supporters include the New York Botanical Garden now on view Kasama Cosmic Nature featuring contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi gruesome as sculptures and installations across.
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"This is all things considered. I'm Elsa Chang in Los Angeles. And I'm Ari Shapiro in Washington, where two weeks from now, all remaining restrictions on how many people can pack into businesses will end around the country businesses and state and local governments are dropping pandemic rules are dropping pandemic rules. More people will be heading back to in person work soon, and so many employers are looking at whether they can require workers to get the vaccine. Johnnie Taylor Jr is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management. Welcome back to all things considered. Glad to be here, Ari, How are you? All right, Let me just start by asking how much of your attention has been taken up by this one question of whether employers can legally require workers to get vaccinated. It's literally more than half my time. Employers are from different industries, different geographic regions of the country. Everyone's asking that question. And the question is really two questions. Can I and shut up there sometime? Different answers. Well, let's start with the can. I question I know there are a lot of opinions. Is there a simple Yes. No answer to whether this is legal or not. Yes. And the answer is yes, the E. O. C. Has said without a question that you chant it mandated. There are caveats the two being, if, in fact someone has a religious objection to it, they can ask the reasonable accommodation. And if someone has a serious health condition under a disability of sorts that title seven states, you can't discriminate against people who can't take it. But other than that, absolutely you can mandate They say that this is clearly legal with those carve outs. But already there at least a couple of lawsuits arguing that employers cannot mandate this. There's one from a new Mexico corrections officer, another from teachers in Los Angeles. Do you expect to see more We do and listen. I'm a lawyer by training right? And so nothing stops anyone from bringing a lawsuit, But the government's guidance has been clear. We had a national, unlike anything global health crisis and this was the response that if safety is priority, workplace safety is priority. And we have a way to improve and enhance work Late workplace safety, which includes asking people to be mad to be vaccinated, then the courts have said that's reasonable. You say they're two questions? Can they? And should they can make question might be straightforward. That should they question sounds a little more complicated. What are you advising people? So we're saying it depends upon your culture Are you like at the end of the day, some organizations and most, by the way, don't most people don't want to mandate especially to Americans anything. And so we went for a long time with strongly encourage. Right now, However, with more than 50% of the American population, being adult population being vaccinated, and we have not had in any significant numbers, people die or become seriously ill. More more employers to say You know what mandate is what we're gonna do. We first tried to strongly encourage you. We motivated you. We entice you with employers will be we're paying people to do it. But now It's time for us to get back to work, and we have to provide a safe of the workplace as we can. So you must do it. Delta Airlines just did it, for example. Now. Delta's a huge company. What? When? When we spoke to you last in December as the first vaccines were being authorized, you predicted that many small companies would require vaccines because when they're just a few employees, somebody calling out sick could be a very big deal. Have you seen that play out? Well, there's no question the small and medium sized companies are all over this right there like listen, it's one single point of failure. One employee gets sick gets a customer sick. We hit the headlines. Our business is in trouble so small and medium medium size businesses are clearly going toward the mandate. I was surprised to see the tide turn your right when we spoke earlier in the year. Big companies like United, we're considering it. Didn't United Airlines that is, But then all of a sudden Delta came out. And now consistently. We're seeing the drumbeat of companies saying yes, we're gonna mandated. Not. Interestingly, Delta said. Our current employees were not gonna mandate We're going to strongly encourage all new employees. You must be vaccinated to work here. Hmm. So you're saying the tide is moving in the direction of requiring vaccinations? What do the companies they're not requiring it have in common. What's the reason they give for that, you know, is their culture. People are pushing back against that American thing. We don't like to be told to do anything. We don't mind complying. We don't even want mind. You strongly encouraging, But when you tell me I have to do it. I immediately don't want to do it just for general for like a G. P s. So that's what they're seeing in there trying to go with If everything works. We want people to do this on their own. That is Johnny Taylor Jr. President and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management. Great to talk to you again. Thanks a lot. You're talking with you be well. The Senate is scrambling to pass a major bill that would pour hundreds of billions of dollars into science and technology in a bid to out compete China and as NPR's John Ruit reports, the bill has rare bipartisan support. Joke Making the rounds these days. Is that pretty much? The only thing that Republicans and Democrats can agree on. Is China. There's been a tidal wave of China related proposals in Congress. And the Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 is one of the biggest Indiana senator Todd Young is one of the key sponsors as his Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, who's been leading the charge to get it passed. It could be a moment in history that future generations look back on as a turning point. American leadership in the 20th century 21st century, the 1400 Page Act appropriates more than $50 billion for America's microchip industry. It allocates tens of billions Maura for energy and space research. It overhauls the National Science Foundation, and it also includes billions in funding to create new tech hubs around America. David Johnson is president and CEO of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership. He says that last provision could be a game changer for places like Indianapolis, where there's talent and energy, but no scale for a tech boom. It's a no brainer that that program would be great. There just hasn't been a great deal of governmental participation in the building of the tech sectors of the economy that we have here. Jimmy Good rich with the Semiconductor Industry Association likes the bill, too. He says. The U. S today only produces 12% of the world's semiconductors down from close to 40% in 1990, in part because of neglect today, the reality is that Semiconductors are a strategic industry. Other governments around the world recognized their strategic importance and have for a long time provided government incentives.
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"In the public interest 93.9 FM and AM a 20. NPR News and the New York conversation. Live from NPR news in Washington. I'm Dave Mattingly. A stampede at a religious festival in northern Israel today is blamed for at least 44 deaths and about 150 injuries. Witnesses say chaos erupted when large numbers of people trying to pass through a narrow walkway, they say people began falling on top of each other as attendees descended metal stairs. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later visited Mount Marone, where he offered his condolences. India continues to set daily World records for new Corona virus infections Latest 24 hour total tops 386,000 Several states in India are reporting they've run out of covert 19 vaccines. Some countries, including the U. S, or now shipping, medical supplies and drugs to India. Trust me to Pataki has more. The United States says it will send some off. It's selfless vaccines to India, but it's not clear when. On Saturday, India is opening up vaccinations for anyone 18 or older. Many Indians did say they're already out of covered 19 shots in years expected to receive its first order of the Russian Sputnik vaccine. On Saturday, the State Department says family members of U. S diplomatic personnel are being allowed to leave India voluntarily. President Biden will travel to Pennsylvania this afternoon, where he's expected to promote his infrastructure proposal and an event marking the 50th anniversary of Amtrak. This is NPR news. Indonesia is remembering 53 crew members who died last week when their Navy submarine sank and broke apart had happened off the resort island of Bali. Relatives of those killed tossed flowers into the ocean from a Navy hospital ship. Officials say the submarine sank to a depth greater than its whole could withstand. During a training exercise. China's navy plans to help Indonesian to recover the submarine and the remains of the crew. Chinese regulators are warning the country's tops tech companies to keep their forays into the finance sector above board. NPR's John Rule, which reports China's central bank teamed up with the foreign exchange stock market and banking regulators to call in representatives of 13 tech companies with finance arms. Among them were social media giant 10 Cent, the search firm by Do and e commerce heavyweight JD dot com. The regulators said they were aware of quote serious issues in China's fin tech sector. Those include unlicensed financial businesses as well as violations of consumer's rights and interests. The companies need to correct the problems, enhance their antimonopoly measures and prevent the disorderly expansion of capital. Chinese government has been tightening regulation and asserting more control over the fintech sector, which has grown in importance for the economy. John RUIT NPR NEWS Amazon says first quarter earnings more than tripled from the same quarter a year ago. I'm Dave Mattingly. NPR News in Washington. This is W in my sea in New York at 6 33. Good morning. I'm David. First alternate side. Parking is suspended today for orthodox Good Friday. Parking meters remain in effect. Muslim police officers in Newark, New Jersey, will now be able to wear his jobs when working their religious head. Coverings typically reserved for women will be blue and easily removable with Velcro. Works. Public safety director Brian or Harris says the policy change, which was announced yesterday during Ramadan is appropriate and timely. It sends the message that as an agency we value and respect having Muslim officers in our department. In the past, the Newark Police Department has had a fraud, legal history with religious exceptions to uniforms. 1999. The department refused to make an exception for two Muslim officers who believes prohibit them from shaving their beards. The officers successfully sued the department in federal appeals court. 64 degrees now. 62 sorry degrees. Now we're going up to 67 today. Tonight Mostly cloudy with a low around 42. It's w what I see..
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"Dropped dropped significantly since a regional high just a month ago. Looking at where the numbers stand now, as of state data. As of yesterday, Mantra county is 99 patients in hospital for Corona Virus 38 in Santa Cruz County and 12 in San Benito It's all things considered from NPR news. I'm Mary Louise Kelly. And I'm Audie Cornish. Next. What happened in a Utah school district where some white families opted out of black history, month lessons or, you know the last 400 years, we've been having this push to have a more inclusive and factual history Be told. That's ahead. First the news. Live from NPR news. I'm Dale Willman. House Democrats are arguing that is President Donald Trump had a history of encouraging violence among his supporters. NPR's Brian Naylor reports that the assertions come is the Senate impeachment trial of Trump continues to Democratic House managers showed clips of Trump praising supporters who roughed up protesters at his campaign rallies and calling neo Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia. Very fine people. Said he inflamed protesters in Michigan, Maryland congressman and lead impeachment manager Jamie Raskin argued Trump had a pattern and practice of inciting violence. January 6 was not some Unexpected radical break from his normal law abiding and peaceful disposition. This was his state of mind. This was his essential Emma trip, attorney David shown told reporters that the House managers haven't in any way tied the January 6th insurrection to Trump calling their presentation offensive. Brian Naylor NPR NEWS Chicago public schools welcome back a small number of students to classrooms today, the students returned after weeks of strife over the terms of reopening. It ended with the teachers union approving an agreement. Sarah CART from member station WBZ has more preschoolers in some special education students are the first group of students being offered in person instruction. The agreement between the teacher's Union and the city delays the start of school re opening for elementary school students until March. The union is hoping that will give teachers more time to get vaccinated. That's Sara Carter reporting. Gregory Paul. Your IQ has been charged with second degree murder and other crimes after a shooting this week at a Minnesota health clinic. One staff member is dead for others are wounded. Five people that prosecutors have linked to a Kansas City area chapter of the far right Proud Boys Group have been arrested on federal charges. Those charges stem from their alleged roles in the January 6th assault on the U. S. Capitol, the fiber charged with conspiracy, civil disorder and other charges. This is NPR. The Chinese government is banning the BBC from airing its world news program in China and as NPR's John Rule, which reports the move comes just days after a decision by Britain's communications regulator to strip a Chinese state TV channel of its broadcast license. China's radio and TV regulator says the BBC violated requirements that news be truthful and fair and that it harmed China's national interests and undermined national unity. The BBC came under fire in China for report this month on conditions in reeducation camps for ethnic wingers in the Xinjiang region. The report cited former detainees describing systemic rape and sexual abuse of women in the facilities. China's Foreign Ministry says the report has no factual basis. But there may be more to China's decision to ban the BBC World News Last week, The British government said it was pulling the license for C G. T. N. China's state run global television network. It says it did so because China's Communist Party oversees the network's editorial policy. John Ruit NPR NEWS, Texas police say as many as 100 vehicles were involved in a massive accident near downtown Fort Worth today. The accident.
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"Yellen says her support for President Biden's $1.9 trillion covert relief package. Takes into account all of the economic risks posed by the Corona virus pandemic, she tells CNN. That includes the risk that it'll over stimulate the economy and generate inflation. My predecessor, you know his indicated that There's a chance that this will cause inflation to rise, and that's also a risk that we have to consider. I've spent many years studying inflation and worrying about inflation, and I can tell you we have to tools to deal with that risk. If it materializes, she says The biggest risk is not getting enough help toe workers and communities that are scarred. The leaders of France and Germany or defending the European Union's joint covert 19 vaccination rollout despite delays NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports. French President Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel say the coordinated strategy is critical, Macron said If big nations like France and Germany had competed with each other on vaccines, it would have been a counterproductive mess. Miracle said although the sluggish rollout had shown the block needed to ramp up pharmaceutical production. Capacities. The basic decision to order together as the European Union was and is right. The moans. Foreign affairs columnist Sylvie Kauffman says the use stumbling has been a boon for the British prime minister. Obviously, you have Boris Johnson trained to use it as a political argument, you know, saying, Look, we were so right. To leave the European Union because look at the mess they're in now, while we're racing ahead with our vaccines, But Kaufman says a real analysis of what went right and wrong and the ever changing pandemic won't be possible for several years. Eleanor Beardsley NPR NEWS PARIS Wyoming's Republican Party is calling on representative Liz Cheney to resign from Congress is NPR's John Rule, which reports Cheney broke with party ranks last month. Voting to impeach President Trump Central resolution published by Forbes says Cheney violated the trust of her voters. By backing Trump's impeachment. It calls on her to resign from Congress. Chaney was one of just 10 Republicans in the House of Representatives to vote to impeach Trump for instigating the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. Censure is largely symbolic, but it highlights divisions within the Republican Party. It comes just days after House Republicans decided to let Cheney hold onto her leadership role in Congress. She is the Republican Party's third ranking member in the House. Cheney said in a statement. She remains honored to represent Wyoming and will always fight for issues that matter most to the ST John Ruit. NPR News. Former Secretary of State George Shultz has died at the age of 100. He served in various roles for three Republican presidents, including Ronald Reagan. This is NPR. In Myanmar. Tens of thousands of protesters are back in the streets today after a military coup last Monday. The junta leaders restored Internet service to the country's biggest city today, but Michael Sullivan reports the backlash against them is only growing. I don't know. Protests.
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"Garcia Navarro. Good morning For the first time, A former president will undergo an impeachment trial this week. What will the case for and against Trump being will get that story. Also, if you have had, Kobe, but we're asymptomatic. You may think you're okay. But new studies show that might not be the case. The doctor will explain, and the planned National Museum of the American Latino, It's the good, the bad, the ugly right that I think we need to be concerned with and to be able to tell these histories that for many years have been under research under reported and in some cases untold. It's Super Bowl Sunday, February 7th headlines are next Live from NPR news in Washington. I'm Amy held. The Wyoming Republican Party is calling on representative Liz Cheney to resign from Congress as NPR's John Ruit reports Cheney broke with party ranks last month when she voted to impeach President Trump. A censure resolution published by Forbes says Cheney violated the trust of her voters by backing Trump's impeachment. Calls on her to resign from Congress. Chaney was one of just 10 Republicans in the House of Representatives to vote to impeach Trump for instigating the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. Censure is largely symbolic, but it highlights divisions within the Republican Party. It comes just days after House Republicans decided to let Cheney hold onto her leadership role in Congress. She is the Republican Party's third ranking member in the House. Cheney said in a statement. She remains honored to represent Wyoming and will always fight for issues that matter most to the ST John Ruit. NPR News, The CDC says nearly 60 million Corona virus vaccines have been delivered throughout the U. S, with about two thirds administered. The FDA is considering emergency use authorization for a third vaccine later this month as cases and hospitalizations have been declining deaths from covert 19 remain persistently high. In Philadelphia. The teachers union is telling teachers to stay home this week, even though the district is calling back some elementary school teachers to prepare for in person learning Emily Rizzo from member station wh Y Y Reports, the union says the buildings aren't safe. The Philadelphia school district threatened union members with disciplinary action if they do not show up on Monday, local and state officials are urging the district. To delay reopening council member Jamie Go TA of West Philadelphia, says her office has received hundreds of calls from concerned community members are neighborhoods have already been disproportionately impacted by cold it, and so they don't feel confident in this plan. There was no way that I could stand behind what feels like Self imposed deadline open, Jordan says This isn't about teachers wanting to stay virtual. But needing a safe reopening plan for NPR news. I'm Emily Rizzo in Philadelphia. In Chicago. Some teachers are also due to return to school tomorrow. Despite union opposition, the city says. If teachers don't show up, they'll be deemed absent without leave and will be locked out of online teaching tools. In Utah. Rescue crews have been working to recover the bodies of four skiers buried in an avalanche Saturday for other skiers survived. Wayne Bassam, commander of the Salt Lake City Search and Rescue team, says they used helicopters to hoist the survivors to safety. Our main job now and focus.
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"First time a former president will undergo an impeachment trial this week. What will the case for and against Trump be will get that story. Also, if you have had Kobe, but we're asymptomatic. You may think you're okay. But new studies show that might not be the case. A doctor will explain, and the planned National Museum of the American Latino It's the good, the bad, the ugly right that I think we need to be concerned with and to be able to tell these histories that for many years have been under research under reported and in some cases until it's Super Bowl Sunday, February 7th headlines are next Live from NPR news in Washington. I'm Amy held. The Wyoming Republican Party is calling on representative Liz Cheney to resign from Congress as NPR's John Ruit reports Cheney broke with party ranks last month when she voted to impeach President Trump. A censure resolution published by Forbes says Cheney violated the trust of her voters by backing Trump's impeachment. Calls on her to resign from Congress. Chaney was one of just 10 Republicans in the House of Representatives to vote to impeach Trump for instigating the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. Censure is largely symbolic, but it highlights divisions within the Republican Party. It comes just days after House Republicans decided to let Cheney hold onto her leadership role in Congress. She is the Republican Party's third ranking member in the House. Cheney said in a statement. She remains honored to represent Wyoming and will always fight for issues that matter most to the ST John Druitt. NPR News, The CDC says nearly 60 million Corona virus vaccines have been delivered throughout the U. S, with about two thirds administered. The FDA is considering emergency use authorization for a third vaccine later this month as cases and hospitalizations have been declining deaths from covert 19 remain persistently high. In Philadelphia. The teachers union is telling teachers to stay home this week, even though the district is calling back some elementary school teachers to prepare for in person learning Emily Rizzo from member station wh Y Y Reports, the union says the buildings aren't safe. The Philadelphia school district threatened union members with disciplinary action if they do not show up on Monday, local and state officials are urging the district. To delay reopening council member Jamie Go TA of West Philadelphia, says her office has received hundreds of calls from concerned community members are neighborhoods have already been disproportionately impacted by cold it, and so they don't feel confident in this plan. There was no way that I could stand behind what feels like Self imposed deadline open, Jordan says This isn't about teachers wanting to stay virtual. But needing a safe reopening plan for NPR news. I'm Emily Rizzo in Philadelphia. In Chicago. Some teachers are also due to return to school tomorrow. Despite union opposition, the city says. If teachers don't show up, they'll be deemed absent without leave and will be locked out of online teaching tools. In Utah. Rescue crews have been working to recover the bodies of four skiers buried in an avalanche Saturday for other skiers survived. Wayne Bassam, commander of the Salt Lake City Search and Rescue team, says they used helicopters to hoist the survivors to safety. Our main job now and focus.
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"22 degrees overnight. It's nine o'clock. W N. Y. C is supported by flat are in books. The moment of Lift How empowering Women changes The world By Melinda Gates In this book, Melinda Gates shares stories of women who are leading the way in the fight for equality available in paperback. This'll is w N. Y. C. F in HD and AM New York. From W. N. Y. C and NPR This is weekend edition. Good morning. I'm he asked me con coming up this hour. The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump starts this week, the first Senate trial of a former U. S. President House Democrats will argue that Trump cited an insurrection 11 months into the pandemic. Lawmakers and more than 25 states have filed bills to limit the executive powers of governors. They say they want a better balance of power. Plus, we discussed the pandemics impact on our eating habits, and we hear about seven black women guitarists who were pioneers in music history. It's a snowy Sunday, February 7th. The news is next. Live from NPR news in Washington. I'm Amy held. The Wyoming Republican Party is calling on representative Liz Cheney to resign from Congress as NPR's John Ruit reports Cheney broke with party ranks last month when she voted to impeach President Trump. A censure resolution published by Forbes says Cheney violated the trust of her voters by backing Trump's impeachment. Calls on her to resign from Congress. Chaney was one of just 10 Republicans in the House of Representatives to vote to impeach Trump for instigating the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. Censure is largely symbolic, but it highlights divisions within the Republican Party. It comes just days after House Republicans decided to let Cheney hold onto her leadership role in Congress. She is the Republican Party's third ranking member in the House. Cheney said in a statement. She remains honored to represent Wyoming and will always fight for issues that matter most to the ST John Ruit. NPR News, The CDC says nearly 60 million Corona virus vaccines have been delivered throughout the U. S, with about two thirds administered. The FDA is considering emergency use authorization for a third vaccine later this month as cases and hospitalizations have been declining deaths from covert 19 remain persistently high. In Philadelphia. The teachers union is telling teachers to stay home this week, even though the district is calling back some elementary school teachers to prepare for in person learning Emily Rizzo from member station wh Y Y Reports, the union says the buildings aren't safe. The Philadelphia school district threatened union members with disciplinary action if they do not show up on Monday, local and state officials are urging the district. To delay reopening council member Jamie Go TA of West Philadelphia, says her office has received hundreds of calls from concerned community members are neighborhoods have already been disproportionately impacted by cold it, and so they don't feel confident in this plan. There was no way that I could stand behind what feels like Self imposed deadline open, Jordan says This isn't about teachers wanting to stay virtual. But needing a safe reopening plan for NPR news. I'm Emily Rizzo in Philadelphia. In Chicago. Some teachers are also due to return to school tomorrow. Despite union opposition, the city says. If teachers don't show up, they'll be deemed absent without leave and will be locked out of online teaching tools. In Utah. Rescue crews have been working to recover the bodies of four skiers buried in an avalanche Saturday for other skiers survived. Wayne Bassam, commander of the Salt Lake City Search and Rescue team, says they used helicopters to hoist the survivors to safety. Our main job now and focus is ring closure. Those individuals We're no longer with us. It happened at Millcreek Canyon, a popular recreation area. Utah's governor says Avalanche Danger remains high You're listening to NPR news. This is W. N. Y. C in New York. I'm Yasmeen Khan. The New York City.
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"W N Y C F, N H D and AM New York. It's the splendid table from American public media. I'm Francis Lamb. Hey, how was your breakfast This morning was your coffee is so good? It makes you feel alive again. Did you have time with all the magic biscuits and I'm fresh out of the oven? No, of course you did it because no one lives like that. Or maybe you can. I'm not that kind of like Gore Monde before I open my own coffee shop. I was a grand a mocha. No whip cream kinda guy on. I liked it because it didn't taste like coffee. I was one of those people that is Nick Chou, owner of wrecking Ball Coffee in San Francisco. And this week we're all about making breakfast. Great. Nick, Is this the low down on how to make better coffee without going full of coffee. He got it. And we talked to the great Baker Cheryl Day to tell us about her Super easy, super Delicious, Quick breakfast. Big's coming up on the splendid table. Live from NPR news in Washington. I'm Amy held. The Wyoming Republican Party is calling on representative Liz Cheney to resign from Congress as NPR's John Druitt reports. Cheney broke with party ranks last month voting to impeach President Trump. A censure resolution published by Forbes says Cheney violated the trust of her voters by backing Trump's impeachment. Calls on her to resign from Congress. Chaney was one of just 10 Republicans in the House of Representatives to vote to impeach Trump for instigating the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. Censure is largely symbolic, but it highlights divisions within the Republican Party. It comes just days after House Republicans decided to let Cheney hold onto her leadership role in Congress. She is the Republican Party's third ranking member in the House. Cheney said in a statement. She remains honored to represent Wyoming and will always fight for issues that matter, most to the ST John Ruit. NPR News in Myanmar. Growing crowds have returned.
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"To ensure that vaccine goes towards directly from the federal government to the evacuate season community health centers Now how do you put the vaccine in an individual's arm is the whole other issue? Look, I'm in emergency medicine physician and I have been during covert going to farm worker communities to the homeless, administering tests and just recently Went to a work site for farm workers toe, help administer vaccines and then go out into the fields to educate the farm workers to correct the misinformation about the vaccine and to it first them to get it. Give us a sense of what type things you are hearing when you're out and about and trying to talk to people are people do they want the vaccine? Or is there some some hesitancy? Well, there is some hesitancy because of the misinformation that they get from sometimes so. Your media or the rumors that they hear that the vaccine is going to make them sick with Cove it to their They're concerned it doesn't work Three. Their concerns about the costs for some of the undocumented are concerned about whether or not they need to register and put their you know name somewhere, And so so there's a lot of this misinformation or concerns from farm workers, and so The important part is that the messenger has to be someone who's trusted. I am the son of farm workers that grew up in the community and I have spent ah lot of time out in the fields working as a physician, public health promoter. I'm a messenger that that they trust, but you can't be everywhere. So that's what's the answer. We also need the local physicians and we need The priests and pastors and faith based leaders to go out and to communicate this now another source of trusted messengers are the schools right? The parents trust their Children's teachers. And so the youth in the Hispanic community plays a very vital role, too often times the use of the ones that are up to date with the information and they go home, and they educate their grand parents, their parents and their uncles and so partnering with Local communities is key to circle back to that question of that. If you're trying to get shots into people's arms, you need to get the shots to where the people are. Would you like to see vaccination sites set up? Say at meat packing plants where there are large numbers of Latino workers are on some of these farms that you're talking about? Yes, absolutely. I think that that has to be a very key component. If the workplace is the site of of risk, then we need to go to the workplace to minimize and mitigate that risk that is smart public health. There needs to be partnerships with the industries. Has the high risk essential work force to inoculate their workers at the workplace, which means that they need protected time to go get the vaccine. These programs won't work if growers don't allow the time for their workers to go to the vaccine clinic and also provide transportation that is representative role Ruiz, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, congressman, Thanks for for joining us. Thank you. It's my pleasure. And elsewhere in the show. We look at vaccine disparities around the world. While it's still early days for the Biden administration, it appears the president is taking a tougher stance on China than some had expected. NPR China correspondent John Ruit has this report. Long. How is a writer and commentator in Taiwan who had been hopeful that Donald Trump would be re elected as US president since Richard Nixon? Donald Trump probably did the most In terms of enhance US Taiwan relations. One wasn't alone a pole there should people in Taiwan preferred Trump to Joe Biden. It was widely covered in Taiwanese media. I was a yacht. I did you do it all the time but now former president was seen by many as the toughest US leader on China in years. And appreciated because he deepened America's ties with Taiwan. Sending senior officials to visit and selling the island more arms in four years than President Obama did in eight would hope he would win because we think he needs more time to implement his policies. Particularly in terms off change the U. S foreign policy directions. So far, Biden appears to be continuing the approach tough on China while demonstrating commitment to Taiwan. Taiwan's representative to the U. S. Was invited to Biden's inauguration. And when China flew a dozen warplanes into airspace claimed by Taiwan less than a week into Biden's term, the State Department said America's commitment to the island was quote rock solid. James Lynn is a Taiwan historian at the University of Washington. The bike administration may not make as much of a reset with regards to US time relations as some Especially people in Taiwan are fearing experts say the approach so far is calibrated. It shows support for allies in the region while aiming to maintain stability. You have Symbolism of Treating US allies because time was very much a U. S ally just like Korea and Japan are with the kind of treatment that these other allies were hoping that they would also receive. But also not upsetting the current dynamics. Too much Beijing may have been hoping for more the Communist Party's top foreign policy official, Young yet sure gave a speech to the U. S audience by teleconference this week. He said The new administration should choose a different path from that taken by Trump Here he is speaking through an interpreter when you to respect each other, seek common ground while putting aside differences. Keep disagreements on the effective control and expand common interests. If we follow this approach, I am convinced that the China US relationship will embark on the path of improvement and development. To be sure, some things have begun to change in the U. S approach to China. I think it's important to you know, just for us to keep in mind that nobody has called the Chinese jackbooted thugs in the past week nobody has referred to covert 19 is Kong flu or the China virus, Ryan has is the China Expert at the Brookings Institution, He says the tone is already different. Nobody is trying to jump up and down and draw attention to it. It's just part of a shift from a emotional Policy towards China towards a more purposeful policy towards China, and that goes for Taiwan policy to, he says. My expectation is that there won't be the same sort of daily high decibel level of expressions of love from Washington to Taipei from Wong's perspective in Taiwan, that's okay. I think that public upping in Taiwan obviously is willing to give the benefit of doubt the benefit of the doubt. For now, at least. Genre, which.
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"Are w j f dot or egg listening to all things Considered on 90.3 K easy, You and K. Easy, you, Donald. Good afternoon. I'm Michelle Luxton. Taking a look at the weather forecast Sunny and Reasonably mild weather through the upcoming weekend. Minor cooling early next week, with some increasing clouds. Long range trends look mainly dry through mid month. Time is 306. From NPR News. It's all things considered. I'm Audie Cornish on By Mary Louise Kelly. We begin this hour with an update on the latest covert 19 numbers, both the ones that look encouraging and the ones that still look frankly, pretty awful. In the awful column. The U. S is barreling towards half a million deaths from covert 19. We will hit that milestone later this month. But glimmer of good news infections have slowed these last couple of weeks. That's right. A month ago, the US saw more than 300,000 new cases of coronavirus in a single day. Yesterday. That number was down to about 123,000 and declines are happening in all but a few states. But there's still huge number of new cases is worrisome. Here's how Dr Anthony Fauci put it on NPR's fresh air. That means the virus has almost an open playing field. Replicate means you give it a knopper to nitty to mutate so masks and social distancing must continue felt, she says, and we need to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible. On that front. We're also seeing some improvement over the past week. The U. S averaged 1.3 million shots a day. There's still a long way to go more than 90% of the country has not yet gotten a single dose. Which brings us to the alarm. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus sounded this week over how few Latinos are getting vaccinated in a letter to the National Governors Association. Caucus pleaded with state leaders to prioritize food and agriculture workers in the rollout and they made an urgent case. Latinos make up more than a third of the workforce in those industries, but nearly three quarters of confirmed coronavirus cases. Congressman Raul Ruiz of California is chair of the caucus. I asked him what prompted the letter to governors. Now there are some states that have not started vaccinating. For example, farm workers and then even within states. Some counties have prioritized farm workers, but other counties haven't now the other barrier in this is that if they have, for example, farmworkers, agricultural workers food supply industry workers on paper they are disproportionately not receiving allocations of vaccines or The method of opening up vaccines to them do not work. For example, here in my own district. Many don't have Internet at all. So how are they going to make their appointments online? Furthermore, they don't have a car to be driving to these vaccination sites and then AH, lot of the information is in English and not in a language that will help them understand and empower them to navigate the system. That's interesting because I was going to ask what else you believe needs to be done to try to fix this. I'm speaking to you from Washington, D C, which is one of I'm sure a number of places that are prioritizing certain zip codes where covert rates are higher and saying those people are gonna go to the front of the line. It sounds like you would say great, but that only gets you so far. If again, people can't go online and see that there's a code is prioritizing getting appointment. It's absolutely true. So one is we need to measure. Equity. We need to mandate that all counties and all providers document who they're giving the vaccine, too, so that we can understand where we have inequity issues and the mismatch between the high burden of disease and illness from Cove it and the amount of vaccines that they're receiving second. We have to ensure, for example, that when The administration starts to deliver the vaccine directly to retail pharmacies that the retail pharmacies in those hardest hit communities are the ones prioritize, offering the vaccine finally. We need to ensure that vaccine goes towards directly from the federal government to the evacuate season community health centers Now how do you put the vaccine in an individual's arm is the whole other issue? Look I'm in emergency medicine physician and I have been during covert going to farm worker communities to the homeless, administering tests and just recently went to a work site for farm workers toe help administer vaccines and then go out into the fields to educate the farm workers to correct the misinformation about the vaccine. And two in first them to get it. Give us a sense of what type things you are hearing when you're out and about and trying to talk to people are people do they want the vaccine? Or is there some some hesitancy? Well, there is some hesitancy because of the misinformation that they get from sometimes social media or the rumors that they hear that the vaccine is going to make them sick with Cove. It Too. They're they're concerned it doesn't work Three. Their concerns about the costs for some of the undocumented are concerned about whether or not they need to register and put their you know name somewhere, And so so there's a lot of this misinformation or concerns from farm workers. And so the important part is that the messenger has to be someone who's trusted. I am the son of farm workers that grew up in the community and I have spent a lot of time out in the fields working as a physician, public health promoter. I'm a messenger that that they trust, but you can't be everywhere. So that's what's the answer. We also need the local physicians and we need The priests and pastors and faith based leaders to go out and to communicate this now another source of trusted messengers are the schools right? The parents trust their Children's teachers. And so the youth in the Hispanic community plays a very vital role, too often times the use of the ones that are up to date with the information and they go home, and they educate their grand parents, their parents and their uncles and so partnering with Local communities is key to circle back to that question of that. If you're trying to get shots into people's arms, you need to get the shots to where the people are. Would you like to see vaccination sites set up? Say at meat packing plants where there are large numbers of Latino workers are on some of these farms that you're talking about? Yes, absolutely. I think that that has to be a very key component. If the workplace is the site of of risk, then we need to go to the workplace to minimize and mitigate that risk that is smart public health. There needs to be partnerships with the industries that has the high risk essential work force to inoculate their workers at the workplace, which means that they need protected time. To go get the vaccine. These programs won't work if growers don't allow the time for their workers to go to the vaccine clinic and also provide transportation that is representative role Ruiz, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, congressman, Thanks for for joining us. Thank you. It's my pleasure. And elsewhere in the show. We look at vaccine disparities around the world. While it's still early days for the Biden administration, it appears the president is taking a tougher stance on China than some had expected. NPR China correspondent John Ruit has this report. Well, how is a writer and commentator in Taiwan who had been hopeful that Donald Trump would be re elected as US president since Richard Nixon? Donald Trump probably did the most In terms of enhance US Taiwan relations. Long wasn't alone. A pole there should people in Taiwan preferred Trump to Joe Biden. It was widely covered in Taiwanese media. I was a yacht, I did you trade on the 10th. Now former president was seen by many as the toughest US leader on China in years and appreciated because he deepened America's ties with Taiwan, sending senior officials to visit and selling the island more arms in four years than President Obama did in eight. We hoped he would win because we think he needs more time to implement his policies. Particularly in terms off change the U. S foreign policy directions. So far, Biden appears to be continuing the approach tough on China while demonstrating.
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"Food on the table and protecting their health and the health of others are wjbf daughter work. From NPR News. It's all things considered. I'm Audie Cornish on By Mary Louise Kelly. We begin this hour with an update on the latest covert 19 numbers, both the ones that look encouraging and the ones that still look frankly, pretty awful. In the awful column. The U. S is barreling towards half a million deaths from covert 19. We will hit that milestone later this month. But glimmer of good news infections have slowed these last couple of weeks. That's right. A month ago, the US saw more than 300,000 new cases of coronavirus in a single day. Yesterday. That number was down to about 123,000 and declines are happening in all but a few states. But there's still huge number of new cases is worrisome. Here's how Dr Anthony Fauci put it on NPR's fresh air. That means the virus has almost an open playing field. Replicate means you give it a knopper to nitty to mutate so masks and social distancing must continue felt, she says, and we need to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible. On that front. We're also seeing some improvement over the past week. The U. S averaged 1.3 million shots a day. There's still a long way to go more than 90% of the country has not yet gotten a single dose. Which brings us to the alarm. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus sounded this week over how few Latinos are getting vaccinated in a letter to the National Governors Association. The caucus pleaded with state leaders to prioritize food and agriculture workers in the rollout and they made an urgent case. Latinos make up more than a third of the workforce in those industries, but nearly three quarters of confirmed coronavirus cases. Congressman Raul Ruiz of California is chair of the caucus. I asked him what prompted the letter to governors. Now there are some states that have not started vaccinating. For example, farm workers and then even within states. Some counties have prioritized farm workers, but other counties haven't now the other barrier in this is that if they have, for example, farmworkers, agricultural workers food supply industry workers on paper they are disproportionately not receiving allocations of vaccines or The method of opening up vaccines to them do not work. For example, here in my own district. Many don't have Internet at all. So how are they going to make their appointments online? Furthermore, they don't have a car to be driving to these vaccination sites and then Ah, lot of the information is in English, and not in a language that will help them understand and empower them to navigate the system. That's interesting because I was going to ask what else you believe needs to be done to try to fix this. I'm speaking to you from Washington, D C, which is one of I'm sure a number of places that are prioritizing certain zip codes where crew vid rates are higher and saying those people are gonna go to the front of the line. It sounds like you would say great, but that only gets you so far. If again, people can't go online and see that there's a code is prioritizing getting appointment. It's absolutely true. So one is we need to measure equity. We need to mandate that all counties and all providers document who they're giving the vaccine, too, so that we can understand where we have inequity issues. And the mismatch between the high burden of disease and illness from Cove it and the amount of vaccines that they're receiving second. We have to ensure, for example, that when the administration starts to deliver the vaccine directly to retail pharmacies that the retail pharmacies in those Hardest hit communities are the ones prioritize offering the vaccine. Finally, we need to ensure that vaccine goes towards directly from the federal government to the evacuate season community health centers. Now, how do you put the vaccine in an individual's arm is the whole other issue? Look, I'm in emergency medicine physician and I have been during covert going to farm worker communities to the homeless, administering tests and just recently Went to a work site for farm workers toe, help administer vaccines and then go out into the fields to educate the farm workers to correct the misinformation about the vaccine and to reverse them to get it. Give us a sense of what type things you are hearing when you're out and about and trying to talk to people are people do they want the vaccine? Or is there some some hesitancy? Well, there is some hesitancy because of the misinformation that they get from sometimes so. The media or the rumors that they hear that the vaccine is going to make them sick With Cove it to their They're concerned it doesn't work three. Their concerns about the costs for some of the undocumented are concerned about whether or not they need to register and put their you know name somewhere, and so so there's a lot of the misinformation or concerns from farm workers, and so The important part is that the messenger has to be someone who's trusted. I am the son of farm workers that grew up in the community and I have spent ah lot of time out in the fields working as a physician, public health promoter. I'm a messenger that that they trust, but you can't be everywhere. So so what's the answer? We also need the local physicians and we need the priests and pastors and faith based leaders to go out and to communicate this now another source of trusted messengers are the schools right? The parents trust their Children's teachers. And so the youth in the Hispanic community plays a very vital role too often times the use of the ones that are up to date with the information and they go home and they educate their And parents, their parents and their uncles and so partnering with local communities is key to circle back to that question of that. If you're trying to get shots into people's arms, you need to get the shots to where the people are. Would you like to see vaccination sites set up, say at meat packing plants where there are large numbers of Latino workers are on some of these farms that you're talking about? Yes, absolutely. I think that that has to be a very key component if the workplace is the site of of risk. Then we need to go to the workplace to minimize and mitigate that risk that is smart public health. There needs to be partnerships with the industries. Has the high risk essential work force to inoculate their workers at the workplace, which means that they need protected time to go get the vaccine. These programs won't work if growers don't allow the time for their workers to go to the vaccine clinic and also provide transportation that is representative role Ruiz, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, congressman, Thanks for for joining us. Thank you. It's my pleasure. And elsewhere in the show. We look at vaccine disparities around the world. While it's still early days for the Biden administration, it appears the president is taking a tougher stance on China than some had expected. NPR China correspondent John Ruit has this report. Well, how is a writer and commentator in Taiwan who had been hopeful that Donald Trump would be re elected as US president since Richard Nixon? Donald Trump probably did the most In terms of enhance US Taiwan relations. Long wasn't alone a pole there should people in Taiwan preferred Trump to Joe Biden. It was widely covered in Taiwanese media. I was a yacht I did you do it all the time for that now former president was seen by many as the toughest US leader on China in years. And appreciated because he deepened America's ties with Taiwan. Sending senior officials to visit and selling the island more arms in four years than President Obama did in eight would hope he would win because we think he needs more time to implement his policies..
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"Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek joins us for a sweeping conversation covering climate change God artificial intelligence and what all that has to do with theoretical physics. Finally, fossils in Antarctica deepened the mystery of an ancient giant bird. So if you think of an albatross on steroids with teeth, you're actually in the right ballpark for getting a mental picture of this group all coming up after the break, So stay with us. Live from NPR news. I'm nor Rahm Twitter has permanently suspended the account of President Trump NPR's Bobby Allen reports. It's the latest punishment from a social media company. After the violent riots that overtook the capital earlier this week, Twitter says the account at Real Donald Trump has been blocked forever, officials at Twitter said after closely reviewing the president's post since the attempted insurrection on the Capitol, it concluded that Trump's account has to be suspended for good quote due to the risk of further incitement of violence. For years, Trump has used his account to belittle his enemies, read false claims and amplify conspiracy theories. But after sharing a message sympathetic to the writers who swarm the capital platforms crackdown Trump, who had 88 million followers on Twitter has now been stripped of the ability to say anything at all on the platform. Facebook, meanwhile, has temporarily ban Trump but said it could last indefinitely. Bobby Allen NPR NEWS SAN Francisco Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, says Trump should resign immediately. The first Republican senator to call for his resignation, she told the Anchorage Daily News. She might leave the Republican Party if it's nothing more than the party of Trump and Alabama Man is one of 13 people who face federal charges after the pro Trump mob attacked the U. S Capitol. Miranda full more of member station W. B. H M reports seven year old Lonnie Kaufman faces weapons charges, including caring a gun without a license and possession of explosive liquid known as Molotov cocktails. Authorities were conducting an unrelated bomb search near the capital when they saw what appeared to be a firearm in the front seat of his truck officers recovered multiple guns, loaded rifle magazines, lighters, cloth rags and 11 mason jars full of melted styrofoam and gasoline. Department of Justice says a database search shows none of the firearms and Kaufman's possession are registered to him. Kaufman is scheduled to appear in court next week. For NPR news. I'm Miranda for more in Birmingham, Alabama, New York will expand the number of people able to get the Corona virus vaccine. Initially, only health care workers and nursing home residents were being inoculated. Now, teachers, first responders and people over the age of 75 will be eligible. Governor Andrew Cuomo says hospitals have been too slow and providing vaccinations for the health care. Population one a 2.1 million total 479,000 have been vaccinated. That's 23%. That is not 70%. We have 430,000 unused doses. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say more than 39,000 people have died in New York more than any other state. This is NPR news. British health officials said that 1325 people died of Cove in 19 yesterday, the highest daily death toll in the UK since the band Emmett began. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals in London are in danger of being overwhelmed. Authorities in China are locking down a city of 11 million people near Beijing to try to stop the spread of the Corona virus. The pandemic has been mostly under control in China since the spring. Cases are now rising. NPR's John Ruit reports official numbers from the National Health Commission are still relatively small. China's government reported just 53 new confirmed cases on Friday and a similar number of asymptomatic cases. It is taking no chances. Almost all the new cases this week have been in hope, a province next to Beijing, and the number has been rising. The province announced it was entering a wartime mode earlier in the week. And on Thursday, the provincial capital should ya Drang barred residents from leaving. State media say most flights have been canceled and train and bus stations have been closed. The news comes almost a year after China locked down the city of Wuhan after the coronavirus first emerged there. John Ruit. NPR NEWS Ah federal judge in San Francisco yesterday block new Trump administration rules on asylum from going into effect Monday they would have redefined who qualifies for asylum. And would have allowed judges more latitude to throw out applications as frivolous. The judge ruled acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf like the authority to a neck sweeping changes. I'm.
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"And career of Tiger Woods. Directors Matthew Hammond Check and Matthew Heineman join us to discuss their HBO film Tiger about the rise, fall and resurrection of a cultural icon and premier athlete. Then we'll hear our conversation with an I F P Gotham Award nominee filmmaker Channing Godfried People's discusses who reclaimed directorial debut Miss June team, which tells the story of a former beauty queen and single mom and Texas preparing her teenage daughter for the Miss Juneteenth beauty pageant. And later we'll highlight some of the other top film was recognized by this year's I've gotten Film Awards executive director Jeffrey Sharp joins us. We'll get to all of it. Um, Alison Stewart and I will meet you on the other side of the news. Live from NPR News. I'm nor Rahm Twitter has permanently suspended the personal account of President Trump after the violent riots that overtook the capital earlier this week. NPR's Bobby Allen reports, Twitter says the account at Real Donald Trump has been blocked forever, officials at Twitter said after closely reviewing the president's post since the attempted insurrection on the Capitol, it concluded that Trump's account has to be suspended for good quote due to the risk of further incitement of violence. For years, Trump has used his account to belittle his enemies, read false claims and amplify conspiracy theories. But after sharing a message sympathetic to the writers who swarm the capital platforms crackdown, Trump, who had 88 million followers on Twitter has now been stripped of the ability to say anything at all on the platform. Facebook, meanwhile, has temporarily ban Trump but said it could last indefinitely. Bobby Allen NPR NEWS SAN Francisco Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska says Trump should resign immediately the first Republican senator to call for his resignation. She told the Anchorage Daily News. She might leave the Republican Party if it's nothing more than the party of Trump. A man who was photographed with his feet on a desk in one of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi's offices during Wednesday's right at the U. S. Capitol, has been arrested in his home state of Arkansas. Zuzanna Side Tech with member station K U F reports, according to Connor Hagen, the public affairs officer for Little Rock, FBI, Richard Barnett of grab it turned himself into FBI agents at the Benton County Sheriff's office. Arnett, who was also photographed holding an envelope he said he took from Pelosi's office is facing several charges. Hagen says the townspeople have grab it have received numerous threats since Barnett was identified. It's unacceptable in the FBI takes a very dim view of any threats made against Citizens in northwest Arkansas. Hagen encouraged the public to look at photos and videos released by the FBI to help identify others involved in the riots. For NPR news. I'm Susanna Psy Tech and grab it, Arkansas. New York will expand the number of people able to get the Corona virus vaccine. Initially, only health care workers and nursing home residents were being inoculated. Now, teachers, first responders and people over the age of 75 will be eligible. Governor Andrew Cuomo says hospitals have been too slow and providing vaccinations for the health care. Population one a 2.1 million total 479,000 have been vaccinated. That's 23%. That is not 70%. We have 430,000 unused doses. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say more than 39,000 people of Divert covert in New York more than in any other state. This is NPR news. Chinese authorities are locking down a city of 11 million people near Beijing to try to stop the spread of the Corona virus. The pandemic has been mostly under control in China since the spring. That's NPR's John Rohit reports. Cases are now rising. Official numbers from the National Health Commission are still relatively small. China's government reported just 53 new confirmed cases on Friday and a similar number of asymptomatic cases. But it is taking no chances. Almost all the new cases this week have been in whom a province next to Beijing, and the number has been rising. The province announced it was entering a wartime mode earlier in the week. And on Thursday, the provincial capital should ya Drang barred residents from leaving. State media say most flights have been canceled and train and bus stations have been closed. The news comes almost a year after China locked down the city of Wuhan after the coronavirus first emerged there. John Ruit. NPR news, British health officials said the 1325 people died of Covad Friday, the highest daily death toll in the UK since the tip pandemic began. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals in London are in danger of being overwhelmed. On Friday, Britain approved the use of Madonna's vaccine. It's already using vaccines by Fizer buying Tech and AstraZeneca. World Health Organization is warning the vaccines won't slow community transmission of the virus anytime soon. Officials say nations should continue to promote mask wearing and social distancing. Millions of new covered cases are being reported it weak, and officials say they don't include numbers after the holidays. I'm Nora Rahm NPR news Support for NPR comes from NPR stations. Other contributors include the National Endowment for the Arts, the federal agency that supports the arts and creativity in communities across the nation. More information is available at arts dot gov. And the listeners who support this NPR station. This is w N. Y. C. 93.9 FM and AM a 20 NPR News and the New York conversation. This is all of it. NW N Y C. I'm Alison Stewart. Thank you for sharing part of your day with me. Here are some of the stories team All of it is working on for you on Monday will kick off our latest installment of full bio..
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"From NPR news on TRIAL. Snyder With the new Congress preparing to convene today, the number of Republican lawmakers who say they will challenge Joe Biden's election victory is growing. Group of 11 senators announces weekend there joining House members who are planning to reject the electors from states they consider to be disputed, who was likely to drag out a normally routine process and NPR's Sam Ricky says will result in Biden's victory being finalized. The group includes Ted Cruz from Texas, Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee, James Lankford from Oklahoma and John Kennedy from Louisiana. In a statement. They say the 2020 election featured unprecedented claims of voter fraud. What they failed to mention is that the vast majority of those allegations are completely unfounded and pushed by President Trump and his allies who refused to concede that he lost the election Lawmakers gathered today. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to be re elected as House speaker. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will open the Senate of Future Republican control depends on Tuesdays. Runoff elections were to Senate seats and Georgia the number of deaths in the U. S. From Corona virus Infections now tops 350,000, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. That number includes more than 100 people in North Carolina the first two days of the new year. North Carolina, Seeing a coronavirus surge with a new Dehli high in the number of confirmed cases has Jeff to bury reports from member station W you and see the new year has brought nearly 19,000 new confirmed cases and 144 deaths. State health officials say there are nearly 3500 people in hospitals with more than 780 ICUs. The state's positivity rate is now above 15%, the highest since the pandemic began. North Carolina Health secretary doctor Mandy Cohen says the state is beginning 2021 in its most dangerous position during the pandemic. Since March, North Carolina has reported nearly 560,000 cases and almost 7000 deaths. For NPR News. I'm Jeff to beery in Raleigh, North Carolina. China, vowing to respond after the New York Stock Exchange said it will delist three Chinese companies following an executive order from President Trump. Will bar Americans from vesting in firms believed to be linked to China's military, NPR's John wrote reports. The investment band takes effect on January 11th. The New York Stock Exchange said on Thursday it would complete the delistings by then. Companies are China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom, Hong Kong all our major state owned telecommunications firms. China's Commerce Ministry says the U. S move hurts the interests not only of the Chinese firms but also investors outside China. Including in the United States. It says it will also damage confidence in US capital markets. In response, China will take necessary measures to quote resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises. It did not give details of what that would entail. John Ruit NPR news This is NPR. India has formally authorized to Corona virus vaccines for emergency use, and he has drugs regulator gave final approval today to AstraZeneca's vaccine. As well as one developed by an Indian company. India plans to start by vaccinating health care workers and is aiming to immunize 300 million people. By August, India's behind only the U. S. In terms of total number of reported Corona virus infections, a pandemic. Has claimed more than 1.8 million lives worldwide and Canada. The nonprofit group is calling for military intervention to help control outbreaks of the Corona virus and Ontario's long term care homes. Dan Carpet Shark reports. Natalie Mirror is the executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, She says options are few and there are so many long term care homes with rapidly growing outbreaks. It's estimated that nearly 30% of all the provinces, long term care homes are experiencing an outbreak. Mira says the numbers of dead are growing in hospitals are overextended. As of Thursday, there were more than 1200 people in hospitals with covert 19 337 of them in ICUs. During the first wave of the pandemic. The military was deployed to seven of the homes in Toronto. Report by the military led to an independent commission to look at the disproportionate spread of covert 19 in the facilities for NPR news. I'm Dan Carp in Chuck in Toronto. There was a candlelight vigil in Rockford, Illinois, last night, a week after a gunman killed three people and wounded three others at a bowling alley. An Army Special Forces sergeant has been charged in the shooting 37 year old Duke Web set to be arraigned on.
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China Treats People Deemed Vulnerable With Experimental Coronavirus Vaccine
"China, hundreds of thousands of people have already gotten shots of the vaccine is being developed Their NPR China correspondents Emily Fang and John Ruit, take a look at why China's pressing ahead on what's at stake. On a chilly morning earlier this November. Hundreds of people line up and wait for their names to be called summer from the state owned China Railway Group are waiting to get their second shot of an experimental Corona virus vaccine produced by Sina Farm. China's biggest state on vaccine maker. We'll pay you as a China railway construction worker about to be sent abroad for a project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, qualifying him for a vaccine. Don't worry. There is no problem at all. Lots of our colleagues have a shot very early as early as July. They had no problems whatsoever for cool access to a Corona virus vaccine, albeit one without regulatory approval and which is still undergoing the last phase of human trials. Is a perk that comes with a state job. Your company is giving a guarantee of safety in exchange for sending you abroad after all, if you don't have your health Who cares how much money you earn of the hundreds of thousands now inoculated 56,000 vaccinated people have already gone abroad, but deploying unproven vaccines carries huge risks. For one, China's covert 19 vaccines target the disease. The vaccination prevents bad outcomes from infection, but it may not prevent infection itself. That's Jerome Kim, director general of the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul, South Korea, and that could mean that a person could still transmit the virus after they've been vaccinated. The worry is that vaccinations will give people who've had them a sense of invincibility. And that could actually help spread the virus. There may also be unexpected reactions to the unproven vaccines or late complications. China justifies the experimental vaccines for what it calls emergency use. Shot into the arms of people deemed vulnerable to Cove it such as frontline medical workers and critical service providers at home. China has four experimental vaccines now going through the last phase of human trials sign a farm in sign of AC are two of the major contenders and they make the vaccines being used on an emergency basis. Tinge away a director. China's CDC, speaking in November, said this was a necessary measure Number woman she won't call it. The decision to approve emergency use came after rounds and rounds of strict debate in evaluation after relatives show regulations were fulfilled What Jim did not specify how the emergency vaccines are being distributed. At the vaccination site in Beijing, NPR met a wide range of people who were lining up to get a job. They included dozens of state employees such as white collar bureaucrats and office workers, with no plans to travel abroad. And even a Peking duck cook at a state owned restaurant chain, a Peking duck cook. It's inoculations like these that have some observers concerned. Indonesian researches molecular virology at Hong Kong University. There is no emergency in China because there are basically zero confirmed cases over many months already in China, rolling out vaccines without all the data is a gamble for China. Already a string of quality scandals over the years has people inside the country and out skittish about made in China vaccines. If something goes wrong with these vaccines, it would be a PR disaster. Again Hong Kong University's Jin If they choose to do this, shock her and they ruin the reputation that will just make things worse. And no one there to use a Chinese waxing anymore.
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China Freezes Credentials for Journalists at U.S. Outlets, Hinting at Expulsions
"China is withholding the renewal of press credentials for journalists at some US news media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and CNN. NPR's John Ruit reports. This comes as some Chinese journalists in the U. S wait for their lapsed visas to be renewed. The foreign correspondent's Club of China says at least five journalists working for American news outlets have been affected. China's Foreign Ministry has issued them letters in lieu of press cards, forcing them into what the FCC calls a precarious temporary status. Foreign reporters in China must have ministry issued press cards to get residence permits that allow them to live and work in China. Move is the latest in a string of tit for tat measures between Beijing and Washington on Twitter, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said cooperation with US journalists could continue if Chinese journalists are treated fairly in the United States. Genre, which