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Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Jeanine Herbst. The Supreme Court today rejected a bid from Virginia to restore a voter approved congressional map that would have given Democrats the opportunity to pick up more seats in the closely divided U.S. house. That decision leaves in place a state Supreme Court ruling on maps that voters narrowly passed last month. Virginia acted after President Trump pushed Republican led states to redraw their maps to favor GOP candidates ahead of the midterms. Recently, a Supreme Court ruling weakened the Voting Rights act, saying race can't be the only consideration in designing a map. And the high court sided with Republicans in Alabama and Louisiana who hope to redraw their congressional maps to produce more GOP leaning seats. President Trump is back in the US after meeting with China's leader Xi Jinping in Beijing this week. NPR's Emily Fang reports. While Trump hailed the meetings as, quote, incredible few concrete agreements have emerged yet, including on the issue of Taiwan.
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China warned during the meetings that Taiwan is still its top issue. Taiwan is a democratic island China wants to control one day. And Beijing has threatened military action if needed. Trump said on Air Force One after the meetings that he and China's Xi discussed, quote, in great detail, a delayed $14 billion American weapons sale to Taiwan, a sale that would include weapons to help Taiwan defend itself against China. But whether to go through with the sale was his decision, Trump said, though
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added, I think the last thing we need right now is a war that's 9,500 miles away.
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And with regards to a war that is going on on Iran, the US And China did agree that the blockaded Strait of Hormuz should be opened. Emily Fang, NPR News.
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A new study finds no significant link between the use of antidepressant medications during pregnancy and autism and ADHD in children. As NPR's Ritu Chatterjee reports, the researchers recommend that pregnant women with depression who are on these medications should continue to take them.
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The study was a Meta analysis of 37 existing studies looking at use of antidepressant medications during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders in children. Together, the studies included data on more than 600,000 pregnant women taking antidepressants and nearly 25 million women who didn't use these medications while pregnant. At first, the researchers found a 69% increase in risk of autism in the children of moms who'd used the medications while pregnant. They also found a 35% higher risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. But when the researchers controlled for confounding factors like the mother's mental health and family genetics, the elevated risk for these disorders went away. Ritu Chatterjee, NPR News, Wall Street.
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Lower by the closing bell. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Africa's top public health agency says at least 65 people have died in an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Michael Kaloki has more.
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In a statement, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is closely monitoring the confirmed outbreak of Ebola in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The health agency has urged those in the affected areas to report any symptoms they experience, adding that it was working with Congolese authorities as well as officials from neighboring South Sudan and Uganda to boost surveillance of the disease and to contain the outbreak as quickly as possible. Over the past few decades, the Democratic Republic of Congo has witnessed a number of outbreaks of Ebola. 45 people died last year after an outbreak of the disease was witnessed in the country's Kasai province, according to the World Health Organization. For NPR News, I'm Michael Kaloki in Nairobi.
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A judge has declared a mistrial in the rape retrial of Harvey Weinstein after once again, the jury failed to reach a verdict. Weinstein, an era defining figure of the MeToo movement, was first convicted of assaulting Jessica Mann in 2020, but that verdict, along with another charge, was later overturned. A second trial ended with a hung jury last year. The 74 year old disgraced movie mogul remains behind bars in California, where he's been since 2020. In 2022, he was convicted in Los Angeles of rape and sexual assault and sentenced to 16 years in prison. He's appealing that verdict. I'm Jeanine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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