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NPR News: 05-15-2026 1PM EDT

May 15, 2026·4 min·5-min readnarrativenews
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This NPR News episode covers multiple high-impact developments: President Trump’s landmark state visit to China, a notable shift in U.S. AI policy toward safety concerns, the Supreme Court preserving telemedicine access to the abortion pill mifepristone, an FBI manhunt for a former Air Fo

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Xi JinpingDonald TrumpWu XinboKyle ChanMonica Elfrieda WittJerome PowellKevin WarshTitiwut SetapaniksakuLakshmi Singh

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Anthropic

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Criminal JusticeGlobal NewsPolitical NewsSupreme CourtTech NewsUs Politics

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