This NPR News segment covers key developments in U.S.-China trade tensions affecting soybean farmers, a U.S. refusal to fund U.N. aid for Cuba’s energy crisis, updated WHO warnings on Hantavirus transmission, Wall Street declines, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s defamation threat over
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