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Live from NPR News in Washington, on Krova Coleman, President Trump is now in Japan on his trip to Asia. He met with Japanese Emperor of Narahito and is set to meet Japan's newly installed prime minister. The big focus is set for later this week. Trump is expected to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea. The Trump administration says it's reached a framework for trade issues with China. The framework is supposed to lead to trade agreements. Separately, China's foreign minister talked with Secretary of State Marco Rubio today. and P.R's Emily Fang reports China's Wang Yi is the country's top diplomat, and he praised both President Trump and China's leader Xi Jinping as world-class leaders on the call.

The foreign minister also urged the U.S. and China to build on a trade consensus that negotiating teams said they reached in Malaysia over the weekend. That consensus could broadly halt an additional 100 percent tariff that Trump has threatened on Chinese goods and stave off a punishing export control regime that China's been developing on rare earth products. that the U.S. cannot refine itself. But that consensus has not been formalized, and it now hangs in the balance during a highly anticipated Xi-Trump meeting this week, the first between the two leaders since Trump started his second presidential term. Emily Fang and Peer News.

The federal government shutdown is nearly a month old. A major federal government employees union is calling on Republicans and Democrats today to pass a clean stop-gap spending bill and reopen the government. Small Business Administrator Kelly Leffler says the shutdown hurts all Americans. The pain is the point. Every single day of the shutdown has stopped 320 local businesses every single day from accessing $170 million in SBA loans for hiring and for expansion. Congressional Democrats say Congressional Republicans need to restore the significant cuts to federal health care programs

before they agree to a spending bill. Hurricane Melissa is forecast to hit Jamaica as a dangerous Category 5 storm. NPR's Rebecca Hersher reports this is the first time a storm of this magnitude has struck the island head on. Category 5 hurricanes have extremely powerful winds, strong enough to knock down homes that are made of wood and rip off most roofs. And Hurricane Melissa is also moving extremely slowly, which means it will linger over land, dumping huge amounts of rain. The storm is expected to bring multiple feet of rain to some parts of Jamaica. That's particularly dangerous because the island has hills and mountains. When a large amount of rain falls in such an area, it can cause deadly flash flooding

because the water picks up speed as it flows downhill. Climate change makes large, rainy hurricanes like Melissa, more likely. Rebecca Hersher, NPR News. On Wall Street, the Dow is up more than 200 points or about half a percent. The NASDAQ is up about 350 points, or, one and a half percent. You're listening to NPR. The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new medication to treat symptoms of menopause, hot flashes and night sweats. The drug, Linquette, is a once-a-day pill that does not use hormones. The drug maker, Bayer,

says this could soon be available in the U.S. Hot flashes and night sweats can be debilitating and long-lasting, often for black women in particular. Game three of the World Series is set for tonight in Los Angeles. The LA Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays have each won one game. Steve Futterman reports. The Blue Jays won game one. The Dodgers took game two. Now the series has moved 2,100 miles from Toronto to here in Los Angeles. Pitching tonight for the Blue Jays will be 41-year-old Max Scher. This is his fourth World Series. He is doing it with his fourth different team. He says he's grateful just to be here. I mean, this is what you play for, to be able to get to get to this spot to get to this moment to have a shot at it. The Dodgers are still the clear

favorite. L.A. with its power lineup is trying to become the first team to win back-to-back World Series in 25 years. For NPR News, I'm Steve Fetterman at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles. French police are still holding two of four suspects believed to have stolen historical jewels from the Louvre Art Museum in Paris. French media report the men had been under surveillance. One man was about to fly out of the country to Algeria. French police detained them this weekend, but they did not find the jewels. The suspects must be charged within a few days under French law, or they cannot be held anymore. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News.