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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. President Trump says he's largely reached a trade deal with South Korea. He's wrapped up talks for the day on his trip to an Asian economic summit. No details of a deal have been released, but South Korea says the U.S. will lower tariffs on autos and that Seoul will invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the U.S. President. President Trump will discuss trade again tomorrow when he meets China's president. House Speaker Mike Johnson says he's talked with the president about the possibility of Trump seeking a third term in the world. White House. The Speaker, a constitutional lawyer, says he sees no constitutional path for Trump to do that. Trump was asked about this on his trip, and he said the Constitution does not permit him to be president again. I have the best numbers for any president in many years,

any president, and I would say that if you read it, it's pretty clear, I'm not allowed to run. Trump has previously made jokes about seeking a third term in the White House. federal trial gets underway today in Oregon. It's over one lawsuit that challenges President Trump's ability to deploy members of the National Guard in the city of Portland. From Oregon public broadcasting, Conrad Wilson reports. The trials before the same judge who blocked the deployment earlier this month. U.S. District Court Judge Karen Emigott will examine whether the law and constitution give the president the authority to deploy the National Guard or whether those efforts in Portland infringe on the state's rights. Attorneys for the Trump administration

argued the president has the authority to federalize and deploy the Oregon National Guard. The city of Portland, along with the states of Oregon and California, say when Congress wrote the law, it was clear the president should only call up the National Guard as a last resort. For NPR News, I'm Conrad Wilson in Portland. Separately, a federal appeals court has voted to rehear a related lawsuit. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will review a different ruling by the same judge. The ruling also involves the potential deployment of National Guard troops in Oregon. Stocks opened higher this morning as investors watch for the Federal Reserve's expected move on interest rates.

And Pierre Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped about 250 points in early trading. The Federal Reserve is expected to cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point this afternoon. It made a similar cut six weeks ago. The Fed's hoping to add some juice to the flagging job market, but timely measures of that market have been hampered by the federal government shut down. Computer chip darling, NVIDIA's stock rose after the company announced another $500 billion, with orders for its artificial intelligence chips. NVIDIA is now the first corporation in history with a market value of $5 trillion. Boeing reported better than expected sales during the most recent quarter, but the jetmaker still losing money. The adjusted loss per share for the quarter was $7.40.

Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Melissa has lost a lot of power as it rolls across Cuba. Top sustained winds are now at 105 miles per hour. Meanwhile, few details have emerged from Jamaica. After the hurricane smashed into that island yesterday, top winds were 185 miles per hour. Musical artists say that streaming services are posting new songs that are said to be from them, but that they never made. That's because the songs were created by artificial intelligence.

The songs mostly target smaller artists. NPR's Bobby Allen reports that while there are guard reels to protect top musicians, indie bands or artists who died are more susceptible. I talked to people inside the music industry, other musicians, producers, and record label people, And they all said, yes, this is a growing problem. Earlier this year, Wilco singer, Jeff Tweedy's former band, had an AI song pop up on its Spotify page. The country music singer Blaze Foley, who died in 1989, had a new AI song appear. It's happening more and more. And Spotify, when I reached out to them, said, you know, they're building new defenses against this.

They said they took down 75 million spammy songs last year, and many of them were made with AI. And peers Bobby Allen reporting. A family in Australia says, says it has found a bottle with historic messages inside. The messages were written during World War I by two Australian soldiers. The soldiers were going to the battlefield in France. They wrote optimistically about life aboard their ship. The letters they wrote were dated in August 1916. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News.