Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump says China has agreed to buy U.S. agriculture products, but Beijing hasn't confirmed that. And that leaves some U.S. soybean farmers disappointed at the lack of details. And Pierce-Winzer-Johnston has more.

Caleb Ragland is a soybean farmer in Kentucky who voted for Trump. He says growers are

struggling to compete while China increasingly turns to countries like Brazil for soybeans.

Once they make that investment and they leave, it's going to be hard for us to get them back.

As a farmer, that's concerning to me. Ragland says farmers want more than promises from trade talks. They want action.

We don't just need commitments that are made with lips and put down on paper.

We need to see beans floating across the ocean and going to China.

Trump says farmers will be happy with his trade deals and predicts China will buy billions of dollars worth of soybeans, though

he didn't provide details about any new purchases. Windsor Johnston, NPR News, Washington.

The U.N. is trying to raise more money for aid to Cuba, where a major energy crisis threatens

health care and food production on the island. But in Pierce, Michelle Kellerman reports,

the U.S. says it won't donate to the U.N.'s efforts. The U.N.'s office for the coordination

of humanitarian affairs says it has raised only 30 percent of the $94 million it needs for Cuba.

Fuel shortages have created what one top official called a multifaceted emergency.

The State Department tells NPR that the U.S. will not give any money to the U.N. in Cuba,

stating, quote, the U.N. in Cuba has long colluded with the regime.

The statement goes on to explain that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has offered $100 million in goods to be delivered by the Catholic Church

or other, quote, independent and respected organizations.

Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department.

The World Health Organization says Haunta Virus may be able to spread through casual contact,

but that the risk to the general public is low.

And peers, Gabriela Emmanuel, has more.

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