Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The Supreme Court today rejected a bid from Virginia

to restore a voter-approved congressional map that would have given Democrats the opportunity to pick up

more seats in the closely divided U.S. House. That decision leaves in place a state Supreme Court ruling

on maps that voters narrowly passed last month.

Virginia acted after President Trump pushed Republican-led states to redraw their maps to favor GOP candidates ahead of the midterms.

Recently, a Supreme Court ruling weakened the Voting Rights Act saying race can't be the only consideration in designing a map,

and the High Court sided with Republicans in Alabama and Louisiana,

who hoped to redraw their congressional maps to produce more GOP-leaning seats.

President Trump is back in the U.S. after meeting with China's leader Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, and peers Emily Fang reports,

while Trump hailed the meetings as, quote, incredible, few concrete agreements have emerged yet,

including on the issue of Taiwan. China warned during the meetings that Taiwan is still its top issue.

Taiwan is a democratic island. China wants to control one day,

and Beijing has threatened military action of needed.

Trump said on Air Force One after the meetings that he and China, Xi discussed, quote,

in great detail, a delayed $14 billion American weapon sale to Taiwan,

a sale that would include weapons to help Taiwan defend itself against China.

But whether to go through with the sale was his decision, Trump said, though he added,

I think the last thing we need right now is a war.

That's 9,500 miles away.

And with regards to a war that is going on on Iran, the U.S. and China did agree that the blockaded straight of Hormuz should be opened.

Emily Fang and Pierre News.

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