Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

President Trump is back in Washington after his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea.

The two leaders didn't reach a deal on trade issues, but NPR's Emily Fang reports some critical issues have been paused.

China's most devastating threat and your total export ban on products

containing rare earth materials the U.S. cannot make itself has now been paused. And Xi Jinping

agreed China will again buy U.S. soybeans. Despite fears that China would push the U.S. to say

something on Taiwan, Trump said the topic never came up. China wants to control the Democratic

island that Beijing claims is theirs. U.S. trade representative Jameson Greer weighed in

on another heated point of contention, and that is China's desire to buy powerful

invidious semiconductor chips that are crucial to some artificial intelligence capabilities.

Greer said it would need to be discussed later.

Emily Fang and Pierre News.

42 million people around the country

are preparing to cope with a looming pause

of supplemental nutritious assistance program or SNAP

if the federal government shutdown doesn't end.

Grant Blankenship of Georgia Public Broadcasting has more.

About one and eight people in Georgia rely on SNAP, but so far Governor Brian Kemp says he won't

dip into the state's $14.6 billion budget surplus to help feed them during the shutdown.

Meanwhile, food banks have been struggling with shortages since a $1 billion cut to USDA programs in March.

Working mom Ashley Stevenson couldn't find any food at either of the two pantries she checked in the city of Macon.

We're looking at feeding three kids with barely anything after bills and everything else. Unfortunately, the government is not doing its job and the people

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