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

The leaders of the world's two biggest economies met in South Korea today.

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping talked tariffs,

and while they didn't reach trade agreements, they did pause other concerns.

And here's Deepa Chivaram has more.

One is basically that China agreed to pull back on some of the

limits they had put on rare earths exports. The other element was that China would resume buying

soybeans from the U.S. immediately. And that's, of course, been a major issue for American farmers

since China halted those shipments. And then the other thing is that Trump said, this is the big number part,

that tariffs on China would be lowered from 57 percent to 47 percent. And Pierce Depot

Shiverom reporting from South Korea. Meanwhile, Trump ordered the Pentagon to start testing

nuclear weapons immediately. Federal aid for the SNAP hunger relief program runs out Saturday because of the federal

government shutdown. New York's governor, Kathy Hockel, declared a state of emergency, and she's

promising to keep some food aid flowing. And here's Brian Mann has more.

Speaking in Harlem Hockel, a Democrat, said stopping aid for hunger relief would hurt farmers and food distributors as well as families and children.

She called on the Republican-controlled Congress to use contingency funds before Saturday to keep SNAP food aid flowing.

The clock's going to run out on 42 million Americans, including 3 million New Yorkers.

Apparently, our cries for help, their cries for help,

have fallen on deaf ears. As part of her emergency declaration, Hokel allocated $65 million

in state money to support food banks and pantries. State agencies and schools will help

distribute millions of meals. Republicans, meanwhile, have blamed Democrats in the Senate for

delaying a new federal

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