This NPR News broadcast covers high-level diplomatic exchanges between the U.S. and China, ongoing disruptions in global shipping due to instability in the Strait of Hormuz, a ransomware attack on the education platform Canvas, Senate confirmation of a new Federal Reserve chair, the recov
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