President Trump said President Xi Jinping offered to help reach a deal with Iran as the leaders meet in Beijing for high-stakes talks, the Americans who were onboard the hantavirus-hit cruise continue to be kept in quarantine and the Supreme Court orders that patients be allowed to receive the abortion pill mifepristone in the mail.
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When an event occurs that warrants breaking news coverage, a network typically interrupts current non-news programming with a newsflash or special report. This may be done via a network feed or the use of a countdown sequence for network affiliates to switch over to the news feed. Depending on the urgency of the story, it may last for a few minutes, or several hours or even days. Until 24-hour news networks became popular, break-ins were usually reserved for events requiring nationwide coverage – such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In these cases, lower thirds would be modified with text to convey the urgent nature of the story.
