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Chapter 1: Why is NPR accessible to everyone?
99% of the U.S. population lives within listening range of at least one public media station. And everyone can listen to NPR podcasts free of charge. That means you get completely unpaywalled access to stories, prize-winning reporting, and shows that represent the voices in every corner of the country. Hear the bigger picture every day on NPR.
Chapter 2: What are the implications of Azwud Mahmoud Khalil's deportation ruling?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. A Louisiana immigration judge, Azwud Mahmoud Khalil, a student activist at Columbia, can be deported. Khalil led pro-Palestinian protests there last year and was detained last month. After Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he determined that Khalil's activism was anti-Semitic and that allowing him to remain in the country would undermine U.S.
foreign policy. In a hearing at the remote Louisiana detention center where Khalil is being held, Judge Jamie Coleman said she had no authority to question Rubio's determination. She gave Khalil's lawyers till April 23rd to request a stay of his deportation.
The Chinese government is again retaliating against the Trump administration's latest set of tariffs, but as NPR's John Woolwich explains, Beijing says it has no plans to go further.
Chapter 3: How is China responding to U.S. tariffs?
China announced that it's increasing tariffs on U.S. imports to 125 percent from 84 percent. The finance ministry says it'll take effect on Saturday. This step matches Trump's latest escalation as the trade war between the world's top two economies worsens. But the finance ministry signaled that Beijing was done with matching tariffs. In a statement on its website, it said U.S.
goods exported to China are no longer market viable. and said if the U.S. continues to increase tariffs on Chinese imports, China will not respond. The Commerce Ministry issued a statement at the same time with the same message about further tariffs, but it warned that if the U.S.
persists in taking substantive actions that infringe upon China's interests, China will, quote, respond resolutely and stand firm to the end. John Ruich, NPR News, Beijing.
Chapter 4: What could NASA's budget cuts mean for its science missions?
The White House is reportedly proposing big cuts to NASA's budget for science missions. As NPR's Jeff Bromfield reports, advocates say if the cuts go ahead, they could mark an end to some of the space agency's most important work.
The proposed cuts were first reported by The Washington Post and Ars Technica. They say that NASA's Science Missions Directorate, which runs everything from Mars rovers to the James Webb Space Telescope, would see funding slashed nearly in half, according to the White House budget proposal. Casey Dreyer is chief of space policy at the Planetary Society.
If it's enacted, it's an extinction-level event. It will wipe out, seriously wipe out, dozens and dozens of active, productive science missions.
The president's budget is only at a draft stage and will be finalized later this spring. Ultimately, Congress will set the funding level for the space agency. Jeff Brumfield, NPR News.
Consumers are clearly rattled by the Trump administration's global tariff fight with a key consumer sentiment index falling for a fourth straight month to hit its lowest level since the pandemic. University of Michigan's closely watched consumer sentiment index down 11 points to just below 51. Survey directors say the decline was pretty much across all ages and income levels of those surveyed.
One of the most tumultuous weeks in Wall Street history ending on an up note, the Dow rose 619 points today. You're listening to NPR. An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days has now had the organ removed and is back on dialysis. Tawana Looney's doctors removed the organ April 4th after her body began rejecting it. Doctors say Looney is recovering well.
While a setback for researchers, they say the fact the gene-edited kidney was accepted for as long as it was continues to boost the quest for animal-to-human transplants. Thousands of indigenous people from Brazil and other countries marched in the country's capital, Brasilia, this week, urging authorities to protect their land, the environment and the climate.
Julia Canero reports from Rio de Janeiro.
Indigenous groups chant as they deliver a letter to the president of COP30, Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, and hold up a banner saying, the answer is us. COP30 will be held in the Brazilian Amazon this year, and indigenous groups want to have a say in climate policies. Thousands gathered at the yearly free land camp in Brasília, urging authorities to move away from fossil fuels.
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