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Korva Coleman
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. Two federal judges have now ordered the Trump administration to rehire thousands of probationary federal workers that have been fired. Both judges found the administration told the workers they were being let go for poor performance. Instead, they found that these were reductions in force that had nothing to do with the employee's work. NPR's Chris Arnold says one federal judge in California declared the Trump administration was telling a lie.
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Chris Arnold
The judge called the mass firing a sham to get around statutory requirements. And he said that the administration exceeded its authority by having one office in the government direct so many other agencies to just summarily fire all these workers.
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Korva Coleman
NPR's Chris Arnold reporting. The Trump administration has already moved to appeal the decision. Stock prices are sharply higher in pre market trading this hour. This comes after the Dow and the Nasdaq plunged yesterday. The S&P 500 index has lost so much value recently that it's now in what's called correction territory. This comes after President Trump imposed a variety of tariffs on foreign goods. NPR's Tamara Keith reports. Trump used to celebrate stock market gains but is not doing so now.
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Stephen Moore
Trump used to boast about the way the markets rose on news of his election and how people's 401ks were doing. This past weekend on FOX News, he was asked about falling stock values.
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Unnamed Economic Commentator
You can't really watch the stock market.
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Stephen Moore
Former Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore says Trump always has his eye on the markets.
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Chris Arnold
He does care about people's 401k plans. He does want a booming stock market. And so obviously there's some agitation about what's been going on in the last couple weeks with this steep fall in stock prices.
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Stephen Moore
The slide has coincided with Trump's on again, off again tariff threats. On that, the president says he's not going to bend at all. Tamara Keith, NPR News.
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Korva Coleman
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is open to the general idea of a 30 day ceasefire in Russia's war in Ukraine, but he's setting a lot of conditions on it. Ukraine has accepted the temporary truce but warns Putin cannot be trusted. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports. European leaders also doubt Putin will be an honest partner.
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Eleanor Beardsley
For years, Europeans witnessed Putin break ceasefires when the leaders of France and Germany tried to end the fighting in the Donbass. Former French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrin told BFM TV that negotiations will likely be very complicated. We don't know how far Putin will go, he said. And Trump is in such a hurry to get a deal. Will Putin take advantage of that to push more demands? President Volodymyr Zelenskyy certainly thinks so. In his nightly address Thursday, Zelenskyy said Putin is setting preconditions so that nothing will work out for as long as possible. Zelenskyy called on the international community to pressure Putin, saying Russia would have to be forced to end this war. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Kyiv.
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Korva Coleman
You're listening to npr. The Senate needs to vote soon on a Republican backed government spending bill. If the legislation fails, will partially shut down late tonight. Democrats have reviled the bill, saying it will gut federal programs. But Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has reversed himself. He says as much as he loathes this bill, he'll vote for it. He says President Trump would likely use a government shutdown to fire many more federal workers, defund federal programs and dismantle more of the US Government. A new report from NASA scientists shows ocean temperatures rose increasingly faster than expected last year. As NPR's Lauren Sommer reports, sea levels are rising as the climate gets hotter.
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Lauren Sommer
Hotter temperatures are melting huge amounts of ice that's stored in glaciers and ice sheets. That water is causing sea levels to rise, which have already gone up 4 inches since 1993. But last year, the oceans rose even more than expected. That's because sea levels also rise when oceans get warmer because warmer water expands. Last year, ocean temperatures were the hottest ever recorded, recorded and drove most of the sea level rise. NASA scientists say the pace of sea level rise is increasing year by year. That threatens hundreds of millions of people who live in coastal cities. Lauren Sommer, NPR News.
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Korva Coleman
If you were up overnight, you might have caught the total lunar eclipse. The Earth blocked the sunlight that normally reaches the moon's surface. Instead, what many sky watchers saw was a blood moon. That's when the moon appears to turn red, when it is covered by the Earth's shadow. I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News from Washington.
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