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Dale Willman
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. President Trump announced Friday that he's going to double the current tariffs on imported steel to 50%. The the increase could further push up prices for the metal, which is used in many products from cars to home construction and kitchen appliances. NPR's Franco Ordonez has more.
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Franco Ordonez
He walked onto the stage to his campaign music and he delivered a very political speech. I mean, he tacked Biden. He touted how much he loves tariffs. And it was actually when he was talking about his tariff agenda when he stopped to say that he had another big announcement to deliver. And he told the crowd that he's doubling tariffs on foreign steel imports.
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Dale Willman
Later, Trump also said he was doubling tariffs on aluminum imports as well. The US Supreme Court handed President Trump a temporary win Friday. It permitted the administration to prematurely end a humanitarian program that had granted two year legal status to more than a half million people from Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.
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Nina Totenberg
Trump announced that he was ending the program on his first day in office this year, but a federal district court blocked the administration from doing that. The Justice Department then went directly to the Supreme Court asking the that the district court order be suspended while the litigation plays out in the lower courts. The high court granted the Trump administration's wish for now. Karen Tumlin, co counsel for the immigrants, fought back tears today as she described the effects of what she said was the largest mass deportation in the nation's history. These people, she said, played by the rules to enter the country legally. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
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Dale Willman
A deadly tornado touched down in Kentucky Friday morning, leaving at least one person dead and seven others injured. The National Weather Service confirms It was an EF2 tornado with wind speeds reaching at least 125 miles an hour. Karen Zarth, member station WUKY, reports.
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Karen Zarth
It was just after 7 o' clock in the morning. Sandy Hartman heard the wind howling and trees breaking outside her home. She ran to the door, pulled her dogs inside and called her son, Derek, Derek, Derek, Derek, get out here. And he said, are you okay, Mom? I said, a tornado has come through. Hartman's home survived, but massive trees came crashing down across her property. She calls herself Lucky. Down the hill, debris is scattered where a house once stood. Hartman's neighbor, who she said would wave to her while they mowed their fields did not survive. For NPR News, I'm Karen Zarr in Springfield, Kentucky.
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Dale Willman
Officials in Canada say wildfires are burning across large portions of the province of Manitoba this weekend. The 5,000 residents of the prairie city of Flinplan have been evacuated, and more evacuations are expected elsewhere as the fires grow. A total of 17,000 people have been forced to leave their homes across the province so far. This is NPR News. When people get a scratch or an infection, the body responds better if it happens during the day. NPR's Burleigh McCoy reports on how the immune system tells time.
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Burleigh McCoy
Scientists have known that many cells in the immune system have built in circadian clocks, genes that tell them to respond differently depending on the time. But scientists weren't quite sure how the immune system was telling time. To figure it out, researchers used baby zebrafish, which are transparent with modified immune cells that give off fluoresc. The team exposed the fish to fluorescent bacteria and watched how the immune cells responded. When it was light or dark during the day, the immune cells killed bacteria faster. But when researchers cut out certain circadian clock genes from the immune cells, they lost that ability. This knowledge could allow scientists to rally immune cells to respond to a bad infection. They published their findings in the journal Science Immunology. Burleigh McCoy, NPR News.
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Dale Willman
Taylor Swift has regained control over all the music she's ever made. Much of her earlier work was owned by the private equity firm Shamrock Capital. In a note posted to her website, Swift said she purchased her catalog of recordings originally released through Big Machine Records. She did not say, though, how much she paid in that purchase. Mao Saigo has a three stroke lead going into the weekend at the US Women's Golf Open underway at Erin Hills in Wisconsin. She shot a six under 66 on Friday for a two day total of eight under 136. She won her first LPGA Tour title less than two months ago. World number one Nelly Korda, meanwhile, is in second after posting a 67. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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