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NPR News Now

NPR News: 02-20-2026 7PM EST

21 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

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19.572 - 37.783 Ryland Barton

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump has signed an executive order that he says imposes a 10% global tariff on all countries, effective immediately. It comes after the Supreme Court struck down his sweeping use of tariffs. The tariffs affected goods from countries around the world.

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New York-based wine importer VOS Selections is one of several plaintiffs that sued the Trump administration over its tariff powers. The company's founder, Victor Schwartz, says the administration should refund importers like him.

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49.985 - 72.613 Victor Schwartz

There's been so much communication challenges, so many financial challenges, finding the money to pay the tariffs. It put a big hole in our cash flow. When you have to come up with that kind of money, you know, for us, it's like in the six-figure range. Where's that money going to come from? I can't go to the bond market and raise money like a large corporation. So it's been an existential threat.

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72.593 - 87.615 Ryland Barton

Even Trump's new global tariff will require congressional approval after 150 days. The Supreme Court's decision to limit President Trump's ability to impose tariffs is reverberating in Latin America. NPR's Ader Peralta reports it may have effects in Mexico and Cuba.

87.595 - 94.113 Eder Peralta

President Trump declared a national emergency and cited drug trafficking as a reason to place 25% tariffs on Mexico.

Chapter 2: What new tariffs did President Trump impose and why?

94.615 - 112.631 Eder Peralta

The Supreme Court said that was unconstitutional. But Mexican economists say the effect may be limited because Trump had also issued exemptions. About 80% of Mexican exports to the U.S. are not subject to any taxes. Where the Supreme Court decision might have a big effect is on an executive order Trump issued on Cuba.

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112.991 - 132.098 Eder Peralta

Citing emergency powers, Trump tacitly threatened Mexico with tariffs if they kept sending oil to Cuba. Mexico had become the island's largest provider of oil. That executive order relied on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which the Supreme Court has now said he cannot use to impose tariffs. Eder Peralta, NPR News, Mexico City.

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132.078 - 140.566 Ryland Barton

The U.S. men's hockey team has advanced to the gold medal game at the Winter Olympics, and the Americans will face their main rivals, the Canadians. Steve Futterman reports.

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140.926 - 161.865 Steve Futterman

The dream matchup is all set. The U.S. will play Canada for the gold medal on Sunday. Each country won its semifinal games, the U.S. easily beating Slovakia 6-2. The Canadians, though, had a much tougher time beating Finland 3-2. At one point, Canada was down 2-0. The Canadians finally tied the game midway through the third period.

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161.845 - 181.282 Steve Futterman

then won the game with 35.2 seconds left on a goal by Nathan McKinnon. The last time the U.S. was in the gold medal match for men's hockey at the Olympics was in 2010 against Canada in Vancouver. The Canadians won that game in overtime. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Milan.

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Norway has won its 17th gold medal of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, breaking its own record for the most gold medals won by a nation at a single Winter Olympics. Norway set the previous record at the 2022 Beijing Olympics with 16 gold medals. This is NPR News from Washington.

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A ransomware attack has forced the University of Mississippi Medical Center to close clinics and cancel elective procedures for a second day. University officials warned the shutdown could continue for days as they try to evaluate the extent of the attack and restore network systems that they took down as a precaution.

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Investigators are trying to determine if patients' private information was compromised. NASA could launch four astronauts on a mission to fly around the moon as soon as March 6th. NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boyce reports that the space agency is working towards the launch date following a successful test fueling of its big moon rocket.

236.416 - 253.266 Nell Greenfield Boyce

When NASA workers tried fueling up the 322-foot-tall rocket earlier this month, they had problems like a liquid hydrogen leak. But swapping out some seals and other work seems to have done the trick. Lori Glaze leads NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate.

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