Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Chapter 2: What new tariffs has President Trump announced and why?
President Trump says he's raising his new global tariffs from 10 percent to 15 percent, this after the Supreme Court yesterday struck down most of his earlier tariffs against imports to the U.S. He's using a different authority for these new tariffs, but they expire in 150 days and then require congressional approval.
NPR's Daniel Kurtzleben says the court's ruling is a blow to his presidential power.
Tariffs have just given Trump enormous power. He had claimed he had the ability to impose tariffs when he wanted, at what level he wanted. And as the head of an economic superpower, that gave Trump massive leverage over other countries.
Chapter 3: What legal challenges are being raised against the proposed Independence Arch?
And he used that to make trade deals on pharmaceutical pricing, even for diplomacy. And now he doesn't necessarily have that same power anymore.
NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reporting, some of the tariffs Trump had imposed under different sections of the Trade Act, including steel, aluminum, and cars, will stay. A group of Vietnam War veterans are suing to block construction of a proposed monument near Arlington National Cemetery.
NPR's Windsor Johnston reports they argue that President Trump's so-called Independence Arch lacks proper legal authorization, including congressional approval.
Chapter 4: How is the far-right movement manifesting in France today?
The lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court in Washington, D.C., and challenges plans to build the monumental arch at Memorial Circle, the point connecting the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. Plaintiffs say the 250-foot structure would obstruct the historic line of sight between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington House.
disrupting what they call a carefully designed symbolic relationship among those landmarks. Supporters of the project, including the White House, say the proposed arch would mark the nation's 250th anniversary and serve as a tribute to American ideals and national history. Windsor Johnston, NPR News, Washington.
Far-right French activists marched through the city of Lyon today to the street where a nationalist student was beaten so badly he died of his injuries.
Chapter 5: What recent developments have occurred in the Ukraine-Russia conflict?
The BBC's Hugh Schofield has more.
Justice for Comte, they chanted, and also antifa assassins. The antifas, antifascist groups, are killers.
Chapter 6: What legacy did civil rights activist Joanne Bland leave behind?
Among the crowd were masked men in black and at the end, at the place where the student was killed, a line of activists held flaming torches in front of a banner reading Goodbye Comrade alongside a Christian symbol.
The imagery was of the ultra-right and those attending were members from across France of various small traditionalist, Catholic, nationalist and neo-fascist groups with which Comte de Ronc associated. Significantly, the hard-right populist National Rally, France's biggest party, kept well away from today's rally.
The BBC's Hugh Schofield reporting. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Ukrainian forces today hit a major missile factory deep inside Russia as Moscow kept up heavy drone attacks on Ukraine. Russian officials say 11 people were wounded. Ukraine says it used Ukrainian-made FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles against the Votkins plant and reportedly struck a gas plant in Samara, Russia.
Civil rights activist who was well-known in Alabama's civil rights history movement has died. From Troy Public Radio, Anna Kenda has more.
Joanne Bland was just 11 years old when she took part in the Bloody Sunday March for Voting Rights in Selma, Alabama in 1965. She went on to help found the National Voting Rights Museum and a touring company that illuminated Selma's civil rights history. In 2019, she was in the first episode of NPR's White Lies podcast.
Like a tree with branches. If you cut off one branch, don't mean the damn tree gonna die. It's just gonna grow another branch. We need to find the root of all this.
Joanne Bland was 72. She died the same week as the Reverend Jesse Jackson. For NPR News, I'm Ann Kenda in Troy, Alabama.
Singer, songwriter, and trombone player Willie Colon died today, according to a family statement. He was a pioneer in the development of salsa music in the 1970s, and he was one of the most well-known musicians of the genre. He was 75 years old. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington.
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