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What recent changes did President Trump announce regarding global tariffs?
President Trump said Saturday that he's raising the global tariffs he's implemented on Friday from 10 percent to 15 percent. It's a response to a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated Trump's previous tariff scheme. And Paris Eleanor Beardsley has reaction from Europe.
President Emmanuel Macron opened a big agriculture show in Paris, and he said, let's not celebrate too soon. And he said, we'll just have to adapt and look at the consequences and adapt. The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz also spoke today. He's going to Washington in early March to meet with President Trump. Here he is talking to public broadcaster ARD. He said he would meet President Trump with a unified, coordinated European position. And he described the Supreme Court's decision as showing that the Trump administration had been set limits on tariff policy. And he called that reassuring and that it showed, quote, the separation of powers in the United States still appears to function. And that is good news.
NPR's Eleanor Beardsley. Officials in Northern California have identified all of the victims of Tuesday's avalanche near Donner's Summit. It was the deadliest avalanche in California's modern history. CapRadio's Greg Michek reports.
Nevada County Sheriff Shannon Moon released the names at a press conference and confirmed all nine victims were recovered. While we wish we could have saved them all, we are grateful that we can bring them home. The three Blackbird Mountain guides who died were Andrew Alessandros of Verde, Nevada, Nicole Chu of South Lake Tahoe, and Michael Henry of Soda Springs. The six clients were Elizabeth Klebaugh of Boise, Idaho, Catherine Vitt of Greenbrae, and Carrie Atkin, Danielle Keatley, Kate Morse, and Catherine Sekhar of Soda Springs. The group was in the final day of a three-day trip to the Frog Lake huts when the avalanche struck on Tuesday morning. Six survivors were rescued that night. For NPR News, I'm Greg Meechak in Rockland.
The U.S. ambassador to Israel says he believes that Israel has the right, granted by the Bible, to take over parts of other countries in the Middle East. NPR's Jane Araf has our details.
Mike Huckabee made the statements during an interview this week with talk show host Tucker Carlson, released Friday on the Tucker Carlson Network.
Israel is a land that God gave to a people that he chose.
During the interview, Carlson points out that the biblical reference refers to land from the Nile to Euphrates rivers, which would encompass entire countries, or parts of them, from Egypt to Saudi Arabia.
Huckabee replies, It would be fine if they took it all.
Huckabee is a political appointee of President Trump, with no previous experience as a diplomat. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year raised alarm bells in Jordan and other countries by referring to his belief in a greater Israel, which would encompass Israel's neighbors. Jane Araf, NPR News, Amman.
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What was the response from European leaders to Trump's tariff policy?
is preparing for another wintry blast. Blizzard warnings have been issued for New York City, New Jersey, and Boston, as well as communities all along the East Coast. The National Weather Service says as much as two feet of snow is expected for New York City, Long Island, southern Connecticut, and some coastal areas of New Jersey and Delaware. Musician Willie Colon has died. His family announced the death of the 75-year-old trombonist and songwriter on the musician's Facebook account. Colon was a pioneer of the development of salsa in the 1970s and was one of the most well-known musicians of the genre.
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