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How is the Supreme Court enabling President Trump's plan to dismantle the Department of Education?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. The US Supreme Court is allowing President Trump to move ahead with his plans to dismantle the Department of Education and lay off nearly fourteen hundred people. The Trump administration hadn't asked the justices to block a lower court ruling that directed the department to reinstate employees who were fired. In a post on social media tonight, Trump called the ruling a quote major victory. Certain rescue efforts across central Texas are being hampered by additional rain. More than a week after catastrophic flooding devastated the region.
There's also infrastructure. around those people. that make living where they are or accessing their home Either difficult or impossible.
What is the latest death toll and rescue challenges from the central Texas flooding?
The death toll has risen to at least one hundred thirty one. While President Trump threatens Mexico with new thirty percent tariffs, a new tax on Mexican tomatoes has now gone into effect. MPR's Ada Peralta reports the US is imposing an almost twenty-one percent tax on the fruit.
This new tax is going to have wide-ranging repercussions on both sides of the border. Mexico exports about 90% of its tomatoes to the United States, and by some estimates, some 70% of tomatoes eaten in the United States come from Mexico. Economists say the new tariffs will lead Mexico to produce fewer tomatoes this winter, and American consumers could pay up to ten percent more for tomatoes at the supermarket. Lawmakers in Texas and Arizona. Arizona lobbied the Trump administration to walk away from the tariff, saying it could cost thousands of jobs in their states alone. But the Trump administration says this tax will help American producers who they say have been unfairly priced out of the tomato market by Mexican producers.
Ada Pralta, NPR News, Mexico City.
How will the new 30% tariff on Mexican tomatoes affect U.S. consumers and Mexican farmers?
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, says his company will invest hundreds of billions of dollars into artificial intelligence computing power. MPR's John Rewich reports the money is going into giant data centers.
Zuckerberg said online that Facebook's parent company is building several multi-gigawatt clusters, basically huge data centers that consume a gigawatt or more of power. A gigawatt is enough electricity for roughly three-quarters of a million homes. The first of these massive data centers is being called Prometheus, after the figure in Greek mythology who defied the gods and gave fire to humanity. Zuckerberg says it's coming online next year. Another one is named after the Greek titan Hyperion, associated with the rising sun. That one slated to be able to scale up to five gigawatts. Meta and others have been pouring money into a cutthroat competition to attract the personnel and build out the computing power to lead the AI race.
John Ruwich, NPR News.
What are Meta's massive AI data center projects and why are they named after Greek mythological figures?
At the close on Wall Street, the Dow was up eighty-eight points. This is NPR News in Washington. Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced a third party run for mayor of New York City. Cuomo says he'll run as an independent after losing last month's Democratic primary. Incumbent mayor Eric Adams is also running a third party bid in the fall. Cuomo stepped down as governor in twenty twenty one after he was accused of sexual harassment. Mystery author Martin Cruz Smith has died. He had a decades long career publishing more than thirty books, but he was best known for his nineteen eighty one bestseller Gorky Park, which followed Detective Arkadi Ranko, Smith's most famous character. He was eighty two years old.
NPR's Andrew Limbong has this remembrance.
Why is former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo launching an independent mayoral campaign in NYC?
Whether he was writing about the Soviet Union in the eighties, Japan in the forties, or Cuba in the nineties, Martin Cruz Smith's writing was always deeply researched and reported because facts were fodder for complicated characters for Smith. Here he is talking to NPR in 2002.
Complicated characters are not more difficult to write, they're easier to write because you're in I'm interested, I'm engaged. And fascinated, what else what else deliciously bad could this character
do? Smith was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in nineteen ninety five, a disease he shares with his star character Arkady Renko.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How is the Supreme Court enabling President Trump's plan to dismantle the Department of Education?
0:00–0:57
2
What is the latest death toll and rescue challenges from the central Texas flooding?
0:57–1:57
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How will the new 30% tariff on Mexican tomatoes affect U.S. consumers and Mexican farmers?
1:57–2:52
4
What are Meta's massive AI data center projects and why are they named after Greek mythological figures?
2:52–3:43
5
Why is former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo launching an independent mayoral campaign in NYC?
3:43–4:38