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President Trump is back in Washington, pursuing major policy changes on his own terms. We know from the past that means challenging precedent, busting norms, and pushing against the status quo. NPR is covering it all with Trump's Terms, a podcast where we curate stories about the 47th president with a focus on how he is upending the way Washington works. Listen to Trump's Term terms from NPR. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. A medical transport plane crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood Friday evening. The plane was carrying a child patient, her mother and four crew members. Pennsylvania Governor Josh

Shapiro says it's not yet clear whether there were any survivors. We know that there will be loss in this region and we want to offer our thoughts and our serious prayers for those who are grieving at this moment. The plane crashed about 30 seconds after takeoff. It burst into flames when it hit the ground and the fireball set several homes on fire. Investigators have now recovered the black box that was in the military helicopter involved in Wednesday's mid-air collision near Washington, D.C. The Army, meanwhile, has identified two of the three helicopter crew members killed in

the crash. Ampere's Quill Lawrence says the family of a third soldier has requested her name to be withheld. Two of the crew members are Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Eaves and Staff Sergeant Ryan O'Hara. In an extraordinary move, the Army will not announce the name of a third crew member at the request of her family. President Trump had speculated after the crash that diversity hiring may have played a role. Senator Tammy Duckworth, herself a combat wounded former chopper pilot, condemned Trump's

comments. When he made those comments, those soldiers were still strapped in their duty positions submerged in the Potomac. For him to question whether or not each one of those soldiers had earned their place in that cockpit and that aircraft is beneath, beneath the office of the presidency. Investigators have only begun the work of determining what went wrong. Quill Lawrence, NPR News. The Trump administration is ordering the Department of Health and Human Services to purge its websites of information and data on a broad array of topics. As NPR's Will Stone reports, they range from adolescent health to HIV. Web pages related to LGBTQ health

were taken down at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the HHS Office for Civil Rights, and the National Institutes of Health. The changes are examples of a broader push by the Trump administration on gender issues under an executive order. But many pages that did not seem related to gender have also been taken down. An interactive tool from the CDC with surveillance data on HIV, viral hepatitis, STDs, and TB has gone offline. The Infectious Diseases Society of America said the deletions create a dangerous information

gap and could hamper the response to disease outbreaks. The CDC did not respond to a request for comment. Will Stone, NPR News. A 25 percent tariff on goods imported into the U.S. from Mexico and Canada is scheduled to take effect later today. China will also face a 10 percent tariff. President Donald Trump says the tariffs will produce greater cooperation from those countries on stopping illegal immigration as well as the smuggling of chemicals used in the production

of fentanyl. Both Canada and Mexico say they may offer their own retaliatory tariffs. You're listening to NPR News. It was a rocky week for the tech industry as a Chinese startup shook up the AI arms race. As NPR's Maria Aspin reports, the tech heavy NASDAQ fell more than 325 points from the previous week. American tech companies have been spending billions of dollars on artificial intelligence and promising investors that a payoff will come eventually. But this week, a new competitor threatened

to burst Silicon Valley's AI bubble. A chatbot from the Chinese startup DeepSeek became the most downloaded free app in the US Apple Store, dethroning chat GPT. Experts say DeepSeek's chat bot holds its own against more established models. And DeepSeek claims it was made with much less money and computing power. That's made investors wonder if big tech companies are spending too much on AI. Maria Aspin, NPR News, New York.

A former Fox Sports reporter and anchor has filed a lawsuit against the network, as well as executive vice president for content Charlie Dixon Julie Stewart-Binx claims Dixon sexually assaulted her after coaxing her up to his hotel room to discuss Super Bowl coverage plans in 2016 and she says the network pushed her out of her job for fighting back a Fox Post person says the Allegations were properly dealt with the ice skaters coaches and family members who died in the plane crash Wednesday will be honored during the World Championships being held in Boston in March. The decision was announced on Friday. They were all returning home from a training camp in Kansas when their plane collided with

a helicopter in Washington, D.C.