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Technologist Paul Garcia is using AI to create photos of people's most precious memories. How her mother was dressed, the haircut that she remembered. We generated tens of images and then she saw two images that was like, that was it. Ideas about the future of memory. That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. President Donald Trump has announced plans to enact 25% tariffs on most products from Canada and Mexico. The tariffs will take effect on Tuesday. As Emma Jacobs reports, Canada has already responded by announcing plans to impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau began a Saturday night news conference by speaking

directly to U.S. citizens, saying Trump's tariffs would hurt Canadians, but also Americans. They will raise costs for you, including food at the grocery stores and gas at the pump. They will impede your access to an affordable supply of vital goods crucial for US security. Trudeau announced Canada will impose targeted 25% counter tariffs on more than a hundred billion dollars worth of US products including beer, lumber and orange juice. Trudeau says he has been trying to speak with President Trump since the inauguration, but

has not been able. For NPR News, I'm Emma Jacobs in Montreal. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are now analyzing flight recorder data from the two aircraft involved in Wednesday's crash in Washington, D.C. Lead investigator Bryce Banning says the plane's black box clearly captured the moments just before the accidents. Data showed the airplane beginning to increase its pitch. Sounds of impact were audible about one second later followed by the end of the recording. 67 people died in that crash.

67 people died in that crash. Elon Musk's social media platform, X, is suing Lego, Tyson Foods, and Shell Brands International. As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, the suit claims the corporations conspired against his social media platform by participating in a 2022 advertising boycott. In the suit, lawyers for X say the companies took part in a brand safety protest that deprived the platform of billions of dollars in ad revenue. The suit was originally filed against the World Federation of Advertisers and CVS and video streamer Twitch, but has now been expanded to include half a dozen others. Musk, a top advisor in the Trump administration, says many big advertisers haven't returned

to X. It comes as other companies, including Metta and ABC, pay out millions of dollars to settle Trump suits filed before he took office. Critics, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, said Metta's $25 million settlement to Trump quote, looks like a bribe. The Trump administration didn't immediately return a request for comment. Bobby Allen in PR News. The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been fired.

President Donald Trump dismissed Rohit Chopra from the job this weekend. Under Chopra's guidance, the Bureau oversaw the removal of medical debt from credit reports. He also championed limits on overdraft payments. However, he was a regular target of many in the financial industry, who said his actions amounted to financial overreach. You're listening to NPR News. This year's Sundance Film Festival is winding down this weekend in Park City, Utah, as NPR's Madalit Del Barco reports. The annual gathering for independent films had a rocky start for filmmakers and film sales. Before premiering his film The Legend of Ochi at Sundance this

week, director Isaiah Saxon lost his Altadena home in the wildfires that ravaged LA. My dad's side of the family are Ukrainian Jewish vaudeville performers from the Lower East Side, so there's never another thought other than the show must go on. The fires also destroyed the homes of Saxon's cinematographer and editor and delayed the film's release. But it was one of the few going into this festival with a distributor. Film sales are slower than usual this year. Even festival award winners such as the war satire Atropia and feature Twinless with Dylan O'Brien are still waiting.

So far, NEON acquired the body horror film Together starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco and Netflix bought the film Train Dreams with Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones. Mandelit Del Barco, NPR News. Gaza's border crossing with Egypt reopened on Saturday so that a group of about 50 sick and wounded children could enter Egypt for treatment. Israel has controlled the crossing for almost nine months but agreed to reopen it once Hamas released the last living female hostages being held in Gaza. Ra'af is Gaza's only opening that does not enter into Israel.

Health officials in Sudan say an attack on an open air market in the city of Amdurman on Saturday by the Rapid Support Forces rebel group killed 54 people and injured 158 others. It was the latest in a series of deadly attacks in that country's civil war. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News. Matt Wilson spent years doing rounds at children's hospitals in New York City. I had a clip-on tie. I wore Heelys, size 11. Matt was a medical clown. The role of a medical clown is to reintroduce the sense of play and joy and hope and light

into a space that doesn't normally inhabit. Ideas about navigating uncertainty. That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR.