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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 Terms from NPR. Live from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.

President Trump's decision to impose tariffs on the U.S.'s top trading partners is getting an immediate response. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is ordering retaliatory tariffs, saying Mexico is being forced to respond in kind. She hasn't specified which U.S. products will be targeted, but Canada has. Reporter Emma Jacobs is in Montreal. 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 U.S. security. Trudeau announced Canada will impose targeted 25% counter tariffs on more than $100 billion worth of U.S. 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. President Trump also hit China with an additional 10 percent on top of the current tariffs on Chinese products. China's Commerce Ministry said it would challenge these tariffs at the World Trade Organization and take other unspecified countermeasures. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is flying to Washington today to meet with

President Trump. Netanyahu will be the first foreign leader to meet with Trump since his inauguration. He is expected at the White House on Tuesday. Netanyahu is coming to Washington as U.S US and Arab mediators will begin brokering the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal this week. CBS says it will give the unedited transcript of the 60 Minutes interview last fall with then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris to the FCC. The decision comes as talks are underway by CBS's parent company to settle a lawsuit filed

by President Trump over its refusal to hand over the transcript to his campaign, as NPR's David Fokinflick reports. David Fokinflick, NPR News, The New York Times, The New York Times, and The New York Times have been working on a new lawsuit for Harris. Trump had claimed CBS had edited the interview to make Harris look more coherent. His lawsuit was filed in Texas under a deceptive trade practice claim. CBS has argued that's an intrusion into journalistic choices.

Now, in a statement, CBS says it's legally required to comply with the demand from Trump's newly elevated FCC chairman, Brendan Carr. That said, broadcasters, including CBS, have challenged plenty of FCC edicts in court. Some CBS journalists are incensed. They consider the raw transcripts as part of their work product. But CBS is at a delicate moment. Its controlling owner is selling its parent company company a transaction the FCC gets to review. David Folkenflick, NPR News.

Democratic National Committee has a new leader at a gathering outside the nation's capital. Democrats chose Ken Martin as the next party chair. Martin is the former head of the state party of Minnesota. This is NPR. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Todd Inman says Friday night's plane crash in Philadelphia will not slow down the investigation into Wednesday night's collision between a Blackhawk helicopter and a commercial jetliner in Washington, D.C. Todd Inman We will find out what happened, and we will

do everything we can to prevent it. But I don't want anyone to think because we are working two accidents. This is not what this is what we do. Week in and week out. Just today a lot more people are paying attention to it. And TSB investigators are analyzing the flight recorders from both the regional jet and the Blackhawk helicopter in Philadelphia. All six people on board the plane that crashed into a neighborhood were killed, as well as one person on the ground. The Sundance Film Festival announced its 2025 awards in Park City, Utah this weekend. NPR's Bob Mondello says some of the leading prizes went to films that have yet to find distributors. The top jury prize in the U.S. dramatic competition went to the satirical

comedy Atropia about a military war games training village in the U.S. dramatic competition went to the satirical comedy Atropia, about a military war games training village in the California desert that's populated entirely by actors. The audience award for that same category went to Twinless, about a man struggling to process the death of his identical twin. Like many of the other independently produced features, neither film had been picked up for distribution as of the ceremony. It's been a sluggish sale season for Sundance. This year's 41st edition of the festival screened almost 90 feature films and

more than 50 shorts selected from more than 15,000 submissions. Bob Mandelo, NPR News. And I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News from Washington. Extreme weather disasters like wildfires and floods can devastate communities. On the Sunday story from Up First, we ask, are there places that just aren't safe to live anymore? People are going to die. They will be me and my neighbors and I don't want that to happen. How we respond to disasters in an era of climate insecurity. Listen now on the