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This is Tanya Mosley, co-host of Fresh Air, and I just talked to Pamela Anderson about her big career comeback after years in the tabloids and not being taken seriously. She's entered a new era on stage and screen. Suzanne Summers had a great line. She said, You can't play a dumb blonde and be a dumb blonde. Find this interview with Pamela Anderson wherever you listen to Fresh Air. 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 getting an

immediate response. Mexican President Claudia Shane Baum 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. She hasn't specified which US 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 US 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 says it will challenge the new tariffs

at the World Trade Organization and take other unspecified countermeasures. President Trump wants to redirect the country away from efforts to address climate change and toward fossil fuels. NPR's Jeff Brady reports that despite a blast of executive orders, that won't happen quickly. Trump is withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement. He revoked some Biden climate orders and issued his own to boost fossil fuels. With all that, it's tempting to think a lot has changed, but it hasn't yet. Amy Myers Jaffe directs the Energy, Climate, Justice and Sustainability Lab at New York University. Energy and climate policy, which is complex, is not a speedboat. You don't turn

the wheel and the boat immediately turns around. It's more like an aircraft carrier. Trump faces obstacles, including oil companies that aren't interested in drilling for more crude right now, plus state and local governments and private companies with their own climate programs that extend out for decades, long after Trump's four-year term. Jeff Brady and PR News. 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. I don't want anyone to think because we were working two accidents, this is what we do week in and week out. Just today, a lot more people are paying attention to it. Investigators are analyzing the flight recorders from both the regional jet and the Black Hawk helicopter in Philadelphia. All six people on board the plane that crashed into a neighborhood in Philadelphia were killed

as well as one person on the ground. You're listening to NPR News. This year Sundance Film Festival is winding down this weekend in Park City, Utah. NPR's Mendeley Del Barco reports that 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 L.A. 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 featured 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. 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. and Arab mediators will begin brokering the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal this week. Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, on this Groundhog Day, organizers say Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning, and according to folklore, that means six more weeks of winter. I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News from Washington. It's a new year, and according to Pew, 79% of resolutions are about one thing, health. This is NPR News from Washington.