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President Trump has once again said he's committed to the US owning Gaza. He made his comments Sunday while flying to the Super Bowl on board Air Force One and he says he might ask other countries in the Middle East to help with the rebuilding effort. Think of it as a big real estate site and the United States is going to own it and will slowly, very slowly, we're going to rush, develop it. We're going to bring stability to the Middle East. Also on Sunday, Egypt announced that it will host an emergency Arab summit later this month to discuss what it calls new and dangerous developments in Gaza.

The meeting is expected to include a discussion of Trump's Gaza proposal. Trump says he'll also be announcing later today a 25 percent tariff on all steel and aluminum imports coming to the U.S. NPR's Asma Khalid reports. The president said these steel and aluminum tariffs will apply to everybody, even neighboring Canada and Mexico. Trump also said he'll be announcing reciprocal tariffs on other items. That would apply to countries that impose duties on U.S. goods. Very simply, if they charge us, we charge them. He said he plans to roll out details

at a news conference later this week. But if they are charging us 130 percent and we're charging them nothing, it's not going to stay that way. Trump also told reporters that no foreign company should have a majority stake in U.S. steel. But he did encourage Japan's Nippon Steel to make an investment in the revered American company.

Asma Khalid, NPR News. The Secretary of the Interior Sunday signed an order directing the U.S. Geological Survey to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. The move follows an executive order by President Trump last month announcing the change. Doug Burgum says his department is calling on map makers to make the switch in their systems. A large portion of the northern U.S. woke up to snow and ice on Sunday morning.

A major winter storm swept through the region this weekend and as NPR's Joe Hernandez reports, more winter weather is coming our way. The storm passed through the upper Midwest, the Great Lakes region, and then the Northeast. Eight inches of snow fell in areas of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Parts of northern New York, Vermont, and Maine saw as much as a foot. Boston and New York City both had several inches of snow too, and in Philadelphia, overnight freezing rain left streets and sidewalks

slippery Sunday morning. Though the storm was tapering off on Sunday, forecasters say more winter weather is on the way early this week for parts of the central U.S. and East Coast. Joe Hernandez, NPR News. President Donald Trump says he's directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies citing the rising cost of producing the one cent coin and the Philadelphia Eagles had a stifling defense Sunday night that overwhelmed the Kansas City Chiefs and their quarterback Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl the Eagles won 42 to 20 President Trump was at the game and picked the Chiefs to win you're

listening to NPR News. A federal court has blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan immigrants to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. The three are currently in New Mexico. Trump wants to use the base as a holding area for some people picked up as part of his crackdown on immigration. Lawyers for the three men said the government has created uncertainty around the availability of due process at the military base. Hundreds of candles have

been lit at the scene of Sweden's worst mass shooting in history and Terry Schultz reports that the Swedish government is planning changes in gun ownership laws as a result of that killing. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson gave a televised address to the nation Sunday evening focused on the aftermath of the shooting at an adult education center in Urebro which killed 10 people plus the shooter on Tuesday. Kristersson addressed the fact that most of the dead were immigrants who'd been trying to improve their skills for the workforce. We may be different and think differently, he said, but it is our shared responsibility to build this country and to nurture it.

Since the incident, the government has announced plans to tighten gun ownership laws, including new restrictions on the possession of AR-15-style semi-automatic weapons. For NPR News, I'm Terri Schultz. United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher says a surge of aid into Gaza since the ceasefire began three weeks ago has reduced the risk of famine there, at least for the time being. Hundreds of trucks a day are now moving relief aid into the region, but there's concern that if the ceasefire is not extended, the threat could return. A new round of ceasefire talks, meanwhile, are about to get underway in Qatar.

I'm Dale Willman, NPR News. Usher, Yo-Yo Ma, Boy Genius, Shaka Khan, Billie Eilish, Weird Al. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.