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Shae Stevens. 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 in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens.

The Trump administration is taking steps to shut down the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau, or CFPB. President Trump's the agency was wasteful and poorly run. He also slammed Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who first proposed CFPB. You know, that was set up to destroy people. She used that as her little personal agency to go around and destroy people. And she's a fake. CFPB was created in response to the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage scandal in order to allow consumers to file complaints against predatory companies.

President Trump has ordered the Justice Department to pause a 1977 law that bars companies from bribing foreign officials pending a review. Trump says the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act almost guarantees indictment or investigation of Americans seeking to do business overseas. He's ordered DOJ to prepare some new guidelines. World leaders and business executives are gathered in Paris for a major summit on artificial intelligence. The U.S. is being represented by Vice President JD Vance. More from NPR's Eleanor Beardsley. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News Anchor French President Emmanuel Macron is holding

the summit in Paris, along with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. France and India want to show there is more than just the US and China when it comes to artificial intelligence. The summit has drawn world leaders, top tech executives and policymakers to discuss AI's impact on global security, economics and governance. Macron called on attendees to choose Europe for their business, announcing 109 billion euros of investments in AI for his country.

The technology uses an enormous amount of energy, and France is attractive because of its non-carbon nuclear power. Vice President Vance is set to speak to attendees on Tuesday. Eleanor Beardsley in Pierre News, Paris. The legislature in Utah has passed another bill that directly affects transgender people. As Sage Miller of Member Station KUER reports, the latest measure dictates where transgender students can live on public college and university campuses. Utah lawmakers are sending a bill to Republican Governor Spencer Cox that would ban transgender

students from living in sex-designated dorm rooms that align with their gender identity. Instead, they would have to live in a room that matches their sex assigned at birth or in a gender-neutral dorm. Supporters argue the legislation protects the privacy of women, but opponents say it puts a target on transgender students and disregards their privacy. There are no exceptions to the law, even if the student has changed their birth certificate. The law would be among the first restrictions of transgender rights aimed specifically at public university housing. For NPR News, I'm Sage Miller in Salt Lake City.

This is NPR. At least one person was killed and others were injured in a plane crash Monday at Arizona's Scottsdale Airport. The FAA says a Learjet arriving from Austin, Texas veered off the runway after landing and collided with a parked Gulfstream business jet. The pilot of the Learjet was killed. Monday's crash came in wake of three other plane disasters in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and western Alaska. Dependent pro-independence

activist Gallo Tundup has died. Tundup spent most of his life negotiating for the return of his eldest brother, the Dalai Lama. Details from NPR's Umkar Khan Dhekhar in Mumbai. Yalo Thondup was the only of the Dalai Lama's three brothers who did not enter religious life. After China invaded Tibet in the 1950s, he joined the Tibetan government in exile in India and led its outreach to various global leaders. The exiled government said in an obituary on its website that Thondup's efforts led to the CIA's covert program to support Tibetan armed resistance against Chinese forces. From the late 1970s, he led a series of negotiations with China for Tibet's autonomy. Thondup died at age 97 at his home in India's Kullampong town. Omkar Khandekar, NPR News, Mumbai.

Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa will face a runoff after failing to win an outright majority in Sunday's 16-way election. Noboa is being challenged by Luis González, who he defeated in October of 2023. I'm Shea Stevens. This is NPR News. At the Super Bowl halftime show, Kendrick Lamar indeed performed his smash diss track I'm Shae Stevens. This is NPR News.