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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. Shea Stevens. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. The United States is imposing new 25 percent tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports. The move is designed to prevent China

and Russia from circumventing U.S. tariffs by sending their steel to Mexico and Canada. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the office of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Monday amid efforts to shut down the agency. President Trump says CFPB has been wasteful and poorly managed. Trump is also slamming Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who first proposed the creation of 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 to allow consumers to file complaints against predatory companies. A federal judge has halted, has temporarily reinstated Hampton Dellinger as head of the Federal Office

of Special Counsel. Dellinger oversees investigations and prosecutions of government workers who are accused of violating ethics laws. The Biden appointee filed suit on Monday, only days after being fired via email. Many grocery stores are limiting the number of eggs that customers can buy, largely due to shortages linked to the Burt Flu outbreak. Trader Joe's is among them, as NPR's Giles Snyder reports. Trader Joe's says it's now limiting customers to one dozen eggs daily, saying the move is

intended to ensure eggs remain available for as many shoppers as possible. Other chains, including Costco and Aldi, are limiting the amount of eggs customers can buy, and restaurants are feeling the shortage. Last week, Waffle House implemented a 50-cent surcharge on each egg until prices come down. With the bird flu outbreak leading to the slaughter of millions of egg-laying hens, the price of eggs are soaring. The average per dozen hit $4.15 in December, and the Agriculture Department expects prices to rise another

20 percent this year. Shail Snyder, NPR News. Israel and Hamas are accusing each other of violating the ceasefire agreement. Kat Lonsdorf reports from Tel Aviv. The next scheduled release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and detainees is supposed to be this Saturday. But Hamas has postponed it, quote, until further notice, according to a statement on the group's

Telegram channel. Israel's defense minister, Israel Katz, called the announcement, quote, a complete violation of the ceasefire agreement and said that he had asked the Israeli military to prepare at the highest level of readiness for any possible scenario in Gaza. It comes as talks about the next phase of the increasingly fragile ceasefire deal had begun in Doha over the weekend and after President Trump doubled down

on a plan to have the US take over Gaza and relocate the Palestinians there elsewhere. This is NPR News. The U.S. Department of Education is shutting down the Institute of Education Sciences, its independent research division. The Institute has been responsible for gathering and disseminating data on various matters, including student achievement. According to people within the department, staff members were notified of the cuts in a meeting on Monday.

Researchers are trying to understand how a man expected to develop early Alzheimer's has remained mentally sound into his mid-70s. NPR's John Hamilton has more on a study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience. John Hamilton, NPR The man has a rare gene mutation that caused family members to develop Alzheimer's in their 30s and 40s. Yet he still shows no sign of the disease at 75. Jorge Giebre of Washington University in St. Louis is part of a team that's been studying the man, along with two earlier cases of people who defied their genetic destiny.

It's so important, right, because he's telling us that something is going on that is protecting these people. Giebre says the man's brain has high levels of proteins found in people exposed to high temperatures and other forms of stress. He says these proteins may help protect the brain from Alzheimer's. John Hamilton, NPR News. A jury in upstate New York is hearing evidence in the trial of a man who starved with stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie. 27-year-old Hadi

Matar of Fairview, New Jersey has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges. Rushdie was attacked while speaking at the Chautauqua Institution in Mayville, New York in August of 2022. This is NPR News.