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Technologist Paul Garcia is using AI to create photos of people's most precious memories. How her mother was dressed, the haircut that she remembered. We generated tens of images and then she saw two images that was like, that was it. Ideas about the future of memory. That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janene Herbst. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with President Trump at the White House this afternoon, heaping praise on Trump, possibly in hopes of avoiding the reciprocal tariffs Trump announced today on U.S. trading partners. Trump has repeatedly singled out India for its high tariff rates on U.S. imports.

But in a joint news conference after the meeting, Trump announced a new energy deal. The Prime Minister and I also reached an important agreement on energy that will restore the United States as a leading supplier of oil and gas to India. It will be, hopefully, their number one supplier in the groundbreaking.

Before Modi met with Trump, he met with his advisor, Elon Musk, India, it will be hopefully their number one supplier and the groundbreaking. Before Modi met with Trump, he met with his advisor, Elon Musk, saying on X that the meeting with Musk was very good and that they talked about things Musk is passionate about, including space and technology. Federal workers have started getting layoff notices as Elon Musk and President Trump move ahead with their plans to drastically downsize the government, including up to 100 workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who were term employees. The first cuts appear to be targeting employees who were recently hired and are still on probationary status. Panama says a plain load of non-Panamanian

deportees have arrived there from the U.S. As NPR's Ada Peralta reports, it's part of an agreement with the Trump administration. Panamanian President José Raúl Molino says a U.S. military plane brought 119 deportees who are citizens of a wide variety of Asian nations. Molino said they will be processed, then sent to a camp at the edges of the Darien jungle. We expect two more flights, he said, and 360 people total. It's not massive. Molino says the migrants are expected to be flown home, but it's unclear how that process will play out.

And it's likely this program will face legal challenges because the U.S. is deporting migrants to a third country instead of home. Eder Peralta, Ampera News, Mexico City. New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he wants to give federal immigration officers access to inmates on Rikers Island, the city's main jail. Arun Venugopal of Member Station WNYC has more. The city has come under pressure from the Trump administration to enhance cooperation with federal immigration agents, something New York's sanctuary laws largely prevent.

Elora Mukherjee, the director of the Immigrants' Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, said it's unclear whether Mayor Eric Adams has the authority to overturn laws passed by the city council, and noted that most of the thousands of inmates on Rikers Island haven't been convicted of whatever's gotten them there, only charged. But Adams says the cooperation would focus on violent

criminals and gangs and help keep the city safe. For NPR News, I'm Arun Vanagopal in New York. You as futures contracts are trading higher at this hour. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The TikTok app is back in Apple and Google stores in the U.S., ending a nearly month-long standoff between the tech giants and the video platform since a law banning the app took effect in January. The move provides a way for TikTok to send millions of American software updates to debug the service and provide security fixes. The

tech firms yanked TikTok from app stores on January 19th, the day a new U.S. law passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court took effect over security concerns. And under the law, businesses can't support TikTok as long as it's controlled by ByteDance, a Beijing-based tech company. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed the state's What is a Woman bill into law today? Kelsey Shelton from WBHM reports the bill excludes transgender people from being recognized under their gender identity. The legislation makes definitions of male and female state law and says sex is the state of being male or female as clinically verified

at birth. It defines female as a person who has had will have or would have the reproductive system that produces OVA. Male is defined as a person who has had will have or would have the reproductive system that produces sperm. Signing this bill has been a priority for Governor Kay Ivey. In a statement, Ivey says, quote, In Alabama, we believe there are two genders, male and female. The American Civil Liberties Union says legislation will lead to discrimination and push transgender people out of public life. For NPR News, I'm Kelsey Shelton in Birmingham. KELSEY SHELTON, NPR News.