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Bella DiPaolo is glad if you're happily married, but she is perfectly happy being single. I would love to have someone who took care of my car or someone who cleaned up the dishes after dinner, but then I'd want them to leave. From yourself to your dog to your spouse are significant others. That's on the TED Radio Hour from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, says former president Biden will not have access to a daily intelligence briefing. As NPR's Greg Meyry explains, Gabbard also evokes security clearances for dozens of

former government officials. As a courtesy, former presidents usually receive access to classified information, including the president's daily intelligence briefing. But President Biden didn't grant such access to Donald Trump after his first term, and now President Trump is not allowing Biden to see the daily briefing. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on social media she was acting on Trump's orders. She's also revoking security clearances for more than 50 ex-national security officials. They include former Secretary of State Antony Blinken and former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.

Greg Myrie, NPR News, Washington. Ukrainian officials meet with the U.S. delegation in Saudi Arabia tomorrow to find a framework for a potential ceasefire agreement with Russia. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports Ukrainians say they want to end the war but are worried a ceasefire won't last. 36-year-old architect Dmitry Reifschneider is waiting for a bus with his wife Olena

in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. He says a lasting ceasefire must have security guarantees that President Trump has so far refused to promise. We don't want just freeze the line now and they come again to us in one, two, three years, or in ten years. We don't want this. And that's why I think all Ukrainian people want peace, but very long. The couple says they want to raise their child in a peaceful democracy, not Putin's dictatorship,

but they say this is only possible if the U.S. and Europe lay out serious consequences if Russia violates the agreement. Eleanor Beardsley in Pierre News, L'viv. What's it take to accelerate a massive sell-off on Wall Street? Well, apparently a short pause from a president when asked about the prospect of U.S. economy in recession is one way to go about it. More from MPR's Marie Aspin. Yesterday, Fox News aired an interview with Trump that got everyone more worried. Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo asked Trump this. Are you expecting a recession this year? I hate to predict things like that. There is a period

of transition because what we're doing is very big. We're bringing wealth back to America. That's a big thing. US stocks posted their single biggest downturn of the year today with all three of the US stock indexes falling 2% or more. In the case of the NASDAQ, it dropped more than 4%. That included a 15% plunge in the stock of electric vehicle maker Tesla. Looking at the numbers, the Dow was down nearly 900 points. The NASDAQ fell 727 points. The S&P 500 lost 155 points. This is NPR.

The Senate has confirmed Lori Chavez de Riemer as U.S. Labor Secretary. Cabinet Post putting her in charge of enforcing federal labor law. Chavez de Riemer will oversee the Labor Department, one of several executive departments, named in lawsuits challenging the authority of billionaire Elon Musk and his cost-cutting Doge Group to access sensitive government data. Among other things, the Department reports the U.S. unemployment rate regulates workplace health and safety and investigates pay disputes. To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer Johann Strauss, his most famous composition, the Blue Danube, will be beamed into space, a collaboration between the European Space Agency and the Vienna Symphony. The

live performance will be transmitted into the cosmos in May, as Jeff London reports. Stanley Kubrick's film 2001 A Space Odyssey made the Blue Danube Waltz synonymous with space. Now it's becoming a reality. When the Vienna Symphony plays the Johann Strauss Waltz live on the evening of May 31, it will be transmitted by electromagnetic wave at the speed of light from a deep space antenna in Cebrero, Spain. According to the European Space Agency, the sound will reach NASA's Voyager 1 in deep

space 23 hours later. For NPR News, I'm Jeff London. Critical futures prices follow the general market lower today, oiled down just over a dollar a barrel to settle at $66.03 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News in Washington. On the Embedded Podcast. No, no. It's called Denying a Sweetness of Speech. tile exchange. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News in Washington.