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Hey, it's a Martinez a lot of short daily news podcasts focus on one story, but sometimes you need Thomas for up first on NPR We bring you the three top world headlines every single day in under 15 minutes because no one story can capture all that's happening It's the mundo tangrande on any given morning. So listen to the first podcast from NPR Live from NPR news. I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump's 25% tariffs on imports of cars and parts took effect today. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government is retaliating. Today I'm announcing that the Government of Canada will be responding by matching the US.S. approach, by matching the U.S. approach

with 25 percent tariffs on all vehicles imported from the United States that are not compliant with KUSMA, our North American free trade agreement. But Carney says unlike Trump's auto tariffs, Canada's will not affect auto parts. He says Canada knows the benefits of the neighbor's integrated production system. Yesterday, the U.S. Senate held a largely symbolic vote to cancel the tariffs on Canada. Four Republican senators voted with the Democrats to rebuke the president's actions that they warned will actually harm American businesses and consumers. President Trump argues the U.S. has been unfairly subjected to higher tariffs in other countries. He says the auto and other

sweeping tariffs he's announced will help level the playing field. His Truth Social site has posted a list comparing tariffs on U.S. goods with those on other countries. African countries are reeling. Kate Bartlett reports the U.S.'s highest tariffs will hit the tiny nation of Lesotho. Last month, Trump joked no one knew where Lesotho was. This week, he levied 50% tariffs on the tiny mountain kingdom that is one of the poorest nations in the world. Lesotho has a large trade surplus with the US, to which it exports mainly textiles and diamonds.

South Africa was also hit by some of the highest tariffs, at 31%, which Pretoria labelled punitive. African Island nations Madagascar and Mauritius were hit with 47 and 40 percent tariffs respectively. For NPR News, I'm Kate Butler in Johannesburg. A House Republican proposal to sell some federal public lands is generating swift backlash from environmentalists and even some in the GOP, and Piers Kirk-Sigler with details. House Republicans already inserted language

into budget rules that could make it easier to sell federal land, and now as lawmakers look for more revenue to offset President Trump's tax cuts, the controversy is again heating up, even as specifics of any plan are murky. Republicans from western states where the federal government owns half or more of the

land have long tried to wrest control of it in favor of more mining and logging, or lately home construction. Yet some in the GOP from states where hunting and hiking access is a political force have introduced bipartisan legislation to prevent any sales. This latest budget controversy follows the U.S. Supreme Court declining last fall to hear a challenge by the state of Utah over federal control of land in that state. Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Boise. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down nearly 1,300 points or more than 3% at 40,931.

This is NPR News. Hungarian President Viktor Orbán says he is withdrawing his country from the International Criminal Court. During a visit today to Budapest, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu applauded Hungary's decision. In November, the ICC indicted Netanyahu on war crimes charges related to Israeli military actions in Gaza. A pair of baby eagles nesting in the mountains east of Los Angeles have names. People around the globe suggested thousands of them for the internet famous eaglets. From member station

KVCR in San Bernardino, Madison Aumet has more. The winning names for the eaglets are Sunny for the bigger one and Gizmo for the smaller one. They're both just under a foot tall. Sandy Steers, who operates the livestream, organized the eaglet naming. She narrowed down the list of 50,000 suggestions to 30 and let local elementary school students near the nest in Big Bear select the two winners. I think they're fun and I like that the kids, so many of them voted for the same name.

Stier says the next milestone for Sunny and Gizmo is flight. That could be as soon as mid-May. For NPR News, I'm Madison Aumann in San Bernardino. So monitoring U.S. market stocks have taken a nosedive as investors are betting that President Trump's tariffs will harm many businesses and the U.S. economy overall. We're seeing that the Dow is down more than 1200 points or more than 3% at 40,949. The S&P has fallen 214 points or 3.7%. The NASDAQ is down nearly 5% or 860 points. It's NPR.

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