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This message comes from Mint Mobile. Mint Mobile took what's wrong with wireless and made it right. They offer premium wireless plans for less and all plans include high-speed data, unlimited talk and text, and nationwide coverage. See for yourself at mintmobile.com slash switch. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janene Herbst. Businesses and stock markets around the world are reeling from President Trump's new 10% tariffs on nearly everything the U.S. imports. Those went into effect today. 25% tariffs on foreign-made autos are also in effect. That'll set Wall Street lower for its worst week in five years. China hit back, announcing a 34% tariff on all American goods. And fear

Scott Horsley has more. For decades, Trump has nursed this grievance that other countries are taking advantage of the U.S. And he has a kind of steam-driven nostalgia for the Gilded Age, when the U.S. was less globally connected. You heard him talk about that period before 1913. Why that year? That's when the U.S. adopted the income tax. Now, Trump wants to cut the income tax and replace some of that revenue with his new tariffs. That would be good for wealthy Americans who would get most of the benefit of the tax cut, but it's not so good for lower income families who will have to pay more for imported food and clothes and other necessities.

Danielle Pletka And, Peter Scott Horsley, today on social media, Trump said, hang tough. It won't be easy, but the end result will be historic. Anti-Trump demonstrations took place around the country today and across Europe. As me Nicholson reports, the protests follow Trump's new tariffs on nearly all the goods the US imports, because many worry

it may threaten prosperity and peace. American citizens living in Berlin gathered in front of a Tesla showroom on Saturday to demand an end to the chaos back home. In a message meant for Trump adviser Elon Musk, one protester was holding a banner reading shut up Elon, no one voted for you. Similar sentiment was clear at protests in Frankfurt, Paris and Lisbon where signs read silence is complicity. sentiment was clear at protests in Frankfurt, Paris and Lisbon where signs read silence is complicity. In London, hundreds of Americans gathered in Trafalgar Square and chanted hands

off Canada, hands off Greenland, hands off Ukraine. The demonstrations come as markets have plummeted in reaction to Trump's tariffs. For NPR News, I'm Esme Nicholson in Berlin. Flooding from major storms has damaged homes and businesses in Indiana. George Hale from member station WFIU has more. Residents spent Saturday cleaning debris from shops along Main Street in the central Indiana town of Ellitsville after flooding overnight. Samantha Farmer brought friends to help clear out the mess left by water that poured over the banks of a nearby creek and into her salon.

It was about an inch of mud from front to back. Outside, city workers handed out sandbags in anticipation of more flooding. Major river flooding is expected to continue for days, and nearby counties are imposing travel restrictions in anticipation. Officials are asking the public to report observed flooding to local first responders as well as the National Weather Service when safe to do so. For NPR News, I'm George Hale in Bloomington, Indiana. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Israel has renamed a butterfly species after a young hostage killed in Gaza.

And Pierce Daniel Estrin has more from Tel Aviv. The Eastern Napweed Fritillary, known in Hebrew as the Orange Jerusalem Butterfly, has been renamed the Orange Ariel Butterfly after four-year-old redhead Ariel Bebas. His story is well known in Israel. His family was among the hundreds of people taken hostage in the Hamas-led attack on Israel, October 7, 2023. The father was released from Gaza this year, but the child, his mother, and nine-month-old brother were all killed while being held hostage.

Their bodies were released this year. The four-year-old loved butterflies, his father said in a eulogy. Israel's Hebrew Language Academy said in a letter to the father, it hoped the butterfly's new name would be a kind of comfort. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv. The maker of British luxury vehicles Jaguar and Land Rover says it's pausing shipments to the United States this month, just days after President Trump's 25 percent auto tariffs went into effect.

The company, one of Britain's biggest car makers, doesn't have a manufacturing plant in the United States. In the last quarter of 2024, it shipped in 38,000 cars to the U.S. In NCAA college basketball men's final four games tonight, Florida beat Auburn 79 to 73, and Houston is set to play Duke later tonight. Now the winner of that game plays Florida Monday in the championship game. For the women, Connecticut and South Carolina play for their championship tomorrow. I'm Janene Herbst, NPR News. This message comes from Mint Mobile. Mint Mobile took what's wrong with wireless and made it right. They offer premium wireless plans for less, and all plans include high-speed data, unlimited talk and text, and nationwide coverage. See for yourself at mintmobile.com

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