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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. President Trump defended his tariffs as he headed back to DC from his home in Florida. He imposed 10 percent tariffs on nearly all the countries the U.S. imports goods from and he's threatened some countries with even higher tariffs. The White House claims dozens of countries want to talk with him about a deal, but China's hitting back with a 34 percent

tariff on all U.S. goods. Trump says the U.S. has a billion-dollar trade deficit, but with China, it's even more. We have a trillion dollar trade deficit with China. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year we lose with China and unless we solve that problem I'm not going to make a deal. Now I'm willing to deal with China but they have to solve their surplus. Speaking there on Air Force One, he says he doesn't want stocks to fall but sometimes he says you have to take medicine to fix something. Vietnam is asked to talk with Trump about a deal to lower tariffs. Meanwhile, U.S. futures contracts are sharply lower following last week's rout of U.S. stocks. Right now, Dow futures are down about 3.3 percent.

A second child diagnosed with measles has died in West Texas. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, met with the families of both the children today. On social media, the vaccine skeptic says he's directed the CDC to help state clinics with vaccines and other medicines, saying on X that the MMR vaccine is the most effective way to prevent the spread of measles. Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies has more. The school-aged girl became the second to die in the measles outbreak centered in West Texas. The first measles death in the U.S. in a decade was in an unvaccinated six-year-old

girl in February, also in Lubbock, and an adult in New Mexico who was also unvaccinated and did not seek medical care died in March. The West Texas outbreak is the worst in Texas in more than 30 years. It is almost 500 cases which continues to spread. Almost all of the infected were unvaccinated. The CDC says cases have topped 600 nationwide. I'm David Martin Davies in San Antonio. President Zelensky is calling out the reaction of the US Embassy in Ukraine to a deadly missile attack on his hometown, killing 18, because it doesn't mention Russia. And here's Eleanor Beardsley has more. Zelensky said Ukraine is grateful to all those who spoke the truth about the attack.

Not to do so, he said, only emboldens Moscow to continue the war and keep ignoring diplomacy. U.S. Ambassador Bridget Brink posted she was horrified that a ballistic missile struck near a playground and restaurant in the town of Kriviry Friday with children among those killed. This is why the war must end, she wrote, without condemning or even naming who launched the attack. It was Russia, which continues to attack Ukrainian cities nightly. Brink did blame Russia in a later tweet Sunday for an overnight cruise and ballistic missile assault on Kiev. Loud explosions can be heard in the Capitol, she wrote. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News. This is NPR News. Thousands of

pounds of liquid egg substitutes have been recalled because they may have been contaminated with bleach. Federal safety regulators say Cargill Kitchen Solutions voluntarily recalled its egg-beaters and Bob Evans products. This says consumers look for alternatives to high egg prices and shortages due to the bird flu. Seismologists in California are learning more about the hazards posed by the San Andreas Fault in the aftermath of the large earthquake in Myanmar. For Member Station KQED, Danielle Vinton has more. Danielle Vinton Experts say the recent earthquake in Myanmar

was caused by a long crack between two tectonic plates known as the Saigang Fault. Pressure had built along it for almost 200 years. Ray Weldon, professor at the University of Oregon, says it's a close analogy for the San Andreas Fault running along California, which hasn't had a large earthquake since 1906. The earthquakes that we know about on the San Andreas and the earthquakes that have occurred on the Saigang Fault are very, very similar in terms of their length and their depths and their magnitudes and displacement.

Well, then says he's drawing lessons from last week's disaster that may improve the accuracy of West Coast earthquake hazard maps. For NPR News, I'm Danielle Vinton. Asia markets are sharply lower at this hour. The Nikkei in Japan down 8 percent. The Asia Dow is down 6 percent. US futures contracts are lower, Dow futures down 3.1%, NASDAQ futures are down 4.5%, S&P 500 futures down 3.6%.

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