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Psychologist Dali Chugg studies the lengths we will go to protect the way we see ourselves. We care about whether we're seen as a good person, whether others see us as a good person, and whether we feel like good people. Ideas about our self-image. That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. It has been a volatile day on Wall Street. We'll have more on President Trump's tariffs and market reaction, but first the Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, has paused a court order that imposed a midnight deadline for the

administration to return a Maryland man. NPR's Jasmine Garz reports Kilmar Abrego-Garcia was mistakenly deported to a mega prison in El Salvador. Abrego-Garcia has been living in Maryland for more than a decade with a form of legal protection known as withholding of removal. He was arrested by immigration officials last month and sent to a notorious Salvadorian detention center. His lawyers contend he has no criminal record and the Trump administration admitted it had made what it called quote an administrative error. Last week federal judge Paula Zinnes ordered that he be brought back. The administration requested

a stay which a 4th Circuit Court panel denied earlier this morning. NPR's Jasmine Garst. President Trump's pushing back at the global resistance to tariffs. We're going to have one shot at this and no other president is going to do this, what I'm doing. And I'll tell you what, it's an honor to do it. Trump defending his latest threat to drive up the U.S. tariff on Chinese goods. They put a 34% tariff on Chinese goods.

Trade war escalation between the world's two biggest economies. Trump says he is holding tariff negotiations with a number of countries. He secured this commitment today at the White House from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. We will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States. We intend to do it very quickly. We think it's the right thing to do. Netanyahu, who relies on Trump's backing for Israel's operations in Gaza, says his country also plans to eliminate a variety of trade barriers. The Trump administration had imposed a 17 percent tariff on Israel. Stocks swung wildly today as

investors looked for signs of a possible ceasefire in President Trump's trade war. Here's NPR Scott Horsley. Stocks have mostly nosedived in the US and around the world since President Trump announced his sweeping tariffs last week, but domestic stocks briefly rallied on hopes the administration might be willing to suspend some of those tariffs as it negotiates with other countries. President Trump spoke by telephone with Japan's Prime Minister, and the head of the European Commission said her side is always ready to make a good deal. The short-lived rally is a sign of just how desperate many investors are for some relief

from the tariffs, which threaten to raise prices and slow economic growth. Trump is warning of even higher tariffs on imports from China if that country moves forward with its own taxes on US exports. Scott Horsley in Pair News, Washington. The Dow is closed down 349 points or nearly 1%. This is NPR News. And this is NPR News. Swollen rivers and floods threaten parts of the southern and midwestern U.S. where communities are recovering from enormous amounts of rainfall and tornado damage inflicted in recent days. At least 20 deaths are now linked to storms that have rolled through multiple states since last week.

Forecasters have warned flooding may persist for days, including in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. A Texas biotech company says it has created creatures with key features of an extinct species, dire wolf. Here's NPR's Rob Stein. Colossal Biosciences in Dallas says company scientists edited the genes of gray wolves to breed animals with key traits of dire wolves. Dire wolves have been extinct for more than 12,000 years and were featured in the HBO series Game of Thrones. The colossal scientists created embryos from genetically modified gray wolf cells and then implanted them into female dogs. The surrogate mother dogs gave birth to three healthy wolves with dire wolf traits.

The company named the animals Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi. Colossal hopes to do something similar with other extinct species, including the woolly mammoth. Rob Stein, NPR News. Recapping our top story, the Supreme Court has stayed in order from a Maryland federal judge that had given the Trump administration until the end of the day to bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last month. I'm Lakshmi Singh in PR News in Washington.

Since Donald Trump took office in January, a lot has happened. The White House Budget I'm Lakshmi Singh in PER News in Washington.