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This is out of her glass. In Lily's family, there's a story everybody knows by heart. If this story had never happened, All of us wouldn't be here right now. Sammy wouldn't be here. Nina wouldn't be here. Wally wouldn't be here. Anyone that we know wouldn't be here. So what happens when Lily's mom tells her this story is not true?

This American Life, surprising stories every week. Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, stock markets are regaining a lot of ground lost in yesterday's huge sell-off. In pre-market trading, Dow Jones futures are up a thousand points. Investors have been worried about President Trump's new tariffs. The European Union saw U.S. levies on its aluminum and steel go up last month. Fresh U.S. tariffs take effect tomorrow.

Terri Schultz reports the EU is finalizing retaliatory measures. The EU insists it would rather negotiate than retaliate and has offered to completely eliminate tariffs for US cars and all industrial goods if Washington does the same. But with no sign the White House will agree. EU Trade Commissioner Maros Shevkovich says the bloc must go ahead with its own measures. We are prepared to use every tool in our trade defense arsenal to protect EU single market, EU producers and EU consumers.

The first round of EU counter tariffs is expected to include a wide range of items from dental floss to meat. But bourbon has reportedly been dropped from the list under heavy U.S. pressure. For NPR News, I'm Terri Schultz in Brussels. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the Trump administration can continue to deport people using a wartime power. It is called the Alien Enemies Act. It gives the president power to deport people very rapidly, as NPR's Jasmine Garst reports.

So the Supreme Court backed the Trump administration. In other words, it gave it the green light to continue using the act in order to rapidly deport alleged gang members. But it also made clear that officials must give migrants adequate notice that they're being removed under the Alien Enemies Act, so that they have time to challenge it. NPR's Jasmine Garst reporting. In a separate case, Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily paused a lower court's order.

It had demanded that the Trump administration bring back a man wrongly deported to El Salvador. The temporary hold will allow the Supreme Court time to review the case. The Trump administration is continuing to downsize the government. Some federal agencies are giving employees a choice, resign with pay and benefits through September or risk being fired later. And Pierce Andrea Shue reports the deadlines for federal employees to make that decision

are approaching. Tens of thousands of federal employees accepted the original deferred resignation offer back in late January, but far more were leery, unsure of what they were agreeing to or if the government would honor the terms. While not all of those concerns have been resolved, many more workers are considering the deal this time, now that agencies have announced mass layoffs ahead. The problem is, at most agencies, there's little information about who or what will be cut. And in most cases, employees have only been given a week or two to make their decision. With fears of an economic recession growing, many federal

employees wonder how long it might take them to find a new job. Andrea Hsu, NPR News. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. President Trump has promised to expand access to in vitro fertilization, but NPR's Sarah McCammon reports his administration is eliminating a team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that is researching IVF. Among thousands of federal employees laid off by the Trump administration in recent days

was a small team at the CDC in Atlanta. They were responsible for researching the effectiveness of treatments at IVF clinics around the country. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon sponsored a 1992 law that led to the team's creation. For somebody to say that they wanna be the fertilization president and then basically do everything they can to gut the office that was set up in order to do that essential work

is absurd. officials with the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC, have not responded to repeated requests for comment. Sarah McCammon, NPR News. President Trump says his administration will open direct talks with Iran this weekend over Iran's nuclear program. Iran's foreign minister says there will be talks, but he insists these negotiations will be indirect.

The Iranian official says the talks will be in the country of Oman. It's not clear how this discrepancy will be resolved. A climate monitoring agency in Europe says that last month that continent had its warmest March on record. The Copernicus Climate Change Service says last year was the hottest that the planet Earth ever had. The European agency is also warning that the level of sea ice in the polar regions continues to fall. This is NPR.