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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 Corva Coleman. President Trump's latest round of tariffs took effect six hours ago against dozens of nations. That includes China. The Chinese government has issued a white paper that says it's taking forceful countermeasures. But it also says it's committed to resolving disputes through dialogue.

NPR's Danielle Kurtz-Lehman reports President Trump might be open to the idea. The tariffs mean U.S. businesses will pay extra to import products from dozens of trading partners, including the EU, Japan and Vietnam. Among the new taxes is a 104 percent tariff on Chinese goods. After days of mixed messages over whether the tariffs were negotiable or not, the president marked the eve of this day by saying he's open to making new deals. And we're doing very well in making, I call them tailored deals, not off the rack. These are tailored, highly tailored deals. Right now, Japan is flying here to make a deal. South Korea is flying

here to make a deal and others are flying here. However, the White House has not given a timetable on any potential tariff changes. Danielle Kurzleben, NPR News. A federal immigration judge in Louisiana says the Trump administration has until today to supply information about why a former Columbia graduate student should be deported over his pro-Palestinian activism. Former graduate student Mahmoud Khalil is a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. His wife is an American citizen.

NPR's Adrienne Florido has more on Khalil's case. Judge Jamie Komen set a lightning-fast timeline. She gave the government a day to submit its evidence to support the charge that Khalil poses a threat to the foreign policy interests of the United States and that he committed fraud on his green card application. She said that two days later, on Friday, she's going to rule on whether he should be released

or whether he should be deported. NPR's Adrian Florido reporting. Kalu was taken from New York to Louisiana where he's been held for about a month. The Trump administration has presented no evidence publicly of any wrongdoing by him. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, but the Department of Health and Human Services has fired the teams that work on sexual assault prevention. And Pr. Selena Simmons-Duffin has more. The job cuts were part of a major restructuring of the federal health agencies. Last week, 10,000 employees were fired. Among them were the teams at CDC that help local advocacy

groups and public health departments do work on rape prevention. Lynn Rosenthal was HHS director of sexual and gender-based violence under the Biden administration. Decades literally of work will be lost as a result of the division of violence prevention being wiped out in this way. The 200 million dollars appropriated to the CDC's rape prevention and education program hasn't been cut, but local groups worry that they'll have problems receiving their funding now that their federal partners are gone. Selena Simmons Duffin, NPR News, Washington. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.

The National Weather Service won't provide Spanish-language translations of its weather alerts anymore, including emergency information. The Trump administration has ended a contract with a company that provided the translations. A federal judge has ruled that the Trump White House must admit the Associated Press's journalists to news events. The judge ruled the White House exclusion of the AP

over what to call the Gulf of Mexico is unlawful. But NPR's David Falkenflick reports, two AP journalists were still rejected from the White House pool to cover a Trump speech. President Trump and other senior government officials had shut the Associated Press out of dozens of major events at the Oval Office and elsewhere because the news service refused to go along with Trump's decree that the Gulf of Mexico should henceforth be known as the Gulf of America. The AP goes by the historic name for the body of water, but notes Trump's order. Judge Trevor McFadden had seemed skeptical

of the AP's arguments last month. In his order, however, he found that the White House actions had harmed the AP's ability to cover the news. McFadden, a Trump appointee, wrote, quote, the AP's exclusion has been contrary to the First Amendment. No comment yet from the White House. David Folkenthal, NPR News. The measles outbreak is spreading in Texas. There are more than 500 cases now reported. Several of them have surfaced in new counties. That includes among several children who attend a daycare center in Lubbock, Texas.

The Keystone Oil pipeline has been shut down in North Dakota. An unexplained rupture spilled about 3,500 barrels of oil into a field. A federal team is going to investigate. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News from Washington. Cell phones, cars, coffee. How do these goods make their way to us from overseas? And what will President Trump's tariffs mean for their price tags?

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