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Imagine, if you will, a show from NPR that's not like NPR, a show that focuses not on the important but the stupid, which features stories about people smuggling animals in their pants and competent criminals in ridiculous science studies, and call it Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me Because the Good Names Were Taken. Listen to NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Yes, that is what it is called wherever you Get Your Podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korova Coleman. The European Union has announced it will match President Trump's decision.

It will pause a set of tariffs on certain U.S. goods for 90 days. Trump's latest tariffs had only been in effect for a few hours yesterday when he announced he was suspending them for three months. But as NPR's Franco Ordoñez reports, Trump chose to boost tariffs on China. Just hours after he urged Americans to quote, be cool about an escalating trade war, Trump reversed course and issued a 90 day pause on the majority of tariffs. I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippie, you know, they were getting a little bit yippie, a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy, you know, they were getting a little bit yippy,

a little bit afraid. He later downplayed those concerns, claiming this was their strategy all along. The administration is keeping a baseline 10 percent tariff on imports, but that's much less than tariffs he was threatening on dozens of countries. Yet while he paused most of those increased tariffs, he doubled down on Beijing, raising China's tariff to 125 percent. He said it was punishment when China announced their own retaliatory tariffs. Franco Ordoñez, NPR News, The White House. The U.S. and Russia say they have carried out another prisoner swap.

The exchange marks the second American freed from a Russian prison since President Trump returned to the White House. NPR's Charles Mains reports from Moscow Trump vowed to improve relations with the Kremlin. According to the deal Russia released Ksenia Karelina, a dual Russian and American citizen who'd been serving out a 12-year sentence in a Russian prison colony. A native of Russia's Ural Mountains who later moved to Los Angeles, the ballet dancer was detained while visiting her parents in Russia in February of last year, the reason Karelina had donated just over $50 to a Ukrainian aid charity.

She was later convicted of financing the Ukrainian army. Under the exchange, Russia's FSB says the U.S. freed Arthur Petrov, a dual Russian-German citizen accused of illegally exporting military-grade electronics in violation of U.S. sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine. Charles Maines, NPR News, Moscow. The family of an immigrant in Maryland who was forcibly deported to El Salvador by mistake is continuing to demand his release. The wife of Kilma Abrego Garcia joined members of the Hispanic caucus yesterday on Capitol

Hill. Jennifer Vasquez-Sura says her husband was abducted a month ago by the Trump administration. We're not going to give up hope to the Supreme Court justice, to the right thing. History will always remember you. The U.S. Supreme Court is examining Abrego Garcia's case. He was legally permitted to be in the United States. The Trump administration admits it made a mistake in deporting him to El Salvador, but officials say they cannot and will not do anything because he is no longer in the U.S.

This is NPR. There are flood warnings up in several states, from Ohio to the Gulf Coast. This follows several days of storms that started a week ago. Now the exceptionally heavy rain has surged into rivers, pushing many to major flood stage. Officials in Cincinnati say the Ohio River crested there yesterday.

All of the former research chimpanzees that had been living on an Air Force base in New Mexico have finally arrived at a chimp sanctuary in Louisiana. As NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boise reports, many of these chimps are in their 50s and 60s. These chimps are so old and frail that the National Institutes of Health had originally said they weren't going to be moved

to the federal chimp sanctuary, that the change would be too stressful. Last November, though, the NIH reversed course. Over the last few months, workers carefully transported 21 chimps to their new home, which is called Chimp Haven. Raina Smith is the CEO. All of those chimps are really doing well, settling in at Chimphaven and just starting to thrive. The NIH stopped using chimps for invasive biomedical research a decade ago.

Almost all of its chimps, nearly 300, now live at this sanctuary. A small number are still at two facilities in Texas. Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News. Chinese scientists think the far side of the moon may be a lot more dry than the side that faces the Earth. They studied lunar dirt from a Chinese probe. That landed on the far side of the moon last year, the first human craft to do so. The researchers say this can help them understand how the moon evolved. I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News.