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Starting in the 1950s, there was a push to get meat onto Americans' plates at every meal. So you would have breakfast with maybe perhaps sausage offered. You'd have lunch where it would be deli meat sandwiches. And you'd have dinner that would center over a large cut of meat. The hidden forces behind our everyday decisions. That's on the TED Radio Hour from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. A federal judge says the Trump administration may not use the 18th Century Alien Enemies

Act to deport Venezuelan migrants from South Texas, calling it illegal. U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez rejected President Trump's argument that he has special powers to bypass court proceedings and deport immigrants considered dangerous. The Department of Homeland Security has flown dozens of Venezuelan migrants to a detention facility in El Salvador and promised to send even more. The Appalachian Regional Coalition on Homelessness, or ARCH, has served eight counties in Northeast Tennessee for over 20 years. ARCH lost a $475,000 grant and 26 AmeriCorps members

when Doge slashed AmeriCorps workforce by 90%. Chad Barrett with member station WETS says these cuts will affect access to services for the homeless. ARCH's mission is to organize, facilitate, and provide homeless services in the Northeast Tennessee region. Connor McClellan, the AmeriCorps coordinator at ARCH, says that members were doing outreach on the street, you know, identifying homeless individuals who may not be coming in for services but need

to receive them, working specifically with the youth, like youth homeless. AmeriCorps exists to channel federal resources into community service. This week, 24 states and the District of Columbia filed suit in an attempt to stop Doge from dismantling it. For NPR News, I'm Chad Barrett in Johnson City, Tennessee. U.S. factors are in a slump as managers struggle with President Trump's new tariffs. NPR's Scott Horsley reports on a new factory survey from the Institute for Supply Management. The president's tariffs are supposed to help domestic manufacturers, but factory managers

say they're having the opposite effect. New factory orders and output were down last month, while prices and delivery times were up. Managers say supply chains have been paralyzed by the size of the import taxes and the confusing way they keep changing. Tim Fiore, who oversees the monthly survey, says factories had been on the cusp of a boom before the president launched his trade war. That's the sad thing that we could be on a gross profile here if not for the administration trying

to change the way the entire world does business. The trade war is also hurting factory exports as other countries look elsewhere for manufactured goods. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. President Trump delivered the commencement address at the University of Alabama Thursday and told graduates to fight from the day they leave school and to work even harder than ever before. For the business majors here today, I challenge you not merely to use your talents for financial speculation but to apply your great skills

that you've learned and had to forging the steel and pouring the concrete of new American factories, plants, shipyards, and even cities, which are going up all over our country. Trump told the students that they are the first graduating class of the golden age of America. This is NPR. President Trump is nominating national security adviser Mike Waltz to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Waltz came under scrutiny following revelations that a journalist was added to a signal chat used to discuss military attacks in Yemen. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will also serve as interim national security advisor, in addition to his roles as acting administrator of USAID and acting head of the National Archives. The Trump administration is imposing new testing requirements for vaccines. And as NPR's Rob Stein tells us, the demand could delay other vaccines, including the

next round of COVID-19 shots. The Department of Health and Human Services says that all new vaccines must now be tested against an inert substance, a placebo, before they can be made available. And while the administration isn't specifically naming the COVID vaccines, a spokesman indicated any update to the COVID vaccines would make them, quote, new vaccines, requiring this extra testing. The administration says this is Any update to the COVID vaccines would make them, quote, new vaccines, requiring this

extra testing. The administration says this is necessary to ensure the safety of the vaccines. Critics say the move is unnecessary and could make it impossible to make updated vaccines available by next fall. Rob Stein and Peer News. The U.S. Army is preparing to hold a military parade on June 14 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Army and to mark President Trump's 79th birthday. Trump wanted a military parade during his first term in office, but his national security

team and Washington, D.C., officials advised against it. This is NPR News. The scary new movie Sinners from The Director of Black Panther finds Michael B. Jordan playing advised against it. This is NPR News.