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On Fridays, the 1A podcast is all about helping you cut through the info fog and get to what's important in the news. Close out the week with us on our Friday News Roundup. Here from reporters who've been embedded with the biggest news of the week. Join us every week for the Friday News Roundup. Listen to the 1A podcast from NPR and WAMU. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. President Trump is further complicating expectations about his tariff policy towards the European

Union. In the Oval Office on Friday, reporters asked him about his social media post threatening higher levies on the EU. And as NPR's Danielle Kurtzbaum reports, Trump repeated 50%. Trump said he's not inclined to negotiate that 50% tariff downward. I'm not looking for a deal. I mean, we've set the deal, it's at 50%.

But again, there is no tariff if they build their plant here. However, when asked if there is anything the EU can do to avoid those 50% tariffs, Trump said that he didn't know and would see what happens. Currently, the US.S. tariff on goods from the EU is 10 percent. Trump said he would want the 50 percent tariff to start on June 1st. Trump imposed an array of tariffs on countries worldwide in early April, then paused them for 90 days. That means many tariff rates could ratchet upwards this summer. Danielle Kertzlaib in NPR News, The White House. President Trump has approved a partnership between U.S. Steel and Japan's Nippon Steel

after a national security review of the proposal. In 2023, Nippon Steel proposed buying U.S. Steel for about $15 billion, but then President Biden rejected the deal. NPR's Dip a Shiveron has more. Before the election, Trump campaigned against the deal Nippon Steel proposed. The United Steelworkers Union also opposed the deal. But now, Trump is casting the deal as a, quote, partnership.

He says the deal would mean that U.S. Steel keeps its headquarters in Pittsburgh and said that Nippon would invest $14 billion in the company. The details of the agreement and what it means for the company's ownership structure are not yet known. Trump may have more to say about it at a rally in Pittsburgh next Friday. Deepa Sivaram, NPR News. The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking a watchdog group from accessing records from Elon Musk's Doge, as NPR's Bobby Allen reports, it follows a lawsuit seeking to shed light on the team's secretive activities.

The nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is suing the Trump administration to uncover details about Doge's dealings in the U.S. government. The lawsuit argues Doge is exceeding its legal authority and asks that internal communications, financial disclosures and other documents be released to the public. A federal district judge found Doge is likely subject to Freedom of Information Act requests. But after an appeal, Chief Justice John Roberts is pausing that ruling, meaning Doge records do not have to be turned over as the appeals process continues. It's a win for the Trump administration, which has stated Doge is operating transparently

despite most of its activities being shrouded in secrecy. Those activities have resulted in tens of thousands of federal workers being fired and the unwinding of entire government agencies. Bobby Allen, NPR News. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. German authorities say multiple people have been injured after a stabbing attack. This at a busy central train station in the city of Hamburg. Some of those who were wounded are reported to be in a life-threatening condition.

Police say that a woman is in custody and is considered to be a suspect after she allegedly attacked several people on a platform. An airstrike overnight in Gaza killed 50 people sheltering in one home. Israel says its new military offensive is aimed at eradicating Hamas and pushing the civilian population south. NPR's Avah Batrani reports has more on the attack. Fifty people from the Al-Dardouna family were killed when an Israeli fighter jet bombed

their five-story home as they slept. Around 20 bodies have been pulled out, several of them children. Relatives say another 30 are still missing and can't be reached. But this wasn't the only home bombed in this part of Jabalia, which is just outside an area Israel has ordered evacuated.

While NPR's producer Anas Babel was documenting the rescue effort, another Israeli airstrike hit another home. Eiman Radwan, a resident of Jabalia, is among an estimated 10,000 people displaced across Gaza in the past 24 hours. He tells NPR he's leaving the north because there's no life here anymore. His shirt was stained with the blood of his aunt from an airstrike only hours earlier. Ayah Batraoui, NPR News, Dubai. Ukraine's capital city, Kiev, came under drone and missile attacks overnight with explosions and machine gun fire. Some of the debris from the intercepted missiles fell on the city.

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