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Know that fizzy feeling you get when you read something really good, watch the movie everyone's been talking about, or catch the show that the internet can't get over? At the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, we chase that feeling four times a week. We'll serve you recommendations and commentary on the buzziest movies, TV, music, and more. From lowbrow to highbrow to the stuff in between, catch the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in between, catch the pop culture happy hour podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janene Hurst. President Trump says he will delay his 50 percent tariffs on European Union imports to July after speaking with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. This to allow the two sides to work on a trade deal.

We had a very nice call and I agreed to move it. I believe June 9th would be, July 9th would be the date. That was the date she requested. Could we move it from June 1st to July 9th? And I agreed to do that. And that she said we will rapidly get together and see if we can work something out. Trump speaking in New Jersey before heading back to Washington, D.C., this days after he expressed frustration with the pace of trade negotiations with the E.U. In New York City, a 28-year-old American man is under arrest charged with planning a fire bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in Israel and threatening the lives of President Trump

and other Americans on social media. Israel deported Joseph Neumeyer from Colorado yesterday and he appeared in a Brooklyn courtroom today. He's being held without bond. Prosecutors say the dual U.S.-German citizens started making disturbing posts on social media in late March. Meanwhile, dozens of Jewish organizations are calling on the federal government to do more to prevent anti-Semitic violence. And Pierce Jennifer Ludden reports, this comes after last week's killing of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. In a joint statement, the groups say tragedies like the one in D.C. are a direct result of rising levels of anti-Jewish incitement in city council meetings, schools and social

media. And they say it's not right that the institutions being targeted should bear the increasing cost of this threat. Eric Finger-Huthead's the Jewish Federation of America. It is the cost of the security guards and the off-duty police, all of whom we need more of. We have to protect our perimeters. We have to have more events covered, more hours covered. The groups say they'll push for more federal funding to local police and the FBI and for a crackdown on anti-semitic hate in online platforms. Jennifer Ludden, NPR News, Washington. A section of the Pacific Coast Highway that's been closed to the public since the January Palisades fire has reopened. NPR's Liz Baker has more.

At the Malibu Country Mart, General Manager Stephen McNellis watches a parking lot start to fill up with holiday weekend shoppers. More than he's seen since January. It was pretty devastating. It's just been kind of a ghost town. Now that PCH has reopened, he thinks there's a chance this weekend will help businesses get somewhat back to normal. But Frank Millerin, working in a fashion sneaker store, says he's not convinced.

A lot of that traffic is going to be people just taking in the terrible devastation, and it's going to be like a parking lot probably for a little bit. Rebuilding business, like rebuilding from the fires, won't be done in a weekend, even a long one. Liz Baker and Peer News, Malibu. All streets closed tomorrow in observance of Memorial Day. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Today, Pope Leo declared himself a Roman in a ceremonial step to securing his role as the Bishop of Rome. NPR's Claire Marie Schneider has more.

Translated by the Vatican News Service, Pope Leo can be heard saying, Today, I can say in a special way that I am a Roman with and for you. The Bishop of Rome is one of many titles given to the Pope. What will his duties include? Not a whole lot. I don't think he will be particularly involved in the day-to-day governing or administrative responsibility. That's Margaret Susan Thompson, a professor of history at Syracuse University.

She says his declaration speaks more to his responsibility to the people of Rome. It's an important symbolic statement and pastoral statement if not governing statement. Thompson says day-to-day duties are usually delegated to an auxiliary or assistant bishop known as a vicar. Claire Marie Schneider, NPR News. At the weekend box office, Disney's Lilo and Stitch took the top spot this holiday weekend with an estimated $145 million in ticket sales, making it the second biggest opening of the year after a Minecraft movie. Lilo and Stitch is a faithful remake of the 2002 original

story of a six-legged alien and a Hawaiian girl that has created a big cult following in the decades since. In second place, Paramount Pictures' Mission Impossible, the final reckoning with $63 million. I'm Janene Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. This message comes from WISE, the app for doing things and other currencies. to NPR News from Washington.