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Live from NPR News in Washington, on Korova Coleman, President Trump says he has agreed to delay a 50 percent tariff on goods from the European Union. On Wall Street and pre-market trading, Dow futures have soared by more than 500 points, apparently, in response. And Pierce Rob Schmitz has more. President Trump's about face is the latest instance of him declaring an impending tariff and throwing global markets into a panic, only to later walk it back.

This time around, Trump said he and the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen had a quote, very nice call that prompted the delay. As recently as Friday, Trump said he was not looking for a deal with the EU and that the 50% tariff would go into effect on the 1st of June. That rate would have come after he had already imposed a reciprocal tariff on the EU in April of 20 percent, which itself was delayed. An EU spokesperson says there is new momentum behind trade talks with the Trump administration. Rob Schmitz, NPR News, Berlin. Corporate America's pendulum is swinging away from diversity, equity, and inclusion or DEI

efforts. Now an analysis finds it's eliminated thousands of related jobs, as NPR's Maria Aspin is the first to report. Maria Aspin Five years ago, the racial reckoning sparked by George Floyd's murder at the hands of Minneapolis police sent companies racing to hire chief diversity officers. But the political landscape has been changing even before President Trump was reelected. Over the past two years, many companies have started ending their DEI promises. That's having a direct impact on all the people who do this work. U.S. employers have eliminated more than 2,600 jobs in DEI since early 2023. That's according to a data analysis that the firm

Reveleo Labs did exclusively for NPR. It found that employers have now cut more than 10 percent of the diversity-focused jobs that existed just two years ago. Maria Aspin, NPR News, New York. There was a mass shooting late last night in a Philadelphia park. Two people were killed and another nine were injured. Three teenagers are among the wounded. Philadelphia officials say no one is yet in custody. Dozens of military families are still displaced in San Diego after a small jet crashed into their neighborhood last Thursday.

Six people aboard the plane were killed. There's a lot of wreckage that must be cleared away from the crash scene and many people still cannot go home. Tony Terevainen is the CEO of the group Support the Enlisted Project. He's linking affected families with social workers. What we're able to do with those families is have our social workers work with each of those families and kind of help them start to put together a game plan to move forward. Officials say there was heavy fog at the time of the crash last week. They say the nearby runway lights were not working.

There was also a weather alert system that was out of order. You're listening to NPR News. Officials in Liverpool, England say about 50 people have been hurt after a car drove into a crowd of people celebrating a winning soccer team. Liverpool's mayor says more than two dozen people are hospitalized with very serious injuries. The driver has been arrested. Liverpool police describe him as a 53-year-old white man from Britain.

They haven't disclosed any possible motive, but they say the incident is not related to terrorism. King Charles will preside over the opening of Canada's new session of parliament today. Emma Jacobs reports the monarch will deliver a highly symbolic speech and a show of support for the current government. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney extended the invitation to King Charles to visit and deliver the so-called Speech from the Throne, which opens the new parliamentary sitting. The King is formally Canada's head of state. Canada's parliament is reconvening for the first time since the country held snap parliamentary elections last month. The race was influenced by President Trump's tariffs and his interest

in Canada becoming part of the United States. King Charles' visit is the first since his coronation. The two-day trip has been widely interpreted as a show of support for Canadian sovereignty. For NPR News, I'm Emma Jacobs in Montreal. A Canadian man has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for stealing a famous photograph of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The man pleaded guilty to replacing the photo with a fake in its place in a Canadian hotel. The forgery was discovered in 2022. The Churchill photo is now featured on the English £5 note. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News in Washington.