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Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, President Trump said over the weekend he's going to delay threatened tariffs on the European Union of 50 percent. Dow Jones' industrial average futures have soared by more than 500 points in pre-market trading this morning. It was just last Friday that markets plummeted after Trump said he'd impose the EU tariffs. Trump now says these won't take effect until July 9th. French President Emmanuel Macron says he hopes President Trump's anger toward Russia will

translate into action. Trump has warned of possible US sanctions on Russia after a huge Russian air assault this weekend on Ukraine and Piers Eleanor Beardsley reports. Macron said he hoped Trump's indignation would result in the US coming together with the Europeans for a much bigger sanctions package, one that could, quote, dissuade Russia and finally bring an end to the conflict. He added, I believe that President Trump realizes when President Putin told him on the phone he was ready for peace that he was lying. Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Maersk now says that Germany, Britain, and France

will no longer impose restrictions on the use of their long-range weapons. He said Ukraine can now defend itself by attacking military facilities in Russia. Eleanor Beardsley in PR News, Paris. Authorities in Liverpool, England say about 50 people have been injured after a car plowed through a crowd of pedestrians. As Willem Marx reports, thousands of people were celebrating a soccer competition victory by their local team. Four children were among those injured with more than two dozen hospitalized and several of those still

quote very very ill according to the local mayor. Police have arrested the man believed to be the vehicle's driver, a 53 year old, but said they do not currently consider the incident to be terror related. Videos and eyewitness accounts suggest the car reversed then accelerated suddenly through the crowd after being surrounded and rocked by passers-by. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called the events appalling, but officials have warned the public not to speculate online about the suspect's motives, ethnicity or religious background, as has been the case with other recent acts of UK violence. For NPR News, I'm Villam Marx in London.

The Senate has the government spending bill passed last week by the House. It would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Texas Public Radio's Paul Flav reports the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates several million people could lose access to what's also known as food stamps. The nearly $300 billion in cuts being proposed pushed the cost of food benefits onto the states for the first time. Northwestern University economist Diane Schanzinbach says if the U.S. sinks into a recession, states

with shrinking revenues and must-balance budgets won't be able to afford it. We'd be setting up a situation where just when people are most needing SNAP benefits, they're hardest to get. The proposal also increases work requirements on the poor, which Shanzinbuck says will push people off the program but will do little to increase labor participation. The Senate will take up the bill in coming days. I'm Paul Flavins, San Antonio. You're listening to NPR News.

Food safety experts are worried that the tracking of foodborne illnesses is growing weaker. NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports they're citing Trump administration cuts to federal health agencies. Paula Soldner is a longtime meat and poultry inspector who took one of the Trump administration's offers of early retirement from the Department of Agriculture. Soldner also chairs her union, the National Joint Council of Food Inspectors. She says too few inspectors remain to ensure factories are earning their USDA approved labels. I'm talking brats, hot dogs, summer sausage, pizzas, where as long as that stamp is there,

yet it can be sold. But did that plant receive that daily inspection from inspection personnel? In my mind, that's a huge question mark. Workers say a month-long closure of the labs at the Food and Drug Administration also resulted in delayed food inspections. Yuki Noguchi, NPR News. Author and women's health activist Norma Maris Swenson died on May 9th at the age of 93. She co-authored the book Our Bodies, Ourselves. It was originally published in 1970 with a group that came to be known as the Women's Health Book Collective in Boston.

Swenson worked with others to communicate information to women about their reproductive health, sexuality, and relationships. It was also frank about abortion. Our bodies, ourselves, first gained fame through word of mouth before it was republished in 1972 through a major publisher. No funeral details for Swenson have been announced. This is NPR.