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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. Hear 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 Shea Stevens. A federal appeals court is freezing a ruling against President Trump's sweeping global

tariffs. The move pertains to a U.S. trade court finding that Trump overstepped his authority by using an Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose the import taxes. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro says Trump's tariff agenda remains intact. The tariffs remain in place. The court told us, they didn't all but tell us, they told us go do it another way so you can assume that even if we lose, we will do it another way. White House press secretary Caroline Levitt says the administration is confident that

it will be able to continue using emergency powers to impose tariffs. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says that President Trump would be breaking a promise if he pardons two men who were convicted of conspiring to kidnap her in 2020. From Michigan Public Radio, Rick Plutha has the story. The Republican president has said he's considering pardons for the two men who are serving federal prison terms for a plot that included staking out the Democratic governor's vacation home and using incendiary devices to get past security. Governor Whitmer says the president told her just the opposite last month in a White House

meeting. He asked me how I'd feel about this and I said I think it would be the wrong decision. I would oppose it. He said okay I'll drop it. Whitmer says a pardon would send a dangerous message about the consequences of violence against public servants. She noted that she publicly condemned violence against public officials following an assassination attempt on Trump last year.

For NPR News, I'm Rick Pluta. U.S. and European nationalists and conservatives are in Hungary for the Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC. In recent years, American conservatives have viewed Hungary as an aspirational model, even though analysts say it's experiencing an autocratic backslide. NPR's Arzoo Razvani reports. ARZOO RIZVANI Hungary is becoming a pariah state within the European Union for its effective ban on pride celebrations, a proposed law that would blacklist organizations that get foreign funding, and breaches of European laws that have prompted the EU to withhold billions of dollars.

But American conservatives like US CPAC chair Matt Schlapp praise Hungary's leader Viktor Orban for implementing Hungary First policies and for fighting against global institutions. The EU wants to dictate to these countries how many migrants they take. And what Orbán and the people of Hungary are saying is, no, we're going to determine what our immigration policy is. Schlapp says he expects to see more of these conservative gatherings around the world in the years to come. Arzur Razvani, NPR News, Budapest.

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance says it's no longer being sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission. A June 2023 complaint accused Binance and its founder of violating SEC rules by illegally serving U.S. clients and inflating trading volumes. This is NPR. The Supreme Court has scaled back the scope of environmental reviews needed before beginning major infrastructure projects. The case was brought by the backers of a multi-billion dollar oil railroad

expansion project in Utah. They challenged the national environmental policy, which requires federal agencies to study the environmental impacts of government-funded projects. Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Carrick has died at the age of 69. Carrick gained national attention after 9-11 and was chosen to help organize Iraq's police force in 2003. His image suffered six years later after he pleaded guilty to tax fraud and other charges. He was pardoned by President Trump in 2020.

In hockey, the Edmonton Oilers have punched their ticket to the Stanley Cup final with a 63 win over the Dallas Stars. That sets up a rematch of last year's final match between the Oilers and the defending champion Florida Panthers. NPR's Becky Sullivan has more. Both Edmonton and Florida won their conference final series four games to one, the Oilers over the Stars and the Panthers over the Carolina Hurricanes. Edmonton would Florida won their conference final series four games to one, the Oilers over the Stars and the Panthers over the Carolina Hurricanes. Edmonton would be the first Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup in more than 30 years, and they have, perhaps, the best player on ice these days, Connor McDavid, who leads

all NHL players in postseason points this year. But McDavid wasn't enough for the Oilers last year in the Stanley Cup final. Florida went up in that series three games to zero, then the Oilers seemed to be on route to a historic comeback, but they won three straight to force a game seven. But the Panthers and their stars, Sasha Barkov and Matthew Kachuk, held them off, and will look to do it again starting next week. Becky Sullivan, NPR News.

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