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We've all been there running around a city looking for a bathroom but unable to find one. Hello, do you have a restroom we could use? A very simple free market solution is that we could just pay to use a bathroom, but we can't. On the Planet Money podcast, the story of how we once had thousands of pay toilets and why they got banned from Planet Money on NPR, wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. A federal appeals court has temporarily restored President Trump's ability to impose sweeping

global tariffs. As NPR's Frego Ordoñez reports, the decision overturns a lower court's ruling blocking Trump's tariffs. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has granted the Trump administration's request to temporarily pause the New York-based Court of International Trade ruling that struck down many of Trump's terrorists. The court offered no reasoning for the decision, but paused the original ruling while the legal proceedings play out.

This latest development is likely only to increase uncertainty about Trump's trade agenda. White House press secretary, Caroline Caroline Levitt defended the administration. Ultimately, the Supreme Court must put an end to this for the sake of our Constitution and our country. She said the U.S. cannot function if the president is hindered by, in her words, activist judges. Franco Ordonez in PR News, The White House. President Trump says he'll have a press conference early this afternoon at the White House with billionaire Elon Musk.

It's Musk's last day as a special federal government employee. He oversaw Trump's cost-cutting entity Doge. Musk says he's returning to his businesses. One of them, automaker Tesla, sought sales plunge in the most recent quarter by 71 percent year over year. President Trump has commuted the federal life sentences of a former Chicago gang leader. Larry Hoover founded the Gangster Disciples. For Member Station WBEZ, Anna Sovchenko has more. In the 1990s, Hoover was given six life sentences on conspiracy, extortion, drug conspiracy,

and other criminal charges. Former federal prosecutor Ron Safer led the gangster Disciples prosecution. He told the Chicago Sun-Times commuting Hoover's life sentence was an injustice. I do not understand why Hoover among all of the people in federal custody is worthy of this result. But Hoover isn't free. He still faces a 200-year jail term in Illinois for murder. It's unclear if the Illinois governor will be willing to commute his sentence. For NPR News, I'm Amanda Savchenko in Chicago.

President Trump has been warning Russian President Vladimir Putin this week that peace needs to be reached in Ukraine. Trump's special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, says that Ukraine has agreed to a recent deal proposed to achieve peace, but Kellogg says it does not include Ukraine joining NATO. To us, Ukraine coming into NATO is not on the table and we're not the only country that says that. You know, I can probably give you four of the countries in NATO, and it takes 32 of the 32 to allow you to come into NATO. And we've seen other countries say, no, we're not too sure about that.

But Trump says he is willing to sit down with the leaders of Ukraine and Russia to try to reach a peace deal. You're listening to NPR. New research shows how a brief event may lead peace deal. You're listening to NPR. New research shows how a brief event may lead to a lasting emotion in the brain. NPR's John Hamilton has more on a study in the journal Science. Scientists studied people and mice experiencing something annoying. Puffs of air delivered to the cornea. Each puff caused a brief spike of activity in the brain circuits that processed

sensory input. That spike was followed by sustained activity in other circuits, including those involved in emotion. Dr. Carl Dyseroth of Stanford University says the team had a hunch. If you remove this sustained phase, you block the emotional response as well. So they ran the experiment again, but this time used a drug to prevent that sustained activity. People no longer found the puffs annoying, and mice stopped squinting to protect their eyes. That suggests it takes a lingering signal in the brain to cause an emotional response. John Hamilton, NPR News.

This year's winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee is 13-year-old Faison Zaki of Dallas, Texas. And here is Faison's championship moment. Your word is... éclair c small. E-c-l-a-i-r-c-i-s-s-e-m-e-n-t. That is correct! That audio is courtesy of Scripts.net. M-E-N-T, that is correct.

That audio is courtesy of Scripps National Spelling Bee. Faison Zaki was last year's runner-up. He now wins a medal, a trophy, and a $50,000 prize. I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News from Washington. This message comes from WISE, the app for doing things and other currencies. I'm Korava Coleman, NPR News from Washington.