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A federal appeals court has temporarily restored President Trump's ability to impose his global tariffs. The president's power had been halted earlier this week by a lower court that had ruled Trump exceeded his presidential authority. But the decision has been blocked by the higher court while the case moves through the legal system. Trump's White House trade adviser Peter Navarro says yesterday's decision means Trump's economic agenda will go forward.

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. Separately, Trump is writing online this morning about trade with China. He claims that he made a, quote, fast deal with China, but he also claims the Chinese government has broken that deal. Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said on Fox News that trade talks with China have, quote, stalled a bit.

The Trump administration says it will aggressively revoke visas for some Chinese students. From member station GBH in Boston, Kirk Karapesza reports Trump supporters see this as a national security issue. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the focus will be on students tied to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in quote critical fields. Right now more than 270,000 Chinese students are enrolled in U.S. colleges. Simon Hankinson, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and longtime Foreign Service Officer,

supports more visa scrutiny. In my career over 23 years I saw us go from one sheet of paper front and back to multiple forms online. And I think the more information we have about people that we let into the country, the better. International education advocates here in Massachusetts, though, call these restrictions self-defeating. For NPR News, I'm Kirk Terapeza in Boston. Virginia is one of the latest states to crack down on the amount of screen time for children.

NPR's Windsor Johnston reports it's part of a growing trend as states move to limit how and when young people engage with digital platforms. Virginia's new law takes effect next year. It aims to limit social media use for minors under 16 to 1 hour per day, unless parents provide verifiable consent to adjust that limit. Saasi Naga is the CEO of Parent Genie, an app that's designed to help parents better monitor their kids' screen time. He says mental health concerns driving these efforts are real.

High levels of screen time are associated with increased anxiety disruptor sleep, reduced physical activity and lower academic engagement. Other states like Illinois have social media curfew laws that restrict minors from accessing sites between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Windsor-Johnston NPR News. On Wall Street, in pre-market trading Dow futures are lower. This is NPR. President Trump will meet with a few reporters

at the White House today, along with billionaire Elon Musk. It's Musk's last day as a special federal employee. He's been overseeing the Doge cost-cutting entity. Idaho wants its school districts to create new programs to prepare students for jobs that will open up as aging workers retire. For Northwest Public Broadcasting, Lauren Patterson visited a high school where grant money is giving students a new way into one of the state's oldest and biggest industries.

The shop's brand new sawmill is firing up. Student Aidan Olive is helping with the day-long event the school is putting on to show off its new trade programs. I wasn't really certain about going into forestry at first, but after getting this mill and running it and seeing how it works, I really actually think that could be some possibility of going into forestry. The state put $65 million into the Idaho Career Ready Students Grant Program. It's paid for field trips and shop upgrades at schools, and natural resource classes in

fisheries, wildlife, and forestry. Now the state will be keeping track of students like Aidan to see what careers they choose. For NPR News, I'm Lauren Patterson in Orofino, Idaho. Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Carrick has died at the age of 69, according to the FBI, which cited an unspecified illness. Carrick gained attention for helping lead New York City in the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks, but he was later convicted, jailed, and then pardoned by President Trump of federal tax crimes.

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