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This is Ira Glass, the host of This American Life. So much is changing so rapidly right now, with President Trump in office. It feels good to pause for a moment sometimes and look around at what's what. To try and do that, we've been finding these incredible stories about right now that are funny and have feeling and you get to see people everywhere making sense of this new America that we find ourselves in. This American Life, wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Immigrant advocates are devastated

by the Supreme Court's ruling allowing the Trump administration to revoke temporary legal status for people who fled unstable countries. As NPR's Adrian Fluido reports, up to half a million people now face deportation. The ruling lets the Trump administration start deporting them, even though its decision to cancel the program protecting them is still being litigated. It's known as CHNV because under the Biden administration, people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua,

and Venezuela were given temporary status if they had a U.S. sponsor. Garlene Joseph directs the Haitian Bridge Alliance, an advocacy group. This is a group of people who followed every single rule and came here with that status, and now it is taken away from them. Today they have come for people here in CHNV. Tomorrow they will come for all of us. She says the legal fight to protect CHNV will continue. Adrian Floodyville, NPR News. The Israeli government has approved the establishment of 22 new settlements throughout the occupied

West Bank. The announcement comes as the Israeli military continues to increasingly displace Palestinians from their towns and villages. NPR's Adil Al-Shalti reports. The Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Kat Katz called it a quote, once in a generation decision that would strengthen the government's hold on the West Bank. Israel captured the territory in the 1967 Mideast War and has built more than 100 Jewish settlements. The international community considers the settlements illegal or illegitimate.

Israeli Finance Minister Betzalel Smoltrich is a far-right settler and has been calling for the full annexation of the West Bank. His group believes that all of Israel has been given to the Jewish people by God. Rights groups say the recent move by the government deepens the Israeli occupation and hinders prospects of a two-state solution. Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR News, Tel Aviv. US companies have been paying higher tariffs. Now wonder if they might get some of their money back to federal court rulings this week.

Found the White House overstepped its legal authority on sweeping worldwide tariffs. But the rulings are on hold pending appeals, more from NPR's Alina Salyuk. Many American small business owners have been on a roller coaster of tariff-related feelings. Worry, confusion, anxiety. Now there are new emotions. I have feel a lot of relief and hope. Sarah Wells from Virginia sells breast bump backpacks and other maternity accessories. We still have some work going on in the court system in terms of the appeal. So I'm very cautiously optimistic at this point. She had a shipment from China that was already in route when the tariffs started escalating, costing her an unexpected $15,000 at customs. She has

now canceled all her orders from China and set up some operations in Cambodia. Alina Seluk, NPR News. Stocks wound down the trading week on a mixed note. The Dow was up 54 points. The Nasdaq fell 62 points. This is NPR. Taylor Swift may be one of the biggest pop stars in the world, but for most of her career she has not owned the masters of her first six albums. As NPR's Hazel Seals reports, that has changed. It's common for singer-songwriters. Taylor Swift writes her songs, like one of her biggest hits, 2008's Love Story, and she sang it, but she didn't own it. But now, Swift has announced she finally owns her Masters, nearly six years after music executive Scooter Braun first acquired them in 2019. That initial sale

was the inspiration behind Swift releasing re-recordings of albums she didn't own the Masters for, including her hit, Red. Swift did not disclose what she paid for the rights to her music. Hazel Sills, NPR News. In a corner of Washington state, things aren't usually buzzing to the extent they are at the moment, but 250 million bees on the loose will do that. Officials are doing what they can at the moment to corral the wayward insects, which will release when a tractor trailer carrying 70,000 pounds of pollinator hives and bees

will return on the country road near Lyndon, Washington. It prompted an all-caps warning from the Whatcom County Sheriff's Office for people to avoid the area. It's hoped the bees will eventually return to their hives where the queens are located. Critical futures prices continue to bounce around amid uncertainty over the direction of oil industry cartel OPEC oiled down 15 cents a barrel to end the session at 60.79 a barrel in New York. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News in Washington.