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These days, there's a lot of news. It can be hard to keep up with what it means for you, your family, and your community. Consider This from NPR is a podcast that helps you make sense of the news. Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a story and provide the context, backstory, and analysis you need to understand our rapidly changing world. Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. Listen to the Consider This Podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. The White House says it's polling its nomination for NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.

As NPR's Frank O'Riordan tells us, the move comes just days before the Senate was to vote on his nomination. The White House did not explain why Isaacman's nomination was polled, but spokesperson Liz Huston said in a statement that quote, It's essential that the next leader of NASA is in complete alignment with President Trump's America First agenda. Isaacman, a pilot who flies his own fighter jet, has a close relationship with the billionaire Elon Musk, who this week left his post as a senior advisor to the president. The Senate was set to vote on Isaacman's nomination next week.

Huston said the president will name a replacement soon. She said the new administrator will, quote, help lead humanity into space and execute President Trump's bold mission of planting the American flag on the planet Mars. Franco Ordonez, NPR News. The State Department says it's going to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students who have connections to the Chinese Communist Party or if they study in what Secretary of State Marco Rubio is calling critical fields. NPR's Emily Fang has more on just how that

might affect the approximately 270,000 Chinese students now studying in the U.S. The announcement sent more waves of anxiety through China where Tomo Rosschild, who runs a consulting company that helps Chinese students apply for American universities, says many families are besides themselves. Many of them are losing their mind. There is intense competition and veneration for an American education in China. China is the second biggest source of foreign students to the U.S.

Most study in science and technology fields when they get to the U.S. And data from the U.S. National Science Foundation finds more than 80% of these students then stay and work in the U.S. after graduation. Emily Fang and Peer News. Officials from the National Hurricane Center are reminding people to stay prepared ahead of this year's hurricane season. That starts on Sunday. Julia Cooper of Member Station WLRN has more on our story from Miami. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting a 60 percent chance of above

normal activity this season. National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan says that's been a trend over time. We've been in a very active period, more or less, for about the last 30 years in the Atlantic, but it's really important to remind everybody in hurricane-prone areas that it doesn't really matter what the seasonal forecast says. There are risks of impacts every year. Officials stress the importance of knowing if you live in an evacuation zone in coastal and flood-prone areas. They also say it's important to know where to find trusted sources of information, like local meteorologists and emergency management officials.

For NPR News, I'm Julia Cooper in Miami. And you're listening to NPR News. Paris is going wild after its soccer team has won its first-ever Champions League Cup. That's the top soccer tournament in Europe as NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports. PSG beat Inter Milan by a score of 5-0. Paris exploded in joy as its team PSG Paris Saint-Germain won the European Championship for the first time, beating Inter Milan at the final match played in Munich. Parisians

chanted and shot off fireworks late into the night with tens of thousands celebrating on the Avenue Champs-Élysées. Many had the name Desiré Douay on their lips. Douay is the 19 year old new star of Paris Saint-Germain who scored two goals and assisted another. The 5-0 victory was record-breaking. The Qatari-owned PSG is only the second French club to win European football's top trophy since Marseille won in 1993. Eleanor Beardsley in Pierre News, Paris. Scottie Scheffler is a one-stroke lead at the Muirfield Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio this weekend. He shot a 68 on Saturday, a move past Ben Griffin who shot a 72.

Scheffler is hoping for his third win in the past four starts he won at Colonial last week. LSU Shreveport has become the first college baseball team on record to go an entire season unbeaten. The pilots finished 59-0 after they won the NAIA championship in Lewiston, Idaho. The pilots have appeared in the national tournament every year since 2005 and have been in the tournament World Series three times. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.