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This message comes from the Kresge Foundation. Established 100 years ago, the Kresge Foundation works to expand equity and opportunity in cities across America. A century of impact, a future of opportunity. More at Kresge.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. The Trump administration is imposing 100% terrorists on imported microchips and semiconductors. As NPR's John Ruich reports, exceptions are being made for companies that build manufacturing operations in the United States. The Trump administration has been looking into semiconductor tariffs,

and Trump announced them at an event with Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Oval Office. The good news for companies like Apple is if you're building in the United States or have committed to build, without question, committed to build in the United States, there will be no charge. Trump did not give further details. Most of the world's microchips are manufactured in Asia, and almost all of the most advanced chips are made in Taiwan. Meanwhile, Cook announced that Apple will invest another $100 billion in United States manufacturing, bringing the company's recent commitments to $600 billion. John Rewich, NPR News.

A period of relative calm in Los Angeles was broken on Wednesday. As Libby Rainey from the LAist reports, federal immigration agents, jumped out of a rental truck and arrested 16 people at a home. Home Depot. Federal officials called it Operation Trojan Horse. Video shows men in U.S. Border Patrol vests emerging from the back of a Penske box truck and running into the parking lot of Home Depot. The operation comes after weeks of aggressive immigration enforcement across the L.A. area led a judge to issue a temporary restraining order against indiscriminate sweeps. The ACLU says the action at the Home Depot may have violated that order. Jorge Mario Cabrero

with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, agreed. The video and witness testimonies indicate that there was no mention of a warrant. For us, that is called racial profiling. The Department of Homeland Security responded by saying that its action was targeted. For NPR News, I'm Libby Rainey in Los Angeles. Investigators at an army base in Georgia are seeking a motive for a shooting that left five soldiers injured. As Emily Jones from Member Station, W.A.B.E. reports a suspect is in custody. Army officials say Sergeant Cornelius Radford opened fire on his coworkers at their place of work on post around 11 a.m.

Brigadier General John Lubis, the commanding general of Fort Stewart, says soldiers in the area immediately and without hesitation, tackled the shooter. These soldiers, without a doubt, prevented further casualties. Three of the five injured soldiers needed surgery, but all were in stable condition by the afternoon. Army officials declined to speculate on a motive. They say Radford used what was believed to be a personal handgun. They also stressed that the investigation is ongoing, but the base has been secured. For NPR news, I'm Emily Jones at Fort Stewart. U.S. futures are higher in after-hours trading on Wall Street. This is NPR. President Trump is sounding optimistic

about meeting with his Russian counterpart in the near future. Trump did not mention a specific date and says that Vladimir Putin has disappointed him in the past. The president is threatening to impose stiff sanctions if Russia does not breach a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine. He's also threatening to impose additional secondary sanctions on countries buying Russian oil. PNS composer and bandleader Eddie Palmieri has died in New Jersey following a long illness, according to a family statement posted on his Facebook page. As NPR's Felix Contreras reports, the 88-year-old Palmieri was widely respected for infusing progressive jazz harmonies

with music that's known as salsa. Eddie Palmieri connected the dots between two eras of Afro-Caribbean dance music in New York between the old-school big bands of musicians like Tito Puente and Machito to a sound of his own that was influenced by the cutting-edge jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis. He was born in New York City, Spanish Harlem in 1936, and after forming his first band La Perfecta in 1961, Pamieri purposely created tension within his music,

then delivered a musical release that eventually challenged and stretched the genres of Latin jazz and salsa with a sound that was as impressive musically as it was danceable. Felix Contreras, NPR News. Again, U.S. futures are higher, and after I was trading on Wall Street, Asia-Pacific market shares are mixed at the sour. This is NPR News.