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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. President Trump is calling on the CEO of chipmaker Intel to resign. NPR's John Ruich reports Trump is accusing him of investing in Chinese companies, including some tied to China's military. On truth social, Trump said Intel CEO Liputan is, quote, highly conflicted and should resign immediately. This comes after Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas this week posted a letter online that he wrote to the chairman of Intel's board expressing concern about Tan. Cotton-sided news reports that Tan controls dozens of Chinese companies and has stakes in Chinese advanced manufacturing and chip

firms, including at least eight with reported ties to the People's Liberation Army. It notes that Tan, who joined Intel in March, was previously CEO of a company called Cadence Design Systems. Last week, Cadence pleaded guilty to selling semiconductor design tools to a blacklisted military University in China. Intel did not have an immediate response to emailed questions from NPR about Trump's call for TAN to resign. John Rewitch, NPR News. A sweeping new round of tariffs is now in effect, as President Trump targets dozens of U.S. trading partners. Speaking on MSNBC, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said it's all about rebuilding American manufacturing and cutting the trade gap. President Trump has said, and I've said, we want to bring back the high-president.

and manufacturing jobs. We want to get rid of these big deficits that we have with countries that have created these big surpluses and the gutted our manufacturing bases. The latest round of tariffs could mean higher prices for American consumers on everything from sneakers to bananas and cars to coffee. Critics of the president's tariff agenda, including congressional Democrats, argue the administration is mismanaging the economy and increasing costs for Americans. NPR has obtained police body cam footage from the January 6th

attack on the U.S. Capitol building. NPR's Tom Dreisbach reports the video shows a Department of Justice official urging rioters to kill police. During the January 6th, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Jared Wise went up to a police line and called the cops Nazis. You are the Nazi. You are the stopper. You can't see it. As he watched off. Officers being attacked, Wise yelled, kill him. Wise did not personally attack police, and he pleaded not guilty to charges that he aided and abetted an assault, that we admitted to yelling kill him. President Trump issued mass pardons for January 6th defendants and dismissed Wise's case. Now the Department of Justice has hired Wise as a senior advisor.

In a statement, the department called him a valued member of their team. Tom Dreisbach and PR News. On Wall Street, the Dow was down 300 points. This is NPR. Tens of thousands of college students living in the U.S. without legal status are losing access to in-state tuition. It's part of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration. The Justice Department has been suing states to end these tuition breaks. The lawsuit started in Texas in June and have expanded to Kentucky, Minnesota, and Oklahoma. Federal law prohibits in-state tuition benefits. for students in the country illegally if those benefits are denied to out-of-state U.S. citizens.

The nearest star that resembles our own sun appears to be orbited by a gas giant planet. As NPR's Nell Greenfield Boyce reports, astronomers spotted it with the James Webb Space Telescope. One of the brightest objects in the night sky is the Alpha Centauri system. It's made up of three stars, and scientists now say that one of them, Alpha Centauri A, seems to be orbiting. by a planet the size of Jupiter or Saturn. What's more, the planet's distance from the star means that temperatures there might be mild enough for life. This raises the possibility that this gas giant planet might have a habitable moon, which just happens to be the exact scenario depicted in the Avatar series of sci-fi movies. The new findings are described in a pair of

reports accepted by the astrophysical journal letters, and this candidate planet still needs to be confirmed with follow-up observations. Field Boyce, NPR News. Stocks are continuing to trade lower on Wall Street at this hour. The Dow was down 296 points, then NASDAQ down 16. I'm Windsor Johnston, NPR News, in Washington.