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On this week's Wildcard podcast, author Ocean Vong says we need to reframe how we think about trauma. The trauma comes on one side of a coin that also has strength on it. Find that wildcard conversation on the NPR app, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcast. Lai from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump's bypassing congressional approval to take back nearly $5 billion in foreign aid through a tactic known as pocket rescission. The proposal comes late in the fiscal year, leaving Congress little time to accept or reject it before funding expires. A court hearing into Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook's bid to block President Trump from firing her ended today without a ruling. Trump says there's cause after an ally accused cook of mortgage fraud.

Bloomberg managing editor Mike Regan is covering the case. Lisa Cook's attorney is arguing that she had no due process. You know, there hasn't, she hasn't been tried and convicted of anything and that this is basically just a smear campaign in her defense lawyer's words by a political operative in President Trump's administration. Mike Reagan on NPR's here and now. A memorial of flowers, photos, and personal messages is growing outside Minneapolis's enunciation, Catholic Church. Two children were killed and 18 people were injured. Wednesday as Catholic school students and faculty were attending back to school mass. Peter Cox of Minnesota Public Radio reports on the eight and ten-year-old children who were killed.

Ten-year-old Harper Moiske's family released a statement saying, quote, Harper was a bright, joyful, and deeply loved 10-year-old whose laughter, kindness, and spirit touched everyone who knew her. Eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel was also killed. His father, Jesse Merkel, spoke Thursday. I've heard many stories accounting the swift and heroic actions of children and adults alike from inside the church. Without these people and their selfless actions, this could have been a tragedy of many magnitudes more. For these people, I'm thankful. Several prominent Minnesota Democrats, including members of Congress, are calling for a ban on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines.

For NPR News, I'm Peter Cox. Minneapolis. Officials in Florida say, closing the immigration detention center, they call Alligator Alcatraz, will cost a state more than $200 million. NPR's Greg Allen reports a federal judge has ordered the facility to shut down. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams said the detention center's hasty construction without public input or an assessment of its environmental impact violated federal law. She ordered Florida to remove fencing, lighting, generators, and essentially seize operations at the site. Florida and the Trump administration are appealing the order, but federal immigration authorities have been transferring

detainees to other sites, and officials say the facility will soon be empty. In a court filing, a Florida official says complying with the order is costing the state between $15 and $20 million, and that the state will lose as much as $218 million if the detention center is shut down permanently. Greg Allen, NPR News, Miami. The Dow is down 117 points. You're listening to NPR News. A federal appeals court says the Trump administration likely acted unlawfully in rolling back legal protections Venezuelans in the U.S. received during the Biden administration. It is upholding temporary protected status. The administration's cutting off grants for offshore wind energy development affected $679 million in funding to projects in 11 states, including California and Maryland. North Korean state media reported to domestic audiences that their leader, Kim Jong-un, will attend a military parade in China next week.

NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports from Seoul that the North reported the news to the outside world a day earlier. The North's flagship Rodong-Sin-Mun newspaper published a brief report saying that Kim would attend the parade at the invitation of China's leader Xi Jinping. The parade marks 80 years since Japan's formal surrender ending World War II. The event is not only the first attended by the leaders of Russia, China, and North Korea, it's also the first multilateral diplomatic meeting that Kim has attended

since taking power in 2011. South Korean Foreign Minister Cho-Hion commented that Kim's coming out on the international stage could make a meeting between Kim and President Trump more likely. Trump told South Korea's president this week he'd like to meet with Kim hopefully this year. Anthony Kuhn in PR News, Seoul. At last, check on Wall Street, the NASDAQ was down 252 points or more than 1%. The SMP lost 42 points down a half a percent. This is NPR News. Listen to this podcast, sponsor-free on Amazon Music, with a prime membership,

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