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--:-- Giles Snyder: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Investigators are working to determine what caused yesterday's explosion that leveled a munitions plant in rural Tennessee. They're sifting through the rubble of the facility owned by Accurate Energetic Systems. At least 18 people remain missing.
--:-- Tony Gonzalez: Tony Gonzalez of member station WPLN has more.
--:-- Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis: [choked up] I've seen devastation in my 30-year career, but this... [pauses]
--:-- Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis: I do see that. The powerful explosion at the plant southwest of Nashville obliterated one building and could be felt as far as 40 miles away.
--:-- Tony Gonzalez: Neighbors say they have grown accustomed to smaller test blasts but knew immediately that this explosion was something different.
--:-- Tony Gonzalez: The company AES handles explosive products for the military demolition firms and the aerospace industry.
--:-- Giles Snyder: For NPR News, I'm Tony Gonzalez in Nashville.
--:-- Giles Snyder: President Trump has announced massive new tariffs on Chinese goods. The new import taxes are in response to new restrictions China placed on rare earth minerals this week.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: Trump made the announcement on social media after financial markets closed yesterday.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: Trump wrote that new 100% tariffs will be imposed on Chinese goods starting on November 1st. That's in addition to the 30% tariffs Trump has already imposed on Chinese goods this year.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: The president had threatened the higher tariffs earlier in the day, in another post railing against China's new export controls on rare earth minerals. Those are used in many high-tech goods, including smartphones and defense systems.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: China processes the overwhelming majority of the world's rare earths.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: Trump had been set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a visit to Asia later this month. However, Trump also wrote Friday that, quote, now there seems to be no reason to do so.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Voters in New Orleans going to the polls today, choosing a new mayor to replace the term-limited Latoya Cantrell.
--:-- Kat Lawnsdorff: The race is the first of several upcoming high mayoral races including in New York and Detroit next month.
--:-- Kat Lawnsdorff: And it comes as Trump has suggested that New Orleans could be the next city in its federal crime crackdown.
--:-- Kat Lawnsdorff: NPR's Kat Lawnsdorff reports.
--:-- Kat Lawnsdorff: Trump conflation of crime and illegal immigration has been at the center of many of these deployments.
--:-- Kat Lawnsdorff: We first saw it back in June when Trump federalized California's National Guard against Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom's wishes.
--:-- Kat Lawnsdorff: Trump did that to quell protests in Los Angeles in response to immigration and deportation raids in the city.
--:-- Kat Lawnsdorff: The Guard was sent in to protect federal ICE facilities and personnel in that case, too.
--:-- Kat Lawnsdorff: And that's the same reasoning Trump has given for federalizing the Guard in Oregon as well, even though that is currently halted by the federal courts, too.
--:-- Kat Lawnsdorff: A federal judge in Illinois has also blocked a troop deployment in the Chicago area for at least two weeks.
--:-- Giles Snyder: This is NPR.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Thousands of displaced Palestinians are returning to the ruins of their homes.
--:-- Giles Snyder: A huge column of people began heading back on foot to the shattered northern Gaza Strip after the U.S.-brokered ceasefire went into effect yesterday.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Under the first phase of the deal, the remaining hostages held by Hamas are to be released by early next week in exchange for some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.
--:-- Giles Snyder: As Palestinians return north, Israeli troops have also begun pulling back, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested that Israel could renew the war if Hamas does not give up its weapons.
--:-- Eleanor Beardsley: French President Emmanuel Macron has named his outgoing prime minister as his incoming prime minister.
--:-- Eleanor Beardsley: And Paris Beardsley reports the move only adds to the political instability brought on by having four prime ministers in the last year.
--:-- Eleanor Beardsley: It's Sebastian Lecornu who is named Prime Minister.
--:-- Eleanor Beardsley: Sebastian Lecornu will now replace Sebastian Lecornu, said one TV anchor in stupefaction.
--:-- Eleanor Beardsley: On Monday, Le Corneau resigned before even serving, saying the parliament was too fractured to get anything done.
--:-- Eleanor Beardsley: Macron said he would name a new PM. It's clear Macron wants to avoid dissolving parliament and holding new legislative elections, but so far no one seems to understand why he named the same premier who just threw in the towel.
--:-- Eleanor Beardsley: The far right and left are howling for Macron's resignation more than ever, but some analysts say Le Corneau, a former defense minister, is humble and smart.
--:-- Eleanor Beardsley: They say perhaps he can save the situation.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.
--:-- Giles Snyder: And I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News.
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