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--:-- Amy Held: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Amy Held. President Trump has removed tariffs on a list of items, including several groceries, reversing some of his sweeping import taxes. This after Democrats won big in last week's elections on platforms focused on affordability. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben has more.
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--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: The long list of items that tariffs will be removed from includes foods like fruits and vegetables, beef and coffee. American importers paid those tariffs with many passing costs on to U.S. consumers. Removing these tariffs could therefore lower the higher prices the tariffs caused. The tariffs that will be removed are the sweeping country-by-country tariffs Trump first introduced in April, calling them reciprocal tariffs. Recent polls have shown Americans' approval of Trump on the economy, typically a strong issue for him, has slipped. Consumer confidence has also declined.
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--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: [Continuing] Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News.
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--:-- Amy Held: A senior administration official tells NPR Trump will soon travel around the country with a message: While some things have improved, there is more work to do to help people feeling economic strain.
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--:-- Amy Held: North Carolina Governor Josh Stein is urging calm ahead of the expected arrival of Border Patrol agents in Charlotte as soon as this weekend. A demonstration is planned this afternoon. As Nick De La Canal from member station WFAE reports, some immigrant businesses are already feeling the impact.
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--:-- Nick De La Canal: Inside a Latin bakery on Charlotte's east side, workers say business has dropped sharply. Owner Manolo Bentecourt says news that Border Patrol agents are coming has driven people indoors. No, everybody's hidden, man. Nobody's coming out. His parking lot was empty during what's usually prime time, and the bakery's already had a tough year.
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--:-- Nick De La Canal: Easy, easy. We can make 50 quinceañera cakes between spring and summer. This year we just have one quinceañera. Border Patrol agents are expected this weekend or early next week. Governor Stein is urging residents to not be provoked and to record any inappropriate behavior by agents with their phones.
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--:-- Nick De La Canal: For NPR News, I'm Nick De La Canal in Charlotte.
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--:-- Amy Held: It was a mixed week for the stock market. NPR Scott Horsley reports relief at the end of the government shutdown was tempered by concerns that tech stocks might be overvalued.
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--:-- Scott Horsley: The six government shutdown was a drag on the U economy. The White House estimates it shaved about a billion off of fourth GDP. Some of that will be made up now that the government's reopened, but some of the loss will be permanent. We'll also get a better handle on the economy once the government number crunchers, who were idled by the shutdown, start churning out reports again. We'll get a report on the September job market next Thursday, almost seven weeks behind schedule.
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--:-- Scott Horsley: Tech stocks lost ground during the week as investors worried the artificial intelligence boom may be overdone. The tech-heavy Nasdaq slipped about half a percent, while the S&P 500 index rose about a tenth of a percent, and the Dow climbed more than three-tenths.
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--:-- Scott Horsley: Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
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--:-- Amy Held: An atmospheric river is dropping inches of rain across Southern California, leading to flood risk and the chance of landslides across areas recently ravaged by wildfires. Los Angeles Fire Chief Jamie Moore says they're monitoring the most vulnerable areas.
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--:-- Amy Held: When we see a heavy saturation on burn scars or in certain areas that are of concern, it starts ramping things up. And we need to be able to react proactively to those changes so that in the event that something does start happening, we're already there.
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--:-- Amy Held: Evacuation warnings are already in effect in parts of Ventura County.
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--:-- Amy Held: The Vatican today announced the return of more than 60 indigenous artifacts to Canada. As Dan Karpinchuk reports, the return is part of the reconciliation process, acknowledging the Catholic Church's historic role suppressing indigenous culture.
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--:-- Dan Karpinchuk: The 62 artifacts include a 100-year-old Inuit kayak, wampum belts, war clubs, masks, and beaded moccasins. Pope Leo turned them over to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops during an audience at the Vatican. A statement by the Church said the pieces were a sign of dialogue, respect, and fraternity. They were part of a controversial collection that sparked a debate over cultural items taken from Indigenous peoples during colonial periods and the Church's role in helping the Canadian government's forced assimilation policy, which some historians have called cultural genocide.
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--:-- Dan Karpinchuk: The items will first go to the Canadian Museum of History, where they will be identified, and then a decision will be made about where they should ultimately go.
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--:-- Dan Karpinchuk: For NPR News, I'm Dan Karpinchuk in Toronto.
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