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--:-- Giles Snyder: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass urging city residents to pay attention to weather conditions this weekend. Slow down if you're driving and plan ahead for the potential for longer travel times. And please, if you don't have to leave your home, please don't.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Thanks to an atmospheric river storm, rain is expected to fall through the weekend in Southern California. Flood watches have been posted and evacuation warnings are in effect in areas scarred by recent wildfires.
--:-- Giles Snyder: City officials say areas affected by the January wildfires are highly susceptible to mud and debris flows.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: President Trump has removed tariffs on a lengthy list of items, a reversal of some of his sweeping import taxes, come after Democrats won several high-profile seats in last week's elections.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: Many of the winning candidates focused on affordability.
--:-- 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 consumers Removing these tariffs could therefore lower the higher prices the tariffs caused.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: The tariffs that will be removed are the sweeping country-by-country tariffs Trump first introduced in April, calling them reciprocal tariffs.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: Recent polls have shown Americans' approval of Trump on the economy, typically a strong issue for him has slipped. Consumer confidence has also declined.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: The tariffs that will be removed are the sweeping country-by-country tariffs Trump first introduced in April, calling them reciprocal tariffs.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News.
--:-- Giles Snyder: President Trump says he will sue the BBC, telling reporters aboard Air Force One that he will likely seek up to $5 billion.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The BBC has apologized for a wrongly edited video of a speech Trump delivered on January 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed the Capitol, but says there is no legal basis for his claim.
--:-- Quill Lawrence: The Pentagon says it has destroyed another small boat in the Caribbean. The attack killed all four men on board.
--:-- Quill Lawrence: NPR's Quill Lawrence reports this.
--:-- Quill Lawrence: At least the 20th boat targeted since September.
--:-- Quill Lawrence: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted a video of a speedboat exploding.
--:-- Quill Lawrence: He says it was carrying drugs on a known smuggling route.
--:-- Quill Lawrence: The Trump administration says it is at war with drug cartels, and therefore the military may legally kill alleged traffickers on suspicion alone Critics say this is murder
--:-- Quill Lawrence: At least 80 people have so far been killed and two survivors were repatriated and set free by their home countries
--:-- Quill Lawrence: The latest strike comes as the U has assembled a massive fleet off the coast of Venezuela in what is seen as an effort to intimidate Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
--:-- Quill Lawrence: Maduro has responded by mobilizing hundreds of thousands of troops to resist possible U.S. military action.
--:-- Quill Lawrence: NPR's Quill Lawrence.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The Federal Aviation administration easing restrictions on flights following the government shutdown.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Beginning this morning, the agency says the 6% cut it had ordered at 40 major airports around the country is being reduced to 3%.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The FAA said the flight cuts were necessary to relieve pressure on the aviation system.
--:-- Giles Snyder: This is NPR.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Disney and YouTube have made up. They've reached an agreement that restores Disney-owned networks like ABC and ESPN back to YouTube following a fee dispute.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The contract dispute led to a blackout of news and sports programming for millions of subscribers.
--:-- Giles Snyder: It lasted for about two weeks.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Alphabet, which owns YouTube TV and Google, is a financial supporter of NPR.
--:-- Shepard Snyder: Kentucky's hemp farmers say a new federal limit on THC-infused products would be disastrous for their livelihoods
--:-- Shepard Snyder: Shepard Snyder with member station WEKU reports that the provision is part of the stopgap spending bill President Trump signed into law this week
--:-- Shepard Snyder: The provision limits the amount of THC in sellable hemp to just 0.4 milligrams per container.
--:-- Shepard Snyder: Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell added the provision, saying it's meant to close a legal loophole and keep mind-altering substances out of the hands of children.
--:-- Shepard Snyder: But Abram Phillips, who runs a hemp farm out of northern Kentucky, says imposing such a limit would kneecap their profits.
--:-- Shepard Snyder: At that point, your consumers don't care because that's not what they want. So why would they buy something they don't want? If we don't have consumers, we have no market.
--:-- Shepard Snyder: The provision passed despite opposition from fellow Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.
--:-- Shepard Snyder: The ban would go into effect a year from now.
--:-- Shepard Snyder: For NPR News, I'm Shepard Snyder in Lexington, Kentucky.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The Mega Millions Lottery says a winning ticket matching all six numbers from last night's drawing was sold in Georgia.
--:-- Giles Snyder: That player won a jackpot worth $980 million.
--:-- Giles Snyder: It's not among the top 10 largest in U.S. history, but it is the eighth largest for the Mega Millions game.
--:-- Giles Snyder: This is NPR.
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