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NPR News: 02-04-2025 6PM EST

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

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0:00.0

We Came to the Forest, a new investigative podcast exposes the hidden truths behind a nighttime shootout in Atlanta that left one activist dead and countless lives forever changed.

0:11.3

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0:17.2

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. President Donald Trump is meeting at the White House today with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu. It is Trump's first sit down with a foreign leader since returning to office. Netanyahu has faced challenges at home over the 15-month-long war against Hamas and Gaza.

0:36.8

Sitting with Trump in the Oval Office today expressed optimism about ending the conflict.

0:40.8

I support getting all the hostages out and meeting all our war goals.

0:45.5

That include destroying Hamas's military and governing capabilities

0:50.8

and making sure that Gaza never poses a threat to Israel again.

0:54.8

The meeting comes as both Trump and his Mideast envoys say they do not believe a three to five

0:58.8

year timeline for the post-war reconstruction of Gaza is viable. Trump suggesting perhaps

1:04.0

displaced Palestinians in Gaza need to move. Palestinians claim Gaza as part of their homeland.

1:10.2

Many say they want to stay and rebuild.

1:12.5

President Trump has imposed a 10% tariff on all goods from China, but a proposed higher

1:17.1

tariff on Canada and Mexico has been put off for 30 days while the country's talk.

1:21.3

St. Piero's Camila Dominovsky explains that's welcome news to the U.S. auto industry.

1:25.3

Automakers like to say that the North American supply chain is highly integrated.

1:29.4

What that means is that parts ping pong between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, sometimes crossing the same border multiple times as they make their way through the complex manufacturing process.

1:38.7

25% tariffs would be a serious blow, even for cars assembled in the U.S.

1:49.1

Trump has threatened these particular tariffs as a negotiating lever instead of a money raiser,

1:52.0

giving companies hope they'd never actually go into effect.

2:00.7

But that also makes them hard to plan for, because companies don't want to spend money to try to avoid a tariff that might be imposed briefly or never at all.

2:03.0

Camila Dominovsky, NPR News.

2:07.6

Two groups of FBI agents are suing the Justice Department, the separate lawsuits seeking to block the department from making public, the names of agents who worked on January

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