Technologist Powell Garcia is using AI to create photos of people's most precious memories.

How her mother was dressed, the haircut that she remembered. We generated tens of images,

and then she saw two images that was like, that was it.

Ideas about the future of memory. That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from

NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, on Kora of Coleman, a federal judge has ordered the

Trump administration to lift its freeze on funding the federal agency USAID. That funds development

work around the world. NPR's Rialin Barton reports the temporary court order is the second setback for Trump's effort to dismantle U.S. foreign aid.

The ruling comes after a lawsuit brought by two health care organizations that get funding from USAID.

The Trump administration shut down funding for aid, saying it was conducting a review of programs while deciding whether they should be

eliminated. Judge Amir Ali wrote in his order that the Trump administration had not offered

any explanation for why the blanket suspension was a, quote, rational precursor to reviewing the

programs. Earlier Thursday, a judge in a separate case said Trump's order recalling the vast

majority of USAID staffers around the world will continue to be blocked for at least another week.

Ryland Barton, NPR News.

Meanwhile, NPR has learned a wide swath of other federal workers are getting layoff notices.

These appear to target workers recently hired who were still on probation.

Some of the layoffs even

target people at the agency that keeps U.S. nuclear weapons safe. The Trump administration is

moving to impose reciprocal tariffs on other countries. These would start April 2nd. Trump wants

the U.S. to match what other countries charge when they import American goods. But M.B.R. Scott Horsley

says that here, the White House, is sending mixed signals. One argument that the administration is making

is that these tariffs are a short-term tactic to get other companies to open their markets up to U.S. exports.

...