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NPR News: 02-22-2026 5PM EST

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🗓️ 22 February 2026

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Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation,

0:07.4

working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org.

0:14.9

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The European Union is demanding an explanation for President

0:22.8

Trump's decision to impose a 15 percent tariff on imports to the U.S. after the Supreme Court

0:29.0

struck down his sweeping global import duties. Terry Schultz reports the EU's executive arm says

0:34.9

Washington has to honor a trade agreement it concluded with the block last year.

0:39.7

A deal is a deal, the European Commission says, in a written response to President Trump's announcement

0:44.8

of new tariffs. It adds that, as the U.S.'s largest trading partner, the European Union wants

0:50.4

full clarity on Washington's next steps and expects an agreement the two sides made last

0:55.1

August to be respected. That accord set a 15% import duty on most EU goods other than those

1:01.1

which are already covered by other U.S. tariffs, such as steel and aluminum. Some products even have

1:06.2

zero tariffs in the agreement. In exchange, the EU agreed to remove many tariffs on U.S. imports. The European

1:12.7

Parliament was due to vote on the U.S. EU trade deal Tuesday, but the head of the Trade

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Committee says he now wants to delay it. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.

1:22.4

The Secret Service says an armed man was shot and killed at Mara Lago and Palm Beach, Florida

1:27.3

early this morning,

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after he breached a security perimeter at President Trump's resort, Palm Beach Sheriff Rick Bradshaw.

1:34.9

They confronted a white male that was carried a gas can and a shotgun.

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He was ordered to drop those two pieces of equipment that he had with them, at which time he put down the gas can, raised the shotgun to a shooting position.

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At that point in time, the deputy and the two secret service agents fired their weapons.

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Trump wasn't there at the time. He's in D.C. preparing

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for the state of the Union. The man died at the scene and no agents or officers were injured.

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