NPR News: 02-23-2026 7PM EST
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. Shipping giant FedEx is suing the Trump |
| 0:06.4 | administration calling for a full refund for tariffs the company paid during President Trump's |
| 0:11.3 | trade war over the last year. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump had illegally |
| 0:15.8 | levied the tariffs using an emergency power. FedEx is the first major company to seek a refund |
| 0:20.7 | for tariffs since the decision. |
| 0:22.6 | Snow is still piling up in New England after a bomb cyclone slammed into the northeast, |
| 0:27.8 | knocking out power and making travel impossible in some areas. A record-breaking amount of snow has fallen in Rhode Island, |
| 0:34.0 | eclipsing a previous record set almost 50 years ago. |
| 0:42.1 | The National Weather Service reported nearly 33 inches at the state's airport this afternoon, |
| 0:44.3 | and the snow was still coming down hard. |
| 0:46.5 | Ocean State media's Ben Burke has more. |
| 0:49.2 | Fall River, Massachusetts sits right on the Rhode Island border. |
| 0:54.8 | In the city of 100,000 people, ambulances and fire trucks are getting stuck in the snow. |
| 1:00.2 | Mayor Paul Coogan says medics have had to walk for blocks to fulfill some 911 calls. |
| 1:03.0 | He's calling in outside help to plow and shovel. |
| 1:04.0 | It's going to be a while. |
| 1:09.4 | I've got regular conversations with the governor and lieutenant governor, and they're going to be sending some equipment. |
| 1:11.1 | We're going to be working with the National Guard. |
| 1:14.6 | But this is like the Blizzard of 78 that you all heard about. |
| 1:15.5 | This is it again. |
| 1:20.5 | Kugan says that blizzard shut down driving for over a week and contributed to close to two dozen deaths across the region. |
| 1:22.9 | For NPR News, I'm Ben Burke in Fall River, Massachusetts. |
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