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NPR News: 04-12-2025 5PM EDT

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🗓️ 12 April 2025

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0:00.0

You have your job, but you also have a life, and you're not just one thing.

0:06.3

Neither is the Here and Now Anytime podcast.

0:09.2

Every weekday, we break down the biggest story of the day and something else, like a new trend everyone's talking about.

0:15.7

It's Here and Now Anytime, a daily podcast from NPR and WBR.

0:28.5

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst.

0:34.5

Apple, NVIDIA, and other tech companies landed major relief in President Trump,

0:37.8

exempting smartphones and other electronics from new tariffs.

0:43.3

As MPR's Bobby Allen reports, the tech industry had been bracing itself for a major shock.

0:47.2

U.S. Customs and Border Protection published tariff exclusions late Friday that include smartphones, laptops, memory chips, and machines that create semiconductors.

0:51.2

Fear of a sudden spike in the price of iPhones sent some customers rushing to buy new

0:54.9

devices, and Apple charted a cargo plane from India to fly 600 tons of iPhones out to avoid the new

1:00.6

levies. But Apple and Nvidia, two of the most valuable companies in the world, have for now won a reprieve.

1:06.3

The Trump administration has pushed tech companies to manufacture more electronics in the U.S.

1:10.2

But executives say the cost of labor, advanced supply chains abroad, along with hyper-specialized

1:15.3

workers, would make moving production to the U.S. in some cases nearly impossible.

1:20.3

Bobby Allen and PR News.

1:22.1

An immigration judge ruled yesterday that Mahmoud Khalil can be deported.

1:26.8

The Columbia University graduate student, a legal

1:29.5

permanent resident, was detained last month under President Trump's crackdown on students who joined

1:34.9

campus protests against the war in Gaza. And Pierce-Elena Moore reports the arrest has made some

1:40.2

students fearful at school. Over the past few weeks, the mood on many campuses has grown

1:45.1

dark as the administration cracks down on campus activism. So many students are just terrified,

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