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NPR News: 04-17-2025 6PM EDT

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

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0:00.0

You want to follow what's happening in Washington, D.C., but you don't want to be scrolling your phone all day.

0:06.4

I'm Scott Detrow, and NPR has a podcast that can help. It's called Trump's Terms.

0:10.6

Stories about big changes the 47th president is pursuing on his own terms.

0:15.5

They're short, they're focused episodes that tell you calmly, factually, what is happening and what isn't. Listen to Trump's

0:22.2

terms from NPR. Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Police in Florida say a man is in

0:31.0

custody after shooting eight people on Florida State University's campus killing two. MPRs Greg Allen reports the suspect,

0:39.6

the son of a sheriff's deputy, apparently used her gun in the shootings. Police identified 20-year-old

0:44.5

Phoenix Eichner as the person responsible for the shootings, which left two dead and six people

0:48.9

injured, one critically. Leon County Sheriff Walter McNeil said Eichner is an FSU student and the son of a longtime sheriff's deputy.

0:56.9

Unfortunately, her son had access to one of her weapons, and that was one of the weapons that was found at the scene.

1:06.6

Police recovered at the scene that handgun and a shotgun that they don't believe was used in the shooting.

1:11.2

Eichner didn't surrender when he was confronted by police and was shot and wounded. FSU's president said the community is heartbroken at the violence, but would support each other and get through it together.

1:20.9

Greg Allen, NPR News. The Supreme Court now says it's agreed to hear oral arguments next month over the legality of a Trump administration

1:28.6

executive order calling for an end to birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented

1:34.0

immigrants and foreign residents. Justice is in an unsigned order for now left in place a lower

1:39.0

court order that blocked the policy from taking effect. Consolidating the appeals of Supreme

1:43.7

Court says it

1:44.2

with our arguments on May 15th. Birthright citizenship is a right enshrined in the 14th Amendment

1:49.5

of the U.S. Constitution. President Trump is again pressuring the Federal Reserve to lower interest

1:55.0

rates and also suggesting he plans to replace Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Here's NPR's Daniel Kurtzleben.

2:01.5

In a social media post, Trump criticized Powell for not having lowered interest rates recently,

2:06.2

a move central banks used to boost the economy.

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