NPR News: 05-03-2025 5PM EDT
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| 0:00.0 | On the next Thulein from NPR. |
| 0:04.0 | For the presidency, I'm indebted to Almighty God. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm in charge of the country, |
| 0:08.8 | and I need to serve all the American people |
| 0:10.9 | and not just the political machine. |
| 0:14.0 | The origins of the modern civil service. |
| 0:17.9 | Listen to Thuline, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:24.6 | Okay. service. Listen to Thuline, wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. |
| 0:29.3 | Warren Buffett says he plans to step down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. |
| 0:33.8 | As NPR's Maria Aspen reports, the billionaire investor also gave a sharp warning at the company's |
| 0:40.0 | shareholder meeting today, telling the Trump administration to knock off its trade war. |
| 0:45.0 | Tariffs are a hot topic in Omaha, where Berkshire Hathaway's CEO answered investors' questions for more than four hours. |
| 0:52.6 | The very first question was about President Trump's |
| 0:55.2 | sweeping new taxes on imports, and Buffett had a strong warning as broadcast by CNBC. |
| 1:01.1 | In the United States, I mean, we should be looking to trade with the rest of the world, |
| 1:04.9 | and we should do what we do best, and they should do what they do best. Trade should not be |
| 1:09.8 | a weapon. At age 94, the billionaire investor |
| 1:12.7 | is one of the most powerful people on Wall Street and beyond. He ended the meeting by announcing |
| 1:17.9 | that he would be resigning as CEO at the end of the year. Maria Aspen and PR News, Omaha. |
| 1:24.1 | Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health can no longer hire researchers and labs in other countries. |
| 1:30.5 | And Pierce Jonathan Lambert reports that could impact research into diseases that can't be studied well in the U.S. |
| 1:36.9 | When a U.S. researcher gets an NIH grant, they can direct some of those funds to researchers in other countries, |
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