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| 0:00.0 | This is Fresh Air contributor Anne Marie Baldinado. |
| 0:03.5 | I talked with actor Colescola about their hit Broadway play, Oh, Mary. |
| 0:09.2 | Cole plays an unhinged, alcoholic Mary Todd Lincoln, who's an aspiring cabaret performer. |
| 0:16.2 | If that makes no sense, that's part of the point. |
| 0:19.1 | You can find my interview on the Fresh Air podcast. |
| 0:23.9 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. More terror threats from President Trump this time against the European Union and iPhone maker Apple. |
| 0:35.0 | Trump threatening to impose 50% tax on all imports from the European Union, |
| 0:39.7 | though he said he might be willing to talk with foreign companies that agree to build U.S. factories. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm not looking for a deal. I mean, we've set the deal. It's at 50%. But again, there is no |
| 0:49.5 | tariff if they build their plant here. Now, if somebody comes in or wants to build a plan here, I can talk to |
| 0:54.7 | them about a little bit of a delay, but, you know, while they're building their plant, which is |
| 0:59.2 | something I think that would be appropriate, maybe. Trump also announced there'll be a 25% tariff on |
| 1:05.3 | Apple iPhones, unless those products are made in the U.S. The announcement from Trump came in a social |
| 1:10.5 | media post |
| 1:11.1 | and shows while the president can disrupt the economy, so far at least as tariffs have not |
| 1:15.4 | produced large numbers of trade deals or brought waves of promise manufacturing back to the U.S. |
| 1:21.0 | The Justice Department says it has reached an agreement in principle that would allow Boeing to |
| 1:26.2 | avoid prosecution over two deadly 737 max |
| 1:29.4 | crashes. The planemaker has been facing a criminal fraud case in connection with two fatal crashes. |
| 1:34.6 | They killed 346 people. More from NPR's Ryan Lucas. |
| 1:38.2 | The Justice Department says in a court filing that under the agreement Boeing will pay and invest more than $1.1 billion. |
| 1:45.4 | That includes a fine of some $240 million, as well as nearly $450 million for a crash victims fund. Boeing also |
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