This week, on Consider This, tariffs are starting to fuel inflation.

We track how higher costs are winding their way through the supply chain and where you could see them.

And air traffic controllers say a Trump administration pushed to modernize their equipment won't fix deeper problems.

Here why.

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Venezuela says it has swapped a group of U.S.

citizen detainees for hundreds of its nationals being held in El Salvador. NPR's Carrie Khan reports.

Venezuela's government says it liberated 252 of its citizens that had, quote, been kidnapped and taken to a concentration camp in El Salvador.

In exchange, it says it handed over a group of U.S. citizens jailed in Venezuela for proven

participation in serious crimes. The U.S. State Department says 10 Americans were freed from

Venezuela held under highly questionable circumstances. The prisoner swap had been in the works

for months and was promoted by El Salvador's president, Naib Buckeli, who says the Venezuelans deported from the U.S.

were members of a violent gang.

Buckele says also part of the exchange was the release of political prisoners in Venezuela.

Kerry Kahn, NPR News.

President Trump has signed into law the first major crypto legislation ever in the United States.

NPR's Rafael NOM reports it marks a pivotal moment for the U.S., but many consumer advocates

are concerned.

The signing comes after Congress passed legislation setting rules for a type of cryptocurrency

called stablecoins.

President Trump pushed hard for the bill, but consumer advocates are very concerned.

They say Trump has a conflict of interest because he and his family have financial interest in the crypto industry.

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