Trump's US Steel Reversal, Court Win For Harvard, Musk Leaves DOGE
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🗓️ 30 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | U.S. Steel is entering a multi-billion dollar partnership with the Japanese competitor Nippon. |
| 0:08.3 | President Trump campaigned on a promise to block that deal. |
| 0:11.3 | He now says he approves, so how, if it all, did the agreement change? |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Steve Inskeep, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:20.8 | Harvard University says the Trump administration broke the law when it banned international students there. |
| 0:26.5 | A judge says the students may keep attending for now. |
| 0:29.7 | This is very much just one step in a much, much larger process. |
| 0:34.4 | Why is the administration cracking down? |
| 0:36.8 | Also, as Elon Musk waves goodbye to his |
| 0:39.6 | department of government efficiency, did it make government any more efficient? NPR delivers you an |
| 0:45.7 | efficient look at the evidence. Stay with us. We've got the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:57.0 | Politics is a lot these days. I'm Sarah McCammon, a co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast, |
| 1:03.9 | and I'll be the first to tell you what happens in Washington definitely demands some decoding. |
| 1:09.1 | That's why our show makes politics as easy as possible to wrap your head around. |
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| 1:20.9 | On the Planet Money podcast, you've seen them, those labels that say made in China or made in France. But what do they really mean? |
| 1:30.8 | The reaction was, it can't possibly work like that. |
| 1:32.5 | That can't possibly be right. |
| 1:36.3 | We dig into the delightfully convoluted rules behind country of origin. What makes, say, a Chinese product, Chinese, and how companies facing tariffs are getting |
| 1:41.2 | creative. |
| 1:42.3 | From Planet Money on NPR, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:45.6 | Know that fizzy feeling you get when you read something really good, watch the movie |
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