NPR News: 04-30-2025 1AM EDT

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Speaker 3 Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. President Trump held a rally near Detroit Tuesday to highlight his first 100 days in office.
Alex McLennan of member station WDET has details.

Speaker 4 In a roughly hour and a half long campaign style speech, Trump told the crowd he's making good on promises, including on tariffs and immigration.

Speaker 4 He also took aim at ongoing court battles against his administration, saying the U.S.

Speaker 5 cannot allow radical F judges to obstruct the enforcement of our laws and assume the duties that belong solely to the President of the United States.

Speaker 4 The Trump administration is facing a number of legal challenges over its handling of deportations and funding cuts.

Speaker 4 And Tuesday evening, a federal judge ordered the White House to restore $12 million in funding to Radio Free Europe. For NPR News, I'm Alex McClennan in Detroit.

Speaker 3 Harvard has released two long-anticipated reports on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia at the university.

Speaker 3 The move comes as the Trump administration pressures elite schools to crack down on anti-Semitism or lose federal funding. From member station GBH, Kirk Karapesa has more from Boston.

Speaker 2 The reports describe an atmosphere of hostility and fear, finding deep religious and cultural divisions on the Cambridge campus following Hamas's attack on Israel.

Speaker 2 Among the key recommendations, update admissions criteria to value students' ability to engage in constructive dialogue, something that comes as a relief to Charlie Covet, a Jewish sophomore at Harvard.

Speaker 6 The issues really start there. There also is a recognition that Harvard's DEI programming, right, has not made any effort to include Jews.
And hopefully, that's something that's going to change.

Speaker 2 Both reports fund a sense of alienation among Jewish and Muslim students. And the university is considering revamping orientation, as well as a major initiative promoting viewpoint diversity.

Speaker 2 For NPR News, I'm Kurt Terrapeza in Boston.

Speaker 3 Thousands of Los Angeles County employees are staging a 48-hour strike to call attention to their contract talks and to demand higher pay.

Speaker 3 Lillian Cabral is a member among the members of Local 721 of the Service Employees International Union who say that the county is not negotiating in good faith.

Speaker 7 They started

Speaker 7 five days before our contract was over. Then they came with us.
They came to sit down with us. That's unacceptable.

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Speaker 3 Picketer Kelly Joe says understaffing has left the county public health system stretched too thin.

Speaker 8 Working at county system,

Speaker 8 you are working every day with a short of staffing,

Speaker 8 and you have to improvise. You have to make it work.

Speaker 3 County officials say budget cuts, including layoffs, are needed to close a nearly $1 billion budget shortfall.

Speaker 3 Los Angeles County cites the costs of rebuilding from the January wildfires and a multi-billion dollar settlement of a sex abuse case. This is NPR News.

Speaker 3 Canada's Liberal Party won the most votes in Monday's parliamentary election, but not the outright majority needed to pass legislation on its own.

Speaker 3 Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader Mark Carney ran on a vow to resist U.S. aggression on trade and security.

Speaker 3 His office says Carney spoke with President Trump by phone Tuesday, and that both leaders agreed that it is important for their nations to work together.

Speaker 3 The only all-female unit to serve overseas during World War II has now been awarded a Congressional Gold Medal. NPR's Rachel Treason has the story.

Speaker 9 The 688, as it's called, was a mostly black, all-female unit that made history by deploying to England in early 1945.

Speaker 9 Their mission was to sort through backlogs of undelivered mail for American service members.

Speaker 9 The women worked around the clock to clear some 17 million pieces of mail in just three months, half the expected time.

Speaker 9 After working in France, they returned home in 1946 without any public recognition for decades. Congress bestowed the award, and President Biden signed the law in 2022.

Speaker 9 Only two of the 855 women lived to see this medal ceremony. Rachel Treason, NPR News.

Speaker 3 U.S. consumer confidence dropped nearly eight points last month to its lowest level since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaker 3 The conference board says consumers are worried about President Trump's tariffs and the possibility of a recession. U.S.
futures are lower in after-hours trading on Wall Street.

Speaker 3 On Asia-Pacific markets, shares are mostly higher, but down a fraction in Shanghai. This is NPR News.

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