Jordan's King In Washington, New Tariffs, NYC Mayor's Corruption Charges

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🗓️ 11 February 2025

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Jordan's King Abdullah will meet with President Trump in Washington after rejecting Trump's plan to move Palestinians out of Gaza. President Trump announced new tariffs on steel and aluminum, and the Justice Department has asked prosecutors to dismiss corruption charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams.

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0:00.0	Hey, are you there?
0:02.9	Yeah.
0:03.7	What's happening?
0:05.4	Nothing.
0:05.9	I was, where'd you go?
0:07.9	Greenland?
0:09.3	I went to Turks and Caicos.
0:11.0	Oh.
0:12.0	It was fun.
0:13.0	It was beautiful.
0:14.2	Was it really hard to work when I wasn't there?
0:16.3	Did you miss me so much?
0:17.8	I didn't.
0:18.5	I decided not to work until you got back.
0:20.5	This is my first day back.
0:25.6	Jordan's King Abdullah is in the U.S. to meet President Trump. But it may be a tense meeting.
0:30.5	The king, like most of the world's leaders, has rejected Trump's calls for the more than
0:34.6	two million Palestinians in Gaza to be displaced to Jordan and Egypt.
0:38.7	I'm May Martinez. That's Leila Faddle, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:45.4	President Trump imposed new tariffs on imports of global metals.
0:49.2	Economists say that's good for American steel and aluminum companies, but not so good for other industries.
0:54.0	You lose jobs in the manufacturing sector when you put together the higher cost of input and the retaliation, which is sure to come.
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