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How Car Tariffs Will Hit Consumers, and a Fight Over Funding Elmo

How Car Tariffs Will Hit Consumers, and a Fight Over Funding Elmo

The Headlines
Mar 27, 2025 9 min
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<p>Plus, a farewell in space. </p><p><strong>On Today’s Episode:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/trump-tariffs-auto-cars.html" target="_blank"><strong>Trump Announces 25% Tariffs on Imported Cars and Car Parts</strong></a>, <i>by Ana Swanson, Jack Ewing and Tony Romm</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/politics/intelligence-officials-signal-leak.html" target="_blank"><strong>Intelligence Officials Face a Fresh Round of Questions About Signal Leak</strong></a>, <i>by Julian E. Barnes and Robert Jimison</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/business/media/pbs-npr-congress-hearing-republicans.html" target="_blank"><strong>Elmo and Elon Musk Are Cited as G.O.P. Lawmakers Grill PBS and NPR</strong></a>, <i>by Benjamin Mullin and Michael M. Grynbaum</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/health/trump-state-health-grants-cuts.html" target="_blank"><strong>Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services</strong></a>, <i>by Apoorva Mandavilli, Margot Sanger-Katz and Jan Hoffman</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/health/future-pandemics-vaccines-funding.html" target="_blank"><strong>H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics</strong></a>, <i>by Carl Zimmer and Apoorva Mandavilli</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html" target="_blank"><strong>Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts</strong></a>, <i>by Jenna Russell, Safak Timur, Anemona Hartocollis and Eduardo Medina</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/science/gaia-milky-way-spacecraft-retires.html" target="_blank"><strong>Farewell to Gaia, the Milky Way’s Cartographer</strong></a>, <i>by Katrina Miller</i></p><p>Tune in every weekday morning. To get our full audio journalism and storytelling experience, <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nyt-audio/id1549293936"><strong>download</strong></a> the New York Times Audio app — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/audio"><strong>sign up</strong></a> for our weekly newsletter.</p><p>Tell us what you think at: theheadlines@nytimes.com. </p> <p><p>Subscribe today at <a href="http://nytimes.com/podcasts">nytimes.com/podcasts</a> or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher">https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher</a>. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.</p></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>

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