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A liquor store worker in Canada was just about to yank American bourbon off the shelf.
We felt betrayed.
At the last moment, the US Paused its trade war.
How's all this look from the US Ally to the north?
I'm Michelle Martin.
That's Steve Inskeep.
And this is up first from NPR News.
An ethics watchdog who criticized the first Trump administration now watches the second.
I've never seen the White House send their people into the agents this way in such an intrusive manner.
What is Elon Musk?
Musk's authority for accessing Treasury Department records of almost everybody.
Also, NPR has details of President Trump's plans for the Department of Education.
Closing a cabinet department requires an act of Congress, so he will ask for one.
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