Author: Emily Feng

NPR Update: The historically Christian village of Al Ghassaniyeh, seen from olive groves at its foothills. After the old regime was ousted last December, displaced residents who returned to the village found strangers living in their homes. Emily Feng/NPR hide caption toggle caption Emily Feng/NPR AL GHASSANIYEH, Syria — Under a golden autumn sun, Abdallah Ibrahim harvests fistfuls of hard, green olives with evident delight. “We were denied this pleasure for the last 14 years,” he sighs. Barrel bombs and constant shelling caused his family and most of the residents of his village, Al Ghassaniyeh, to flee during the second…

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NPR Replace: Kimberly Drennan, CEO and cofounder of Colorado firm HiveTech Options, checking on her bees in Boulder. Kimberly Drennan disguise caption toggle caption Kimberly Drennan Numerous new tariffs have already gone into impact and extra are about to come back on-line. There’s the tax on auto elements that kicked on this month; duties on metal and aluminum; new levies on small worth packages; 10% on most imports; a flat 145% customs payment on something from China; and probably much more coming, given different tariffs on dozens of nations have been paused till at the least July. A few of that elevated…

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