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At least 1,500 residents were ordered to evacuate after the Kilauea volcano erupted on Hawaii's Big Island. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Mileka Lincoln of Hawaii News Now.

The president promised steel and aluminum executives that he will levy tariffs on imports of their products in coming weeks. The tariffs will be 25 percent for steel and 10 percent for aluminum.

President Trump said Thursday that he would impose hefty tariffs on imports of both metals in the coming weeks — a move largely aimed at China. But a number of U.S. trade partners had harsh words.

"It is now clear that Mr. Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia," May told lawmakers in a statement on Monday.

Conservative Christians and Mormons vote the same way on many social issues, but religious differences still spur harsh criticisms between the groups.

President Trump is considering imposing tariffs or quotas on imported steel and aluminum. The Commerce Department says action is needed to protect the domestic industries vital to national security.

The fierce rivalry between Korea and Japan is in full view at the Olympics. Showdowns on the ice reflect a relationship between the countries that falls "somewhere between cold and frosty."

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Washington Post reporter Sally Jenkins about the resignation of U.S. Olympic Committee chief executive Scott Blackmun, who cited health problems due to prostate cancer as his reason for stepping down, but there have also been calls for his resignation for not doing enough to address the sexual abuse cases within the U.S. Olympics gymnastics team.

A special adviser to the president until August 2017, Carl Icahn has earlier said he never had access to nonpublic information or profited from his onetime position in the administration.