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"Importers who paid tariffs that were later found to be illegal can now start formally
“requesting refunds," NPR Scott Horsley reports customs officials have set up an online”
system in an effort to streamline the process. The Supreme Court ruled back in February that President Trump had overstepped his authority in ordering double-digit tariffs on virtually everything the U.S. imports, a specialty trade court later ordered the government to refund all the money it collected with those tariffs, $166 billion in all.
Since then, customs officials have been scrambling to set up a computerized system where importers can ask for their money back without having to go through a lengthy court process. Some of the more complicated refund requests will have to wait for a later phase the program, but most are eligible today. Reefons are expected to be paid in 60 to 90 days.
Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. President Trump says he thinks his energy secretary is "totally wrong" in predicting that drivers won't see gas prices drop back under $3 a gallon for at least several more months. Yesterday, Secretary Chris Wright told CNN the decline quote "could happen later this
“year," might not happen until next year.”
Well today, Trump told a reporter from the Hill gas prices will drop as soon as the U.S. Iran war ends. Industry experts say it will take time. The U.S. delegation plans to travel to Islamabad soon, according to an official familiar with the plan speaking on background, because they're not authorized to speak on the record.
The statement was in response to NPR's question about whether lead to goshade or vice-president J.D. events was still planning to go to Pakistan. This comes ahead of tomorrow night, cease-fire deadline between the U.S. and Iran. Hopefully, over 14th is an end-go-long, its third stop on a tour of four countries in Africa where the Catholic Church is rapidly growing.
The trip has come amid attacks from the Trump administration over the war in Iran. But this past weekend, the first American Pope tried to downplay those tensions and Piers Emmanuel Akonwotu reports. Pope Leo has sought to return the focus of his 11-day tour in Africa, away from growing tensions with President Trump.
In Angola, his third stop on the tour, he said some of his statements against war have been interpreted as a direct response to attacks against him by President Trump last week. It was looked there as if I was trying to debate again the president, which is that my interest at all.
Nearly half of Angola's almost 40 million people are Catholic.
And on Sunday, Leo visited a sanctuary where enslaved Africans were forcibly baptized before being taken to the Americas. He made a speech acknowledging the quote "sorrow and great suffering", but stopped short of directly referencing slavery or the church's role in it. Emmanuel Akonwotu, NPR News, Legos.
U.S. talks are trading lower this hour. The NASDAQ is down roughly half a percent or 136 points. This is NPR News. People have been leaving balloons and flowers outside of home and true port Louisiana and memory of eight children who were killed Sunday.
It was one of the U.S.'s deadliest mass shootings in two years. Investigators say the gunman, Schemar Elkins, was a father of seven of the kids and separated from their mother one of two women he also shot and wounded. Elkins was killed by officers during a police chase. FBI Director Cash Patel is suing the Atlantic for $250 million.
Patel alleges the magazine ran a quote malicious hit piece about excessive drinking that he says as false. The Atlantic says it stands by its reporting. The NFL draft is in Pittsburgh. This week's big event is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of football fans, while
big crowds turn out a lot of students will get to stay home but not necessarily from school. Here's WESA's Jillian Forstatt. Many students in downtown Pittsburgh are excited to get a break from in-person classes.
Although 11th grader Kyle Lewis notes remote learning isn't always easy.
Like I have physics, so that can be hard to try and learn online, but especially with the AP test coming up it'll be easier for us to study at home. Most middle and high school students in the city take public transit to school. The classes are expected to be swamped and some of the ones that students rely on have been cancelled.
But parents say the big business that city officials hope to drum up during the draft shouldn't outweigh learning. City rec centers will open their doors this week to students who need a place to connect online. For MPR News, I'm Jillian Forstatt in Pittsburgh.
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