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in 30 days. That includes goods covered under the U.S. Mexico Canada Free Trade Packed.

The U.S. Trade Representative to Canada James and Greer tell CNBC Washington's responding

to what the administration describes as "can it as discriminatory treatment of a number of U.S. industries." So, we have a tailored action that covers a subset of Canadian goods. We aren't banning the goods like the Canadians have banned American alcohol. We're not putting a cap on them. We're limiting them like they've done to cars and dairy. But we have a tariff, which is

again, as a natural consequence of the Canadian retaliation which has endured for a long time. The announcement follows President Trump's threat of sanctions against Canada over wildfire smoke that has triggered poor air quality alerts in the United States. However, Trump says the tariffs are not in response to the fires. Trump says he will continue to strike Iran

as a conflict that the U.S. and Israel started back in February shows no signs of coming to an end. More from NPR's Deeper Shiver On. Trump's comments came during a meeting at the White House with the President of Lebanon. He says the U.S. is not leaving Iran.

"Honestly, they haven't seen anything yet. We've been nice. We've been nice."

Trump says the U.S. would heavily strike areas in Iran with nuclear material, quote, "pretty soon." And he claimed that behind the scenes, Iran is desperate to try and meet with the U.S. to end the war. But Trump says he has, quote, "no interest in meeting." He also says even if the U.S. ended operations in Iran today, it would take Iran decades to rebuild. Deeper Shiver On and PR news the White House. The Defense Department is identifying

another soldier killed in connection with the war. Sergeant Michael Emanuel Switton of Fayetteville, North Carolina was assigned to the 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade at Fort Bragg. He was 30 years old. Switton died during a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone in northern Iraq July 19. The Pentagon says in the statement that the incident is under investigation. Arizona is the only state with a primary election today, and the results

will help determine control of Congress. Remember, station KJZZ, Cameron Sanchez, is more. Arizona is a purple state with several competitive races, including the one for the

state's first congressional district. The winner there will replace a long-time Republican

Congressman David Schweigert, who is running for governor. Former NFL kicker and Trump endorsed C. J. Feely is the Republican frontrunner. On the Democratic side, candidates amuse shot and Marlene Galon Woods have a shot. All of Arizona statewide offices are also up for election and are mostly held by incumbent Democrats. Republicans hope to take back the offices of governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney General this year. For NPR News,

I'm Cameron Sanchez and Phoenix. This is NPR News. Several services were held yesterday in Mississippi for an 18-year-old, found dead off the state's coast earlier this month. Authorities say they are still investigating the cause of death for Nolan Wells, at least Greg with the Gulf States Newsroom and Mississippi public broadcasting his more.

Wells' funeral was a time to mourn and occult justice with the investigation on going, and many key details still missing. Wells, who was black, traveled to Horn Island with friends for independent stay and was the only one who didn't return. The Reverend Dal Sharpton, who officiated the funeral, is one of several civil rights leaders working with the family.

"When 18-year-old young man, to no longer be with us, we want answers, and I think that

for the family, the closer can come if there is justice." Phil Maker Tyler Perry paid for the funeral and is working with Sharpton to offer a $100,000 reward for new information regarding Wells' death. For NPR news, I mean these Greg in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

A federal judge is green lighting a one and a half billion dollar settlement in which the

artificial intelligence company andthropic agrees to pay thousands of authors for using their work to train its claw chatbot, andthropics paying about $3,000 per book used in the training. The vast majority of the more than 480,000 covered works have been claimed. Native fraternity, Justin Nelson, called it, quote, "the largest known copyright recovery in history." I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News.

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