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The Trump administration will impose a new set of tariffs tonight as another blanket
tariff expires.
“The new tariffs have 10 to 12.5% will include goods from the U.S. as major trading partners”
and Piers' Danielle Kurtzleben reports on the latest changes. The new tariffs cover 59 countries and the European Union. According to the U.S. trade representative's office more than 99% of U.S. imports come from those economies. However, a broad swath of goods are exempted, including energy.
The tariffs were created under a law that allows tariffs against countries with unfair trade practices. The administration says the new tariffs are on economies that import goods made with forced labor. The tariffs go into effect at the same time that a global blanket tariff of 10% expires. The administration has imposed tariffs using several laws after the Supreme Court ruled
a raft of Trump's tariffs on lawful in February. Danielle Kurtzleben and PR news. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have signed an agreement that would allow U.S. companies to build and run nuclear power plants on Saudi soil, but just hours after that deal, President Trump
“wrote on truth social that Saudi Arabia would first need to join the Abraham Accords,”
normalizing ties with Israel. Still, the development is worrying, many Israelis and Piers' Emily Fang reports. There was shock when the agreement was announced, even horror. Israel, I should know, is widely believed to have nuclear weapons already itself, but it's
never confirmed its nuclear arsenal, and they don't want other countries around it to
have a nuclear weapon. They're worried that this slightly more flexible conditions of the U.S. at the agreement could set off a nuclear arms race across the region. And PR's Emily Fang reporting. House Republicans are referring former special counsel Jack Smith to the Justice Department
for Possible Prosecution, and PR's Kerry Johnson reports the lawmakers are citing statements Smith made under oath to Congress last year. House judiciary chairman Jim Jordan of Republican from Ohio is urging the DOJ to investigate Jack Smith, over the former prosecutor's testimony about his effort to gather phone records of GOP lawmakers.
“Jordan says Smith seems to have made false statements in a deposition last December.”
Smith led two criminal investigations of President Donald Trump, including an effort to charge
Trump for interfering in the 2020 election. His team gathered records of certain lawmakers
as part of that probe. Smith's lawyer says he gave candid testimony to the House about his work as special counsel. And he says the new referral is an effort to weaponize the justice system against a long time civil servant. Kerry Johnson and PR news Washington.
The Trump administration has withdrawn subpoenas that sought to compel three New York Times reporters to testify about their sources for articles about the 747 that Qatar gifted to President Trump to use as Air Force 1 that withdrawals and follow a remarkable back and forth between the visibly irritated federal judge and government attorneys. This is NPR.
More than two dozen states are suing the Trump administration after it required them to transmit lists of registered voters to the Department of Homeland Security and help with immigration enforcement in order to get disaster aid. The states argue putting conditions on congressional approved funding for natural disasters and emergencies violates the Constitution.
Invasive species are a global problem, but their impacts aren't equally distributed. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports on research in the journal science, suggesting lower-income countries experience more harm. Plants and animals often hit rides on airplanes or cargo ships and get plopped into new environments. Sometimes these species can wreak havoc on those environments, wiping out native species
or devastating crops. Historically, many researchers thought this was a problem of wealthier countries in the global north, which are often more interconnected with global trade. But Sven Bachha, an ecologist at the University of Freeberg, reached a different conclusion by analyzing data from thousands of invasions across the globe.
Regents in the global south are not just some, like all over the global south, the impacts on average are much higher. He says this may stem from lowering income countries having more biodiversity to lose and fewer resources to prevent and respond to invasive species. Jonathan Lambert and PR news.
More than 2,000 volunteers are helping Polish scientists restore a mastodon-saurus skeleton. The massive aquatic predator was unearthed in southern Poland in 2023. Volunteers from across the country have joined in the restoration effort, learning to carefully chisel away rock from the bones. This is NPR News from Washington.
The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note, the 16-year-old left and the family's garage. He told me he would not make me cry. Antonio Junior left home to join a protest in Seattle. A week later, he was shot and killed there.
I need some a ref made, just as for my son.
