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President Trump is imposing sweeping 10 to 12 and 1/2 percent tariffs on 60 major U.S.
“trading partners today, saying they used forced labor.”
This after the Supreme Court struck down his previous levies, the U.S. trade representatives office says more than 99 percent of U.S. imports come from these economies, though a broad swath of goods, including those energy-related, are exempted. New air strikes between the U.S. and Iran are impacting energy prices around the world. The U.S. military struck Iran again last night for the 13th consecutive night in a row.
This says Iran says it hit U.S. targets in Bahrain and Jordan. That briefly sent oil prices higher yesterday, and gas prices in the U.S. hit an average of $4.10 for a gallon of regular today. Impressive deal, all-shaltchi, has more. Iran crude oil, which is the international standard, jumped over 6 percent to $100 a barrel.
It came after the Iran back the Yemeni-Houthis attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea. The U.S. said last night that it completed a 13th round of strikes in Iran, attacking military command centers, drone storage facilities, and coastal surveillance sites. Iranian state media reported explosions in the southwest of the country, where some of Iran's
most sensitive military and maritime areas are. Iran retaliated with its own attacks targeting U.S. bases in Bahrain and Kuwait. Hadil al-Shalchi and PR news, Istanbul. An Indian educator whose hunger strike helped swell anti-government protesters, says he's broken as fast after 26 days.
If your Zia Hadid has more. Anti-government protests escalated across India. After Sonom Longchuk was forcefully taken to a government hospital on July 18. Longchuk broke his fast after the Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed protesters for
the first time since they began their sit-in over a month ago.
Modi promised speedy trials to punish those involved in exam paper leaks. The leak of a medical entrance exam in May forced the cancellation of results for around
“2 million students and was a key trigger for protests.”
Protest leaders say they'll hold talks with the government and will demand the resignation of the education minister. They've called on students to keep protesting. Women as authorities try to prevent people from reaching the main protests side in New Delhi by shutting public transport down.
Deah Hadid and PR news. In Georgia, 16-year-old Colt Gray changed his plea today to guilty to charges of murder and other crimes in the 2024 shooting at his high school that left four dead, nine injured. Victims are giving impact statements. Gray is expected to be sentenced next week to life in prison, though it's not clear
if he will get a chance of parole. After this year, his father, Colin, was convicted of murder and manslaughter for buying his son a rifle and not securing it, despite knowing he was a risk to others. Wall Street's trading in McStarratory this hour, you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Large wildfires continue to burn and more than a dozen states mostly in the Western
U.S. The National Interagency Fire Center says crews in Oregon are fighting the most large blazes followed by Colorado and California, and Piers Kirk Sigler says a team of elite firefighters from Australia is headed to the U.S. to help. The National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho has raised the National Preparedness level
to five the highest, meaning that all U.S. resources are currently deployed to major fires from Oregon to Minnesota. The concern is whether crews would be able to adequately respond if another major wildfire ignites, which in these dry conditions seems inevitable. At the Fire Center's request, the Australian rural fire service says it will send 26 incident
management and specialist bush firefighters from the state of New South Wales. These elite crews are in high demand here in part because federal agencies like the U.S. Forest Service have lost hundreds of career fire managers via doge or buyouts since President Trump returned to office. Kirk Sigler and PR News, Boisey.
The Democratic National Committee is meeting today trying to figure out the lineup for
“the primaries in 2028, which state gets to go first and the order of the rest is important”
as the DNC considers racial representation and efforts to reach working-class voters amid other groups. South Carolina and Nevada are vying for the top spot. The calendar would have to be approved by the full DNC next month, complicating things
New Hampshire state law says it has to go first.
I'm Janine Herbst and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. This week on the NPR Politics Podcast, we uncover a pattern in political ad spending. As the midterms get closer, Republicans are leaning into an issue they've won on before. Immigration. We look at their message and also what Democrats are saying on the issue in a very different
way.
