"Live from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder.
to the agreement signed Wednesday, was Saudi Arabia for a civilian nuclear program.
“In a social media post Thursday, Trump said the deal would require Saudi Arabia to”
normalize relations with Israel through the Abraham Accords. White House press secretary Caroline Levin was asked why that was not included in the initial announcement to the deal.
The president is always the final deal maker, as you know, and this is something that
he has mentioned on numerous occasions going back, I can provide you with those statements. And he has said, if they don't join the Abraham Accords, the deal is off. So we'll continue to have those conversations with our Saudi counterparts moving forward." "New import taxes are in effect. The new tariffs of 10 to 12 and a half percent on dozens of U.S. trading partners took
effect at midnight eastern time. The move is President Trump's latest effort to restore the tariff struck down by the Supreme Court. They replaced temporary tariff said have now expired. The Justice Department has agreed to drop subpoenas against journalists for the New York
Times under duress from a highly skeptical federal judge, the case focused on the source of
“leaks about the new Air Force One jet gifted by the Katari government as impairs David”
Folk and Flick reports." The judge said the government had failed to observe legally required safeguards for reporters and had misled the court. Buckley cited over-sites and said no bad faith was involved. He also apologized for sustaining the phone records of reporters' family members calling
that a mistake. But Buckley defended the subpoenas as legitimate, saying the approval of the acting attorney general overruled journalistic protections. New York Times lawyer David McCraw tells NPR the federal court stepped up to defend the
first amendment and the rule of law.
David Folk and Flick and PR news. "The award on Iran is halted plans to add fluoride to the water supply and Albany New York cities across the country facing a similar problem as Grant Ashley from Member Station WAMC reports."
“Albany approved a plan to floority its water to promote dental health more than two years”
ago. But now the city says it can't obtain the chemicals it needs because of supply chain issues stemming from the ongoing war with Iran. Albany Common Council Member Tom Howie who sponsored the city's fluoridation plan said Albany isn't alone.
"It's throughout the country naturally throughout the world that there is a shortage right now and a lot of places that do fluorinate had a cut back on the amount of fluoridation in the water because there's none of supply." Israel is one of the world's top ex-borders of fluorosolicic acid. But the association of metropolitan water agencies notes they are producing less.
Thanks to many workers being called into active military service. For NPR news, I'm Grant Ashley. "This is NPR news. A sea plane that had to make an emergency landing in the waters off a remote Washington State Island burst into flames.
The plane went down near Susha Island, the Coast Guard says all the 11 people on board were rescued. The Guard says several were transported to local hospitals. The operator, the plane, can more air, says it is fully cooperating with the investigation into what went wrong."
European Union has ruled that Google violated the territory's digital marketing law and
his Empire's John Ruach reports that find a tech company $1 billion.
The EU says Google search and the Google Play App Store heard it users to Google services, unfairly disadvantaging its competitors. This ruling follows other measures by the 27-nation block to check big tech over anti-competitive practices and try to ensure a level playing field. The finds come as friction rises between Europe and the United States over tech companies.
The Trump administration has criticized European checks on American tech firms and President Trump has previously threatened tariffs as retaliation. The EU's executive branch, the European Commission, cited Google for two incidents of failing to comply with Europe's digital markets act. It fined the company $460 million and $430 million, amounting to about $1 billion.
The company has 60 days to comply. John Ruach, NPR News. The original stock markets nays a losing ground in Friday, trading South Korea's benchmark down 5% to PAN's knee case share average down nearly 2.8% amid a spike in oil prices sprint crude, the International Standard remains above $100 a barrel.
I'm trial Snyder, NPR News. The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note the 16-year-old laughed in the family's garage. He told me he was going to make me cry. Antonio Junior left home to join a protest in Seattle, a week later he was shot and killed
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