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Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is scheduled to meet with President Trump next week on the war with Russia.
“A White House official not authorized to speak publicly, says he'll visit the White House”
on Tuesday. The Trump administration has announced double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners. It's also threatening additional tariffs on the United Kingdom. NPR's "Learn Freeer" reports. Biden Trump's ambassador to the United Kingdom Warren Stevens told Sky News that if
the new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham decides to tax Big Tech, which is mostly American companies, that could trigger more tariffs from Washington. A digital services tax is something the U.K. has been considering. For now, though, the British government's Trump's latest tariffs will amount to "no negative change for British exports."
Burnham's predecessor Prime Minister Kear Starmer was able to strike a better U.S. trade deal than many other countries, with lower tariff rates. And King Charles got the U.S. tariff on Scotch Whiskey reduced to zero, when he visited the White House in April. Lauren Freyer and PR News London.
The Justice Department has withdrawn subpoenas that would have forced New York Times reporters to reveal their sources for stories about the jet that caught her game to President Trump. The federal judge had questioned the government lawyers that her actions, judgment, and honesty. David McCraw is an attorney for the Times.
He says it will not be intimidated.
“"The stories we're reporting are important.”
The public needs to know not just what the government wants to tell the public, but what happens behind the scenes. And we are going to continue doing that.
The second part is that the government has a way to do this.
There is a process that's spelled out in the law and it's spelled out in the rules that the O.J. has for itself asking the government to follow the rules, asking the government to follow the law is not interfering. It is upholding the rule of law." He was interviewed on NPR.
Firefighters are battling several large wildfires. In more than a dozen states, mostly in the Western U.S., including Oregon, Colorado, and California. So, they're getting some help from Australia, and PR's Kirk Ziggler reports. 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 Ziggler and PR News, Boisey. This is NPR News.
Police in Ireland say they intercepted a bomb being transported this week in a car near the border with Northern Ireland. Two people were arrested, they suspect their nationalist militants opposed to British rule in Northern Ireland. Tensions remain after the 1998 Good Friday Peace Accord that had ended decades of violence.
An Indian educator whose hunger strike helps swell anti-government protesters says he's broken his fast after 26 days. NPR's DEA Hadid reports anti-government protests escalated across India after Sonom long truck was forcefully taken to a government hospital on July 18. One truck broke his fast after the Prime Minister to render Modi address 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
“two 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, even as authorities tried to prevent people from reaching the main protest site in New Delhi by shutting public transport down. Dear Hadid, NPR News, singer Chris Brown pleaded guilty today in connection with the
nightclub altercation in London three years ago. He had been charged with several crimes, including assault, but they were dropped in exchange for his guilty plea to Afree, fighting or threatening violence in a public place. Brown remains free on bail until his sentence at the October. I'm Nore Ram, NPR News in Washington.
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