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Live from NPR news on Jail Snyder, President Trump's latest tariffs are now i...

the new import taxes of 10 to 12.5% on dozens of countries took effect a couple of hours

ago.

They replaced a temporary 10% global tariffs Trump put in place after the Supreme Court

struck down the tariffs he imposed last year. The major financial markets in Asia tracking losses on Wall Street, the regional markets down amid a spike in oil prices, following increased fighting in the Middle East. Brent Crew, the international standard shot to its highest price since May, and remains around $100 a barrel, and Piers and Lena Selju.

You have the Persian Gulf with the straight of our moves on the eastern side of the peninsula, and now we're talking about the western side with the Red Sea. And there, a new threat is coming from the Houthis. They are military rebels and Yemen who are aligned with Iran and have a longstanding conflict with Saudi Arabia, and they say they've attacked two Saudi oil tankers, and

they're threatening a naval blockade of this second shipping route.

President Trump, noted this ceremony was one of the first to take place on the newly

renovated Rose Garden with paving stones replacing the grass.

We're delighted to host the 2025 World Series champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers. Amazing. Trump called out players and recounted some of the biggest moments of the game, as attendees wearing their blue Dodgers caps, cheered, and applauded. But the visit was not without controversy, some fans opposed the players attending, because

of the Trump administration's aggressive immigration tactics that have disrupted immigrant communities in Los Angeles. Franco, Ordon, yes, and Pionese, the White House. The officials of Madison, Wisconsin, have identified Corey Ruiz as the man shot and killed by law enforcement this week, Emily Rizzo reports on the protests that have erupted in response

to the killing. Madison Police, say they responded to a call Wednesday about a man who was allegedly

peering into parked cars, later three officers tussled with Ruiz as they tried to arrest

him. President Michael Dubak was there and filmed it. One of the officers says he has a knife after which one of the other officers pulls the taser or taser's in after which one of the cops stands up and shoots him. Police say the taser didn't work, though bystander video shows Ruiz falling to the ground

before he was shot. The protesters on Thursday interrupted the city's press conference and others are demanding the officer be arrested. The state's justice department is investigating. For NPR News, I am Emily Rizzo in Madison.

This is NPR News. Federal prosecutors are withdrawing subpoena's issue to New York Times journalists who reported on security concerns about the president flying on the Air Force one gifted by Qatar. The suspecters were issued earlier this month by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, whose nomination to be President Trump's director of National Intelligence is expected to get

a vote by the full Senate next week. The subpoena's would have compelled the reporters to testify about their sources, prosecutors withdrew them after acknowledging legal errors. Number of people enrolled in snap, the Federal Food Assistance Program has been falling since last July as when President Trump's massive tax and spending bill led to sweeping changes

here since Piers Juliana Kim.

Snap participation dropped by over 4 million people from last July to this April that's

according to the left-leaning center on budget and policy priorities. It's been particularly drastic in Arizona where 400,000 fewer people receive the food benefits. St. Mary's Food Bank, which operates across the state, is distributing more food than ever according to its president, Milton. 'Cause at the end of the day, these kinds of increases can't be supported by just food banks.

The USDA says the decline in snap enrollment isn't representative of anyone policy, but it does come as the program undergoes major changes from expanded work requirements to reduced federal funding, Juliana Kim and Piers News. With benchmark oil prices holding steady at around $100 a barrel, stocks in Asia, losing ground in Friday trading South Korea's benchmark down more than 4% of trial Snyder and PR News.

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. 'You tell me you've no 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 me, just as for my son.'

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