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trading partners now in a fact the U.S. imposing new taxes up 10 to 12.5% on imports from
about 60 countries using a 1974 trade law to charge that they have inadequately enforced bands on goods produced by forced labor. They've come into a fact as temporary 10% global tariffs expire Trump imposed as a stop gap after the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs in polls last year. Trump talked data centers on Thursday speaking to executives and governors gathered at
the environmental protection agency. You have all these plans are going to be opening up over the next two years sooner but
“two years and somebody's going to look very, very smart and I hope you remember me”
because what we've done is something that nobody thought was possible to concerns about data centers across party lines but Trump urged those gathered at the EPA to sell the public
on them and he encouraged his audience to take a pledge he unveiled in March that
he said would shield consumers from higher utility bills. The administration has prioritized nutrition through it's make America healthy again initiative. But MPR Joe Hernandez reports a landmark federal nutrition program will end in a matter of weeks.
Snap Ed is an offshoot of snap the supplemental nutrition assistance program. It funds everything from cooking classes to farmers' markets and low-income neighborhoods. Nutrition advocates say it's a key public health initiative and are confused about why it was cut as part of the spending and policy package known as the one big beautiful bill.
“In a statement, White House spokesperson Anne Kelly tells sweeping changes made to snap”
food benefits as a whole, saying the president is strengthening the assistance program for future generations.
The Department of Agriculture which oversees the roughly $500 million snap Ed program says
it will continue to provide nutrition education through other initiatives. State and local organizations have until the end of September to spend any remaining snap Ed money. Joe Hernandez and PR news. The International Energy Agency says every new bull set to overtake coal as an electricity
source this year. And PR is chilly assignment reports as shipped largely because of solar energy. In their electricity mid-year update, the agency says global renewable energy is forecast to grow 8% in 2026.
“Natural gas output is projected to stay mostly flat.”
A big part of what's hampering natural gas growth are high prices, falling the U.S. is really war with the wrong. Five months after the conflict began, European natural gas prices are more than 90% higher. Meanwhile, solar and battery installations are booming around the world. Energy experts say 2026 may go down in history books as the year that the world made a
significant pivot away from planet heating fossil fuels. This is MPR News. Israel's far-right national security minister drawing condemnation from Palestinians for visiting one of Islam's holiest sites, as MPR has not lost a lot of reports. National security minister, it is a company by Israeli security forces, led hundreds of
worshippers into the compound Thursday, according to video released by his office and Palestinian authority officials. By the afternoon, that number had grown to several thousand Palestinian authority official Omar Rejube told NPR. The oxam husk is one of Islam's holiest sites and is also reviewed by Jews as the location
of a temple mount, this comes as Palestinian officials in Jordan warned that increased visits by Israeli settlers are challenging the long-standing arrangements governing the site. Jordan, the custodian of Jerusalem's Muslim holy sites, said members of the group, raise Israeli flags after they stormed the site. The Israeli Prime Minister's office had no immediate comment, for NPR News, I'm normal
Muslim in Ramadan, President Trump appears to have added a condition to the agreement signed whensday was Saudi Arabia for a civilian nuclear program, and a social media post Thursday, Trump said the deal would require Saudi Arabia to normalize relations with Israel through the Abraham Accords. Saudi Arabia has long rejected establishing diplomatic ties with Israel absent a pathway toward Palestinian statehood.
A big storm that brought heavy surf and some flooding to southern Louisiana and Texas is weakening, National Hurricane Center in Miami says, and it's final advisory on Bertha that it has degenerated into a trough but that its remnants still capable of dropping up to four inches of rain and spots over South Texas. This is NPR. 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, and Antonio Junior left home to join a protest in Seattle. A week later, he was shot and killed there.
