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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, if its new Prime Minister”
taxes U.S. tech companies. NPR's "Laurent Freyer" reports from London. President 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 says Trump's latest tariffs will amount to "no negative change for British exports." Burnham's predecessor, Prime Minister Keer 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. "Laurent Freyer" and Piano News London. There was a ceremony today honoring the impending opening of a new bridge, linking the United States and Ontario.
“As Ross McNamara of Detroit Public Radio reports, it was a Canada-only affair.”
"Oh, Canada." The Trump administration next to ribbon-cutting ceremony last month, and with the President threatening new tariffs, Canadian officials threw their own party for the Gordie Howe International Bridge without American involvement. However, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is treating the sourd relations between the two allies
as a bump in the road.
"I know Canadians love Americans, and I know Americans love Canadians, and that bond will
last for another over 200 years." The bridge will open to traffic Monday afternoon. For NPR News, I'm Ross McNamara and Windsor, Ontario. The cyclospoora outbreak that's sick of thousands has expanded to four additional states. That's according to an update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
NPR's Ping-Wong reports. The CDC has confirmed nearly 2,000 cases of cyclists' parisys over the past month in a multi-state outbreak.
“It says the true count of people's sickens may be much higher.”
The Parisite has been causing intestinal issues and explosive diarrhea across at least nine states now, including Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania. 98 people have been hospitalized and no one has died. The Parisitic infection can be treated with an antibiotic, though most healthy people can recover without treatment.
The CDC says the data continues to show that iceberg lettuce, grown and processed by Taylor Farms, to Mexico, and served at Taco Bell restaurants, is a source of the contamination. The company announced a voluntary recall last week on all its iceberg lettuce, source from Central Mexico, Ping-Wong, and PR News. This is NPR News in Washington.
Tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes in France and Spain, because of large wildfires. Both countries are seeking help from the European Union. Several large fires have erupted in southern Europe this summer. Scientists say the region has become more vulnerable to the hotter temperatures caused by
climate change. The International Energy Agency says that renewables are set to overtake coal as an electricity source in 2026. NPR's Julia Simon reports. In their electricity mid-year update, the agency says global renewable energy is forecast
to grow 8% in 2026. Central gas output is projected to stay mostly flat, a big part of what's hampering natural gas growth are high prices, falling the US is really war with the wrong. Five months after the conflict began, European natural gas prices are more than 90% higher. Asian natural gas prices are more than 105% 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. Julia Simon and Terenus basketball star LeBron James has made his decision. He's becoming a Philadelphia 76er for its 24th season.
He says it's not the money or family considerations. He wrote on social media, "I still want to sacrifice, I still want to work." He says he thinks he can help make Philadelphia a championship team. The franchise says it won the title in 43 years. "I'm Nora Rom, NPR News in 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.
