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President Trump is imposing sweeping double-digit tariffs on dozens of major U.S. trading
“partners today, including the European Union.”
The U.S. Trade Representative's office says more than 99% of U.S. imports come from these countries, though a broad swath of goods including energy-related ones are exempted. Trump says he's putting 10 to 12.5% tariffs on 60 economies that he says makes products with forced labor. This after the Supreme Court struck down his previous tariffs, which included 10%
levied against all U.S. trading partners. U.S. military struck Iran again last night for the 13th consecutive night in a row. This is Iran says it hit U.S. targets in Ukraine and Jordan. That sent oil prices rising yesterday. Brent crude oil, the international standard, jumped 6% yesterday to over $100 a barrel,
impures Hadeel, Al-Shalci, has more. It came after the Iran backed Yemeni-Houthi's attack to Saudi oil tankers, trying to cross the Red Sea. Now, the Houthi's got involved in the war earlier this week and said it was in retaliation for a siege the Saudi Arabia placed on Yemen and for Saudi attacks on the capital's
international airport. The rubble group is threatened to blockade the Bebb and Mendeb's straight, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, decides the straight of Hormuz Bebb and Mendeb is another choke point. Cheers, Hadeel, Al-Shalci, reporting.
Brent oil has pulled back a bit, trading at around $96 a barrel. The Justice Department has dropped subpoenas against New York Times journalists asking for phone records and grand jury testimony about reporting on security concerns around the new Air Force One plane from Qatar. This after the federal judge questioned nearly every aspect of the Justice Department's
handling of the subpoenas, which the Times calls, and effort to intimidate its reporters. The Justice Department blasted the judge's ruling and said it would continue to investigate. A landmark federal nutrition program around for decades will end in a matter of weeks, if your show Hernandez reports. 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. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Spain has declared a national emergency after wildfires forced the evacuation of tens of
thousands of people around Madrid. This is firefighter struggle to battle several blazes, found by the heat wave. Already this year, fires have burned around 250,000 acres across the country earlier this month, 13 people died in a fire in southern Spain. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez this week called for a pact between political parties to
“fight climate change that he says is key to fighting the blazes.”
The second name storm of the Atlantic hurricane season has been downgraded again.
The National Hurricane Center says in its final advisory on Bertha that it's weakened into a trough, as NPR's Matt Bloom reports. Bertha came ashore for a second time near Galveston, Texas, bringing several feet of storm surge and isolated flash flooding. Fake clouds prompted SpaceX to call off a planned starship launch from the southern tip
of the state, but no deaths or significant damage have been reported since Bertha formed Monday south of the Florida Panhandle. The storm caused some coastal flooding in Louisiana, southwest of New Orleans on Wednesday, but its heaviest rain stayed over Gulf waters. The Atlantic hurricane season began June 1st, forecasters have predicted a slower than usual
season overall due to a strong El Nino in the Pacific Ocean. Matt Bloom and PR News New Orleans. You as features contracts are trading higher, this hour, Dow futures up more than a half percent NASDAQ futures are up above two tenths of a percent. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington.
The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note, the 16-year-old left 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 there.
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