Live from MPR News, I'm Jail Snyder, a coalition of states is suing the Trump...
over recently imposed tariffs on goods for the nation's largest trading partners.
“The administration says the new tariffs are on country-sending products to the US made with”
forced labor, and Piers' Daniel Kurtzleben has more. 25 states in all are suing the administration, saying in their suit that, quote, "the administration cannot use forced labor as a pretext to continue its illegal tariff scheme." The administration imposed the tariffs under a law meant to fight discriminatory practices by trading partners.
They set the new tariffs to take effect last month at the moment that another global blanket tariff expired. The lawsuit uses that continuity as well as the president's own words to argue that the new tariffs are not a good faith effort to fight forced labor. The states furthermore called the investigation that preceded the new tariffs a sham.
Danielle Kurtzleben and Piers news the White House. Now to Washington State, we're around 9,000 acres have burned in three fires north of
Spokane, the state's second largest city, close to 67,000 people have been evacuated and
damaged buildings and homes as widespread, northwest public broadcastings and a king has more. Brit Wilson was standing outside of her parents' home in Norse, Spokane, it was just ashes. There were massive trucks working in the background to shut down the gas lines. They had to get out at the last minute and they couldn't find two other caps when they left. So we have no idea where they are if they're okay, they're probably not.
But just it's just wild, like it was like that morning they were fine. Many seniors and families are evacuated to Spokane's convention center. Others are filling up the hotels in town. Most appear spent from exhaustion and worry about what they will find when they are allowed to return home.
For NPR news, I'm Anna King in Spokane, Washington. Crewed oil prices eased after President Trump said he was holding off on attacking Iran because of a pending deal. Prices remain steady even after Iran signaled that no talks are underway, and Piers Camilla Dominozki.
Brent Crude, the global benchmark for crude oil, had been trading around $90 a barrel late last week. After President Trump posted online about the primitives of a deal to totally reopen the straight of Hormuz, prices dropped by more than $5. Gasoline prices have barely budged, though, with the national average around $4.10 a gallon
according to AAA. Plus that the apricasse buddy said that between the war with Iran and Ukraine attacking Russian refineries, US gasoline prices could set a new record for August, while remaining well below their all-time highs in 2022. Camilla Dominozki and PR news.
Todd Blant's nomination to be President Trump's attorney general seems to be back on track
“to key Republican senators said Monday they will support Blant after he put in writing”
his pledge to kill the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund that could have been used
to pay out Trump political allies including January 6 rioters, the Senate Judiciary Committee a scheduled vote on Blant's nomination in the morning. The Lumbi of Eastern North Carolina won federal recognition as a tribe last year, but that may not meet their most pressing need, which is health care and root Jones, with our partner KFF health news reports.
Proposant County in the heart of old tobacco country is where most of the tribe live. For years, the regions had the worst health in the state. Andrea Blackburn is a Lumbi family physician. She says the people she treats will just get sicker if nothing changes. They're not getting better, because we just don't have the resources or the grant money
to heal. Federal recognition opens the door to healthcare delivered through the Indian Health Service. But that agency is so underfunded and so understaffed, that change may not be enough. Some Lumbi thought building a casino could make up for what the federal government can't fund, but that idea was voted down.
Now, better health care is in limbo. With the oil prices holding steady stocks and Asia are a mixed-intused day trading following a rally on Wall Street. The S&P 500 closed up one and a half percent finishing just below the record set earlier this summer.
The Dow rose 1.3 percent to an all-time high in the NASDAQ climb 2.1 percent.
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