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A coalition of states is suing the Trump administration over recently imposed tariffs
“on goods from the nation's largest trading partners.”
The administration said the new tariffs were on countries importing goods made with forced labor. And PR's Danielle Kurtz-Lavin 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 said 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 Kurtz-Lavin and PR News the White House. 25 states hold primary elections tomorrow, Kansas, Missouri, Virginia, Washington, and Michigan. The Michigan race to determine the Democrats' choice for Senate is attracting considerable
attention. It pits a progressive insurgent against a four-term congresswoman, and PR's Tamarkeeth reports. Control of Congress is on the line in this race that mirrors a broader democratic party debate. Choose your fighter, a more moderate candidate backed by the party establishment or a populist
progressive. Here a tandem of the Center for American Progress is worried about the general election.
“The question is, can they be Republicans, which, you know, here to four has been untested?”
Adam Green is co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. We consider the Michigan Senate race ground zero in the battle for this all of the democratic party, and an important harbinger of what is possible in the general election. He argues this is an outsider moment, Tamarkeeth and PR News. A nuclear power start-up says it's secured funding to begin mass-producing small reactors.
As NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports the announcement comes after an ambitious program by President Trump to hurry reactor development.
Veller Atomic announced it raised a billion dollars in venture capital to begin mass-producing
small nuclear reactors. Earlier this summer, the company turned on an experimental reactor and a tent-like structure in the Utah desert. What device was part of a program set up by the Trump administration to speed the development of new nuclear technologies?
Supporters say it worked with multiple companies testing new reactor designs, but critics point out the program slashed hundreds of pages of safety and security rules to hurry development. They worried the new designs could be risky. Veller hopes its reactors will soon be used to power defense systems, data centers, and
heavy industry. Jeff Brumfield and PR News. The price of oil fell after President Trump said he would hold off on ordering new strikes against Iran, stocks of airlines, and other companies with big fuel bills rallied. This is NPR.
Spider-Man brand new day has had a few very good days. The box office in Paris, Bob Mandelo, has the details.
With $360 million in ticket sales in North America and another 572 million overseas, Spider-Man
brand new day has taken in a total of $932 million worldwide in its opening weekend. "I am totally out of control." Only one film Avengers Endgame has ever topped that, and it required dozens of superheroes to do what Spider-Man has done all by himself. "Dr. Vanne?"
"No, Vanne." "All me all." "Okay, not all by himself, but all most." The web slinger is expected to have topped a billion dollars in the next couple of days, and it seems well on the way to joining the $2 billion club eventually, a club with only
seven members, Bob Mandelo and PR news. While life researchers facing budget cuts are promising un-sensored, marmmet content to subscribers, UCLA, Professor Dan Blumstein runs the Marbet Project at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado. He turned to a site usually associated with pornography to help fund research into how
marmmets respond to a changing environment.
“So I come back to the lab and I say, "I think we should start an only fan's website,”
and, you know, post some of our content. Emily, when I'm a graduate student, is like, yes, and Katie, when I'm a graduate student, is like, uh, and someone in the lab screamed out only marms." Blumstein says the federal government used to support the graduate students, needed to keep the research going, and he says it's an opportunity to reach out to a new audience about
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