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Primaries are taking place in Alaska, Florida, and Wyoming today, as the field of candidates
“is being narrowed for the midterm elections this fall, and Piers Lary Capital reports.”
"In Alaska, all the candidates run together, regardless of party, and the top four advanced to the vote in November. Democrats are hoping former Congresswoman Mary Peltola will be able to flip the Senate seat held by Republican Dan Sullivan, who's running for reelection." Florida voters face ballots shaken up by redistricting done by the Republican-led legislature
there, which boosted their party's chances in the fall midterms. That could lead to a drop in the number of black members of Congress from the state. In Wyoming, candidates vowed to replace Republican senators Cynthia Lums, who's retiring. The primary schedule is winding down, with Oklahoma next week, and just a few states, mostly in New England, in September.
Lary Capital and PR News. The U.S. has said to impose 50 percent tariffs on billions of dollars worth of goods imported from Canada, just after midnight, and Piers Kristen Wright with the latest.
“Americans could end up paying more for a range of Canadian products, including hockey sticks,”
cement for building and construction, and wine. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government and the U.S. are in last-minute trade negotiations to stop the substantial tariffs.
President Trump is relying at a section of the tariff act of 1930 that's never been used.
It authorizes the President to impose up to 50 percent tariffs on imports from countries that discriminate against U.S. commerce, Trump claims some of Canada's trade policies do just that. The new tariff threat against Ottawa comes as free trade negotiations between the U.S. Canada and Mexico have hit major stumbling blocks, Kristen Wright and PR News, Washington.
President Trump said in law an envoy Jared Kushner says he's optimistic about the U.S. is end to the war in Gaza. He helped back to back talks with Hamas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the U.S. plan.
“Former U.S. Ambassador Daniel Shapiro spoke to NPR about the prospects of Hamas, complying”
with Israel's demand to fully dissar.
And in the Israeli side, you have this very loud rejection of the roadmap that's been proposed and insistence that they won't withdraw before full disarmament, despite what Jared Kushner and the Board of Peace have described as a step-by-step process. And they've also said they won't allow any limitation on their actions, military actions against the U.S. and Gaza.
But at the same time, they're taking some measures to advance various aspects of the plans. The mayor of Moscow says Ukraine, launch more than 600 drones toward the Russian capital. Mayor Sergei Sobyani says it happened from Monday, night and Tuesday morning. The Russian authorities say at least 180 were shot down in the Moscow area alone. Local officials reported some people were injured, Russia, has been at war with Ukraine since
it launched its full-scale invasion in 2022. This is NPR news. A federal judge is allowing the Trump administration to end illegal protections to more than 5,000 Ethiopians living and working in the United States. The decision today lifts the last remaining legal block on the Department of Homeland
Security's termination of the temporary protected status designation, individuals received after fleeing economic security or natural disaster threats in their home countries. In June, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling limited the ability of judges to review DHS efforts to NTPS designations for 13 countries. The Pentagon is ordering 30 U.S. universities to conduct audits of their ties to foreign
entities, with regard to funding and research if they don't comply, they risk losing federal research dollars, here's NPR is a listen at warning. The Trump administration has highlighted partnerships with and funding from foreign organizations in the past in an attempt to root out what it sees as foreign influence. These latest audits follow the same goal.
The administration said the scrutiny is to protect national security, wording off quote intellectual property theft and adversarial exploitation. Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Education created an online dashboard to track foreign gifts and contracts. It shows Harvard University receiving the most foreign gifts with China as the leading source.
Harvard was among the 30 universities asked to do a new audit along with New York University and MIT. "It was an adwony and PR news. I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR news in Washington." This week on Sharp Wave, you are what you eat may not be a phrase you associate with your
mental health, but one in three people have insulin resistance in our country. And if you have insulin resistance, you are double the likelihood of developing major depression. We explore the link between your body and your brain.
