Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
President Trump says 50% tariffs on Canada, that we're supposed to kick in today, instead will be delayed to the end of Friday.
“In exchange for potentially restarting the controversial Keystone Oil Pipeline Project,”
impures Emily Feng has more. These leaders proposed U.S. tariffs would cover items from Canadian wine to hockey sticks
for a total of about 20 billion dollars worth of goods, about 5% of annual Canadian exports
to the U.S. Neither the U.S. or Canada has offered details about how the oil pipeline might be restarted. It's from it was revoked by President Biden, but restored last year by President Trump. Also hanging in the balance is a larger North American free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico that's up for review.
It allows hundreds of billions of dollars of goods to be traded mostly duty-free through North America, the Trump is said he "doesn't care if it's continued. Emily Feng and Pierre News, Washington." Liberia's government says it's agreed to a deal with the Trump administration
“to accept more than 1,000-third country deportees from the U.S.”
impures you'll write reports of first group arrives in the nation this week. Liberia's information minister says up to 1,200-3rd country migrants will be deported from the U.S. to Liberia under the agreement. He said all deportees will arrive in Liberia within a year, with the first batch of 20 deportees expected to arrive in the country tomorrow. The agreement is one of the largest third-country deportation deals signed by the Trump
administration since the start of its immigration crackdown. It is unclear what Liberia would get in return for the deal, but the U.S. Senate report published in February found that the Trump administration has paid foreign governments,
many with poor human rights records, up to 32 million dollars to accept third-country migrants.
Jewelbright, MPR News, Legos. In two closely-watched primary raises and come at Democrats and South Florida scored victories fending off competition from progressives.
“For member-station WLRN, Carlton Gillespie reports.”
In Florida's historically black 20th congressional district, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz defeated a crowded field of black candidates to retain her seed in Congress. Washington Schultz, who is white, drug criticism from black political leaders and from leaders of the Florida Democratic Party, who argued her candidacy threatened to black representation in Congress,
which is approaching historical lows.
In Florida's 25th district, which spans much of the Southeast Florida coast,
two-term congressman Jared Moscow, it's comfortably defeated a challenge from progressive Oliver Larkin, who had also carried the endorsement from the Democratic Socialists of America. Moscow had had face scrutiny from progressives over his ardent support for Israel and his willingness to work with Republicans. For NPR News, I'm Carlton Gillespie, in Fort Lauderdale.
Wall Street's trading higher at this hour, you're listening to NPR News from Washington. The Department of Education is warning schools to align their discipline policies with the administration's reading of federal civil rights law and Piers Cori Turner explains. Under the Obama and Biden administration, the Department's Office for Civil Rights told schools if you're suspending students of color at disproportionately high rates,
it could be considered discrimination, even if it's not intentional. Some schools responded by softening discipline policy, especially for students of color. Today, the Trump administration told schools that too could be discrimination. And when it comes to discipline, schools shouldn't be considering race at all. In a press release, it said that disciplinary systems must be neutral and fair.
Civil rights experts warn under this new policy, school discrimination will be even harder to find and fight. Cori Turner and PR News. Amazon says it plans to expand the number of cities it will deliver packages to by drone. The company says it's expanding the airborne shipping of smaller, lightweight packages to suburban areas in nearly 500 cities, and that includes Chicago, Atlanta, and Cleveland.
Amazon says customers could get the packages delivered in about half an hour, and that intensifies the battle between Amazon and Walmart on which company can deliver the fastest, with both of them relying on a mix of drivers and drones. On Wall Street, that I was up 362 points next, I got 108 S&P 500 up 48. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington.
This week on chart wave, you are what you eat, may not be afraid 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.
