"Live from MPR News on trial Snyder, a last-minute reprieve for Canada, Presi...
says he has paused 50% tariffs on Canadian imports for three days, and Carpenter reports
“Trump posted online that the two countries have reached a trade agreement."”
Canadian businesses had been bracing for the tariffs which were to kick in at midnight on an array of Canadian products from wine to honey to cement to hockey sticks.
The new tariffs would have affected $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, as part of
the agreement Trump says the keystone XL pipeline which had been killed by the Biden administration has been revived. Prime Minister Mark Carney had spoken personally with Trump twice over the past two days ahead of the tariff deadline. Carney had said that negotiations have been intense and delicate, and also that he was preparing
for all eventualities, signaling possible retaliation. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce had warned that tariffs made no sense for either country. MPR News and Dan Carpenter, a report of Republican congressman, Cory Mills, has lost his primary race, Mills is the latest lawmaker in a string of congressmembers facing scandals from running for office.
He lost his bid for a third term in Tuesday's primary to former local television news anchor Ryan Elijah. California, the accounting votes in Tuesday's special election to fill democratic congressmen Eric Smallwell's House seat after his resignation. President Trump insisted Tuesday that the state of Hormuz is open to shipping, contradicting
Iran, which says it remained shut down. However, Iran is said to be close to a deal with Oman, President Trump threatened a bomb Obama on this week, impears I have been traveling. They have been meeting with the Iranians for weeks about the shared management of the straight which they both boarder, and that includes discussion around fees maybe being
collected from ships, which would be a new thing for this waterway, where before the war 20% of the world's oil is freely flowing.
“And I think that's why Trump for a second time in this war just this week, threatened”
Oman. Oman has been allowing ships to use their waterway to transit the straight. The first full day of testimony at the trial of Dwayne Davis, a one-time gang leader accused of orchestrating the murder of two packs of course, the Futterman reports from Las Vegas.
jurors were told details of two packs of court's fatal injuries. He died of gunshot wounds of chest and abdomen. Dr. Lisa Gavin, a forensic pathologist testified, but when graphic autopsy pictures were shown, members of Shakur's family left the courtroom. Later in the day, one witness tried to avoid answering questions.
James McDonald, a former bunny guard, for Shakur's record label, said he wanted to put this part of his life behind him. "I'm raising my grandkids, teaching them.
Never to be like they pop up, and here I am, explaining to people what I used to be."
"And I'm not proud of that." He was able to cite step questions which he said might hurt Dwayne Davis. For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman, in Las Vegas. "And you're listening to MPR News. A West African country of Liberia says it has agreed to accept up to 123rd country deportees
for the United States. Liberia's information ministers said Tuesday, the deportees will include Africans, as well as nationals from North and South America and the Caribbean. The first group of 20 expected to arrive on Thursday. In Myanmar's largest city, health officials say dozens of people have fallen ill and an outbreak
of cholera, at least three people in Yankong have died. MPR's Dury Pascar reports that monsoon rains have displaced tens of thousands of people in the area." Acute diarrhea often caused by cholera, as a recurring issue during Myanmar's rainy monsoon season. The country's social affairs ministers said that 500 people were hospitalized with diarrhea
in Yankong last week, almost 150 tested positive for cholera. Local media reported that health officials suspect the outbreak is tied to contaminated water or food, and asks street vendors in the city of Yankong to close over the weekend. Two years ago, more than 2,000 people were hospitalized in a diarrhea outbreak during the monsoon.
15 people died, Dury Buscarin and Pernu's Washington. According to an Australia hearing the appeal of air in Patterson, the so-called mushroom murderer, a three-judge panel in Victoria, began hearing Patterson's appeal Wednesday. Patterson was convicted for poisoning four of her estranged husband's relatives during a lunch of beef Wellington pastries, laced with death-cap mushrooms.
She was convicted on three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. I'm Jail Snyder, MPR News.
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