Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
It was a mix bag for progressives in Florida's primary last night, several candidates lost
“in some key house races, but there was a surprise win for the left in the state's U.S.”
Senate contest, as NPR's Ashley Lopez reports. Florida State Representative Angie Nixon ran for the Democratic Party Senate nomination on a platform of Medicare for All in Universal Child Care, and she defeated Alex Vinnman and National Figure during President Trump's first impeachment trial, who drastically out-raised Nixon.
She now faces a tough race in a state that has become reliably conservative. In House Contest, Oliver Larkin, who was backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, lost his challenge to Congressman Jared Moskowitz, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, along serving Congresswoman won her primary, she beat a slate of black candidates, which included a progressive candidate for a seat that had long been held by a black representative.
Ashley Lopez and PR News.
News of Trump says he's temporarily pausing planned 50% tariffs on around $20 billion worth
of Canadian goods for three days. The reset to go into effect early this morning, saying on social media that the U.S. and Canada have reached an agreement without giving details, but he did mention the Keystone XL pipeline. And here's Emily Fang has more.
The deadline for these tariffs was supposed to kick in midnight last night, but with less than two hours to go before that deadline, Trump announced he was temporarily calling them off.
“And he wrote untrue social, what was key behind this deal was the potential to restart”
the Keystone pipeline, a joint project between U.S. and Canadian companies to deliver oil from Canada to the U.S. but it got mirrored in an environmental controversy, and its permit was ultimately revoked by President Biden through an executive order. Trump rolled back that executive order last year as part of his push to expand the U.S. oil and gas sector, and here's Emily Fang reporting, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is
continuing his campaign against the International Criminal Court, adding the court's president and leading trial lawyer to a sanctions list as Imperial's Michelle Killingman reports. Secretary Rubio says he's single-enoughed two individuals from Japan and Senegal, because they have, in his words, directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to investigate arrest and prosecute officials whose governments have not consented to ICC jurisdiction.
The U.S. first began targeted sanctions to stop an ICC investigation into U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and has since take further steps to punish the court for issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a former defense minister, U.S. Galant. Last month, Rubio announced a campaign to dismantle the court.
The U.S. is not a party to the ICC, which was set up to be a court of last resort for war crimes. And Pierce Michelle Kelliman reporting, you're listening to NPR News. A correction from a report aired yesterday, the House Ethics Committee is investigating allegations of sexual misconduct against U.S. representative Jimmy Gomez, including inappropriate sexual contact with the House Staffer, not in turn as we reported yesterday, and PR regrets the error.
The U.S. Forest Service has started the process to roll back a rule that protects around 45
million acres of national forest land from logging and development nationwide. The roadless rule
protected 172,000 acres in North Carolina, including beloved areas like Linville, Georgia and Mills River. Katie Myers has more. Local environmental advocate Will Harland lives in Barnard'sville and works for the Center for Biological Diversity. He wants the administration to keep the roadless rule intact because of its role in protecting the region's environment and economy. These roadless areas are the spine, the backbone of our outdoor recreation economy,
beating heart of biodiversity, their places where hellbenders have the best habitat,
“and they're also our secret weapon in fighting climate change.”
The U.S.D.A. says getting rid of the rule will better help communities fight wildfires and secure forest health. The public has until September 21 to comment on the decision. For NPR News, I'm Katie Myers, in Barnard'sville, North Carolina. He was featured just contracts are trading lower at this hour, Dow futures are down about 13 points, Nasdaq futures are down about 33 points.
I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News, in Washington. This week on up first, the midterms and the Middle East were tracking major primary elections in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming, and abroad, the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner pursues a peace plan in Gaza.
Plus, the U.S. Iran ceasefire hits a crucial 60-day deadline. Stay caught up on the week's
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