Live from NPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, at the White House Wednesday, President ...
to reporters about the emerging deal that would have hurt Trump's 50% tariffs on Canadian
imports.
“As you know, the 50% tariffs across the board were going on against Canada today and they”
called yesterday and they gave us the points that we had to have very fair deal for both. The import taxes on Canadian goods were to take effect Wednesday, but Trump hit the pause button to go shaders now face a Saturday deadline to finalize the agreement. Secretary of State Marco Rubio expected to meet with his Canadian counterpart at the White House Thursday.
United Arab Emirates says it is suspending all trade with Iran after it came under an Iranian missile attack, impures a deal out sheltered reports. The Emirati Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it was halting all trade, commercial exchanges, and financial transactions with Iran until further notice after what it called regional escalations.
On Tuesday, the UAE's Defense Ministry said Iranian missiles fell in open water.
The Iranian Foreign Minister denied the allegation. The UAE came under intense fire as Iran targeted U.S. installations in the Gulf and Jordan
“at the beginning of the almost six-month war that shows no sign of ending.”
The latest sanction will put increasing pressure on Iran as the U.S. prepares to expand its economic restrictions on the country. A deal all-shaltchi NPR news is done. The national debt now stands at a record $40 trillion, the Treasury Department's announcement Wednesday came just five months after the national debt hit $39 trillion, experts say the
growing debt is already affecting Americans by raising borrowing costs and lowering wages. Authorities in Pennsylvania say an airplane pile was killed in a collision with a state police helicopter.
The collision happened Wednesday night at a small airport in Card Lyle, northwest of Philadelphia,
both state troopers aboard the helicopter survived the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board investigating. A former employee turned whistleblower told jurors Wednesday that met up at a culture that obsessed with user numbers and pushed safety to the side. NPR Sean Ruich has more on the landmark child's safety trial underway in California.
Arturo Behr worked as an employee and consultant in Meta, focused on user safety. He testified that the culture of the company, created by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, made it "practically impossible" to effectively address known risks to teens. Behr said features that the company has introduced are "designed to fail" because they're optional and not the default.
“Behr is a key witness for a consortium of states that have sued Meta, alleging that it violated”
consumer protection and child data protection laws and lied to the public about risks its platform's posed. Meta denies the accusations. And note the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a charity founded by Zuckerberg and his wife is a financial supporter of NPR, John Ruich NPR News.
"And you're listening to NPR News." President Trump has chosen a White House insider to lead the food and drug administration. Dr. Heidi Overton has worked on several of Trump's health initiatives and has currently a deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. She will need Senate confirmation to succeed Dr. Marty McCarray who resided in May.
There are about 40 rural emergency hospitals in the country that receive a monthly federal stipend to stay open and preserve care in remote areas. But as Macy Byers with New Ask a Public Radio report, some are still struggling. Both of Nebraska's rural emergency hospitals had a rough week. Garden County Health Services announced Wednesday morning that it had filed for bankruptcy
to restructure contracts that can no longer afford. CEO Sam Pennington says the $300,000 monthly payment from the federal government has helped stabilize revenue, but it's still hard to keep up with expenses. On Tuesday, the Nebraska State Auditor released a report alleging the CEO of the other R.E.H. in Southeastern Nebraska personally spent nearly $40,000 on the hospital's
credit cards. The hospital leader resigned immediately, considering the hospital receives that monthly government stipend, the audit also found its bank balances were low. For NPR News, I'm Macy Byers. Friends, Harry and his wife Meghan are reportedly returning to the UK with their children
Britain's daily telegraph newspaper, says King Charles III was told to the decision on Sunday, but was not told about it during the couple's visit last month. The telegraph says Harry and Meghan's two children have already enrolled at British schools and will start classes in September. I'm trial Snyder.
This is MPR News. This is Terry Gross, I just interviewed Jason Seagull about playing a therapist on a serious shrinking, his own therapy, and his Muppets movie. I love how you call me the human star of the Muppets, it gives me such joy. Well, especially since you've said you sometimes feel like a Muppet, so…
For sure.
