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New 50% tariffs are now in effect against Canada, after trade talks fell apart shortly
before midnight deadline. Prime Minister Mark Carney said last minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, and he immediately ordered tariffs on the U.S. dollar for dollar. U.S. trade were representative James and Greer blamed Canada for new demands and walkbacks that he said up ended the careful balance reached in the past days.
"We don't have new talks planned with the Canadians. We're moving forward with measures
“that respond to Canadian retaliation. Remember, as President Trump has introduced a trade policy”
to reshore American production and product-american jobs, two countries have retaliate against the United States. The People's Republic of China and Canada." Greer was speaking on Fox News. The U.S. and Canada once close allies have both been invested in weeks of negotiations, especially on auto and the dairy industry. President Trump says he plans to remove tariffs on some imported beef to reduce prices.
But agriculture leaders say the move could harm some cattle producers, as in Nebraska Public Media's Macy Buyer's Reports. Beef prices are up this year due to a smaller cattle herd, but people are still lining up at the meat counter. President Trump said more tariff-free low-priced imports of ground beef could help save consumers money and give farmers time to grow their cattle hurts.
But Nebraska Farm Bureau President Mark McCarck disagrees. "We're just short cattle, and I'm trying to market up. But what that does is also provides
“added dollars into those ranchers' pockets to do the expansion that is needed to actually”
get more supply on the market." The White House says that suppliers have agreed to sell the duty-free meat at 25% below current market prices. For NPR News, I'm Macy Buyer's in Lincoln, Nebraska.
A South Korean container ship has left the port of Busan on its first voyage across the
Arctic than to Europe. As NPR's Anthony Cune reports from Seoul, the roundtrip is expected to take about 45 days. The Panstar Acro is carrying used cars, auto parts and chemicals, as it heads for the Arctic's Northeast Passage and route to the UK, the Netherlands, and Poland before heading home.
South Korea wants to build Arctic shipping skills, show its a player in Arctic-related governance and diplomacy, and find new routes that bypass Middle East chokepoints. One geopolitical risk is that South Korea will need permission from Russia to transit waters
“off its Arctic coast, that could erke Western nations, which are trying to isolate Russia”
because of its war on Ukraine. And the South Korean ship could face sanctions, if, for example, it has to pay for help from a sanctioned Russian icebreaker, Anthony Cune, in PR News Seoul. Bitcoin and gold shot higher mid-week. You're listening to NPR News from New York City. A Texas appeals court has reduced the amount of money Alex Jones has been ordered to pay
to victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that killed 20 children and six adults, from member station KUT Andrew Weber reports. Jones repeatedly called the 2012 shooting a hoax on his Info Wars platform and some of his supporters harassed families of the victims.
Jones was ordered by a Texas court to pay $50 million in 2023 for defaming families of two
children who were killed. His attorneys argued that original award ran a foul of Texas's cap on civil lawsuit settlements and the states' third court of appeals agreed, reducing the amount Jones owed to $1.5 million. The Texas decision does not affect a Connecticut ruling ordering Jones pay $1.4 billion.
Jones filed for bankruptcy in 2022 and his assets, including Info Wars, are still tied up in Texas courts. Jones has yet to pay any money to Sandy Hook families. For NPR News, I'm Andrew Weber, in Austin. In South East Asia, Buddhist are continuing to celebrate what's known there as WASO, a three-month
long practice of sacred religious rights that began with the July full moon and ends in October full moon. But at a Buddhist temple in Myanmar's central Sagang region, a military era strike that apparently targeted anti-government fighters killed at least 14 people, including civilians on a meditation retreat.
A pro-democracy activist said the dead villagers included age, included elderly age 50 to 70 who are marking Buddhist land. I'm Duahli-Sai-Cal-Tao and PR News. This week on the NPR Politics podcast, the Trump administration is taking credit for a major drop in violent crime, murder, robbery, assault, all-down in big cities and small towns.
We're going to dig into the numbers and unpack whether this is really as simple as the President claims it is on the NPR Politics podcast.
