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The Trump administration has placed new 50% tariffs on some products imported from Canada.
“They were implemented after crucial trade talks broke down on Friday.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says his country will reciprocate with tariffs in September, but Peter Armstrong, the CBC, says Canadians have many options available for responding.
Canadian spent $3.5 billion less on travel the United States in 2025 because of a grassroots
boycott of travel to the United States so long as tariffs are in place. So there are multiple prongs to what Canada can do, and remember, the impact of the tariffs that Donald Trump is imposing on Canada are paid by American consumers, American business, driving up the cost of everything they buy and source from here in Canada. The U.S. Postal Service has released a finalized plan and response to President Trump's
order to restrict mail-in voting for this false midterm election, but multiple court orders are blocking the U.S. P.S. from carrying out that plan at least for now, as NPR's Hansi Lowong reports.
“A key change under the finalized rule from the U.S. Postal Service would require states to turn”
over their absentee voter lists to the mailing agency in order to have their mail-in ballots delivered. For now, though, a federal judge in Boston has blocked U.S. P.S., which is financial support of NPR. The judge round that President Trump's executive order for the Postal Service and other federal agencies oversteps his authority under the Constitution. Trump himself has voted by mail-in Florida, and for months his executive order to limit mail-in
voting has been caught up in legal fights. It doesn't Republican-led states are appealing the latest nationwide ruling by the judge in Boston, and comes as the way continues for the supreme court to weigh in on an earlier ruling that blocks U.S. P.S. from implementing Trump's order in the 23-mainly Democratic-led states, less Washington, D.C. that sued on Zee Lowong and P.R. News. Fall classes are now getting underway at many colleges across the country, despite a renewed
question of whether a college degree is even worth it. And P.R.S. Lissinette, where any reports
“from a college campus in Muncie, Indiana.”
I'm at Ball State, a public research university where students are moving in. I'm seeing roommates meeting up, families unloading U-halls. There's so much energy and excitement, but there's a lot happening in the world of higher ed. High tuition, fear of student-dead, increased interest in the trades, changes to student visas. And yet, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, undergrad enrollment overall is up, driven by gains at
public four-year programs like here at Ball State and community colleges. Steven Combs is the Chancellor at Ivy Tech Community College's campus in Columbus, Indiana. We provide programs that are everybody's first choices, nursing, flights, cyber, IT, industrial maintenance, so there's so many different opportunities that many community colleges offer that people just need to explore. And of course, community colleges, one of the cheapest options that students have,
Alyssa Nathorny and P.R. News. And you're listening to NPR News. Hopefully, over the 14th visit of the Republic of San Marino Saturday, along with the Italian City of Remini, he urged Catholics to reject division, conflict and social polarization. Instead, he called for dialogue, mercy, and friendship across political and cultural differences. Leo said Christians should work to overcome poverty, inequality, and war.
NASA's new space, a newest space-based observatories, past a critical milestone prior to launch,
as Jopalka reports the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to leave Earth at the end of the month. The milestone was a flight readiness review, where all relevant teams report on the mission status prior to launch. Roman, as the telescope is known to its friends, is set to launch a board of SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket August 30th from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The new observatory is what's known as a survey telescope. Instead of staring at a small patch of
sky, looking intently at a limited number of objects, Roman will look at wide swaths of the sky. It will be using a new technique to search for planets orbiting distant stars, and it will also be searching for type 1A supernovas, a kind of exploding star that astronomers used to measure the speed at which the universe is expanding. For NPR News, I'm Jopalka. The NHL is planning to award an expansion fried choice to Texas later this year.
A group working with Houston billionaire Dan Friedkin has agreed to pay a $2 billion
expansion fee to bring a team to either Houston or Austin. The location depends on arena construction, as well as the NHL board approval official say the leak's 33rd team could debut within three years. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News. For the first time, U.S. government debt has surpassed $40 trillion a massive number that affects your bottom line. This week on consider this, we connect the dots between the national debt and your car payment.
Your mortgage, your small business loan, and so much more. Listen to Consider This. The Daily Afternoon News Podcast from NPR.
