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50% tariffs on Canadian goods are now in effect after trade negotiators walked away
“from talks that Prime Minister Mark Carney called "Unfair and Un-Economic".”
He announced her tallatory tariffs on U.S. goods beginning September 8th. The breakdown has to do with the dairy and auto-industries as NPR senior analysts are on shelving, who notes that President Trump's so-called "d-day sanctions" against Iran have also stalled. "We can't be sure what President Trump really thinks, little on why, but he surely
should know by now how "economic sanctions have failed to force Iran to do what the U.S. wanted. The chances of economic sanctions forcing their hand now looks to them even to Trump. But the war has reached a stalemate with no ceasefire in place, relatively little fire being exchanged for the moment.
Trump might well prefer talking tough about "d-day" economically."
NPR senior analyst Ron Elving. The U.S. Postal Service has released a finalized plan in response to President Trump's order to restrict mail-in voting for this false midterm election. But multiple court orders are blocking U.S.P.S. from carrying out that plan for now as NPR's "Honsi-Long" "Honsi-Long" reports.
“A key change under the finalized rule from the U.S. Postal Service would require”
states to turn over their absentee voter list 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 over steps 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. A dozen 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 plus Washington, D.C. that suit. "Honsi-Long" and P.R. News.
“Texas Governor Greg Abbott is asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the installation”
of washing stations at airports in Dallas and Houston as a religious discrimination. NPR's Jason D'Rose reports that Texas Republicans says they single out one religion for special treatment. The stations provide a place where Muslims can literally wash their hands and feet before prayers.
Abbott argues they exist to benefit the Muslim population alone, and that government-operated airports should not favor one religion over another. In a social media post, his press office likened them to segregation, era, white-only bathrooms. However, the facilities are open to anyone, regardless of religion.
The Council on American Islamic Relations is condemning the comparison to what it calls one of the darkest chapters of American history. Jason D'Rose and P.R. News. And this is NPR from New York. The NYPD plans to independently neutralize unauthorized drones flying over the U.S. open
Just before fan-week begins tomorrow, police commissioner Jessica Tish said this is the first time a state or local agency will do this, citing the federal government's safer skies act that was passed by Congress late last year. The release of a favorite artist's new album can be enjoyable, but a new study shows it can also lead to distracted driving with sometimes severe consequences, and P.R.S.
John Stolena's explains. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham found that, on the day's 10 of the most streamed albums from 2017 through 2022 were released, traffic deaths went
up 15 percent, as compared to the 10 days just before and just after the release date.
An estimated 139 traffic deaths happened on release days. The author's study, Dr. Vashal Patel, told CNN, "He initiated the study after nearly getting into an accident himself while scrolling through Spotify for songs from a new Taylor Swift album. Younger drivers and male drivers were most affected with larger increases in fatal crashes
also among single occupants and sober drivers, as well as in clear weather conditions and cars with infotainment systems in them." John Stolena's and P.R. News For the first time Ukrainian drones appear to have hit warehouses of Russia's online retailer ozone, the second largest online marketplace behind wildberries, a day earlier Russian
strikes on a shopping mall, killed at least 16 people this is NPR 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, listen on the NPR app or wherever you
