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The U.S. is imposing 50 percent tariffs on billions of dollars of Canadian goods after
trade talks broke down late last night.
“Canada has promised to match U.S. tariffs dollar for dollar, and Paris Michael Koppley reports."”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he suspended trade talks after the U.S. pushed last minute changes that Carney called unfair. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative responded on social media, saying Canada had made new demands and walked back prior commitments. U.S. Trade Representative Jamison Greer said in an interview with Fox News on Saturday that no new trade talks are planned.
"We're moving forward with measures that respond to Canadian retaliation." Carney said Canada has known since the start of negotiations that its relationship with the
U.S. has permanently changed, and that his country has been working to diversify its
trade relationships globally. Michael Koppley and PR News. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said this week that the Trump administration was working with allies to build the greatest coordinated economic isolation against Iran in the history of the world.
But even after years of previous sanctions against Iran, the Islamic Republic has still survived. Andy Gauthorp is a professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He says the recycling of threads to Iran may not stop the fighting permanently."
“I think the problem is that there's also a recognition in the Pentagon and in the White”
House that if the U.S. escalates further militarily, Iran has a lot of military options to hurt the U.S. and its allies back. So there's a focus now on economic pressure, both sides thinking they can wait the other out, but also the risk that if this economic pressure doesn't get a result quick enough, maybe one side will be incentivized to return to fighting.
Professor Andy Gauthorp of Leiden University in Europe, firefighters are facing extra dangers this summer after old bombs from World War I and II surfaced and some exploded following wildfires in France, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. Nurses are raising alarm about workplace violence, federal data shows hospital workers are seven times more likely to be injured on the job due to violent acts at the general
working population than our duty reports.
“Nurse Crystal Dogey works at Henry Ford Genesis Hospital in your Flint, Michigan.”
Nurses have been on strike there since last September. "I've seen nurses get shoved, pushed, scratched. The biggest one has been understaffed emergency rooms are a hotspot according to Rachel Otis at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Snarsing School." "As we look at Medicaid expenditures being cut, outpatient clinics losing funding, the emergency
department is the only place with open doors for people." Henry Ford Health spokeswoman told NPR, "This is NPR." So Eden's prime minister and other officials travel today to a memorial site outside a high school where a 17-year-old student was killed Friday from a sword attack, please say they have a suspect in custody.
The Bonner-Root music and arts festival will not be held next year in Manchester, Tennessee. Justin Barney from Member Station W. Pielan has this story. "The past couple years have been rough for Bonner-Root. The main issue has been rain. Storms caused organizers to cancel mid-fest in 2025. Torrential rains again this year caused delays in some cancellations.
In a social media post, organizers said that they are putting Bonner-Root on pause for next summer, citing bad luck. Organizers also gave a nod to reality. They said that the festival market has changed substantially over the past decade, especially for camping events like Bonner-Root, and that it's been difficult getting people to buy into the camping culture and experience. But they're hoping for a comeback in 2022.
For NPR News, I'm Justin Barney and Nashville. Bonner has host acts like Paul McCartney, Elton John, and Radiohead. In Southeast Asia, Buddhist art continuing to celebrate what's known there is also a three-month-long practice of sacred religious rights that began with a full moon in July and ends in an October full moon. But at a Buddhist temple in Myanmar central southern region, a military era strike that apparently targeted anti-government
fighters has killed at least 14 people including civilians on a meditation retreat. This is NPR News.
For the first time, a US government debt has surpassed $40 trillion, a massive number,
that affects your bottom line. This week on Consider This, we connect the dots between a 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.
