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President Trump has now imposed 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian goods.
“The decision comes following the collapse of trade talks between the two countries.”
Canada's Prime Minister says it will match the U.S. tariff dollar for dollar, and he blamed the collapse of the talks on last-minute changes to the deal by the U.S. President Trump says he plans to remove tariffs on some imported beef to reduce prices, but as Nebraska's public media may see buyers reports, agriculture leaders say the move "could harm some cattle producers."
"Beaf 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 herds. But Nebraska Farm Bureau President Mark McCarck disagrees.
"We're just short cattle, and it drives the 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 percent
below current market prices.
“For NPR News, I'm Macy Buyers in Lincoln, Nebraska.”
The Supreme Court has paused in a Peel's Court Order on President Trump's $400 billion ballroom project. That means construction can continue, at least for now, and P.R.'s Emily Fang, as I reports. The Supreme Court put a stay on a lower court's order to halt construction, but the
higher court did not give an explanation for its decision. Two lower courts already ruled that the ballroom project is likely illegal, because Congress never approved it. But this Supreme Court order means the administration can continue with the 90,000 square foot addition to the White House.
The Trump administration has argued the ballroom is not just an aesthetic necessity, but a national security issue as well. And material supplied to the Supreme Court, D. John Sower, the solicitor general and a former personal lawyer for Trump, said the future ballroom would include a sniper's nest, drone proof roofs, and a hospital.
Emily Fang and P.R. News, Washington.
“With several months remaining before the end of the year, the U.S. has already seen a number”
of cases of food born illness. The most recent cycle of spriuses has taken more than 15,000 people. Don Shaffner is a food microbiology specialist at Rutgers University. He says people can protect themselves by enrolling in store programs. I know there's a lot of people out there that use these shoppers club cards, because they
get a discount, another advantage of having a shoppers club card is that that grocery store chain will know that you purchased, let's say, implicated jalapenos, and then they can reach out to you and say, hey, look, we think you've got some bad jalapenos, please return them to us for credit or reimbursement. On Wall Street stocks were up as investors trimmed their losses from earlier this week.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained nearly 1% by the close. This is NPR News. At least 15 people were killed and another 130 wounded Friday when several Russian drones hit a shopping center in Central Ukraine, officials say 29 people remain in serious condition, including five children.
The Ukraine's president called the attacks cynical and despicable.
He said a Russian second Russian drone hit the center of a half hour after the first
in attempt to kill first responders. Nurses are raising the alarm about workplace violence. Federal data shows hospital workers who's seven times more likely to be injured on the job due to violent acts than the general working population. Lynn Arditty reports.
Nurse Crystal Dogey works at Henry Ford Genesis Hospital in your Flint, Michigan. Nurses have been on strike there since last September. Like XC nurses get shoved, pushed, scratched. The biggest one is been understaffed emergency rooms are a hotspot according to Rachel Otis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Snursing 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 they don't tolerate any violence and have taken measures to prevent it. For NPR news, I'm Lynn Arditty in Providence, Rhode Island.
Residents of Washington DC will be hearing the roar of indie race cars this week and President Trump who's staging an indie race through the downtown streets of the city with the main event starting on Sunday afternoon. The cars will follow a 1.7 mile track to include the part of Pennsylvania Avenue. It'll also cross the malt rice and pass a number of tourist sites.
I'm Dale Wilman, NPR news. For the first time, 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 the national debt and your car payment, your mortgage, your small business loan, and so much more.
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