Live from NPR News in Washington, on Lyndy Canyon.
The U.S. has imposed new 50% tariffs, a more than $20 billion worth of Canadian goods,
“after trade talks fell apart overnight, with both sides trading blame for the breakdown.”
NPR's not bloom has more. The impasse is the latest strain and already tense relations between the two allies. The higher import costs will hit about 5% of what Canada ships to the U.S. each year, ranging from hockey sticks to building materials, Canada's prime minister has promised to new dollar for dollar retaliatory tariffs, as well.
Business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, say the tariff war could damage both country's economies and drive up prices. And viewers, Matt Bloom, President Trump, spoke at a rally in South Carolina yesterday in support of Senator Darleen Graham. She's the president's pick in the special U.S. Senate Republican primary election to replace
Graham's late brother, Lindsay. Robin Jackson, with South Carolina Public Radio reports from Burtle Beach. And a debate this week, Senator Darling Graham has attended an answer in a question about China and Taiwan and said she isn't a national security expert. Trump was friends with Lindsay Graham, who was a national security specialist.
The president has endorsed his sister and says she is more focused on affordability issues. She's about what we have, how much a loaf of bread is going to cause, how much beef is going to cause beef is coming down rapidly, by the way.
“And she was very much about affordability, I think, more so than Lindsay.”
The economy is top of mine for voters in coastal Oregon County, a key Republican area, Graham faces Congressman Ralph Norman in a runoff Tuesday. For MPR News, I'm Gavin Jackson in Murtle Beach. The U.S. Navy aircraft is flown through the narrow waterways separating China and Taiwan. Aushish Valentine and Taipei reports that comes as Chinese leader Xi Jinping is set to visit
the U.S. The Democratic Island of Taiwan is separated from China by a strip of ocean only about a hundred miles wide on average, the Taiwan straight. A P-8A Poseidon aircraft flew through international airspace in that contested waterway on Friday, according to a statement the Navy released today.
According to the Chinese state media outlet global times, the Chinese military tracked and monitored the aircraft throughout the transit. U.S. aircraft and naval vessels transit the straight roughly every few months.
“This transit are not appreciated by Beijing, which claims Taiwan is its own territory.”
The U.S. 7 Fleet said the move demonstrates the United States commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific. For NPR News, I'm Aushish Valentine in Taipei. Russian and Ukrainian drone and missile strikes have killed at least four people overnight. It comes a day after Ukrainian officials say Russian drones hit a shopping mall, killing
16 people, and wounding 130 others. Nine people still remain missing. The attacks occurred in Zelensky's hometown. You're listening to NPR. A Texas Appeals Court has reduced the amount of money Alex Jones has been ordered to pay victims of the 2012 Sandhok elementary school shooting that killed 20 children and six adults.
Andrew Weber from Member Station, KUT has the story. 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
in 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 Sandhok families. For NPR News, I'm Andrew Weber in Austin.
A former engineering director in Mehta has told jurors at a landmark trial that the company took a don't-house don't-tell approach on kids under 13 on its platforms. During his second day of testimony, he said Mehta consistently prioritized profits over safety in designing its products. Mehta has rejected the claims and said evidence that the trials show its commitment to safety.
The trial is taking place in federal court in Oakland, California. It pits Mehta against the states of California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey. The trial should last about six weeks. I'm Lyndick Enion and PR News in Washington.
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. Listen to Consider This, the daily afternoon news podcast from NPR.
