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Canada's prime minister Mark Carney says his country will retaliate against the 50 percent
“tariffs imposed by the White House on Canadian products.”
His Dan Carpenter reports the move comes after talks aimed at heading off those levies collapse last night just before the deadline." Prime Minister Carney says the new 50 percent tariffs amount to an economic attack on Canada, and he is vowing retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods dollar for dollar starting September 8.
Carney called off talks just before the deadline after last minute requests from the U.S. delegation, which he said were unacceptable. "We're the partner of choice in many respects for countries around the world, and the Americans wanted to restrict that. They had language that they wanted to restrict that unacceptable."
Carney also says the U.S. wanted changes to auto tariffs and to restrict Canadian protections of language in culture and, in effect, sovereignty. Those provincial premier say they support Carney's decision not to sign a bad deal for Canada. For NPR news, I'm Dan Carpenter, I can Toronto. No new talks are scheduled.
“A federal judge says the Trump administration acted illegally when it started processing”
immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Brazil and Yemen. The State Department had said visa applicants from those nations were likely to need public assistance if they came to the U.S. NPR's Michael Kapli reports US district judge Jeanette Vargas struck down the Trump administration's visa ban in part because she said it discriminated on the basis of nationality, in violation
of federal immigration law. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, consular officers are barred from issuing visas to people who were unlikely to be able to support themselves in the U.S. But that determination has to be made on a case-by-case basis. Judge Vargas said the visa ban overwrote the discretion of consular officers.
The judge also set aside any visa denials that were based solely on the ban. Neither the State Department nor the White House immediately responded to a request for comment. Michael Kapli and PR news. The latest exchange of attacks in Russia and Ukraine today killed at least 10 people. The fresh fighting comes a day after Russia bombed a shopping center that killed at least
“16 people and wounded more than 130 others.”
His NPR's Charles Mains reports from Moscow the fighting in recent days has stepped up between the two countries. The Russian attack took place in the Ukrainian city of Krivy-Ree, an amounted to a double tap.
One drone hit the maldering peak business hours, followed by a second tap after rescuers arrived
on the scene. Ukrainian President, Florida, Ms. Zelensky, denounced the tactic as despicable and vowed a response that appears to have come in several waves. Russia's Krasnodar region authorities said two children died amid Ukrainian drone strikes on a town on the as of sea.
Ukraine also continued its targeting of energy and logistics centers. This time hitting an oil facility in retail warehouse in the Smara region. Charles Mains and PR news. Moscow. This is NPR.
Human brain development remains one of the most complex mysteries in biology. A new study out this week in the journal Nature shows that tiny clumps of human cells could one day help solve that mystery, NPR's Rachel Carson reports. Organoids are tiny clusters of human cells grown in labs. Scientists use them to study human brain development.
But organoids usually last for months, maybe a year. That means they only show researchers very early stages of the human brain. But for this new study, scientists managed to make some organoids grow for five years. Dr. Goley Ming is a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania. He wasn't involved in this study, but says it's the longest lifespan of organoids
to date.
This is a technology breakthrough.
During this time, the organoids matured to show characteristics of a four-year-old human brain. Ming says this means researchers could potentially use organoids in longer term developmental studies. Rachel Carlson and PR news.
A new plan to manage the water supply from the shrinking Colorado River will mean big cuts for the water supply in the states of Arizona with California and Nevada also expected to get less water. The reductions were announced Friday by the federal government. They could mean those states receiving up to 40% less water from the Colorado River
each year. Experts say the new plan is needed because Lake Mead and Lake Powell, which are massive reservoirs, are needed to create hydroelectric power for much of the western United States. In water levels, if fallen too dangerous to get low levels, I'm Dan Roman and PR 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. Listen to Consider This, the daily afternoon news podcast from NPR.
