"Why, from NPR news in Washington, I'm Dan Roman.
President Trump has imposed 50 percent tariffs on many Canadian goods after talks over
a trade deal broke through.
“NPR's chandeliest dust to reports on the breakdown in those negotiations."”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the country will impose retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. after the 50 percent tariffs went into effect. U.S. trade representative Jamison Greer says trade talks between both countries collapse Friday night after Canada declined to finalize the deal and a terms already agreed to. But Carney blames the U.S. saying U.S. demands, quote, "Reveal the limits of their commitment
to a true economic partnership." "Well, the United States has imposed a seemingly endless stream of tariffs and threaten more. Canada has, by contrast, taken several steps in good faith to try to find compromise and secure a comprehensive deal in the best interests of both Canadians and Americans." Carney says Canada's retaliatory tariffs will begin on September 8th.
Sondalize the duster, NPR news. "No new trade negotiations between the U.S. and Canada have been announced. Religious groups are speaking out after disclosures that the Department of Homeland Security
“operated inside churches as part of the Immigration Enforcement Actions.”
NPR's Jason Derose reports the case involves Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis." Recent court filings suggest that ice agents covertly entered congregations in the Twin Cities. Faith-based groups were at the forefront of resistance to both the broader immigration actions there and specific instances in which federal agents shot and killed two protesters.
The first universalist church of Minneapolis was among the congregations involved in the demonstrations
and believes it was surveilled. Now the umbrella unitary and universalist association is condemning the administration for "secretly spying" on one of its congregations. Jason Derose and PR news. "A South Korean container ship has left the port of Busan.
It's the first voyage across the Arctic then to Europe. His NPR's Anthony Cune reports from Seoul the round trip is expected to take about 45 days
“saving time for shipers the Panstar Acro is carrying used cars, auto parts and chemicals”
as it heads for the Arctic's northeast passage and route to the UK, the Netherlands, and Poland before heading home." South Korea wants to build Arctic shipping skills, show its a player in Arctic-related governance and diplomacy, and find new routes that bypass Middle East choke points. One geopolitical risk is that South Korea will need permission from Russia to transit waters
off its Arctic coast that could urge western nations which are trying to isolate Russia because of its war on Ukraine. And the South Korean ship could face sanctions if, for example, it has to pay for help from a sanctioned Russian icebreaker, Anthony Cune in PR News Seoul. "You're listening to NPR news."
A second, we get a heavy rainfall that is expected in Hawaii is that state is still cleaning up from Hurricane Lala, which glanced the state last Saturday and Sunday. Forecasters are watching tropical storm moke which form Friday in the Pacific Ocean. It is tracking west northwest with maximum sustained winds of about 50 miles per hour. Like Lala, Hawaii's big island is expected to bear the brunt of the storm with between
five and ten inches of rain.
NASA's newest space-based observatory has passed a critical milestone prior to launch.
Israel Palco reports the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope is set to leave Earth at the end of the month. The milestone was a flight readiness review where all relevant teams report on the mission status prior to launch. Roman, as the telescope is known to its friends, is set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon
heavy rocket August 30th from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The new observatory is what's known as a survey telescope. Instead of staring at a small patch of sky, looking intently at a limited number of objects, Roman will look at wide swaths of the sky. It will be using a new technique to search for planets orbiting distant stars, and it will
also be searching for type 1a supernovas, a kind of exploding star that astronomers used to measure the speed at which the universe is expanding. For NPR News, I'm Joe Palco. Russia and Ukraine traded drone and missile strikes that left at least 10 people dead. They come one day after Russia hit a shopping center killing at least 16 people in injury
more than 130 others. I'm Dan Roman, NPR News in Washington, support for NPR News. For the first time, a US government dead 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.
