Live from NPR news in Washington, on Lindy Canyon, trade talks between the US...
have collapsed, and new 50 percent tariffs against Canada have kicked in.
“As Dan Carpenter reports, Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will retaliate, promising”
to match the US tariffs dollar for dollar. Carney suspended the negotiations in Washington just minutes before the deadline. 50 percent tariffs are now in effect against $20 billion worth of Canadian products from honey and wine to cement to hockey sticks. Carney says he's directed his negotiators to return to Ottawa, adding that they worked hard
in Canada's interests. And he described last minute changes by the US as unfair, un-economic, and calling to question the reliability of any deal. US trade representatives, Jamison Greer, says Canada declined what would have been the best treatment of any major exporter to the US market.
And upended, the balance of negotiations reached in the past few days. It's not clear yet what form Ottawa's retaliation will take. For NPR news, I'm Dan Carpenter, in Toronto. American businesses have expressed concern that the tariffs could harm the sale of their products in Canada.
Crowds of more than 100,000 are expected to gather on the National Mall this weekend for Washington, D.C.'s first Indy Car race. The cars will rock it down Pennsylvania Avenue, pass the Smithsonian Museums and the National Archives at nearly 200 miles per hour. NPR's Deepa Shiveram says President Trump signed off on the race idea and will take part in today's event.
“"You need to get it the green light in a way and he'll also be waving the green flag for”
the race on Sunday before the race begins, he'll also take a lap of the track in his own car." The race is one of several events D.C. has hosted to mark the country's 250th birthday this year. NPR TV event is being organized and funded primarily by the Penske Corporation.
The social media platform Tiktok and its affiliates have agreed to a settlement with the Department of Justice. As NPR's John Ruitt reports, the company was accused of violating a federal law to protect children's online privacy. The Department of Justice had alleged that Tiktok collected, stored and processed vast amounts
of data from its users, including millions of American children under 13 in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. The Department of Justice says since the complaint was filed, Tiktok has undergone significant changes to aspects of its business, including ownership and management.
“The Trump administration broker did deal for a U.S. version of Tiktok to be spun off from”
its Chinese owner bite dance earlier this year and put in the hands of American investors. The Department of Justice says Tiktok has since implemented extensive measures to strengthen safeguards for young users.
Under the terms of the deal Tiktok and its affiliates will pay $400 million to settle
the litigation brought by the Department of Justice. You're listening to NPR. Human brain development remains one of the most complex mysteries in biology, a new study out this week in the journal Nature shows how tiny clumps of human cells could one day help solve that mystery.
And Pior'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. She 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 Carson and PR News Alex Jones has won a Texas Corps ruling that reduced one of the
defamation lawsuit judgments against him by more than forty million dollars, for calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting Massacre a hoax. The conspiracy theorist has had a number of financial verdicts against him that have forced him to file for bankruptcy. He still faces a defamation judgment of 1.25 billion dollars in a Connecticut lawsuit and nearly
six million dollars that remain in the Texas case. Sandy Hook families via to collect any money from Alex Jones. I'm Linda Kenyan and PR News in Washington. For the first time, a US government debt has surpassed forty trillion dollars a massive number that affects your bottom line.
This week on Consider Abyss, 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 Abyss, the daily afternoon news podcast from NPR.
