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President Trump has imposed 50% tariffs on many Canadian goods after talks over a trade
deal fell through Friday night.
“Empires shandali stusted reports on the breakdown in negotiations.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the country will impose retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. after the 50% tariffs went into effect. U.S. trade representative James and Greer says trade talks between both countries collapse Friday night after Canada declined to finalize the deal and at terms already agreed to. But Carney blames the U.S. saying U.S. demands "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.
Shandali's duster, NPR News. Police in Washington, D.C. are now preparing for a crowd of 100,000 people, or even more, for the indie car race that's taking place Sunday around the mall. Cars are expected to reach almost 200 miles an hour in some stretches of the track, which
“winds across city streets, including one portion of Pennsylvania Avenue.”
NPR's Deepa Shiverham explains who had the initial idea for the race that is now being trumpeted by President Trump. This has been in the work since last year, and it didn't even involve the White House at first. It was just a passion project idea from But Denker, who's the president of the Pensky
Corporation. That's the organization that's putting on the race and funding most of it. Denker thought about having D.C. host a race to mark the country's 250th, so he came to D.C. for two days last year, just to walk the city. And see if it was possible to make a race track that was wide enough and with good enough
roads. The race is part of the country's 250th birthday celebrations taking place across the area. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the installation of washing stations at airports in Dallas and Houston. He says it's religious discrimination.
“As NPR's Jason D'Rose reports, the Texas Republican says they single out one religion for”
special treatments. The stations provide a place where Muslims can virtually wash their hands and feet before prayers. Abbott argues they exist to benefit the Muslim population alone and that government-operated airports should not favor one religion over another.
In a social media post, his press office likened them to segregation, era, white, only bathrooms. However, the facilities are open to anyone, regardless of religion. The Council on American Islamic Relations is condemning the comparison to what it calls, in the darkest chapters of American history.
Jason D'Rose and PR News. And this is NPR News. Any Bolivax seen as beginning to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo this weekend, officials say more than 16,000 doses have arrived from the World Health Organization, which is promised at least 70,000 doses.
The African nation is fighting the fastest growing Ebola outbreak ever with 5,375 confirmed cases, more than 1,500 people have died from Ebola.
NASA's newest space-based observatory has passed a critical milestone prior to launch as
Joe Palka 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 30 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 Palka. The National Hockey League is about to get a little bigger, official say an ownership group
working with Houston billionaire Dan Friedkin has agreed to pay a $2 billion expansion
fee to bring a team to either Austin or Houston. League officials say the team could debut within three years. The NHL is also in talks for another expansion team, possibly located in Phoenix or Atlanta. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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