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Concerns over potentially higher prices for consumers are being voiced after President Trump
“placed 50 percent tariffs Friday night on some Canadian imports.”
British Columbia Premier David E.B. says no deal is better than a bad deal, and he says what the U.S. was offering was bad, including capitulations to the U.S. that would be very difficult to undo in the future." The suggestion that Canada would not trade with other countries, or reduce our trade with other countries because the Americans tell us, too, would reduce us to the economic equivalent
of the 51st state. The National Mall in Washington, D.C. looks a lot different this weekend. As part of the nation's 250th birthday celebrations, Indykar is holding a race there, and Piers Adam Bearn checked out the track. Instead of parked tour buses and ice cream trucks, the road to run the mall are lined with
concrete barriers and catch fences. They mark out the circuit for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix. The racist chairman, Bud Denker, says the city makes for a dramatic backdrop. "You have the view of the nation's capital, cars going by, on 3rd street.
“You have the view of the Washington monument for cars going by and 7th street.”
It's just epic." Also epic will be the speed. The cars are expected to hit about 180 miles an hour. It's Indykar's first race in D.C. German tourist Chris Herald has his ticket.
"That's really maybe once in a lifetime who knows, but the first race, it's amazing
to the anniversary also." Around 120,000 fans are expected to be there. Adam Bearn and Piano use Washington. Another storm has formed the Pacific Ocean, the National Hurricanes Center says tropical storm, "Moke" is on track to bring heavy rain and high winds to Hawaii, where residents
are still recovering from Hurricane Lala. Moke has maximum sustained winds of around 50 miles an hour and is expected to reach Hawaii late Saturday local time. Officials in Spain's North African Enclave have say Utah began burials Friday for migrants who died when tens of thousands of people tried to cross the border from Morocco last month.
As Michael Coloki reports, burials were held for 18 of the more than 90 people who died. Friday's burials took place in the territory's Muslim cemetery, with officials indicating that further burials are planned for the coming days. Serta is one of Spain's two autonomous cities in North and Morocco. According to Spanish officials, at least 72,000 migrants entered the territory last month,
many have since voluntarily returned to Morocco. Several of those who died trying to make the crossing either drowned, or killed during a stampede in a border checkpoint. Social authorities say they have identified only six of the dead, attributing delays to difficulties faced by relatives of the deceased in obtaining authorization to travel to Serta,
to provide DNA samples for identification purposes, who impair news on Michael Coloki. And you're listening to NPR news. Russian forces launched new drone and missile strikes on Ukraine Saturday, at least six people have been killed, including one in Kiev, when a ballistic missile hit a locomotive depot for others were killed in attacks in the Zaparizia region.
Fall classes are getting underway at colleges across the country despite a renewed question of whether a college degree is even worth it. MPR's listen ad were any reports from a college campus in Muncie, Indiana. I'm at Ball State, a public research university where students are moving in. I'm seeing roommates meeting up, families unloading new halls.
There's so much energy and excitement, but there's a lot happening in the world of higher ed, high tuition, fear of student debt, increased interest in the trades, changes to student visas. And yet, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, undergrad enrollment overall is up, driven by gains at public four-year programs like Caripel State and
Community Colleges. Steven Cumm's is the chancellor at Ivy Tech Community Colleges campus in Columbus, Indiana.
We provide programs that are, everybody's first choice is nursing flights, cyber, IT, industrial
maintenance, so there's so many different opportunities that many community colleges offer that people just need to explore. And of course, community colleges, one of the cheapest options that students have. Listen ad were any NPR news. Windham Clark has a five-stroke lead after shooting a 65 Saturday at the PGA Golf Championship
in St. Louis. He had a slow start though, but when opening the Saturday with a double bogey, he's hoping for his third PGA tour win this year. Corey Macquarie also showed a 65 including three-strate birdies late in the round for a second-place tie with Patrick Cantley.
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