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A sharp rupture in U.S. Canada trade relations has emerged as trade talks between the two nations collapse this weekend.
Both countries are preparing to impose reciprocal 50 percent tariffs in the U.S. that means
higher levies on a range of Canadian products, including beer, whiskey, and dairy products, fishing rods, and hockey sticks, and clothing. In Portland, Oregon, clothing store owner Kim Osgood says this is going to hurt.
“I think it's very disruptive to small businesses because you need to know what you can”
sell that goods you have bought at. And these agreements, so we make with our Canadian vendors, are made six months a year ahead of time. So it puts us in a very awkward position with companies we have been dealing with for like 20 years. The tariffs will affect $20 billion worth Canadian imports, Prime Minister Mark
Carney says that new Canadian tariffs on U.S. goods starts September 8th.
For the first time in America's 250-year history, Indy Car drivers will zoom down famous
streets of the U.S. Capitol as President Trump shares them on. The PR's Ava Burger reports. On their practice runs, drivers went past the Capitol building, and right by the National Gallery of Art, David Johnson traveled with his wife from Washington State to D.C. for the first time.
“"We waited a whole lifetime to be here for some like this, and never thought it would”
take place, and it's our 45th wedding anniversary." Today, 25 drivers will race 147 laps, not everyone is happy about the race. Critics worry about damage to nearby museum buildings and artifacts. Still, Trump will wave the green flag today to start the historic Freedom 250 Grand Prix. Eva Burger and Pierre News.
A federal judge says the Trump administration acted illegally when it stopped processing immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries including Afghanistan, Brazil, and Yemen. The State Department had argued that visa applicants from those countries were likely to need public assistance if they came to the U.S. and Pierre's Michael Koppley has more. U.S. District Judge Jeanette Vargas struck down the Trump administration's visa ban in part
because he 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 Koppley and Pierre News. This is NPR. Eastern Japan was shaken by a moderate earthquake as Sunday started Tokyo was affected by the
preliminary magnitude 5.9 quake. Officials say more than 30 people were hurt mostly minor injuries in four prefectures in the region. No tsunami warning has been issued. Britain
is finally emerging from its fifth heat wave of the season, but nearly half the population
is still living with water restrictions. And with the El Nino weather pattern, expected to bring further disruption. British policy makers are bracing for an even hotter, drier 2027. Vicky Barker has more from London. Where Ellison sweaters used to be the necessary accompaniments to an English summer, but the cool drizzles of yesterday have given way to climatic extremes of heavy rainfall in winter
followed by intense heat and drought in the summer. Hydrologist Jess Neumann says Britain now has to follow the example of many Mediterranean countries in better conserving and recycling water, telling the BBC, portraying our gardens, or flashing our toilets. Why are we doing
“that with fresh water? So that's definitely an area that I think we really need to be investing”
heavily in. British rail officials too are planning how to make the country's tracks and overhead lines more resilient with this summer's heat to consider the factor in two recent derailments. For NPR news, I'm Vicky Barker in London. The two niches and national guards as one person in a life jacket has been rescued from a capsized boat carrying migrants and waters off its coast, at least two are known dead and it doesn't
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