"Live from NPR news in Washington, eyed Louise Quivonne.
President Trump has imposed 50% tariffs on many Canadian goods after talks over a freight
“trade deal fell through," NPR sent a list of 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 Jamison Greer says trade talks between both countries collapse Friday night after Canada declined to finalize a deal and a terms already agreed to. But Carney blames the U.S. saying U.S. demands, quote, "revealed the limits of their commitment
to a true economic partnership." "Well, the United States has imposed a seemingly endless stream of tariffs and threatened 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. Sondalisa Duster and PR news. Investors on Wall Street are keenly awaiting a speech this week by Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Worsh, as NPR's Rafael Nam reports he is set to speak at the annual Fed policy meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with the bond markets in turmoil.
It's a highly anticipated speech, investors are hoping, Worsh on Friday, will address the fears about inflation that are hitting the bond markets. Bond investors fear inflation because they can have real negative effects in the economy. Worsh has previously said, fighting inflation will be a top priority. But investors reacted poorly when the Fed held interest rates at its last policy meeting
in July, even a inflation remains high, racing doubts among some investors about how the Fed plans to tackle inflation.
“Making this all the more interesting, the U.S. will report a key inflation gauge called”
"the personal consumption expenditure's price index" on Wednesday, two days before Worsh is set to take the stage, Rafael Nam, in PR news. The federal government has released details of a two-year management plan for the shrinking Colorado River. The river is considered the workhorse of the Western water system irrigating and hydrating
seven states applying water to approximately 40 million people.
JB Hambi is California's top Colorado River negotiator. This is meant to deal with this ongoing, what's called a structural deficit in the lower basin, even with releases from the upper basin states of Colorado, to Mexico, Wyoming, and Utah, uses have been exceeding that available supply, and this was really meant to be the first major effort to deal with this reckoning of climate change and continue drought.
The plan would force Arizona, Nevada, and California to significantly reduce their water usage. This is NPR News in Washington.
“The release of a favorite artist's new album can be enjoyable, but a new study shows it”
can also lead to distracted driving with sometimes severe consequences, NPR's John Stone as explains. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham found that on the days 10 of the most streamed albums from 2017 through 2022 were released, traffic deaths went up
15 percent, as compared to the 10 days just before and just after the release date.
An estimated 139 traffic deaths happened on release days. The author's study, Dr. Vashal Patel, told CNN, "He initiated the study after nearly getting into an accident himself while scrolling through Spotify for songs from a new Taylor Swift album. Younger drivers and male drivers were most affected, with larger increases in fatal crashes
also among single occupants and sober drivers, as well as in clear weather conditions and cars with infotainment systems in them." John Stone and PR News This fall of British auction house will be putting rock royalty memorabilia on the block, including a piano and other items used by Freddie Mercury.
Auctionaire Prop Store is selling 82 lots from the collection of German producer Ryan Holdback, who worked with Queen on several albums in the 80s. This includes a Yamaha C3 Grand piano used to compose crazy little thing called love and a teddy bear given to Max Sun Freddy Jr. Other items include a microphone used by Mercury and handwritten lyrics they anticipate
bidding on the piano could go as high as 4 million pounds. I'm Louise Skivone and PR News. For the past 25 years, a rare Pacific ecosystem has been undisturbed. Now, the Trump administration is opening nearby waters to commercial fishing.
"The Americans' fishermen have never had a better ally in the White House than Donald Trump."
This week on the Sunday Story, we discuss what's at stake for this wild ecosystem.
