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The Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Trump to move ahead on his executive
“order restricting male and voting, but it's unclear how much he can do before the midterm”
elections, Trump ordered the federal government in March to make lists of eligible voters and only deliver male ballots to those on the list. President Trump is threatening to impose extra tariffs on Canadian autos and steel starting next year.
And he talks to avoid tariffs on about $20 billion worth of Canadian exports collapsed
as NPR's Emily Fang reports. Writing that Canada has been, quote, ripping off the U.S. Trump says who raised the current 25% on Canadian autos and steel to 50% next year. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney blamed the collapse of trade talks with the U.S. last week. On last minute demands he said the U.S. made of Canada.
Gary Huffbauer is a fellow of the nonpartisan Peterson Institute for International Economics who tracks tariffs, and he says anti-American sentiment is building in Canada. "The Canadian public doesn't like what the U.S. you're doing, you're regarded as bullying."
“Polls show public opinion in Canada is overwhelmingly in support of rejecting compromise”
with the U.S. over tariffs, Emily Fang and Peer News, Washington. Nearly all of the southern and southwestern U.S. is under a Department of Agriculture
drought disaster declaration and a pop of member-station KOSU reports Oklahoma farmers and ranchers
are making tough choices. "Hot and corn and soybeans are bearing the brunt of extreme weather. Kelsey Bates, who farms with her husband and northwest Oklahoma, says crops are stressed, and they lost a 400-pound steered due to heat. Because pastors lack water to grow grass for cattle, she says ranchers are rolling
out hay ahead of schedule, adding to high-end put costs." "So, we're going to be short on hay going into winter. Add on top of that, we're already starting to feed hay. When usually we don't have to start feeding hay until October, November." The extreme weather has an immediate effect on farmers and ranchers, but she says it will
trickle down through the supply chain to consumers. For NPR News, I'm Anna Popen, Oklahoma City. "Alla Bam is attorney general. His issue to subpoena demanding open AI respond to an investigation after one of its AI agents hacked another company and Piers John Ruich has more."
“"Open AI reported in July, it discovered AI agents in testing had cooperated in secret with”
one another, and won a scape to test zone, reaching the internet and hacking into a company called Hugging Face." Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall ordered Open AI to respond to an investigation into how it handled the incident. Alabama is looking into whether Open AI violated the state's deceptive practices act.
It's asking for company information and data about the incident, and it's giving Open AI until September 14th to respond. Earlier this month, a group of state attorneys general, including Marshall, told Open AI to preserve its records about the breach. Marshall said the incident showed that Americans' worst fears about AI are not just theoretical.
John Ruich and PR News. "It's NPR." An arbitrator has ordered the Washington Post to reinstate an opinion writer fired over social media posts about violent white men following last year's killing of conservative activists Charlie Kirk.
The ruling says the newspaper did not have sufficient cause to terminate Karen attiah, and calls for her to be awarded full back pay in lost benefits. GOP One Drugs, like Ozenpic and Bogovier, are changing health care, according to a report from Wells Fargo, and PR City Lupkin has more. Between 2022 and 2024, GOP One usage rose about 140%.
Over the same time, bariatric surgery fell 34%. That's just one of the ways GOP One Drugs are changing the health care landscape. Says Robin Wenzel, head of Wells Fargo industry insights. "U.S. adult obesity at about 40% of the population. You know, this is not an outlier.
This is a true challenge that healthcare industries hospitals have had to really face and manage around." She says GOP One Drugs have been a disruptor. In 2022, just 1% of the drugs and company's pipelines were GOP One's. Now, it's a quarter of them. Sydney Lupkin and PR News.
"Fat Marment Week is upon us, according to Colorado Public Radio, last winter was tough for the groundhog, like rodents, living in the Colorado mountains.
But now those who made it through are gaining the critical weight they need to make it through
next winter, much like Fat Bear Week, Fat Marment Week, calls on the public to vote for their favorite plump critters it begins today. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. 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 and Donald Trump." This week on the Sunday Story, we discuss what's at stake for this wild ecosystem. Listen now to the Sunday Story from the up-first podcast on the NPR app.
