Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney says his country will retaliate against President Trump's
“additional 50% tariffs on around $20 billion worth of goods that went into effect Saturday”
by implementing tariffs on U.S. goods starting in about two weeks. Business groups in the U.S. are calling on both sides to get back to the bargaining table because the two economies are interconnected and a breakup would be very disruptive, and if you're Scott Horsley has more. The average U.S. tariff on imports from around the world is now a little over 11% that's
about four times what it was when Trump returned to the White House last year. Some of the President's tariffs were struck down by the Supreme Court, and the administration said to pay more than $100 billion in refunds, but they keep adding new tariffs, and as Prime Minister Carney noted this weekend, that means higher cost for U.S. consumers. And Pierscott Horsley reporting.
China is calling on all parties involved in the U.S. is really worn around to return to the negotiating table.
“This comes as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is threatening to announce what he calls”
an economic "d-day" on Iran today, and Piers Jennifer Pack is in Beijing.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says the current situation in the Middle East is at a critical
juncture, and that the top priority is for the situation to de-escalate. Wang made the remarks while meeting Kuwait's foreign minister in Beijing. He says no matter how great the differences, a solution should be found at the negotiating table, not through gunfire. The move comes as the U.S. has threatened to punish Iran's economic partners, China buys
the bulk of Iran's oil, despite U.S. sanctions. The Chinese and Iranians are strategic partners, though China has often urged restraint from all sides in the Iran War. Jennifer Pack and Piers News Beijing. Today, Ron's threatening to seize ships violating transit rules in the straight-of-war
“moves of the U.S. ads-editional sanctions.”
Nearly two weeks since a powerful storm ripped through Gary, Indiana, causing widespread power
outages, thousands are still in the dark, but officials have made progress since they all power should be back and up and running this week. Michael Pointy from Member Station WBZ reports. Relief is coming to the struggling rust belt city and the surrounding area, but just not quickly enough.
The city estimates more than 2,000 structures suffered damage from falling trees that block roads for days and caused at least two fatalities. Resident Vivian Woods and Hatchkins is coping as best she can. "So what we do is we get up in the morning and we got to find something to eat because we can't store food in our fridge right.
So now we're kind of depending on the giveaways and you know whatever somebody has for us." The priority provider Northern Indiana Public Service Company insists most will have power back by the end of Tuesday for NPR News. I'm Michael Pointy and Gary, Indiana.
This is NPR. In Israel, the leading candidate, running to Unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is speaking out against establishing a Palestinian state. The issue came up after the leader of an Arab political party in Israel set a Palestinian state already exists and called on Israel on the U.S. to recognize it.
Supporting a Palestinian state is an unpopular position in the Israeli electorate. Centrist candidate, Gadi Eisenkot, said if he's elected in October, his government would not allow the establishment of a Palestinian state. And Eisenkot may need the Arab Party's support to help Unseat the Prime Minister. Separately, a chief rabbi of Israel late last week said there is no such thing as a Palestinian
people. Daniel Estrin NPR News, Tel Aviv. A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration ban on issuing immigrant visas to people from 75 countries, saying it violates federal immigration law by discriminating on the basis of nationality.
This after the State Department said people from those countries, which include Afghanistan, Brazil and Yemen, were likely to need public assistance once they got into the U.S. The ruling last week by Judge Jeanette Vargas from the Southern District of New York says the administration's policies exceeded the authority of the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a State Department spokes for Sentels NPR.
It was protecting Americans by screening and vetting visa applicants. I'm Jeanine Herbst, NPR News.
