Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
President Trump has been phoning world leaders, asking them to join him in isolating
“Iran, as moves from a campaign of military pressure to one of economic pressure.”
And here's how the trolley reports the United Arab Emirates was the first to say it was
cutting off commercial and trade ties with Iran. The UAE was among Iran's top international trade partners and where illicit funds moved through Iranian shell companies, many of which have been sanctioned in the past by the U.S. Treasury Department. But reactions from other Gulf allies have been muted so far.
Some only had dismal trade ties with Iran to begin with. And while the Trump administration now says welcoming flights from Iran help it to operate in the gray zone, direct flights from Tehran continue to land in Dubai, as well as other destinations like Turkey, Russia and China, which says it has no plans to cut off Iran and slammed the new raft of U.S. sanctions.
Iran meanwhile says it's ready with a two-year plan to manage the fallout from these latest measures. I Abletraali and Pyrenees, Dubai.
“The Trump administration is getting set to revoke the visas of up to 200,000 foreigners”
who came to the U.S. for short term stays and then applied for asylum to stay permanently. State Department spokesman Tommy Pigus says that's fraud and that a visa is a privilege not a right. He says they've started to review these kinds of visas, which will be revoked on a rolling basis, and that the Department is working with the Department of Homeland Security to identify
the visa holders. The move will likely face legal challenges. President Trump's super PAC is spreading hundreds of thousands of dollars in the final hours before polls close in the Republican primary in South Carolina to support Darlene Graham for Senate.
As impures Tamara Keith reports, Trump endorsed Graham, the sister of the late Senator of Lindsey Graham. Now, the super PAC is injecting $827,000 in last-minute assistance to Darlene Graham for get out the vote phone calls and text messages. Trump also held a rally for Graham last Friday begging South Carolinians to get out and vote
for her in what is expected to be a low turnout, special primary runoff against Republican Congressman Ralph Norman. What I really want you to do is pretend, please, that I'm on the ballot, just come and vote in Seoul for it. The power of Trump's endorsement is also on the line.
Tamara Keith and PR News. President Trump's latest financial disclosure shows he invested $50,000 into Elon Musk's SpaceX. It's unusual for a president to be a shareholder of a company that's also a major government contractor, the disclosure says it happened after the IPO in June and was one of more
than 1,000 stock trades that Trump made that month. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. As the trade war escalates, Canada is set to announce retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products today, this after President Trump put an additional 50% tariff on some Canadian goods Saturday and yesterday threatened to put 50% on Canadian vehicles and auto parts.
This is Trump says he's considering changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, saying on social media that the U.S. doesn't expect to be doing much business with Canada. Ontario is home to the country's auto industry. It's similar to his attempt to rename the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America. The vow to suing the Trump administration over new rules that would cut the state's access
to the Colorado River among record low water levels, Paul Bogart, from member station KNPR has more. Under new regulations filed last week, the Lower Basin States, Arizona, California, and Nevada
have to cut their share by one and a quarter million acre feet over the next two years.
Northern Basin States, do not. The lawsuit claims the reduction unfairly slashes in the vat is legal right to 1.8% of the river water. An endsminger oversees a southern Nevada water authority. The complaint also alleges that federal officials failed to fully analyze how the cuts
would affect Nevada's economy. From PR News, I'm Paul Bogart in Reno. Fall is right around the corner. That means the midterms. Hey, it's Miles Parks from the MPR Politics podcast.
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