Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Linda Kenyan.
Canada will announce retaliatory trade tariffs against the United States tomorrow, after
“President Trump announced 50 percent tariffs on a large portion of Canadian products.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney accused Washington of trying to subordinate Canada while Ontario premier Doug Ford says the U.S. tariffs will backfire. Americans are already feeling the pain, because President Trump's tariffs are nothing more than attacks on the American people, raising the cost of everything from homes to food, making life more uncertain.
For the tens of millions of Americans who depend on trade with Canada to bring home their paycheck, Canada did not start this fight, but were prepared to win it. The tariffs went into effect after trade negotiations with the Trump administration broke down on Friday. The Supreme Court has paused lower courts ruling on President Trump's order to restrict
mail-in voting for the November midterm election. But as NPR's Hansi Law Wang reports, the postal service is still blocked from following Trump's order. It remains unclear what impact President Trump's order will have a mail-in voting for the midterms.
The order calls for the U.S. Postal Service to get lists of eligible voters from states and deliver ballots only to people on those lists. U.S. P.S. is a financial supporter of NPR.
“In June of federal judge and Boston block key parts of Trump's order in the 23 states plus”
Washington, you see that suit. That judge found Trump overstepped a president's authority under the Constitution, which gives power to state legislatures and Congress to set federal election rules. The Supreme Court did not weigh in on whether the order is illegal, but it did approve Trump's request to pause the judge's June ruling on the directives for U.S. P.S.
The same judge in Boston recently issued a separate ruling that blacks U.S. P.S. from following Trump's order across the country, on Zilawang and Fjarnese. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has announced a new round of sanctions that aimed to cut off Iran from the rest of the world economy. NPR's Hadeel El Salchi has the story.
Iran's real currency hit a new record low of $2 million to the dollar, a 30-year-old Iranian
woman who asked not to use her name for fear of retaliation from the Iranian government, said "Most ordinary Iranians are buying food using a credit system, because many don't have enough cash."
“"But Trump bid the car out of the supermarket."”
Since I'm in debt to the grocery store, she said "I couldn't even buy tomato paste to cook pasta." She said "Meet is almost $5 per pound, and a gallon of cooking oil is just over $11. Iranian said life-saving medicines like insulin are becoming too expensive to buy, and it can be financially ruinous to visit a doctor."
Hadeel El Salchi and PR News is done. Iran has been almost half a century, weathering US sanctions, struggling from double-digit inflation, as well as currency devaluation, and systemic mismanagement. You're listening to NPR News. The Federal Bureau of Land Management has been rounding up wild horses by helicopter in
Colorado this month. The agency is planning to remove hundreds from the public range land, Steena Sieg, reports from Colorado Public Radio. The BLM says there are too many wild horses, which damages the range and leads some horses to go hungry.
Kelly Scritchfield is a real-blanco county commissioner who says she's witnessed the effects of overpopulation, and we saw horses dying, and in this county I don't want to see that again. That horse advocate Heather Helier says the round-ups are not needed. She says cows damage the range more, and that wild horses have adapted to survive harsh
conditions. Wild horses are definitely the spirit of the wild west, and they do have that fight in them. The round-up continues until they gather about 1,000 horses. From PR News, I'm Steena Sieg.
What Marmot Week is upon us, Marmot researchers are launching an online contest for the public devote for their favorite Marmot Critter. This year's Fat Marmot Week follows a tough winter for the ground-hout like rodents living in the Colorado mountains. Researchers say there simply was not enough snow to keep the Marmot's burrows warm enough,
while they hibernated, so many of them actually froze to death. Those who did survive are said to be doing quite well, and they have fattened up enough
to make critical weight that's the weight needed to make it through next winter.
Unlinda Kenyan and PR News in 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 of the White House than Donald Trump. This week on the Sunday Story, we discuss what's at stake for this wild ecosystem.
