"Li," from MPR News, I'm Lakshmi, saying, "The U.
Both governments are now imposing $20 billion worth of tariffs on each other after negotiations
collapsed last week.
“Days after the Trump administration announced new levies today, Prime Minister Mark Carney's”
government responded in "kind." Here's MPR's Emily Fang. Canada's tariffs range from 15% to 50% and they cover a medley of goods ranging from American fish to paper to tableware. These tariffs come on top of several rounds of American trade penalties levied on Canada over
the last year and a half, including punishing levies on Canadian steel in aluminum. This week, President Trump also threatened to raise tariffs on Canadian cars and auto-parts to 50% starting next year. And Europe's several Bellicose statements on his social media-site truth-social accusing Canada of "ripping off the U.S."
This aggressive rhetoric and repeated threats to annex Canada has left most Canadians hostile to compromise with the U.S. according to multiple public opinion polls. Emily Fang and Pierre News Washington. As many as 200,000 foreign national seeking asylum in the U.S. could lose their visas,
“the Trump administration's actions are part of a broad and aggressive crackdown on illegal”
immigration. And Pierre's Michelle Kellerman with details. State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigut says the Department is working with Homeland Security to identify and revoke the visas of foreigners who came to the U.S. claiming to be short-term visitors, but then filed for asylum to stay here permanently.
He says these types of visas are issued with a clear understanding that they are for those who intend to return home. He was responding to an associated press report on documents that show the Department is focusing on B1 and B2 visas issued in the last decade and could amount to 200,000 revocations. Pigut calls it an ongoing process with dynamic numbers.
Michelle Kellerman and PR News Washington. Republican voters in South Carolina are choosing a nominee for Senate today in a special primary runoff following the death of Senator Lindsey Graham in July.
The Hawke fire that spurred more than 15,000 acres since first erupting in the Sierra
Nevada, Foothills, near Reno is still keeping thousands of people out of their homes. Tammy Jockel says it is unnerving hearing something in the middle of the night and seeing the National Guard outside urging you to evacuate. We got an alert on our phone and all of the neighbors came out all at once. And we were like, okay, well, we've got to get out of here.
And it was just really smoky and chaotic. Schools across the region had been closed more than 90,000 people were under orders to evacuate or to prepare to do so. U.S. stocks are trading higher the South at the Dow up 45 points in NASDAQ was up 133 at last check.
You're listening to NPR News. An investigation is underway into an alleged cocaine ring at Penn State where drug dealers allegedly used two fraternity houses to sell drugs to students. NPR's Brian Mantelzess, the big substance U.S. risk on U.S. campuses, is not cocaine. It's alcohol.
The drug busted Penn State was headline-grabbing, 14 people arrested for turnity pledges allegedly helping process cocaine sold at campus parties. But federal research shows cocaine use among college-age americans has actually been dropping fast. Megan Patrick at the University of Michigan is one of the co-authors of an annual report
studying substance use. There's been a decrease over the past five years in cocaine use among young adults in the U.S. The prevalence overall is about 5%. Alcohol use among college-age americans has also fallen, but federal research shows about
half of young adults still drink. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism estimates that as many as 1500 college students die each year from causes linked to alcohol, Brian Mantelz and PR News. Health officials in Pennsylvania are reporting the first measles related deaths in the United States this year.
They say the two patients were not vaccinated. They lived in Lancaster County. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said there are 277 measles cases in the country as of a few days ago. Earlier this summer, the number of cases surpassed last year's count, making this the worst
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