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tariffs today against the United States 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 said the 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, and 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. After the Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that some of President Trump's tariffs were illegal, tariff refunds have primarily been going to American businesses. And P. R. Stephen Bassaha reports shoppers are being left out of billions of dollars
“in tariff refunds, because few of those companies are passing along the money to their”
customers. The Taylor shared the cost of tariffs with consumers, mainly by raising prices. But the dean of Syracuse University's College of Law at Terrence Law, since retailers are not sharing the refund, because it's difficult to know how much more each shopper paid because of tariffs. It's like the retailer stirred the tax into the batter. So once it's copeless at a cake,
you can't just back it out, ingredient by ingredient anymore, because it's not separated. Shipping companies like UPS, DHL and FedEx are the exception here. They charge customers tear fees and are now in the process of returning those fees to customers. Walmart says it's sharing we funds through lower prices. Stephen Bassaha and PR news. The Trump administration celebrated its efforts to redefine education at a back-to-school
team-devent at the White House Rose Garden yesterday. President Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon took part in the event. And P. R. Jonaki Metha reports. President Trump kicked off his speech by touting his administration's efforts to ban transgender students from playing school sports and removing "far-left extremism" from the classroom. He also hailed what will soon become the first nationwide private school choice program.
"When year ago, as part of the Great Big Beautiful Bill, we passed the education, freedom tax credit, the largest ever expansion of school choice." 31 states have already opted into the program, which will go into effect next year. The President also praised Secretary McMahon for her efforts to dwindle down the operations of the Education Department, which has been a central goal of the Second Trump administration, Jonaki Metha and PR news.
The Delfutures were up 70 points. You're listening to NPR News. Nevada is suing the Trump administration over new rules that would cut the state's access to the Colorado River amid record low water levels, Paul Bogger, from Member Station KNPR as the story. 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 Nevada's legal right to 1.8% of the river water. John Ensminger oversees the Southern Nevada Water Authority. The current plan, put out by the federal government, puts the entire burden of adapting to climate change, adapting to having less water on only three of the seven states. So it's just completely unworkable.
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 Bogger and Reno. Prosecutors and Taiwan have charged nine people with illegally exporting high-end AI servers to China. One of those charged is from NVIDIA, while two others are from Supermicro. Authorities are seeking five-year sentences for four of the defendants, one of whom is a
manager at NVIDIA. In all, prosecutors say 74 servers were successfully sent to China, a separate attempt to ship 56 other servers was stopped. Advanced semiconductors primarily
“made in Taiwan have become a key point of competition between the U.S. and China.”
I'm Linda 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 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.
