Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant says the U.S. is pressuring every country to cut economic
ties with Iran.
“It's part of a new round of economic pressure tactics as negotiations to end the war”
stall. NPR's Emily Feng has more. The U.S. already has extensive sanctions on Iran itself. Bessant says this round of economic pressure tactics targets other countries that help Iran ship its oil exports out, move its money around, or host entities that assist Iran's
Iran. Any entity that facilitates money laundering on behalf of Iran will be removed from the U.S. dollar system, the clock just started ticking. Bessant said the United Arab Emirates, which historically has been a major hub for Iranian
money and trade, had cut trade ties with Iran earlier this month already under U.S.
pressure, and that the U.S. is contacting officials and countries around the world to do the same. Emily Feng and Pierre News Washington. The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to begin implementing President Trump's
“executive order that restricts mail invoiting ahead of the midterm elections.”
However, a separate but related injunction by a lower court stops the U.S. postal service from implementing parts of the executive order for now. The blocked provision calls for the postal service to get lists of eligible voters, from states and send ballots only to people on those lists. Edward Yonka is with the ACLU of Illinois.
We have the fundamental constitutional concern that there is no role for the United States postal service in the management and oversight of our elections. The Supreme Court's majority emphasized its ruling doesn't mean Trump's executive order is lawful, instead the court said it's too soon to consider whether the states that filed suit have been harmed because the order hasn't been carried out yet.
When her just sent justice, Katanji Brown Jackson accused the majority of injecting chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming elections. The postal service is a financial supporter of NPR. Republican voters in South Carolina will choose their nominee for Senate today in a special
“primary runoff after the death of Senator Lindsey Graham.”
South Carolina Public Radio's Lewis Alfredo Garcia reports. South Carolina Republicans have generally been split between Senator Darlene Graham and Congressman Ralph Norman. There's been just a single one on one debates and people have been flooded with campaign mail and text messages.
For Lilia Anne Briggs, it comes down to familiarity. She voted for Norman in the primary and said she would again in a runoff. Graham has no experience in elected politics outside of a recent appointment to the U.S. Senate. But she has President Trump's endorsement. His super PAC MAGA ink spent some $800,000 on get out the vote calls and texts for
Graham. For NPR news, I'm Lewis Alfredo Garcia in Columbia, South Carolina. This is NPR news from Washington. The Canadian government is set to announce retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. today. Tension between the trading partner partners has been high in recent days.
President Trump imposed new 50% tariffs on billions of dollars worth of Canadian imports on Saturday after trade talks collapsed. Trump also threatened new 50% tariffs on vehicles, auto parts and steel from Canada starting next year. The two countries share one of the world's largest trade relationships.
A new study of former NFL players who died recently finds that at least a quarter of them had the neurodegenerative condition known as CTE. The research from Mass General Brigham is the newest attempt to estimate the prevalence of CTE among football players. NPR's Becky Sullivan has more.
For years former NFL players in their families have been donating their brains to researchers to see whether they had chronic traumatic and cephalopathy or CTE. That means most research has something of a sample bias, as many samples came from people with symptoms of brain disease, like mood swings or memory loss. The new study essentially sought to find a denominator.
Researchers countered up every player who'd appeared at least one NFL game any time since 1949, then focused on those two died between 2016 and 2021. With more than 200 donated brains, already definitively diagnosed with CTE, that set a minimum prevalence of about 25%, and a statement the NFL told NPR the league quote continuously strives to make the game a football safer, including by implementing strategies to reduce
concussions and head impacts. Becky Sullivan and PR News. I'm Kristen Wright and PR News from Washington. Support for NPR. For the past 25 years, a rare Pacific ecosystem has been undisturbed.
Now the Trump administration is opening nearby waters to commercial fish.
The Americans, fishermen, have never had a better ally in the White House than Donald Trump.
This week on the Sunday Story, we discuss what's at stake for this wild ecosystem.
