Live from NPR News in Washington, on Ryland Barton.
Country music legend Dolly Barton has died, she was 80 years old, the towering singer-songwriter
“actress and businesswoman was also a powerful advocate for literacy.”
Through her imagination library, kids five and younger can receive a free book each month, and PR's Andrew Limbong has more on the program's legacy. "Hello, kiddies! You want me to read a book to you?" This is Dolly Barton, at an event
at the Library of Congress celebrating the imagination library sending out 100 million books.
That was back in 2018, now that number is over 330 million. The program started small in 1995, covering Barton's home county in East Tennessee, Barton has said that she was inspired by her father, who couldn't read or write. Since then, the imagination library has collaborated with local nonprofits and governments to expand access across the country, and beyond to, including Canada, the UK, Ireland,
and Australia. At that library of Congress events, she said that her goal was to deliver
“one billion books to kids. Angela Bung and Pyrenees”
The U.S. stock market largely shrugged off a sweeping set of tariffs imposed by Canada on American products today, as NPR's Raphael Nam reports the retaliatory tariffs may not have a huge economic effect, but they could take a toll. The tariffs imposed by Canada ranged from 15% to 50% and many American products, including
steel, aluminum, as well as washers and dryers. Overall, about $20 billion worth of American
imports will come under Canadian tariffs or about 700 products. Canada's tariffs had been expected, and most economists still believe the ongoing trade war would likely hit harder for businesses north of the border, so investors in Wall Street did not react too much, but concerns will mount if the trade dispute escalates. Tarves are a tax and imports which creates uncertainty for businesses and can be inflationary for consumers, Raphael Nam in PR
News. As many as 200,000 foreign national seeking asylum in the U.S. could lose their visas, it's part of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration and PR's Michelle Kalman reports. State Department spokesperson Tommy Piggit says that 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. Piggit calls it an ongoing process with dynamic numbers, Michelle Kalman and PR News Washington. Oil prices fell again today. It's NPR. Two unvaccinated people have died from measles in Pennsylvania. They're the first measles related deaths in the U.S. this year after three last year. The U.S. is experiencing
its worst measles year since 1991 with 2,777 cases reported. The vaccination rates have dropped
below the 95 percent mark that public health experts say is needed to prevent outbreaks
with exemptions rising at an all-time high among kindergartners. The Department of Health and Human Services is developing a national alert system for missing people with autism and PR's Genaki meta reports. Children with autism are an elevated risk of wandering or running away and they can be at 160 times higher risk of drowning than other children. And recognition of autism is on the rise according to the CDC, which says one in 31 kids
age 8 has been diagnosed with it. Now, HHS says it's working on an alert system, similar to Amber Alerts, to improve coordination between first responders, law enforcement, and community members when a person with autism goes missing. HHS also said it will establish best practices to address preventable injury and death among people with autism. It's not yet clear exactly when the alert system will be rolled out, but HHS says it will work
with the Justice Department and FEMA in addition to state and local partners to develop it. Genaki meta and PR news. Guinness World Records has recognized a cat from Wisconsin for not only having nine lives, but twenty nine toes, main cone cats like Arabis and Amelie are often polydactyl, the genetic trait that causes some cats to be born with extra toes, it's NPR. Fall is right around the corner. That means the midterms. Hey, it's Miles Parks from the
NPR Politics podcast. Now is the perfect time to calibrate your news diet for the fall.
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