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war.
“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 levees today, Prime Minister Mark Carney's government responded, and appears Emily Fang reports.
Canada's tariffs range from 15 to 50 percent, 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 levees on Canadian steel in aluminum. This week, President Trump also threatened to raise tariffs on Canadian cars and auto-parts to 50 percent 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. President Trump also floated the idea of renaming Lake Ontario to become Lake America amid
the trade war.
“The President has wide latitude over how geographic markers are recognized by the U.S.”
government, but he has no legal authority to impose his decisions on other countries or international bodies. Ice arrested nearly 50,000 people in July, and that's the highest single month total during
the second Trump administration.
The increase began in June and accelerated in July with less public exposure than during the first year of President Trump's second term. Texas and Florida accounted for nearly 20,000 of the July arrests. Republican voters in South Carolina are selecting their nominee for U.S. Senate today, more than a month after Republican Senator Lindsey Graham died.
South Carolina Public Radio's Lewis Alfredo Garcia reports today's vote is a test of President Trump's endorsement power in the state. 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 Lila Anne Briggs, it comes down to familiarity. She voted for Norman in the primary and said she would again in a runoff. I actually went to the hospital with a candidate I voted for. 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. American's confidence in the economy declined this month as the Iran war has kept gas prices
elevated more than $4 a gallon. It's the lowest level in seven months, but essentially in the same lukewarm range, it's been since the beginning of the year. Still prices fall again today, helping ease worries in the bond market and supporting stock prices.
It's NPR News. A federal judge has rejected claims by could lend Maxwell that new evidence has emerged that should grant her freedom following her sex trafficking conviction. The judge said that the claims by Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend and accomplice were based on quote speculation, distortions, and/or outright falsehoods.
A new study of former NFL players finds that at least a quarter of athletes who died within a five-year period had the neuro-degenerative condition CTE, and PR's Becky Sullivan reports the research from mass-general Brigham is the most comprehensive attempt to understand CTE's prevalence. 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 anytime 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 percent. In a statement, the NFL told NPR the lead quote continuously strives to make the game a football safer, including by implementing strategies to reduce concussions and head impacts.
The 65th German Finger Wrestling Championships took place over the weekend, competitors sit on opposite sides of a table and link their middle fingers with a leather loop, Ferdinand Sites won the Senior Tournament, he told Euro News it was excruciating. This is NPR News from Washington. Fall is right around the corner.
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