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Canada is retaliating against President Trump's latest tariffs with new duties on nearly $20 billion worth of American imports.
“The measures are set to take effect in two weeks as the trade dispute between the long-time”
allies' deepens. And PR's, Stephen Bassaha reports, the bigger economic risk comes if both countries start targeting more important exports. $20 billion won't have a huge impact on the U.S. economy, Canada will fill up more because they're economy's little smaller.
They're not really getting the pain points yet, but goods they're targeting. But the trade war ratchets up and brings in other goods like American cars or Canadian oil, that could have a bigger effect. But for businesses who've been dealing with a year and a half of tariff ups and downs now, this is still a lot of uncertainty.
NPR's, Stephen Bassaha, reporting. Canada backed by President Trump won the Republican runoff in Oklahoma on Tuesday with voters choosing their nominee for governor in a tight race. Grayson Wheeler, with member station KOSU reports the contest now moves to November, with
“Democrats looking to win back the office for the first time since 2011.”
As the council's flowed in, former state senator Mike Mezzi and current Oklahoma Attorney
General Gettner Drummond were never more than a few points apart.
The difference came down to around 2,000 votes. In the end, Mezzi won, according to a race call by the Associated Press. "And thanks of course to President Donald J. Trump for helping us across the finish line." Mezzi pulled an endorsement from Trump ahead of the June primary, bolstering him in a crowded field.
Drummond has drawn the president's eyeer, most recently for trying to halt construction on a controversial Trump back to aluminum smelter. Mezzi will face Democrats in the months and three independent candidates in November. For MPR News, I'm Grayson Wheeler in Oklahoma City. The head of Instagram took the stand on Monday and a federal trial, hitting four states
against Mezzi. Rachel Myro from member station KQED reports the company is accused of designing Facebook and Instagram to hope children and then lied about it. CEO Adam Maseri spent his first hour on the stand answering for internal chats in which Instagram safety staff discussed scruping presentations before executive saw them.
One chat cited litigation risk for Maseri specifically. Asked whether lawyers were view documents before they reach him, "Maseri said he wouldn't be surprised," quote, "a lot of people see documents before they come to me."
And he also said he's never asked anyone to bring him less information.
This is the first of thousands of lawsuits in this litigation to go to trial. The state's claim met a collected data from children under 13 and lied about how safe its products are for kids. For MPR News, I'm Rachel Myro in Oakland. This is NPR.
Health officials in Pennsylvania say two residents and Lancaster County have died after being infected with measles. Neither were vaccinated. Vaccination rates have fallen below the roughly 95% level needed to prevent outbreaks in the U.S. while vaccine exemptions among kids have reached a record high.
According to the CDC during the 2025-26 school year, vaccination coverage among children and kindergarten in the U.S. decrease for all reported vaccines from the year before. Three people died from measles in the U.S. last year. A federal judge has found the U.S. Postal Service violated a court order blocking it from carrying out President Trump's order to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm elections.
His NPR-Sonsi Lowong reports the fight is not over. These Supreme Court handed President Trump a temporary win this week by pausing one of the rulings blocking the U.S. Postal Service from carrying out his directives in about half of the states. But the high court did not pause a nationwide block on work by U.S. P.S.
Now a federal judge in Boston has found that U.S. P.S. violated that block by releasing last week a finalized plan for delivering mail-in ballots only to people on voter lists that the states would have to turn over to the mailing agency. We should note U.S. P.S. P.S. is financial supporter of NPR. This legal fight is now heading towards what may end up being its final phase.
Voting rights and democratic groups are making requests for new court orders that block the postal services finalized plan. And with a start of mail-in voting for the midterm elections weeks away, there may not be time for Trump's order to be fully carried out. On Z. LeWong NPR News, I'm Windsor Johnston NPR News in Washington.
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