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"Can it as removing U.S. seafood from its list of retaliatory tariffs against its

southern neighbor, after hearing from a number of industry officials worried about the economic

hit to commercial seafood and fishing sectors?" "Can it as levies are said to take effect early next month during a period when Canada typically buys roughly half of the main lobster." Canada moved forward with tariffs after talks, collapse and President Trump imposed 50% tariffs

on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods.

"We deal with a lot of people and people often times, they'll ask me, who's the worst to deal with on trade?" "And I said, "That's easy, Canada. They have the worst of trade." "And they feel entitled, and just we can't have that."

Trump addressing the dispute as he signed an order in which the U.S. government now refers to Lake Ontario as Lake America.

Meanwhile in a statement, Maine, senators, Susan Collins, thanks, Canada, and called for

resumption of trade negotiations. Collins is in a tough race for reelection to see Democrats hope to flip in November.

A nice agent who had been accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant in northern Minneapolis

has been released from jail in southern Texas where he had been awaiting extradition to Minnesota. He's some public media's anti-Sanider has elated. Thursday marked the maximum amount of time, ice agent Christian Castro could be held in jail while waiting for Texas Governor Greg Abbott to decide whether to sign Minnesota's extradition

warrant. Here's Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty. "I am told that Governor Abbott claims to be tough on crime. How exactly is he tough on crime by manipulating an extradition process that is supposed to be administrative?"

The attorneys for Minnesota had sought to extend Castro's detention calling him a flight

risk. A spokesperson for Abbott said the judge's refusal rebuffed Minnesota's efforts to conscript federal courts into commandeering the authority of Governor Abbott's office. "I'm Andrew Schneider in Houston." The State Department says 90 Americans are now unaccounted for after devastating floods

in Nepal and Tibet and Pierce Michelle Kellerman reports so far three Americans have been rescued. The Department has been reaching out to the Nepalese and Chinese government and after a request from Nepal, the U.S. is sending a disaster response advisor there to support rescue efforts. So far, the U.S. has announced $500,000 in assistance through Catholic relief services, but

that number is likely to rise. The Trump administration dismantled the lead U.S. aid agency last year. The Department has set up call centers and is urging Americans to be in touch with U.S. embassies. The United Nations says it's also mobilizing supplies and humanitarian teams and says Nepal has mobilized more than 30,000 security personnel to help rescue survivors.

Michelle Kellerman and PR News, Washington. This is NPR News. Racco Malatech, the Bosnian Serb commander known as the butcher of Bosnia, has died at the age of 84 while serving a life sentence in the hate according to Serbian and Bosnia's Serb TV. Malatech was convicted of genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes for atrocities

committed during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, including the Shreverneetsev massacre. New research in the journal's science sheds light on the biology behind profound autism. And PR's ping-wong reports it offers hope for new treatments. Hundreds of different genes are implicated. But researchers at UC San Francisco have found that many of these high-risk genes code for proteins that tend to interact on a limited number of processes. They've published a map

of more than 1,800 protein interactions associated with these genes, offering insights on how they affect brain development and new targets for treatments. Allison Singer is president of the Autism Science Foundation. She has a child with severe cognitive impairment. For families of people with profound autism, like mine. This is the kind of scientific advance that we have been waiting for and praying for. Singer says there's much

work to be done to develop treatments, but this paper makes the path more clear. Ping-wong and PR News. Hundreds of people in Oslo have been holding vigil for Europe's oldest living monarch. Norway's royal court says King Harald, who is 89 years old, is hospitalized in very serious condition. The palace's family members have gathered for several hours at his bedside. This is NPR. Fall is right around the corner. That means the midterms. Hey, it's Miles Parks from the

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