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The U.S. trade war with Canada is ratcheting up, and Pierre Scott Horsley reports on how that's affecting cross-border commerce.
“As promised, Canada imposed tariffs this morning on some $20 billion worth of U.S. goods,”
including appliances, motorcycles, and dairy products, the import levees are in retaliation for tariffs that President Trump imposed on Canadian products two weeks ago. For decades, the U.S. and Canada shared a free trade agreement, which was renewed during
Trump's first term as President, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney complains the U.S. signature
is often written in pencil. Scott Horsley, in Pierre News, Washington. Polling locations in Nashville and Manchester, New Hampshire are expecting an unknown number of election observers from the Justice Department during today's primaries. New Hampshire Public Radio reports that local voting officials say they do not anticipate
an impact on voters or on ballot counting. The Trump administration recently lost a legal battle to access New Hampshire's non-Public voter roles. President Trump has promoted unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.
“His administration's latest actions are part of a nationwide campaign to expose what it”
believes could be election-related violations. Smith-Sony and Secretary Lottie Bunch says he plans to step down at the end of the year in a statement Bunch wrote that he leaves the post with, quote, "mixed emotions." And Pierre's Andrew Limbong reports he institution has often been a target of President Trump.
Sony and institution includes dozens of museums, libraries, research centers, and the national zoo, and Lonnie Bunch has been its head since 2019. Recently, Trump has levy criticisms against the institution, saying it promotes a radical ideology and engages in "extreme political activism." While Bunch has been fairly reticent to push back against Trump in public, he recently wrote
in an email to staffers obtained by MPR, quote, "Our work is driven by scholarship, accuracy, and an uncompromising commitment to tell the fullness of America's story." The board in charge of the Smithsonian has yet to name an acting secretary, but has announced
“a national search for Bunch's successor.”
Andrew Limbong and Pierre News. Russia is attacking Ukraine again following a three-day pause during which White House on-boys see Wittkoff and Jared Kushner travel to both countries for peace stocks. We have the latest from NPR's Charles Mains. Just hours after Wittkoff and Kushner departed Kiev, Russian ballistic missiles and drones
strained down on the city, President Trump's on-boys made no immediate breakthrough on
their aim of negotiating an end to the war. Russia's defense ministry said its forces destroyed several sites related to Ukraine's military industrial complex, but several residential buildings were also hit. Meanwhile, fighting continued elsewhere, including Ukrainian drone attacks that left six people dead across Russia, Trump, that suggested his on-boys presented both sides with
new U.S. proposals for peace, yet thus far the Kremlin has only allowed it wouldn't rule out future trilateral talks with the U.S. and Ukraine at some point. Charles Mains and Pierre News, Moscow. You're listening to NPR News. Patrick Clancy, whose ex-wife was on trial for killing her three young children in 2023,
is threatening legal action over what he says or falsehood spreading about him online. His attorney, Howard Cooper, issued a statement saying, "Law enforcement has been notified. Nancy's former wife, Lindsay Clancy, saw her case end in a mistrial last Friday. Juris were unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether to hold her criminally responsible. The defense argued she suffered from postpartum psychosis.
The prosecution said Clancy knew what she was doing." A new study from Pew Research Fines, more than four in 10 Americans say that Muslims are having a negative effect on the U.S. And Pierre's Jason DuRose reports the study examines data collected over the past 25 years. Pew Research Fines that views on Islam are now more negative and more partisan than
shortly after 9/11. In 2026, just over half of those surveys said Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence. In 2002, that number was just 25%. More than 3/4 of Republicans this year say the religion promotes violence, whereas fewer
than 1/3 believed that was the case shortly after 9/11. Pew also found that about six in 10 American Muslims say there's a lot of discrimination
against their communities, while just over a third, say someone has expressed support for
them in the past year because of their religion. Jason DuRose and Pierre News I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News. Go inside the stories from then that shape the world we live in now, find NPR through line wherever you get your podcasts.
