Building Resilience in Farming and Life - A Journey Through Tough Challenges
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump says he realizes that U.S. consumers could be hurt by the steep tariffs he announced yesterday on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China.
We may have short-term little pain, and people understand that, but long-term, the United States has been ripped off by virtually every country in the world. We have deficits with almost every country. Not every country, but almost.
Speaking there, as he arrived back at the White House tonight from his home in Florida, all three countries have vowed to retaliate. Those tariffs are set to take effect on Tuesday. And U.S. business groups aren't happy, and they're pushing back, as NPR's Scott Horsley reports.
President Trump says he's ordering the tariffs in an effort to curb the flow of illegal drugs and immigration. But the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says while Trump is right to focus on those problems, tariffs are not the answer. The chamber says taxing imports will only upend supply chains and raise prices for American families. Trump has ordered a 25% tax on most goods coming from Mexico and Canada, but he called for a smaller 10% tax on Canadian crude oil. in an apparent effort to limit any spike in gasoline prices. The tariff on Chinese imports is also set at 10 percent. All the taxes are set to take effect on Tuesday, leaving a short window for a possible reprieve. Canada and Mexico have promised to respond to tariffs with taxes of their own on U.S. exports. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
News of the tariffs and retaliation has sent U.S. stock futures sharply lower. Dow futures are down 1.1 percent. Nasdaq futures are down 2.2 percent. Secretary of State Marco Rubio kicked off his first trip as Trump's top diplomat with a stop in Panama. And he visited the canal, which Trump wants back. Empire's Michelle Kellerman has more. Secretary, it's Chinese. One question, please.
Secretary Rubio did not answer any questions as he toured the Miraflores Lock at the Panama Canal. He met earlier in the day with Panama's president and, according to a written statement, told him that Trump thinks the status quo is unacceptable. The U.S. has been raising concerns about China's influence and argues that violates a treaty on neutrality. Panama's president, José Raúl Molino, told reporters that his country has been auditing Chinese businesses, but he says Panama's sovereignty over the canal is not up for discussion. Trade and migration will dominate much of Rubio's trip, which continues in El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Panama City.
After a nearly week-long freeze, the National Science Foundation says it will resume paying researchers who had received grants. That left hundreds of people unable to access their funds allocated for salaries and research since last Tuesday when the agency froze payments as they reviewed how their grants complied with President Trump's new executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion. This is NPR. A new analysis shows U.S. death row populations are declining to historic lows. But as George Hale from member station WFIU reports, it's not because more people are being executed.
The Death Penalty Policy Project reviewed 50 years of data and found that U.S. death rows shrank more last year than in any other period in decades. Two mass clemency decisions in 2024, including former President Biden's decision to commute most federal death sentences to life in prison, contributed. But Project Director Robert Dunham says many more prisoners are coming off death rows after courts overturned their death sentences.
That is the main driver in the decline in capital punishment.
As a result, Dunham says, new death sentences are no longer replenishing death row populations, even as executions, too, are happening less often. The few places where the decline isn't quite as stark include Florida and Alabama, which allow non-unanimous juries to impose death sentences. For NPR News, I'm George Hale in Bloomington, Indiana.
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