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What recent actions did House lawmakers take regarding President Trump's tariffs?
In a rebuke to President Trump, House lawmakers voted Wednesday to strike down emergency tariffs on goods from Canada. The move is largely symbolic, as NPR's Scott Horsley reports.
Half a dozen Republican House members joined nearly all Democrats in voting to suspend President Trump's emergency declaration that provides the foundation for double-digit tariffs on goods from Canada. The vote has little practical effect since it was short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a likely presidential veto. But it does signal some GOP resistance to Trump's costly import taxes, as well as the limits of House Speaker Mike Johnson's ability to head off such votes. A more serious threat to Trump's tariffs could come from the Supreme Court, which is weighing a challenge to Trump's taxes on imports from around the world. under a statute that never uses the word tariff. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
Six Democratic lawmakers who participated in a video urging members of the military to refuse illegal orders say President Trump is wielding the Justice Department to attack his political enemies. That's after federal prosecutors tried and failed to secure a grand jury indictment against them. Here's NPR's Sam Greenglass.
The Congress members said in the video that no one has to follow orders that violate the Constitution. Trump called the message treasonous and federal prosecutors opened an investigation. Senator Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan says the grand jury upheld freedom of speech and the rule of law.
Yesterday, 20 anonymous Americans who we will never meet, who made up that grand jury, told us more about the values of America. than Jeanine Pirro or Pam Bondi or certainly this president.
Slotkin referring there to Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, whose office has not commented on the attempted indictments. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.
Attorney General Bondi was on Capitol Hill Wednesday for a combative hearing before lawmakers, Democrats repeated accusations at the Justice Department. being used to go after President Trump's perceived enemies. They also clashed over the Epstein files. An American speed skater who many expected to win gold at the Winter Olympics has come through in his first event in Milan. Here's Steve Futterman.
21-year-old Jordan Stolz had to come from behind, but that's exactly what he did to finish first and win gold in the men's 1,000-meter event. At the 600-meter mark, Stolz trailed by more than three-tenths of a second. He was able to overcome that with a blistering final 400 meters. His winning time of 1 minute 6.28 seconds set an Olympic record.
Finally to have the timing right and do it at the Olympics, that's something that takes a lot of planning, and I think I did it well.
Stolz, who has dominated in World Cup events, came here with a realistic chance to win four gold medals. His next race is the 500-meter event this weekend. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Milan.
This is NPR. The mayor of Ecuador's largest port city remains jailed. Prosecutors say the 41-year-old politician was arrested, along with 10 others allegedly involved in organized crime activities, as NPR's Kerry Kahn reports.
Achilles Alvarez was arrested along with two of his brothers and bundles of cash, computers, and other evidence were confiscated, according to prosecutors. Alvarez is also under investigation in a separate case for alleged illegal sales of subsidized gasoline. He was not wearing his court-ordered ankle monitoring device at the time of his arrest. Alvarez, who was elected mayor of Guayaquil two years ago, denies all charges. He's a member of the left-wing opposition party and a vocal critic of the current president's tough crime policies. Guayaquil, Ecuador's major commercial port, is also key in cocaine shipments from South America to the U.S. and Europe. Its murder rate has skyrocketed as rival local gangs and international crime cartels battle for control.
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