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What are the EU‑U.S. tariff threats and how might they affect transatlantic trade?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. The European Union is warning President Trump that the bloc is ready to hit back against his plan to impose thirty percent tariffs on EU imports. From Brussels, Terry Schultz reports EU officials still hope to make a deal with the White House before the new taxes are due to take effect on
August first. EU and US officials have been negotiating for months but have not come up with a solution to Trump's deep dissatisfaction with the trade imbalance in Europe's favor. EU Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen says she's still ready to continue working toward an agreement by August first, because she says in a statement the threatened measures would disrupt essential transatlantic supply chains to the detriment of businesses, consumers, and patients on both sides of the Atlantic. But she emphasizes that Brussels will take all necessary steps to safeguard EU interests, including the adoption of proportionate countermeasures if required. The EU has drawn up lists of US goods that will be hit with tariffs once the US imposes them on Europe.
For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
How did a federal judge rule on the Los Angeles immigration sweep and what does it mean for civil rights?
Meanwhile, Trump is also threatening a thirty percent tariff on goods imported from Mexico starting august first, saying that country hasn't done enough to stop fentanyl at the border. A federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered the Trump administration to stop immigration sweeps where federal agents are rounding up people for deportation indiscriminately. As MPR's Adrian Florido reports, the ruling came after the ACLU and other groups sued.
The lawsuit alleges that federal agents in Southern California have been stopping and arresting people based on the color of their skin, their accents, or because they're doing work commonly done by immigrants. In her ruling, US District Court Judge Mame Ewesu Mensa Frimpong said there's a mountain of evidence that agents are arresting people illegally. Mark Rosenbaum is a lawyer with public counsel.
It is a complete repudiation.
What is the current status of the search for missing flood victims in Central Texas?
of the racial profiling tactics and I think it means that the rule of law is back in Los Angeles. The
Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman criticized the judge, saying she's undermining the will of the American people. Adrian Flarido and Pierre News, Los Angeles.
In Central Texas, the search for more than one hundred seventy people still missing since the catastrophic flash flooding is now in its second week. As more than two thousand professional and volunteer searchers from around the country and Mexico comb the challenging banks of the Guadalupe River. Greg Frolik is on a search team there and describes what he sees.
A lot of kids float it.
How did environmental groups stop a proposed strip‑mine near Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp?
So, you know, you're walking by it and it's like you know, you try to think about like try to backtrack where that piece of clothing came from and you know where it came from. Yeah. The kids can't.
And more rain is expected in the region. The National Weather Service has issued flash flood warnings in parts of the state and also flash flood watches. and advisories. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Environmental groups in Georgia are celebrating a big win after years of fighting a proposed strip mine next to one of the largest protected swamps in the US.
Why is Walmart recalling 800,000 stainless‑steel water bottles and what are the safety risks?
Marissa Mackie from Member Station WABE has more.
A six-year-long fight is coming to an end as the Conservation Fund, a national nonprofit, finalizes a sixty million dollar purchase of about eight thousand acres near the Okie Fanoki swamp. Alabama based Twin Pines Minerals, owned the ridge next to the swamp and applied for permits with the State of Georgia in twenty nineteen to mine titanium dioxide, a whitening pigment used in paints and foods. Scientists argue digging into the ridge along the swamp would lower the already very shallow water levels and dry up fire prone areas. The sale is set to be completed july thirty first. For NPR News, I'm Marissa Meki in Atlanta, Georgia.
Walmart is recalling more than eight hundred thousand stainless steel water bottles because the lids can forcefully pop off and possibly hit consumers.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are the EU‑U.S. tariff threats and how might they affect transatlantic trade?
0:00–1:05
2
How did a federal judge rule on the Los Angeles immigration sweep and what does it mean for civil rights?
1:05–1:58
3
What is the current status of the search for missing flood victims in Central Texas?
1:58–2:34
4
How did environmental groups stop a proposed strip‑mine near Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp?
2:34–3:11
5
Why is Walmart recalling 800,000 stainless‑steel water bottles and what are the safety risks?
3:11–4:38