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What trade deal did President Trump announce with the European Union?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump says he's reached a trade deal with the European Union less than a week before his self imposed deadline of august first impairs Elena Moore.
Reports. The deal puts a 15% tariff on EU exports to the U.S. That's a drop from a few weeks earlier when Trump threatened to make it 30%. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Trump said the deal excludes steel, aluminum, and pharmaceuticals. He also said that no tariffs would be placed on U.S. imports into the EU, and that the EU would purchase $750 billion worth of U.S. US energy and invest six hundred billion into the country.
This is the big one. This is the biggest of them all.
The EU is one of the US's largest trading partners. Dozens of other countries have also received new proposed tariff rates from the White House, but just a handful have formally announced deals. Elena Moore, NPR News.
How are Israel and Jordan delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza?
Israel and Jordan have carried out airdrops of food over the Gaza Strip. This follows international condemnation of aid restrictions that have caused starvation in Gaza, and Pierce Daniel Estran reports.
Jordan, in partnership with the United Arab Emirates, says it carried out airdrops of twenty-five tons of food over the skies of Gaza, dropping food for Palestinians. The Israeli Air Force also carried out airdrops of flour, sugar, and canned food. The UN World Food Program also welcomed a new Israeli announcement that Israel would create secure routes for aid trucks entering Gaza. The WFP says a third of Gaza's population was not eating for days, and that it has enough food in or on its way to Gaza to feed Gaza's whole population for about three months.
On Gaza, carrying food and other supplies. Israel said it was bringing the boat to shore. Daniel Estran, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
College business officers say the financial threats facing their schools are getting worse. From Member Station GBH in Boston, Kirk Carapeza has more.
With cuts to federal research funding and growing pressure on foreign student visas, just forty-three percent of college business officers expect their school's finances to improve over the next year. That's down from 56% in last year's survey from the site Inside Higher Ed.
Are we in a higher education recession? At this point we likely are.
Robert Kelchin teaches higher ed policy at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
We've had longstanding issues with
Why are college business officers warning of a higher‑education recession?
A decline in overall college enrollment, but now we're seeing pressures to any federal funding.
Colleges also worry many international students may not make it to campus this fall, another potential blow to their budgets. For NPR News, I'm Kurt Carapesa in Boston.
And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Cyber hackers have accessed the personal data of most of the one point four million customers of Alliance Life. The insurance company says the breach happened on july sixteenth and that a quote malicious threat actor accessed a third party cloud based system, but not its own systems. It also says the breach only affects Alliance Life in the US and not its other companies. The world's most influential part time musical satirist has died. Tom Lehrer was ninety seven years old. When he wasn't teaching college level math, he was sitting at a piano, making people laugh and worrying about the world. His targets included politics, nuclear destruction, and social harmony among others.
Art Silverman has this appreciation.
Back in the 1950s, Lara was at Harvard University. He started performing satirical songs on the side. In 1953, he recorded an album of his music.
What details emerged about the Alliance Life data breach?
SMUT! Give me smut and nothing but
In the 1960s, Lera recorded an album of more songs called That Was the Year That Was.
First we got the bomb, and that was good, because we love peace and motherhood. And
then he
just stopped. He told NPR why in 1997. I used to laugh more, now I get angry, and it's very hard to be funny, let's say, and angry at the same time. In 2020, Lera announced on his website that he was.
Surrendering all copyright claims to his material.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What trade deal did President Trump announce with the European Union?
0:00–0:59
2
How are Israel and Jordan delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza?
0:59–2:37
3
Why are college business officers warning of a higher‑education recession?
2:37–3:56
4
What details emerged about the Alliance Life data breach?
3:56–4:35
5
Who was Tom Lehrer and why is his death significant to music satire?
4:35–4:39