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Why is the EPA seeking to overturn its 2009 greenhouse‑gas finding?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Sang. The Environmental Protection Agency wants to overturn a key two thousand nine agency finding. That underpins much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change. The Trump administration argues that the EPA should not consider greenhouse gases to be air pollution. And then as a result, they can repeal strict rules on tailpipe emissions. And bears Camilla Dominowski has more.
Under former President Joe Biden, the EPA's tailpipe standards, specifically the rules around carbon emissions from cars, got strict enough that they'd push car makers to make a lot more electric vehicles. President Trump campaigned against EV mandates. His administration has already revoked California's ability to require electric vehicles and defanged fuel economy rules by bringing penalties down to zero. The EPA's Greenhouse House gas tailpipe rules are the last big regulation pushing car makers toward EVs, and EPA is proposing eliminating them. The proposal will now enter a period of public comment. Camila Dominofsky, NPR News.
Who was the Manhattan shooter and what factors may have driven the attack?
More information's emerging about the shooter who killed four people in Manhattan yesterday before turning the gun on himself. More from NPR Sarah Ventry.
The attacker has been identified as twenty-seven-year-old Shane Tomora of Las Vegas, once a star high school football player. New York City Mayor Eric Adams told MSNBC officers found a note with Tomorrow's body in which he mentioned CTE. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy it's a degenerative brain disorder that has been associated with aggression and suicidality and commonly affects football players.
We have reason to believe that he was focused on the NFL. Agency that was located in the building.
What is Ghislaine Maxwell asking the Supreme Court to do with her conviction?
Adams also said it appears the shooter took the wrong elevator, winding up at an asset management firm instead. CTE can only be diagnosed through an autopsy. Sarah Ventry N PR News, New York.
The late financier Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend and accomplice, Gulane Maxwell, is asking the Supreme Court to overturn her sex trafficking conviction. A top Justice Department official met with her near a Florida prison for roughly nine hours last week. Now Maxwell's attorneys are asking the High Court to take up their appeal of her New York prosecution. Public calls for transparency in the investigations into Epstein's sex abuse crimes against underage girls and his powerful connections are still dogging President Trump. As Trump returned home from a four day visit to Scotland, the president talked about Epstein on Air Force One. He said he had a falling out with Epstein for luring away employees from his spa at Mar a Lago.
What did President Trump claim about his past with Jeffrey Epstein on Air Force One?
When asked if the workers hired away were young women, they President Trump answered yes. The Dow is down two hundred twenty points, or roughly half a percent. This is NPR News. President Trump's hailing the latest US trade deal with the European Union. It calls for fifteen percent tariffs on EU goods, none for American goods. In Europe, NPR's Lauren Freyer has more on Trump's remarks.
The president says he's going to impose this new baseline tariff of fifteen to twenty percent on what he described as essentially the rest of the world, because he said, quote, you can't sit down and make two hundred different deals.
What are the key points of Trump’s new trade‑tariff plan for the European Union?
And this is for countries where Trump has not already specified higher tariffs. He set this Friday, August first, as a new tariff deadline for dozens of countries, including Canada and Mexico.
NPR's Lauren Fair reporting, details are still being worked out on that trade agreement. A Republican Congress member from Missouri has introduced legislation to officially change the name of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. To instead honor President Donald J. Trump. And Pierre's Netta Ullaby reports a bill may not have as much support in Congress as Trump hopes.
How is the legislation to rename the Kennedy Center after President Trump faring in Congress?
Renaming the Kennedy Center after the current president has been under discussion ever since Trump took over the organization's Board of Trustees in February. Republicans recently voted as part of the big beautiful bill to dedicate more than two hundred and fifty million dollars towards improving the modernist cream-colored building perched on the Potomac River that opened in nineteen seventy-one.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why is the EPA seeking to overturn its 2009 greenhouse‑gas finding?
0:01–1:08
2
Who was the Manhattan shooter and what factors may have driven the attack?
1:08–1:51
3
What is Ghislaine Maxwell asking the Supreme Court to do with her conviction?
1:51–2:46
4
What did President Trump claim about his past with Jeffrey Epstein on Air Force One?
2:46–3:23
5
What are the key points of Trump’s new trade‑tariff plan for the European Union?
3:23–3:56
6
How is the legislation to rename the Kennedy Center after President Trump faring in Congress?
3:56–4:39