Trump Unleashes More Tariff Threats And Four Big U.s. Storms In Less Than A Week: Morning Rundown

Donald Trump ramped up nan U.S. waste and acquisition warfare pinch Canada and threatened broad tariffs connected different countries. The president is group to sojourn Texas a week aft deadly floods successful nan state. And really an NBC News study connected liver harm helped a spectator admit her ain illness. Here’s what to cognize today.

Trump said he’s fresh to enforce broad tariffs and nonstop much weapons to Ukraine successful exclusive interview

President Donald Trump’s tariff fight moved guardant yesterday arsenic he escalated nan U.S. waste and acquisition warfare pinch Canada and said successful an exclusive question and reply that he plans to enforce broad tariffs connected astir waste and acquisition partners.

In a missive he shared to Truth Social, Trump said he would apply a 35% tariff to each imports from Canada and accused nan state of retaliating “instead of moving with” nan U.S. to travel to a deal. Until this escalation, Canadian imports that did not autumn nether nan U.S.-Mexico-Canada waste and acquisition agreement, which Trump negotiated successful his first term, faced a tariff of 25%. Energy imports from Canada faced tariffs of 10%.

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And successful an exclusive question and reply yesterday pinch NBC News’ “Meet nan Press” moderator Kristen Welker, Trump said he plans to enforce 15% to 20% tariffs connected astir waste and acquisition partners. He dismissed concerns that further tariffs could negatively impact nan banal marketplace aliases thrust inflation. “I deliberation nan tariffs person been very well-received,” Trump added.

So acold this week, Trump has publicized letters to 22 countries, not counting Canada, establishing tariff rates. The steepest complaint is 50% connected Brazilian imports. He besides announced a 50% tariff connected copper imports. Trump said nan European Union would besides beryllium receiving a letter.

In nan wide-ranging conversation, Trump besides addressed nan position of nan warfare betwixt Russia and Ukraine. Trump, who has expressed vexation toward Russian President Vladimir Putin, again echoed that sentiment and said he would person “a awesome connection to make connected Russia connected Monday,” though he didn’t elaborate. Trump besides said astir what he said was a caller woody betwixt nan U.S. and NATO to nonstop much weapons to Ukraine from nan U.S. — “and NATO is paying for those weapons, 100%.”

Less than a week aft signing his “big, beautiful bill” into law, Trump said he would recreation “a small bit” to waste nan monolithic home argumentation package to voters. “But honestly,” he said, “it’s been received truthful good I don’t deliberation I person to.”

Read nan afloat communicative here.

More authorities news:

• A national judge blocked Trump’s bid restricting birthright citizenship and granted nan lawsuit class-action position aft nan Supreme Court past period constricted judges’ abilities to artifact orders nationwide.

• Trump nominated Nick Adams, a right-wing influencer known for his bombastic “alpha male” posts, to beryllium nan adjacent U.S. ambassador to Malaysia.

• A astonishment ballot barring nan Trump management from moving nan FBI’s office to a caller location successful Washington, D.C., brought nan Senate appropriations process to a halt — a setback for lawmakers moving to avert a authorities shutdown astatine nan extremity of September.

• Dismissal notices for hundreds of U.S. diplomats successful Washington could deed inboxes arsenic soon arsenic today aft nan Supreme Court ruled this week that Trump’s plans to overhaul nan State Department could move forward.

• Democratic governors successful astatine slightest 5 states are considering typical sessions and much are nether unit to convene them successful consequence to nan expected financial fallout from Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”

• Texas authorities Sen. Angela Paxton said she has revenge for divorce from authorities Attorney General Ken Paxton “on biblical grounds” and “in ray of caller discoveries.”

U.S. sees 4 1-in-1,000-year floods successful little than a week

President Donald Trump is group to sojourn Kerrville, Texas, with first woman Melania Trump coming to meet pinch first responders and reappraisal harm from nan deadly flooding that deed nan region past weekend. At slightest 120 group person died and much than 170 group are missing, though search-and-rescue efforts person shifted to a betterment phase, officials said.

In his telephone telephone pinch “Meet nan Press” moderator Kristen Welker, Trump praised nan consequence to nan flood, saying “everyone’s doing a awesome job.” But, he said, “I would ideate you’d put alarms up successful immoderate form.” Trump’s management has faced backlash from local, authorities and national officials who based on that occupation cuts to nan National Weather Service and NOAA, on pinch plans to shutter FEMA, worsened nan storm’s impact.

The floods successful Texas were remarkable, pinch h2o levels on nan Guadalupe surging to almost 30 feet successful Hunt connected July 4. However, nan disaster was conscionable 1 of astatine slightest 4 1-in-1,000-year rainfall events crossed nan U.S. to hap complete nan people of a week.

Last Sunday, Tropical Storm Chantal caused extended flooding crossed nan cardinal information of North Carolina. In New Mexico connected Tuesday, astatine slightest 3 group were killed by devastating flash floods that swept done nan colony of Ruidoso. That aforesaid time successful Chicago, 5 inches of rainfall fell successful only 90 minutes complete Garfield Park, prompting aggregate rescues connected nan westbound broadside of nan city.

A 1-in-1,000-year flood refers to nan 0.1% probability that your location will acquisition specified an aggravated flood, 1 master explained. But that doesn’t mean a fewer of those events won’t hap each year, and ambiance alteration is besides apt to make them much common. Read nan afloat communicative here.

Trump admin escalates efforts to restrict gender-affirming care

The Justice Department said it has sent much than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics progressive successful “performing transgender aesculapian procedures connected children.” In its announcement Wednesday, nan DOJ did not specify what it considers “transgender aesculapian procedures” but said its investigations “include healthcare fraud, mendacious statements, and more.”

The announcement came nan aforesaid time that nan Federal Trade Commission held an all-day shop connected nan “dangers of gender-affirming care.” The arena featured much than a twelve speakers, including group who said they received attraction arsenic minors and now regret it, doctors and psychologists, and governmental scientists and lawyers. All of them criticized transgender wellness care, and galore said location is nary grounds to support modulation attraction arsenic a curen for gender dysphoria.

Meanwhile, activists and immoderate labor from wrong nan FTC criticized nan workshop, expressing concerns astir overreach by nan committee and nan imaginable breach of confidential doctor-patient consultations. Read nan afloat communicative here.

Read All About It

• Israel believes that astatine slightest immoderate of Iran’s highly enriched uranium was buried by U.S. strikes, a elder Israeli authorities charismatic said, adding that if Israel suspects Iran is trying to excavation up nan material, it will not hesitate to onslaught again.

• Mahmoud Khalil, nan caller Columbia University postgraduate student and pro-Palestinian activistic who was detained for months, filed a declare for $20 cardinal successful damages against nan Trump administration. Khalil said he would besides judge an apology.

• At slightest 25 group were taken to nan hospital aft an evident wide overdose arena successful Baltimore.

• Two caller K-pop groups are taking complete nan euphony charts — and they’ve ne'er moreover performed live.

• Amanda Anisimova will compete for nan women’s Grand Slam title astatine Wimbledon tomorrow, an improbable accomplishment successful itself because she temporarily near nan sport 2 years ago.

Staff Pick: An NBC News study helped her admit liver damage

A study published past twelvemonth recovered that 15 cardinal Americans return a definite type of supplement that could beryllium damaging to their liver. Some of nan apical liver researchers successful nan U.S. told america that arsenic much group return herbal and dietary supplements, doctors person been treating much cases of liver harm associated pinch them.

Our first conception connected “Nightly News” successful May featured an different patient 54-year-old man who knowledgeable liver harm linked to precocious doses of turmeric he was taking. That’s what sewage Katie Mohan’s attention.

Mohan had precocious started taking regular turmeric pills and realized she had nan aforesaid symptoms of tummy pain, nausea and fatigue. Her tegument had besides turned yellow, a hallmark motion of liver damage. She instantly sought aesculapian thief — and, it turns out, conscionable successful time. “Katie really was 1 measurement earlier afloat liver damage, liver failure, requiring liver transplant,” her expert said. Mohan past reached retired to NBC News to fto america cognize what happened, and we shared her acquisition successful a follow-up story. — Marina Kopf, subordinate producer

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