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\n Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks about the trade dispute with the United States at the Davie Shipyard in Levis, Quebec, Canada.<\/p>\n
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Following a Supreme Court decision that cleared the way, a federal judge lifted a nationwide block<\/a> on President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order that limited mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections.<\/p>\n A historic drought in the northwestern United States is supercharging what\u2019s on track to already be a historic wildfire season.<\/a><\/p>\n And reporting from The Wall Street Journal indicated that Trump intervened at the Department of Justice<\/a> as the agency was preparing to sue Live Nation, the world\u2019s largest concert promoter.<\/p>\n And, in global news, this week, President Donald Trump imposed 50% tariffs on Canadian imports,<\/a> prompting Ottawa to retaliate with tariffs of its own. <\/a>\u00a0Canada and the U.S. exchanged about 872 billion dollars in goods and services in 2025.<\/p>\n Friday marks six months since the start of the U.S. war with Iran. This week Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent issued a warning to foreign governments and companies saying they could lose access to the U.S. financial system if they continue doing business with Tehran. President Trump said he\u2019s not in a hurry to return to the negotiating table.<\/a><\/p>\n And a catastrophic flood at the border between Nepal and China killed at least 400 people, with thousands more still missing.<\/a><\/p>\n We cover the most important stories from around the world in the News Roundup.<\/p>\n Find more of our programs online<\/a>. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by signing up for 1A+ at <\/a>plus.npr.org\/the1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks about the trade dispute with the United States at the Davie Shipyard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,85,46],"class_list":["post-599143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}