Trump Reaches Tariff Deal With South Korea And Witkoff Addresses Gaza Crisis: Morning Rundown

Donald Trump has announced tariff rates for respective countries arsenic his Friday speech deadline nears. Pressure to reside nan humanitarian situation successful Gaza builds. And why immoderate states are passing laws requiring app stores to inquire for a user's age.

Here’s what to cognize today.

Trump announces tariff deals arsenic deadline approaches

President Donald Trump has announced last-minute waste and acquisition agreements pinch South Korea and Pakistan, conscionable a time earlier his Aug. 1 tariff deadline.

The president said South Korean imports would look a 15% tariff aft nan state made "an connection to bargain down" nan 25% work level he had antecedently set.

Trump said South Korea would springiness $350 cardinal "for investments owned and controlled by nan United States," and $100 cardinal of liquefied earthy state "or different power products." South Korean President Lee Jae-myung confirmed nan statement yesterday evening.

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This morning, nan United States and Pakistan said they had clinched a deal that Islamabad described arsenic starring to little tariffs connected its exports, while Trump trumpeted a pact to thief create nan South Asian nation’s lipid reserves. Neither mentioned nan tariff complaint agreed.

The president yesterday said imports from India look a hiked tariff complaint of 25%, on pinch an unspecified punishment for what he said was an over-reliance connected Russian power and subject equipment.

U.S. tariffs connected equipment from Brazil will beryllium raised from 50% to 90%, Trump said, arsenic his management sanctioned nan judge overseeing nan cases for erstwhile President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly plotting a coup.

Tomorrow marks a waste and acquisition speech deadline that Trump said “stands strong” and “will not beryllium extended,” months aft he initially threatened tariffs connected April 2, a time he deemed “Liberation Day.”

As tariff rates are paid by those importing equipment to nan U.S., higher tariffs make it astir definite that American households will salary higher prices for nan mundane equipment that are made overseas. American consumers look an effective tariff complaint of 18.2%, nan highest since 1934, translating to a nonaccomplishment of arsenic overmuch arsenic $2,400 per family successful 2025, according to nan Yale University Budget Lab.

Trump’s tariff scheme is headed to tribunal today, wherever a sheet of 11 judges successful New York will perceive arguments from nan administration, arsenic good arsenic 2 mini businesses that opportunity galore of his import duties are illegal. The businesses reason that Trump’s usage of nan International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 was forbidden and that he has “no authority to rumor across-the-board worldwide tariffs without legislature approval.” All of Trump’s tariffs connected awesome trading partners, including Canada, Mexico, and respective different countries, person been deployed utilizing nan law.

Meanwhile, nan Federal Reserve near its cardinal liking complaint unchanged, though 2 Trump-appointed committee officials dissented from nan decision, which has not occurred successful much than 3 decades. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that while nan system remains solid, it’s excessively early to show really tariffs will impact it.

Read nan afloat communicative here.

More authorities news:

• Former Vice President Kamala Harris will not tally for California governor, ending months of speculation.

• The family of Virginia Giuffre, a subsister of Jeffrey Epstein’s intersexual maltreatment who has since died, urged Trump not to see clemency of nan financier's co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.

• Texas Republicans released a projected legislature map that would springiness Republicans a way to gaining 5 seats successful adjacent year’s midterm elections.

• Federal authorities arrested an Ohio man successful relationship pinch a 90-second, expletive-laden voicemail threatening to termination Rep. Jim Jordan complete imaginable cuts to Medicaid.

Hunger successful Gaza reaches 'tipping point'

Experts and advocates opportunity nan hunger situation successful Gaza has reached a “tipping point,” pinch deaths expected to soar if Palestinians do not get urgent relief. And nan children who do past malnutrition will look lifelong consequences.

The “window to forestall wide decease is quickly closing, and for galore it’s already excessively late,” said Kiryn Lanning, elder head of emergencies of nan International Rescue Committee (IRC), a U.K.-based humanitarian organization. The World Health Organization warned that nan “health and well-being of an full early generation” was astatine stake.

Doctors and assistance workers wrong Gaza, themselves overworked and underfed, person been informing for months astir nan captious deficiency of nutrient and nan spiraling costs of nan small that was disposable owed to Israel’s violative and crippling assistance restrictions. They opportunity that their worst fears are coming to pass.

Trump’s typical envoy, Steve Witkoff, will recreation to Israel coming to reside nan humanitarian situation successful Gaza, a elder charismatic said, arsenic immoderate of nan president’s Republican friends and galore Democrats telephone connected him to grow nutrient assistance to nan enclave and put much unit connected nan Israeli authorities to scope a ceasefire deal. Witkoff pulled his negotiating squad from Doha, Qatar, past week aft he said nan latest consequence from Hamas showed “a deficiency of desire to scope a ceasefire.”

Witkoff’s travel to nan Middle East comes a time aft Canada said it plans to admit a Palestinian state successful September, joining nan U.K. and France successful making a symbolic announcement signaling a broader displacement against Israel’s policies. “The level of quality suffering successful Gaza is intolerable,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Caney said.

Trump has been much outspoken this week astir nan situation successful Gaza. Since Israel announced a “tactical pause” successful subject operations successful Gaza past weekend, much than 320 trucks of assistance person been collected and distributed by nan U.N. and different world organizations, and astatine slightest 260 trucks were successful Gaza, according to nan Israeli military. Read nan afloat communicative here.

How a Harvard inaugural studying nan Israeli-Palestinian conflict collapsed

Hussein Rashid, nan erstwhile adjunct dean for Religion and Public Life astatine Harvard Divinity School, successful New York City, connected July 15.Vanessa Leroy / NBC News; Suzanne Kreiter / Boston Globe via Getty Images

The Harvard Divinity School’s Religion and Public Life programme was launched 5 years agone pinch nan extremity of advancing nan “public knowing of belief successful work of a conscionable world astatine peace.” The programme ran yearly trips to Israel and nan occupied West Bank, a logic respective students said they joined nan school.

But nan travel and a related people connected nan Israeli-Palestinian conflict were put connected region successful March amid what nan schoolhouse described arsenic “substantial adjustments” to Religion and Public Life. All 3 of nan program’s leaders and astir of its unit person near aliases not had their contracts renewed amid soul and outer allegations of antisemitism against nan program. Religion and Public Life will proceed to run nether caller activity this fall, but pinch immense changes.

The program’s gutting comes astatine a captious time, erstwhile Harvard has been accused by nan Trump management of failing to guidelines retired antisemitism and threatened pinch a nonaccomplishment of national funding. However, nationalist scrutiny predates nan existent statesmanlike term.

Former module of nan program, speaking publically for nan first time, shed ray connected really it fell isolated — and what it could portend for nan early of free reside connected campuses. Read nan afloat communicative here.

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• A fishy was arrested successful nan sidesplitting of an Arkansas mates during a hike pinch their 2 young daughters astatine Devil's Den State Park.

• Twenty-five group were taken to hospitals aft a Delta formation headed from Utah to Amsterdam knowledgeable “significant turbulence” and had to onshore successful Minneapolis.

• The gunman who killed 4 group astatine a New York City agency building purchased an AR-15-style rifle utilized successful nan onslaught from a erstwhile co-worker for $1,400, sources said. Meanwhile, erstwhile classmates and a coach said nan fishy was erstwhile a “disciplined” athlete.

• A man poured gasoline connected a Virginia metropolis councilmember and group him connected occurrence successful an onslaught that constabulary said “stems from a individual matter.”

• A type of HPV regularly recovered connected nan tegument was recently identified arsenic a origin of tegument cancer, according to a caller report.

Staff Pick: Why Apple aliases Google whitethorn soon inquire your age

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Kids’ information online has gotten a batch of attraction recently. There has been a legislature statement complete legislation, authorities laws astir societal media property limits and a Supreme Court ruling connected property checks for pornographic websites. But successful speaking pinch sources, I heard astir an under-the-radar trend: nan thought of putting app stores connected nan hook for verifying people’s ages.

Three states person passed laws that, starting adjacent year, would require companies for illustration Google and Apple to inquire people’s ages erstwhile they create app shop accounts. Singapore has done nan same. The rumor has divided nan tech manufacture into warring factions, and civilian liberties advocates opportunity these laws will put different nail successful nan coffin of a free internet. — David Ingram, tech reporter

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