Trump's 50% Tariffs On India Take Effect And Remembering Hurricane Katrina 20 Years On: Morning Rundown

Trump hits India pinch 50% tariffs. Experts pass of nan consequences if nan president removes a Fed Board governor. An electrical scooter institution is exposed arsenic a scam. And remembering Hurricane Katrina 20 years on.

Here’s what to cognize today.

Trump hits India pinch punishing 50% tariffs for buying Russian oil

Employees connected nan accumulation statement of h2o heaters astatine a Marc Enterprises Pvt. installation successful Sonepat, India, connected Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024.Anindito Mukherjee / Bloomberg via Getty Images

President Donald Trump’s promised 50% tariffs connected India took effect connected Wednesday, arsenic nan U.S. risks blowing up a narration considered important successful its effort to antagonistic nan emergence of China.

Trump started nan tariff complaint astatine 25% but doubled it earlier this period arsenic reward for India buying Russian oil, making it 1 of nan highest of nan galore tariffs imposed during nan president’s ongoing world waste and acquisition war.

India, 1 of nan world’s fastest increasing economies and a cardinal partner for nan West successful nan Indo-Pacific region, is heavy reliant connected waste and acquisition pinch nan U.S., its largest export market.

The 50% levy risks decades of warming ties betwixt Washington and New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to guidelines patient successful nan look of what he termed “the authorities of economical selfishness” and to take sides nan country’s farmers and mini businesses.

Vice President JD Vance — whose woman is nan girl of Indian immigrants — told NBC’s “Meet nan Press” connected Sunday that nan U.S. had applied “aggressive economical leverage” connected India to “try to make it harder for nan Russians to get rich | from their lipid economy.”

Stock markets successful India remained closed connected Wednesday owed to a nationalist holiday.

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More authorities news:

• Trump's comments astir allowing 600,000 Chinese world students into nan U.S. person drawn disapproval from immoderate Republicans, including loyal backers of nan president.

• DOGE put nan individual information of millions of Americans, including Social Security numbers, connected a susceptible server, according to a caller whistleblower complaint.

The scooters looked real, but nan business was fake

Marcus Price (left) and Kumba Kenneth (right), residents of nan Mississippi Delta who some invested money into LSSC.Ashleigh Coleman and Aaron Ricketts for NBC News

An electrical scooter institution pinch seemingly trusted endorsements and glitzy storefronts allegedly swindled hundreds of thousands of dollars from Americans.

Lightning Shared Scooter Co. had a elemental transportation to imaginable investors: How'd you for illustration to make immoderate other money pinch conscionable a fewer taps connected your phone? The Hong Kong-based institution sold investors connected nan thought that their money would double, past triple pinch its rentable scooters. Recruitment of friends of family would output moreover much return.

Does it sound fishy? Well, nan institution had nan endorsement of small-town mayors, constabulary officers and a lieutenant colonel successful nan U.S. Army. Sean Spicer gave nan institution a shoutout connected Cameo and shot superstar Kylian Mbappé's image was utilized to beforehand nan scooters.

What seemed for illustration a very existent finance for Americans looking to unafraid financial stableness quickly turned into a facade, past a nightmare erstwhile they tried to get their money back.

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Family alleges ChatGPT was son's 'suicide coach' earlier his death

Matt and Maria Raine searched done their 16-year-old son's telephone days aft he died by suicide, looking for clues connected what could person led to nan tragedy.

Matt said he went to his son's Snapchat messages and net history, but it wasn't until nan Raine family opened ChatGPT that they recovered an answer.

Adam Raine initially utilized nan chatbot to thief him pinch homework, but it quickly became a abstraction wherever he discussed issues pinch worry and talking pinch his family.

In a suit revenge by nan Raines, they declare that "ChatGPT actively helped Adam research termination methods." The astir 40-page suit names OpenAI, nan institution down ChatGPT, arsenic good arsenic its CEO, Sam Altman, arsenic defendants. The suit is nan first clip parents person straight accused nan institution of wrongful death.

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Economists interest what Trump’s effort to occurrence Cook could lead to

In a mostly unprecedented move, Donald Trump attempted to region Federal Reserve politician Lisa Cook, causing a domino effect of suit threats and experts informing what it could mean for U.S. households’ finances.

Trump cited a “criminal referral” from Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte that alleged discrepancies connected Cook’s owe exertion documents. Cook has refused to measurement down, and connected Tuesday, she said she was readying to record a suit challenging Trump’s move.

But immoderate economists and academics interest that if Trump tin travel done pinch removing Cook, it could jeopardize nan independency of nan cardinal bank. That, experts said, could erode investors’ spot successful nan soundness of nan Fed’s determination and could lead to worsening inflation.

The conflict will apt extremity up successful nan Supreme Court, which precocious issued a ruling that acknowledged nan president has wide latitude to power national agencies, but recovered his expertise to make unit decisions astatine nan Federal Reserve whitethorn beryllium much limited.

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Read All About It

• Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement connected Instagram pinch photos from nan connection and a changeable of nan ample gem ring.

• Uncle Herschel is returning to nan Cracker Barrel chair aft online outrage by conservatives, who accused nan edifice concatenation of going "woke" erstwhile it rolled retired a caller logo.

• YouTube will connection creators nan expertise to opt-out of caller enhancements aft creators expressed concerns changes were being done without their permission aliases knowledge.

• A federal-state business that monitors for foodborne illnesses softly scaled backmost its operations astir 2 months ago.

• How overmuch will your inflated pumpkin herb latte costs this fall? Starbucks says nan aforesaid arsenic past year.

Staff Pick: Remembering nan acts of compassion during Hurricane Katrina

Lakeita Williams sorts done a postulation of photos taken successful nan play instantly pursuing nan storm, connected Aug. 23, 2025. Most of her family photos from earlier Katrina were mislaid successful nan flooding.Brandon Holland for NBC News; courtesy Lakeita Williams

Reporter Curtis Bunn and I were not wholly judge what a communicative connected Hurricane Katrina’s 20-year day would look like, what location is to opportunity astir 1 of nan deadliest storms successful U.S. history that hasn’t already been said. So he did what reporters do: He started talking to group who rode retired and survived nan storm.

As we talked astir their experiences, nan unthinkable point that kept popping up to america was nan measurement that bully deeds and kindness pulled victims to nan different broadside of an American catastrophe. Neighbors opened up their homes; businesses offered activity to nan collapsed and desperate; residents utilized nan devices successful their garages to rescue each other. The communicative we needed to show became clear: Acts of humanity by complete strangers person outlasted nan beingness harm Hurricane Katrina inflicted connected nan Gulf Coast. — Maria Garcia, editorial director

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