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00:12but we'll still have all the news you count on each morning. For now, here are today's Unbiased
00:17Updates. Canada just slapped new tariffs on billions of dollars in American goods,
00:23and Trump is already threatening his next move. Plus, the peace envoys leave,
00:29and Russia starts firing again. A deadly overnight attack on Kyiv just hours after a new U.S. push
00:35to end the war. And President Trump wants to give New Mexico a new name. Why,
00:41New America is one change he can't make on his own.
00:46The stories that matter, clear and credible, from across the country to around the world.
00:52These are your Unbiased Updates from Straight Arrow.
00:58A new round of tariffs on American goods has just taken effect in Canada. The latest move in a trade
01:04fight that keeps getting more hostile. Canada is now hitting about $20 billion worth of U.S.
01:09products with tariffs as high as 50%. They kicked in just after midnight and cover hundreds of products,
01:16everything from aluminum foil and cheese to clothing and steel. Canadian Prime Minister
01:22Mark Carney says the tariffs are designed to match the latest U.S. levies, dollar for dollar.
01:27We made the right decision to suspend our trade negotiations with the United States.
01:33We couldn't accept what they'd offered. We wouldn't give what they'd asked.
01:38As a result, the U.S. has imposed new tariffs designed to hurt and divide us. Now, that's a
01:46miscalculation because Canadians will always take care of each other.
01:52President Trump has already threatened to go further. He says tariffs on Canadian-made cars
01:57and auto parts could double to 50% in January. And now he's taking aim at one of Canada's biggest
02:02aerospace companies. On Monday, Trump threatened to block Bombardier from selling its planes in the
02:08United States unless the company builds them in the United States. On Truth Social, he wrote,
02:14no more selling Bombardier in the United States. Their products aren't good enough,
02:18accusing Canada of blocking American companies from its market. Trump said if Bombardier wants access
02:24to American buyers, they must build here. While Canada has shown no sign of backing down,
02:30the U.S. is Canada's largest trading partner, and Canada is the second biggest market for American
02:35exports. For now, most trade between the two countries is still moving without these new
02:39tariffs. But Trump has repeatedly warned he could continue responding if Canada follows through.
02:45This morning, Canada has. Iran hostilities are putting new pressure on another major oil producer.
02:53More than 70 people are injured after Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacked five cities across Saudi Arabia,
02:59hitting oil facilities, an air base, and other civilian and economic sites.
03:04Saudi Arabia says some energy facilities in the south were forced to temporarily shut down after
03:08the attacks caused fires. The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen is now promising to respond firmly,
03:15and the Houthis are threatening to go further.
03:17Sky News reports a Houthi spokesperson says the group will soon announce a broad military campaign
03:23deep inside Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry is warning of consequences if the Houthis
03:30continue targeting civilians while also calling for an immediate halt to the escalation. It did not say
03:36what those consequences would be. Two people are dead this morning and at least 10 others injured
03:41after Russia resumed attacks on Ukraine overnight. Moscow targeted Kyiv and other parts of the country
03:47with drones and missiles. Ukraine's military says it shot down or suppressed two ballistic missiles,
03:5431 cruise missiles, and 142 drones. Hits were reported in 29 locations, including residential buildings
04:02and other civilian infrastructure. The attacks come one day after a pause in Russian strikes during the
04:08first official visit to Ukraine by U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. The two had just met with
04:15Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of renewed U.S. efforts to end the war.
04:20Witkoff says substantive progress was made during the visit, including movement toward scheduling more
04:26trilateral talks. We're learning more this morning about the deadly Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami
04:32International Airport Sunday. The NTSB says all five people who were killed were on the ground
04:38in two vehicles hit by the plane after it overran the runway. One was a van carrying an aircraft
04:44cleaning crew inside the airport. The other was an SUV traveling on a road outside the airport
04:50perimeter. Five other people were injured. Now the flight was arriving from San Juan, Puerto Rico with
04:57two crew members on board. It was the plane's third flight of the day after flying from Cincinnati to
05:03Miami, then to San Juan and back to Miami. NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy says 32 investigators are on site
05:11documenting the scene and collecting what she calls perishable evidence. The recovery of victims is most
05:19important. The investigation and access to the aircraft as well as evidence can wait while that
05:30goes for that. The recovery operations go forward. That is most important. Reuniting families with
05:37their loved ones is most important. Investigators expect to remain on scene for at least a week and
05:43are asking the public to send in any photos or videos of the crash. The plane's flight data recorder
05:48and cockpit voice recorder have both been recovered and are now being analyzed by the NTSB.
05:53The NTSB will hold another news conference today at four. Germany's far-right AFD is now just three
06:01seats short of a majority in one state and the question now is whether they can find the support
06:06to govern. Alternative for Germany finished first in Saxony-Anhalt Sunday, taking nearly 44 percent of the
06:14vote and 39 of 83 seats in the state parliament. It needs 42 for a majority. So now the focus
06:21turns to
06:22whether the AFD can find a partner or enough support from other lawmakers to form a government. If it
06:28does, Germany could get its first far-right-led state government since World War II. The result was
06:33also a major defeat for Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union. Merz says his party was
06:40deeply shocked, but that he still plans to move forward with economic reforms despite their
06:45unpopularity. He also reaffirmed Germany's support for Ukraine and said the country's institutions
06:51remain stable. The AFD campaigns for tougher immigration policies and takes a more Russia-friendly
06:57approach than Germany's mainstream parties. Germany's domestic intelligence agency has
07:02classified the party's Saxony-Anhalt branch as right-wing extremists. Germany's major parties
07:08have spent years refusing to govern with the AFD. Finally this morning, President Trump spent part of
07:14his holiday weekend pushing a new name for New Mexico. He wants to call it New America. After
07:21posting this image on Sunday, Trump then wrote on Truth Social Monday that, quote, many people had
07:27suggested the change and called New Mexico, quote, one of the great vote-cheating states of all time.
07:33And he didn't leave it there. Trump posted this AI video showing him covering up New Mexico on a
07:38welcome sign with New America. By Monday, he was posting more maps with a new name. New Mexico's
07:45Democratic governor quickly pushed back on X. Michelle Lujan Grisham wrote, New Mexico's name
07:50isn't up for debate. It's been hours since before the United States existed. While the president tries
07:56to distract Americans from his disastrous war in Iran, the price of gas and everything else keeps rising.
08:03There is a big difference between this and Trump's other renaming efforts.
08:07New Mexico's name is literally written into the state constitution. He doesn't have the authority
08:13to legally change it on his own. Trump has used executive orders to change the federal names of
08:19the Gulf of Mexico and most recently Lake Ontario. But those are geographic features. Changing the legal
08:25name of a state would likely require action in New Mexico and in Congress. Well, Unbiased Updates is the
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08:42I'm Simone Del Rosario. We'll see you tomorrow.
