Fort Stewart Shooting, Tariff Deadline, Trump And Putin Meeting Prospects

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

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Five soldiers were shot and injured by one of their co-workers at Fort Stewart Army base in Georgia, higher import tariffs taking effect today are beginning to weigh on the US economy, and President Trump says prospects look good for a meeting on ending the war in Ukraine with Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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0:00.0	A soldier shot five people at a base in Georgia.
0:05.0	Soldiers in the area that witnessed the shooting immediately and without hesitation
0:10.0	tackled the soldiers subdued him.
0:12.0	What did local police know about him that his commanders did not?
0:15.0	I'm Stevenson, with A. Martinez, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:20.0	Evidence is piling up that new tariffs are raising prices and this is up first from NPR News.
0:27.0	Evidence is piling up that new tariffs are raising prices and slowing economic growth.
0:29.5	One indicator is McDonald's.
0:33.4	Executives say low-income customers are spending less at the start of the day.
0:39.5	They're skipping breakfast or they're trading down either within our menu or they're trading down to eating at home.
0:41.1	What's that mean for other businesses?
0:44.6	And President Trump is expected to meet with the President of Russia.
0:51.8	The Kremlin's agreement on a meeting, though not yet a peace deal, comes just after another Trump deadline approach for sanctions on Russia.
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