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President Trump is once again ramping up his tariff agenda.

NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports in a post on social media.

The president announced a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil.

Trump announced the tariff rate by posting a letter to Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula de Silva on social media Wednesday, his 22nd letter this week.

All of the other letters were similar, telling countries that the new tariffs were

being imposed to rectify their trade imbalances with the U.S. But the letter to Brazil was about politics.

Trump angrily referenced what he calls a witch hunt against former far-right president

Jair Bolsonaro, who is facing trial for an alleged attempted coup against Lula. Trump has long praised the far-right

Bolsonaro who lost in a 2022 re-election bid against Lula. Shortly thereafter, Bolsonaro's supporters

stormed the capital, Brasilia. Danielle Kurtzleben and PR News. The Texas Department that

inspected the all-girls summer camp in Kirk County that was devastated by catastrophic flooding,

says the quality of its emergency plans were the responsibility of the facility.

Houston Public Media's Dominic Anthony Walsh reports more than two dozen children and counselors died in the floods.

The Riverside Camp was required by state law to maintain an emergency plan.

The Texas Department of State Health Services says its inspectors only certified that the plan

includes mandatory elements, such as evacuation routes and emergency shelters,

and that the camp is responsible for its development.

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