NPR News: 07-31-2025 5PM EDT
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🗓️ 31 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR and the following message come from the estate of Joan B. Kroc, whose bequest |
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| 0:12.2 | that meets the highest standards of public service in journalism and cultural expression. |
| 0:18.1 | Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump is still planning to impose |
| 0:24.0 | sweeping tariffs on many countries tomorrow after delaying those tariffs twice already. |
| 0:30.2 | MPIRS-Daniel Kurtzleben reports the White House says dealmaking could go down to the wire. |
| 0:35.6 | White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says the president is |
| 0:38.4 | planning to impose those tariffs, but that he's open to negotiating in these final hours. The trade |
| 0:43.3 | team has been working around the clock to try to be in correspondence with as many countries |
| 0:48.8 | as possible, but if they haven't heard from us yet, they will in the form of a letter or an executive |
| 0:53.8 | order by midnight tonight. |
| 0:55.6 | Trump first announced this round of tariffs in April. |
| 0:58.3 | Since then, he's pushed them to July 9th and then to August 1st. |
| 1:02.0 | He has announced tariff agreements with some major trading partners, including Vietnam and Japan. |
| 1:07.0 | However, details on those are sketchy with the deals not yet finalized. |
| 1:11.2 | Danielle Kurtzleben and PR News, the White House. |
| 1:13.9 | The Chinese government says it met with officials from the chipmaker Nvidia, raising concerns about the security of one of its chips. |
| 1:21.4 | And Pierce John Ruich reports this comes as Beijing and the Trump administration are trying to hammer out a trade deal that will keep tariffs in check. |
| 1:30.9 | The cyberspace administration of China says it asked NVIDIA to explain potential backdoors and vulnerabilities in its H20 graphics processing units or GPUs. |
| 1:40.1 | Nvidia created the H20 with China in mind after the U.S. government imposed export restrictions on more advanced GPUs. |
| 1:47.8 | The chips are used in the development of artificial intelligence. |
| 1:51.0 | The cyberspace administration cited reports of U.S. lawmakers calling for chips like the H20 to have tracking and positioning capabilities, |
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