NPR News: 07-31-2025 7PM 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 |
| 0:05.5 | serves as an enduring investment in the future of public radio and seeks to help NPR produce programming |
| 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 Hurst. |
| 0:21.6 | As the Trump administration prepares to raise tariffs on imports from many countries, starting |
| 0:26.4 | tomorrow, a federal appeals court is weighing whether those tariffs are even legal. |
| 0:32.7 | And Pierre Scott Horsley reports the court held a hearing this morning on the president's |
| 0:36.8 | power to tax imports. |
| 0:39.0 | President Trump has ordered most of his tariffs this year using emergency legislation from the |
| 0:43.2 | 1970s. But that law does not explicitly authorize the president to impose taxes on imports. |
| 0:49.6 | Attorney Neil Cottchall told the federal appeals court the tariffs are out of bounds unless |
| 0:53.7 | Congress says otherwise. |
| 0:55.4 | Historically, that is something that our founders committed to the Congress every single time. |
| 1:01.4 | Congress has given the president tariff authority. They've done so expressly with words. |
| 1:06.6 | A lower court agreed and ruled back in May the tariffs should be struck down. |
| 1:11.0 | The government continues to tax imports, however, while the case is on appeal. |
| 1:15.3 | Scott Horsley and Pierre News, Washington. |
| 1:17.5 | At a large anti-war demonstration in Tel Aviv, hostages were not the main topic. |
| 1:23.1 | Starvation and Genocide in Gaza was. |
| 1:26.3 | That's rare, but as international pressure grows, Israeli attitudes may be |
| 1:30.8 | starting to shift. And Pears Eleanor Beardsley has more. There's a huge protest against the war going on |
| 1:37.3 | now in downtown Tel Aviv, and this is probably one of the biggest ones like this. We are seeing cracks in |
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