Trade War, Amazon Investigation & Disney Reveals - Monday, August 26th, 2019
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Monday, August 26th, 2019!
What to know today about the U.S.-China trade war, Justice Ginsburg's health, and a "shocking" announcement within the NFL.
Plus: what an investigation into Amazon found about thousands of products on the site, how a new type of smart sensor bandage could listen to your wounds, and Disney reveals its new series and plans.
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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Sources:
US-China Trade War: CNBC, Fox News, WSJ, NPR
Stocks Drop: Reuters
G7 Summit: BBC, NPR, The Washington Post, CNN, NBC News
RBG Cancer: NPR, Washington Post, USA Today
Andrew Luck Retires: CBS Sports, ESPN, NFL
PGA Tour Championship: CNN, PGA Tour
Smart Bandages: BBC, New Atlas
Amazon Mislabeled Products: WSJ (investigation), WSJ (safety tips), The Verge, Amazon
Disney Reveals: The Verge, Cnet
Taylor Swift Album: Billboard, Forbes
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Monday, August 26th. |
| 0:02.6 | What to know now about the US-China Trade War, |
| 0:05.0 | Justice Ginsburg's health, |
| 0:06.6 | and a shocking announcement in the NFL. |
| 0:08.7 | Plus what you may need to look for |
| 0:10.3 | the next time you buy on Amazon, |
| 0:12.0 | how a new type of smart bandage could listen to your wounds |
| 0:15.0 | and Disney's latest announcements. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:21.0 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:24.0 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm Erica Mandy. |
| 0:27.8 | Thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:29.3 | You ready? |
| 0:30.2 | Let's do this. |
| 0:39.0 | More back and forth in the ongoing trade war between the world's two largest economies, with both the US and China making some new moves. |
| 0:42.0 | Here's what's going on now. China announced it's |
| 0:44.2 | retaliating against the US again and putting new tariffs on 75 billion dollars |
| 0:48.6 | worth of US goods starting next month. President Trump is not happy about it, so now Trump says he'll raise the 10% |
| 0:55.2 | tariffs he was planning to start next month to 15% now, meaning it'll cost even more for |
| 1:00.9 | U.S. businesses to buy many Chinese products. |
| 1:04.1 | CNBC reports for some businesses it might mean a hiring freeze and if the tariffs |
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