Trump’s new tariff plan; Smithsonian impeachment exhibit; wildfire smoke; and more
The 7
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🗓️ 1 August 2025
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Friday, August 1. The seven stories you need to know today.
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| 0:00.0 | Just when you thought you had heard the last about tariffs, more tariffs come marching through the door. |
| 0:09.7 | That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Friday, August 1st. |
| 0:16.3 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. President Trump signed executive orders increasing |
| 0:25.1 | tariffs on around 70 countries. Today was meant to be Trump's self-imposed deadline for a previous |
| 0:32.7 | set of tariffs that were announced in April to take effect. But yesterday, he announced he was escalating his |
| 0:39.2 | global trade war even further. A particular target this time is Canada. Our neighbor to the north |
| 0:46.1 | announced this week it was preparing to recognize a Palestinian state. Trump said that would make it |
| 0:52.8 | very hard to reach a trade deal. And now, Canada is facing a |
| 0:57.3 | 35% tariff rate starting today. Trump expressed his complicated feelings for Canada at a news |
| 1:04.5 | conference at the White House yesterday. Look, we like Canada. I love Canada. I have so many friends in |
| 1:10.5 | Canada, but they've been very poorly led. They've been very, very poorly led. |
| 1:16.1 | For the rest of the world, new tariffs will kick in next week, except for countries that have already reached trade deals with the U.S. |
| 1:24.1 | Mexico and China, meanwhile, got their deadlines kicked down the road. |
| 1:29.0 | Trump's hope is that tariffs will help revitalize domestic manufacturing |
| 1:33.1 | by discouraging Americans from buying foreign products. |
| 1:37.1 | But reversing more than three decades of global economic integration is no small task. |
| 1:49.6 | Music global economic integration is no small task. Number two is a post-exclusive. The Smithsonian removed Trump references from an impeachment exhibit. |
| 1:58.7 | Last month, some key information was removed from the Smithsonian's National |
| 2:03.9 | Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. They were references to President Trump's two |
| 2:10.2 | impeachments. Since September 2021, a temporary label with content about those impeachments had been |
| 2:17.4 | part of an exhibit. |
| 2:19.2 | But after a content review following pressure from the Trump White House, the display returned |
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