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Morning Rundown: U.S. hits Canada with more tariffs, Trump travels to Texas in flood aftermath, and efforts to restrict gender-affirming care escalate<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Donald Trump ramped up the U.S. trade war with Canada and threatened blanket tariffs on other countries. The president is set to visit Texas a week after deadly floods in the state. And how an NBC News report on liver damage helped a viewer recognize her own illness. Here\u2019s what to know today.<\/em>
President Donald Trump\u2019s tariff fight<\/strong><\/a> moved forward yesterday as he escalated the U.S. trade war with Canada and said in an exclusive interview that he plans to impose blanket tariffs on most trade partners.
In a letter he shared to Truth Social, Trump said he would apply a 35% tariff to all imports from Canada<\/a> and accused the country of retaliating \u201cinstead of working with\u201d the U.S. to come to a deal. Until this escalation, Canadian imports that did not fall under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, which Trump negotiated in his first term, faced a tariff of 25%. Energy imports from Canada faced tariffs of 10%.
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And in an exclusive interview yesterday<\/strong><\/a> with NBC News\u2019 \u201cMeet the Press\u201d moderator Kristen Welker, Trump said he plans to impose 15% to 20% tariffs on most trade partners. He dismissed concerns that further tariffs could negatively affect the stock market or drive inflation. \u201cI think the tariffs have been very well-received,\u201d Trump added.
So far this week, Trump has publicized letters to 22 countries, not counting Canada, establishing tariff rates. The steepest rate is 50% on Brazilian imports. He also announced a 50% tariff on copper imports. Trump said the European Union would also be receiving a letter.
In the wide-ranging conversation, Trump also addressed the status of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Trump, who has expressed frustration toward Russian President Vladimir Putin, again echoed that sentiment and said he would have \u201ca major statement to make on Russia on Monday,\u201d though he didn\u2019t elaborate. Trump also spoke about what he said was a new deal between the U.S. and NATO to send more weapons to Ukraine from the U.S. \u2014 \u201cand NATO is paying for those weapons, 100%.\u201d
Less than a week after signing his \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d into law, Trump said he would travel \u201ca little bit\u201d to sell the massive domestic policy package to voters. \u201cBut honestly,\u201d he said, \u201cit\u2019s been received so well I don\u2019t think I have to.\u201d
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President Donald Trump is set to visit Kerrville, Texas,<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>with first lady Melania Trump today to meet with first responders and review damage from the deadly flooding that hit the region last weekend. At least 120 people have died and more than 170 people are missing, though search-and-rescue efforts have shifted to a recovery phase, officials said.
In his phone call with \u201cMeet the Press\u201d moderator Kristen Welker, Trump praised the response to the flood, saying \u201ceveryone\u2019s doing a great job.\u201d But, he said, \u201cI would imagine you\u2019d put alarms up in some form.\u201d<\/strong><\/a> Trump\u2019s administration has faced backlash from local, state and federal officials who argued that job cuts to the National Weather Service and NOAA, along with plans to shutter FEMA, worsened the storm\u2019s impact.
The floods in Texas were remarkable, with water levels along the Guadalupe surging to almost 30 feet in Hunt on July 4. However, the disaster was just one of at least four 1-in-1,000-year rainfall events across the U.S. to happen over the course of a week.
Last Sunday, Tropical Storm Chantal caused extensive flooding across the central portion of North Carolina. In New Mexico on Tuesday, at least three people were killed by devastating flash floods that swept through the village of Ruidoso. That same day in Chicago, 5 inches of rain fell in only 90 minutes over Garfield Park, prompting multiple rescues on the west side of the city.
A 1-in-1,000-year flood refers to the 0.1% probability that your location will experience such an intense flood, one expert explained. But that doesn\u2019t mean a few of those events won\u2019t happen every year, and climate change is also likely to make them more common. Read the full story here.<\/strong><\/a>
The Justice Department said it has sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics involved in \u201cperforming transgender medical procedures on children.\u201d In its announcement Wednesday, the DOJ did not specify what it considers \u201ctransgender medical procedures\u201d but said its investigations \u201cinclude healthcare fraud, false statements, and more.\u201d
The announcement came the same day that the Federal Trade Commission held an all-day workshop on the \u201cdangers of gender-affirming care.\u201d The event featured more than a dozen speakers, including people who said they received care as minors and now regret it, doctors and psychologists, and political scientists and lawyers. All of them criticized transgender health care, and many said there is no evidence to support transition care as a treatment for gender dysphoria.
Meanwhile, activists and some employees from within the FTC criticized the workshop, expressing concerns about overreach by the commission and the potential breach of confidential doctor-patient consultations. Read the full story here.<\/strong><\/a>
A report published last year found that 15 million Americans take a certain type of supplement that could be damaging to their liver. Some of the top liver researchers in the U.S. told us that as more people take herbal and dietary supplements, doctors have been treating more cases of liver damage associated with them.
Our first segment on \u201cNightly News\u201d in May featured an otherwise healthy 54-year-old man who experienced liver damage linked to high doses of turmeric he was taking. That\u2019s what got Katie Mohan\u2019s attention.
Mohan had recently started taking daily turmeric pills and realized she had the same symptoms of stomach pain, nausea and fatigue. Her skin had also turned yellow, a hallmark sign of liver damage. She immediately sought medical help \u2014 and, it turns out, just in time. \u201cKatie actually was one step before full liver damage, liver failure, requiring liver transplant,\u201d her doctor said. Mohan then reached out to NBC News to let us know what happened, and we shared her experience in a follow-up story<\/strong><\/a>. \u2014 <\/em>Marina Kopf,<\/strong><\/em> associate producer<\/em>
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