NPR News Now - NPR News: 07-12-2025 2PM EDT

Episode Date: July 12, 2025

NPR News: 07-12-2025 2PM EDTLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

There have been many supermans, supermen, and now after much anticipation, there is another. And the new Superman movie is pretty great, and it's bringing exactly what we are looking for, hope. We'll tell you why on Pop Culture Happy Hour. Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Noor Ram. President Trump has sent a new round of letters imposing tariffs on U.S. trading partners. As NPR's Tamara Keith reports, this time it's Mexico and the European Union getting tariff threats. TAMARA KEITH Trump says he intends to hit both Mexico

and the European Union with a 30 percent tariff rate starting August 1st. In the case of Mexico, he cites the country's inability to halt the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. In the EU letter, Trump blames long-term, large, and persistent trade deficits engendered by tariff and non-tariff policies and trade barriers. As with all the two dozen or so letters Trump has sent this month, he threatened Mexico and the EU with even higher tariffs if they respond with higher import levies of their own. Initially, Trump said he was trying to secure new, more favorable trade deals. Now, he says these letters are the deals. Tamara Keith and PR News. The search for people missing since the Fourth of July flood in central Texas is now in its second week. Officials estimate more than 170 people are still unaccounted for.

They say at least 120 people are confirmed dead. Greg Froelich is on a search team there and describes what he sees. A lot of kids clothing. So, you know, you're walking by it and it's like, you know, you try to think about, like, try to backtrack where that piece of clothing came from and you know where it came from. You know, the kids can't. And more rain is expected in the region. The National Weather Service issued a flood watch through tomorrow evening.

South Sudan has accepted eight third-country deportees from the U.S. Rwanda says it's in talks on a similar deal. Nigeria says the U.S. is pressuring other African countries to do the U.S. Rwanda says it's in talks on a similar deal. Nigeria says the U.S. is pressuring other African countries to do the same. This follows a meeting this week at the White House between President Trump and five West African leaders. NPR's Emanuel Okunwotu reports. Nigeria's Foreign Minister Yousuf Tukor told local media that Nigeria would not become a quote dumping ground for migrants deported from the US. He said Nigeria and other African countries have been subjected to pressure from US officials

to take Venezuelan deportees, some directly from US prisons, which he rebuffed saying, we have enough problems of our own. President Trump hosted leaders from African countries this week. It was followed by reports of US demands as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration, which the US has not commented on. Emanuel Akimotu, NPR News, Lagos. Local officials in the occupied West Bank say Israeli settlers beat to death a US citizen last night.

He was identified as a 21-year-old man who was born in Florida and had been visiting family in the West Bank. A U.S. Embassy spokesperson confirmed the death. According to the Israeli military, a confrontation had broken out in the village between Palestinians and Israelis. This is NPR News. Russia launched another major attack against Ukraine overnight, with hundreds of drones and missiles. Ukrainian officials say at least two people were killed in the western part of the country.

Russia has been stepping up its long-range attacks on Ukrainian cities. Hundreds of Alaska residents wade into the mouth of the Kenai River each July to catch salmon with large nets. The subsistence tradition, known as dip netting, is a way for locals to eat through the winter. Hunter Morrison with member station KDLL stomped by the river for opening day. I'm not playing, I'm just gutting it. Anchorage's Zane Giles stands on a beach as he slices open a sockeye he caught just minutes before. Giles has dip netted on the Kenai River for more than a decade.

He likes that it uses a long handled net instead of a rod and reel. But he enjoys the camaraderie among dipnetters most. We're all going for the same same thing. We're trying to feed our family and be out here in nature and enjoy the fishing. It's a really good place. The fishery is an important subsistence resource. Alaskans are allowed 25 salmon per permit holder. For dip netters like Giles, that amount should last until next summer. For NPR News, I'm Hunter Morrison in Kenai, Alaska. If you're in Manhattan tonight around 8, you might catch a glimpse of a seemingly

perfect sunset. It's a solar phenomenon when the sun aligns with the city grid and appears to fall between the buildings at certain intersections. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has named the occurrence Manhattan Henge. I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News in Washington. Do you ever look at political headlines and go, huh? Well, that's exactly why the NPR Politics Podcast exists. We're experts not just on politics, but in making politics make sense. Every episode, we decode everything that happened in Washington and help you figure out what it all means.

Give politics a chance with the NPR Politics Podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts.