This NPR News broadcast covers a series of high-impact developments: new U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods sparking retaliatory threats, legal battles over Trump’s attempt to restrict mail-in voting via the U.S. Postal Service, rising college enrollment despite skepticism about the value of
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