8.25.26 Canada trade war, Flock cameras, Freedom 250 Grand Prix, and New World screwworm

**Mary Reichard** (0:05)
Good morning. License plate readers help solve crimes, but at what cost to privacy?

**Kyle Zawacki** (0:11)
Those cameras are all communicating with each other in a way that allows law enforcement and the government to track where people are coming and going.

**Nick Eicher** (0:19)
Also today, the U.S.-Canada Trade War will talk with a former member of the Canadian Parliament. Later, a deadly parasite is keeping cattle ranchers on alert.

**Lawrence Hurt** (0:29)
The maggots will continue to repopulate and eventually they will eat the animal alive.

**Nick Eicher** (0:34)
And Disney's unlikely First Amendment defense commentary from World's Daniel Suhr.

**Mary Reichard** (0:47)
It's Tuesday, August 25th. This is The World and Everything In It from listener-supported World Radio. I'm Mary Reichard.

**Nick Eicher** (0:54)
And I'm Nick Eicher.

**Mary Reichard** (0:58)
Up next, Kent Covington with today's news.

**Kent Covington** (1:01)
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to move ahead with part of the president's executive order aimed at tightening election rules. The 6-3 ruling allows Homeland Security to compile state-by-state lists of US citizens eligible to vote and provide those lists to states. But the justices did not rule on whether the president's order is legal. Instead, they found that the states challenging it don't currently have legal standing to do so.
President Trump signed that order back in March and remarked, The cheating on mail-in voting is legendary.

**Anthony Stewart** (1:35)
It's horrible what's gone on. And it's very clearly covered.

**Lawrence Hurt** (1:40)
Very, very clearly so.

**Anthony Stewart** (1:42)
I think this will help a lot with elections.

**Kent Covington** (1:45)
23 states and Washington, DC sued arguing that the president overstepped his authority. Another part of Trump's order would require states to provide the postal service with lists of voters receiving mail-in ballots, but that provision remains blocked nationwide under a separate court ruling. And the Supreme Court cautioned that Monday's decision does not mean that the administration's efforts to implement the order will necessarily be lawful, leaving the door open to more challenges. With some states beginning to mail ballots within weeks, it is unclear how much practical effect the ruling will have before November.
The US government has a message for any global shipping or technology company still doing business with Iran. Cut ties or be barred from using the US dollar. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant.

**Scott Bessent** (2:33)
Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone.

**Kent Covington** (2:44)
The Treasury Department warned companies dealing in aviation, gold and shipping about possible future sanctions. The US has imposed restrictions on doing business with Iran ever since the 1979 hostage crisis, but it is upping the pressure with secondary sanctions on those who deal with Iran.
The new penalties target more than 60 individuals and businesses. When asked if Chinese banks are on the new target list, Besant said no one should test American resolve.

**Scott Bessent** (3:13)
Every country, every entity should know that they should be prepared to face US sanctions, and no one is above this.

**Kent Covington** (3:25)
The United Arab Emirates last week said it would cut financial ties with Iran following a missile attack, and Secretary Besant said he expects to see more nations follow suit.
With a trade war between the United States and Canada ramping up, President Trump on Monday threatened 50 percent tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks and steel starting January 1st. The US imposed 50 percent duties on 20 billion dollars in Canadian goods over the weekend. Canada plans to answer two weeks from today with higher tariffs on US goods. Both sides say the blame belongs on the other side of the bargaining table. After trade talks broke down last week, Vice President JD. Vance told a crowd in Maine, What we've said to Canada is stop it.

**JD Vance** (4:09)
Apply a basic principle of fairness to the trade that you're doing between North Dakota and Canada, between Maine and Canada. And what happened at the very end is they came in with a bunch of unreasonable last-minute demands.

**Kent Covington** (4:21)
The Trump administration says among those demands, lower tariffs on heavy trucks and changes to some steel and aluminum rules. But Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney insists his team was reasonable and pragmatic throughout the talks.

**Mark Carney** (4:36)
We made progress, we did make some progress in recent weeks. In the end, that momentum reversed.
And we could not accept what the US had offered, nor could we give what they asked.

**Kent Covington** (4:48)
He says US negotiators wanted limits on Canada's trade deals with other countries, among other things. Carney says his focus is on manufacturing more at home and building stronger trade ties with other countries. Right now, nearly three quarters of all Canadian exports go to the United States.