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The 15% tax on imported Japanese goods is a meaningful drop from the 25% rate that Trump, in a recent letter to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, said would be levied starting Aug. 1.

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week Kelly joins us to walk through what hosting is actually like.

State Attorney General Jeff Jackson was in Gastonia Tuesday, visiting a summer and after-school program that was impacted by the federal government’s recent school funding freeze.

Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded $50 million in grants to small and midsized farms across the country. This year, the grant program — meant to help farmers hire and retain workers — was frozen by the Trump administration.

Founded in 2019, the Workforce Housing Advisory Committee quantified the housing crisis, advised the city and county on policy, and recommended zoning changes to facilitate housing affordable to all kinds of people. Now, the county has removed itself from a major forum for the affordable housing conversation.

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee tells the federations overseeing swimming, athletics and other sports that it has an "obligation to comply" with an executive order issued by President Trump.

For children of long-term visa holders who've waited years to be approved for green cards, graduating college represents a challenging transition period of trying to find work or be approved for new visas in order to stay in the country. And for those graduating this year, that transition has become more challenging under the Trump administration's approach to immigration.

U.S. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the U.S. took issue with UNESCO's focus on the U.N.'s sustainable development goals and the decision to include Palestine as a member state.

This week, protestors picketed on Market Street across from the official residence of UNCW Chancellor Aswani Volety, who they claim will not meet with them to discuss allegations that the University has disenfranchised minority vendors. While the University settled a lawsuit over a related issue in 2022, it denies any wrongdoing.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump about the sentencing of Brett Hankison, the former police officer involved in the raid that killed Breonna Taylor.