China vows to 'fight to the end' if Trump hikes tariffs to 104%

Good morning, I'm Craig DeGrelli. It's Tuesday, April 8th, 2025, and these are your Unbiased

Updates. It's a tariff showdown. China says it will fight to the end when it comes to the new

Trump levies, as the president doubles down and says even more are coming for the communist country

And the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on the flights that took deportees who are reputed

violent gang members to El Salvador. How it's a victory for the Trump administration

This morning, Straight Arrow News takes a deeper look into the key issue

From the Straight Arrow News studio, bringing the stories that matter to you from across the United States and around the world

These are today's unbiased updates. This morning, the United States and China are in a standoff of sorts over President Donald Trump's newly imposed tariffs

China now saying it will, quote, fight to the end and take countermeasures against the United States if need be

after President Trump threatened additional 50 percent tariffs on Chinese imports. If President Trump implements that plan, China will face tariffs of 104 percent

The threat comes after China slapped 34 percent counter tariffs on all American goods

in retaliation to the so-called Liberation Day tariffs that the president levied on more than 180 countries last week

The president says the additional 50 percent tariff on Chinese goods will take effect Wednesday

if China does not back down from those retaliatory tariffs by today

Beijing's retaliatory tariffs are scheduled to take effect on Thursday. In a win for the Trump administration, the U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the enforcement of the Alien Enemies Act

for now. President Trump invoked the 18th century wartime law last month to deport Venezuelan

migrants suspected of being members of the Trendy Aragua gang to El Salvador. But while the Supreme

Court is allowing the Trump administration to resume deportations, the high court is now requiring

additional steps before that can happen. Straight Arrow News reporter Lauren Keenan has details

The high court's five to four ruling states migrants being deported under the Alien Enemies

Act must be given notice so they can challenge their deportation. The notice must be afforded

within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief

in the proper venue before such removal occurs. In a concurring opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh

writes the court disagreement with the dissenters is not over whether the detainees receive judicial review of their transfers All nine members of the court agree that judicial review is available The only question is where that judicial review should occur The court rules individuals filing to challenge their removal should do so in the

district in which they're being detained. In her dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor

joined by Justices Kagan, Jackson, and Barrett for some parts, called the court's legal conclusion

suspect, writing, the court does not mention of the grave harm plaintiffs will face if they are

erroneously removed to El Salvador or regard for the government's attempts to subvert the judicial

process throughout this litigation. Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson also dissented, writing her own opinion. The president of the United States has invoked a centuries-old wartime

statute to whisk people away to a notoriously brutal foreign-run prison. For lovers of liberty

this should be quite concerning. The 1798 Alien Enemies Act gives the president the power

either during declared war or an invasion, to apprehend non-naturalized people and remove them

from the country. In March, President Trump signed an executive order invoking the Alien

Enemies Act, which has only been enacted three times in our country's history and each time

during major conflict. The War of 1812, World War I and World War II, according to the Brennan

Center for Justice. In his order, Trump declared Trendy Aragua gang members a, quote

designated foreign terrorist organization with thousands of members, many of whom have unlawfully

infiltrated the United States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions

against the United States. Last month, D.C. District Court Chief Judge James Bosberg issued

a temporary injunction blocking the Trump administration from removing suspected TDA members. Tonight's decision is a landmark victory for the rule of law. An activist judge in Washington

D.C. does not have the jurisdiction to seize control of President Trump's authority

to conduct foreign policy and keep the American people safe, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said

on X. Last month, the Trump administration began deporting what they called suspected TDA gang

members to a mega prison in El Salvador. It's unclear if those already deported will be able

to challenge their deportations. That was our Lauren Keenan reporting. Also Monday, the Supreme Court temporarily paused

a court-imposed midnight deadline to return a Maryland man whose lawyer insisted again

that he has no gang ties and was mistakenly deported to El Salvador

The justices agreed to a request from President Trump that will give them more time to consider the case The United States is now set to hold talks with Iran about its nuclear weapons program this

upcoming weekend. President Trump making that announcement during comments to reporters after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House Monday

We're having direct talks with Iran and they've started. It'll go on Saturday. We have a very big

meeting and we'll see what can happen. And I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be

preferable to doing the obvious. And the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with

or frankly, that Israel wants to be involved with if they can avoid it. So we're going to see if we

can avoid it. The president did not specify what the obvious is, but when asked if he would commit

to military action against Iran if his administration and Tehran are not able to come to an agreement

President Trump responded, Iran is going to be in great danger. Trump recently sent a letter to Iran's supreme leader calling for direct negotiations with

the U.S. over its rapidly advancing nuclear program. However, Iran's president said last month that Iran rejected Trump's request but did

leave open the possibility of indirect negotiations with Washington. Iran's foreign minister confirmed plans for talks with the United States in the coming days

but appeared to contradict President Trump's claims they would be direct talks, saying this

Iran and the United States will meet in Oman on Saturday for indirect high-level talks

It is as much an opportunity as it is a test. The ball is in America's court

In less than two months, South Korea will hold a presidential election

Voters there will choose the successor to Yoon Suk-yol. on June 3rd. The announcement comes less than a week after the constitutional court

removed Yoon from office. Once the court did that, by law, an election must be held within 60 days

The next president will serve a five-year term. Yoon's presidency took a major hit when he

declared martial law in the country late last year, saying he needed to eradicate his political rivals

That move led to an impeachment effort against Yoon and troops in the streets of Seoul

Yoon's People Power Party will take on the Democratic Party nominee in the election

Observers say the Democratic Party candidate, Lee Jae-myung, is the favorite. The wonders of modern science never cease to amaze

Get this it been more than 10 years since dire wolves walked the Earth But scientists are bringing them back as best they can Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are currently growing up in an

undisclosed secure location, according to the company that aims to bring back the lost species

Colossal Biosciences says the wolf pups range in age from three months to six months

old and already weigh about 80 pounds. They are on track to reach 140 pounds at maturity

Since dire wolves have been totally extinct for thousands of years, scientists had to use their closest living relatives to create these pups

So the extinction to us is recreating these phenotypes. So a gray wolf is the closest living relative of a dire wolf

They're genetically really similar, 99.5% similar. and phenotypically their morphology is also similar

Only direwolves are larger, more muscular, and have these like colored coats

and other things that we can see from the fossils. And so we targeted DNA sequence variants

that we believe lead to those traits. And then we edited gray wolf cells

to contain those direwolf DNA variants. And then we cloned those cells and created our direwolves

Wow. To create the pups, researchers studied a 13,000-year-old direwolf tooth unearthed in Ohio

and a 72,000-year-old skull fragment found in Idaho. Colossal also has been working toward resurrecting the woolly mammoth

dodo bird, and Tasmanian tiger since 2021. Finally, the NCAA basketball tournament lived up to a type with a fantastic Final Four

and last night crowned a champion, the Florida Gators. Florida was behind for most of the game against Houston and its stifling defense

The Cougars were ahead by 10 points in the second half, but the Gators chipped away

and eventually got a couple of free throws down the stretch from Elijah Martin and Denzel Aberdeen

Houston had 19 seconds left to either tie or win the game

but the Gators' defense forced a loose ball and pounced on it to seal the victory

Florida wins its third national championship, defeating Houston 65-63. Coach Todd Golden, at 39 years old, becomes the youngest coach since the 1980s to win an NCAA title

I'm telling you, that was a fantastic tournament with great games throughout. Those are your Unbiased Updates for this Tuesday

We'll see you back here tomorrow. For all of us here at Street Arrow News, I'm Craig DeGrelli

Have a great day