Intro

From the BBC World Service: Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's governing coalition lost its majority in the upper house of parliament, but Ishiba said, with the threat of additional U.S. tariffs and rising inflation, he's not going anywhere. Plus, the European Union is ramping up efforts to avoid President Donald Trump's tariffs. An Aug. 1 deadline is looming, and retaliatory tariffs could be in the pipeline. And later, we'll examine the cost of child care in the U.S.