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Trump Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote

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Eric Ham: With Trump’s latest power grab, America slides closer towards autocracy In his column for CTVNews.ca, Washington political analyst says Trump's latest power grab in Texas is part of an attempt to maim a system of checks and balances that have been in place to hold authori...

“With Trump’s latest power grab, America slides closer towards autocracy”

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Small US Firms Paying Trump Tariffs Face $202 Billion Annual Hit Small US companies, the source of more than half of the country’s job creation in recent years, are struggling to comply with President Donald Trump’s new tariffs and cope with growing financial strai...

Small US Firms Paying Trump Tariffs Face $202 Billion Annual Hit

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US Consumers to Bear Brunt of Tariff Hit, Goldman Economists Say The impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on consumer prices is just getting started, according to research by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., adding more uncertainty to a Treasury market that has been...

US Consumers to Bear Brunt of Tariff Hit, Goldman Economists Say

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China rams own warship while chasing Philippine vessel The crash in the disputed Scarborough Shoal rendered a Chinese warship "unseaworthy", Manila said.

China rams own warship while chasing Philippine vessel

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Dollar steady before US inflation report, US-China tariff deadline The U.S. dollar was little changed on Monday before Tuesday's deadline for Washington and Beijing to strike a tariff deal and a key U.S. inflation report that could help determine whether the Federal Reserve lowers borrowing costs next month.

Dollar steady before US inflation report, US-China tariff deadline

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Gold weakens as markets await clarity on bullion tariffs Gold prices fell more than 1% on Monday as investors awaited news from the White House on potential tariffs on bullion and U.S. inflation data that will provide a steer on the Federal Reserve's interest rate path.

Gold falls as markets seek White House clarity on bullion tariffs

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Trump escalates crime rhetoric ahead of Washington crackdown announcement President Donald Trump has spent days escalating his rhetoric on crime in Washington, calling the U.S. capital "totally out of control" and ordering a federal law enforcement surge ahead of a press conference to outline a sweeping crackdown.

The District of Columbia, established in 1790, operates under the Home Rule Act, which gives Congress ultimate authority but allows residents to elect a mayor and city council. Trump said last week that lawyers are examining how to overturn the law

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Trump Administration to Put F.B.I. Agents on Night Patrol in Washington The move is part of President Trump’s pledge to crack down on street crime in the nation’s capital.

Trump Administration to Put F.B.I. Agents on Night Patrol in Washington

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The American Fighting to Pry His Company Back From the Kremlin’s Grasp Leonid Smirnov built Russia’s biggest canned foods company. With the stroke of a pen, Putin’s government took it over.

The American Fighting to Pry His Company Back From the Kremlin’s Grasp

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American Companies Are Buying Their Own Stocks at a Record Pace Buybacks are expected to top $1.1 trillion in 2025, led by big banks and tech firms

American Companies Are Buying Their Own Stocks at a Record Pace

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The Engineering Marvel That China Hopes Will Help Wean It Off Foreign Energy

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Miguel Uribe, Colombian Senator Shot at Campaign Event, Dies at 39 Mr. Uribe, a presidential hopeful, was shot in June at a campaign rally in Bogotá in an attack that shocked the nation.

The Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe has died at 39, two months after he was shot in the head at a campaign rally.

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Israel’s Plan for Gaza City Is Still Unclear The Israeli government said last week that it wanted to capture Gaza City, but how and when it will proceed has yet to be decided.

Days After Pledging a New Attack in Gaza, Israel’s Plan Is Still Unclear

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CDC shooter blamed COVID vaccine for depression; union demands statement against misinformation A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preve...

CDC shooter blamed COVID vaccine for depression; union demands statement against misinformation

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The legal battle over Trump’s use of the National Guard moves to a California courtroom | CNN Lawyers for President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom are set to face off Monday to determine whether the president violated a 147-year-old law when he deployed the National Guard to que...

The legal battle over Trump’s use of the National Guard moves to a California courtroom

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Donald Trump calls on China to quadruple US soyabean imports as trade truce deadline looms High Chinese tariffs threaten important market for US farmers

Trump calls on China to quadruple US soyabean imports

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Australia to recognize Palestinian state, leaving US increasingly isolated among key allies | CNN Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday that his country will recognize a Palestinian state in September, joining a growing list of Western allies as international condemnation and ange...

Australia to recognize Palestinian state, leaving US increasingly isolated among key allies

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Marcos says the Philippines will be pulled into any war over Taiwan, despite China's protest Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says his country will inevitably be drawn “kicking and screaming” in any war over Taiwan due to its proximity and the presence of large numbers of Filipino wo...

Marcos says the Philippines will be pulled into any war over Taiwan, despite China’s protest

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Trump is promising to slash drug prices by 1,500%. Here’s what’s really happening | CNN Business President Donald Trump recently made his boldest claim yet in his longstanding promise to lower drug prices.

Trump is promising to slash drug prices by 1,500%. Here’s what’s really happening

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Israeli Strike Kills 5 Al Jazeera Journalists in Gaza as Broadcaster Slams ‘Targeted’ Attack Al Jazeera accused Israel of carrying out a “targeted assassination” after five of its journalists were killed in a strike and rejected the IDF's Hamas claims.

Israeli Strike Kills 5 Al Jazeera Journalists in Gaza as Broadcaster Slams ‘Targeted’ Attack

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Trump wanted manufacturers to diversify away from China. Now many that heeded that call face stiff new tariffs | CNN Business South and Southeast Asian countries are caught in the crossfire of Trump’s trade war and are now facing some of the highest tariffs in the world

Trump wanted manufacturers to diversify away from China. Now many that heeded that call face stiff new tariffs

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Opinion | ‘Profound and Abiding Rage’: Canada’s Answer to America’s Abandonment

Canada’s Answer to America’s Abandonment

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Governors Can Not Remove Elected Legislators. Period. A democracy must have an independent legislature. Only voters elect and unelect representatives.

History and Article IV’s Guarantee Clause makes clear that a state’s governor cannot remove members of the legislature. No governor has ever claimed such power. It runs against the full history of Texas and American democracy as a whole.

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BRUSUELAS: “.. U.S. economy stuck in neutral .. a possible economic turning point in the business cycle. If that is the case, one should expect an increase in a series of forecasts of major economic releases to begin surprising to the downside.” 🇺🇸

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Deploying the military and militarized federal police into the streets of American cities is unjustified and a profound threat to our civil liberties. It is another very dangerous, major step into authoritarianism. And make no mistake authoritarianism is not where we’re headed, it’s where we are.

Does America Get It Yet? Four snapshots of our political/social/economic/legal/constitutional moment:

Does America Get It Yet?

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Former Trump Surgeon General on HHS cancelling vaccine research: ‘Over 2 million lives have been saved because of mRNA technology’

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Jesse Rodriguez: NBC News: Pres Trump is considering deploying up to 1,000 National Guard troops to D.C. and could make the announcement as early as tomorrow