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White House says Colombia agrees to take deported migrants after Trump tariff showdown — The White House claimed victory in a showdown with Colombia over accepting flights of deported migrants from the U.S. on Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump threatened steep tariffs on imports …
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Trump to Hold Off on 25% Colombia Tariffs, Reaches Deal on Migrants — US President Donald Trump will hold off on imposing threatened tariffs and sanctions on Colombia after reaching a deal on the return of deported migrants, the White House said. — The South American nation …
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Brazil slams US after dozens of deportees arrive handcuffed — Douglas Magno with Facundo Fernandez Barrio in Sao Paolo — Brazil's government expressed outrage on Saturday after dozens of immigrants deported from the United States arrived by plane in handcuffs, calling it a “flagrant disregard” for their rights.
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Trump Aides Want to Hit Mexico, Canada With Tariffs Before Talks — The 25% import levy could go into place as soon as Feb. 1 — Momentum is growing among President Trump's advisers to place 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada as soon as Saturday, bucking conventional wisdom in Washington …


Trump's Colombia tariffs threaten surge in coffee prices
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Trump Wants to Impose 25% Tariffs on Colombia. Here's What Could Cost More.
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Trump issuing ‘emergency 25% tariffs’ against Colombia after country turned back deportation flights
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Colombian president orders increase of import tariffs on US goods after Trump order
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Trump places tariffs, travel ban on Colombia after not accepting deportation flights


Tech stocks tumble as China's DeepSeek sows doubts about AI spending — Start-up's model raises questions about need for huge western hardware investment — Tech stocks tumbled on Monday as advances by Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek cast doubt on whether the US could sustain …
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Nvidia falls 12% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-off … WATCH NOW — U.S. technology firms plunged in premarket trading, as Chinese startup DeepSeek sparked concerns over competitiveness in AI and America's lead in the sector, triggering a global sell-off.
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Trump's birthright citizenship EO is an attack on the rule of law — 🖊️ ✍️ 🗒️ With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent media is more important right now than ever. … 🖊️ ✍️ 🗒️
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Is Trump's Plan to End Birthright Citizenship ‘Dred Scott II’?
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Trump's agenda is about to hit a make-or-break moment — Huddling at the president's Florida resort, Republicans are looking to make a game plan. — House Republicans are heading to President Donald Trump's Miami-area resort for their annual policy retreat. They're not going there for the weather.
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Tom Emmer Leans on Trump to Keep GOP Rebels in Line
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Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests — The administration wants to increase the number of arrests from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, increasing the chances that non-criminals will be detained.
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Graham on Trump purging Inspectors General: 'That's just the way it goes when you win an election.' — Republican Senator Lindsey Graham tells CNN's Dana Bash that President Trump should have notified Congress ahead of firings, but he has the right to have people who will carry out his agenda.
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Lindsey Graham Says Trump Was Wrong to Pardon Violent Jan. 6 Rioters

Ratcliffe says Trump wants ‘politics out of the intelligence community’
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This Man is a Coward. — Mark Zuckerberg sat in the safety of his bubble this week, silent as Donald Trump dismantled and declawed the National Institutes of Health. Forty billion dollars in research funding now hangs frozen. Thousands of scientists wait in limbo.


The foreign policy of an American kleptocracy — President Trump's Middle East policy took a dark turn on Saturday when he announced on Air Force One that he favored the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza. “You're talking about a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing,” Trump said.
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Perplexity AI proposes TikTok merger with 50% U.S. government ownership stake — Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok's parent company that would allow the U.S. government to own up to 50% of a new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok's U.S. business, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Who is protecting Americans from Marburg right now? — The U.S. had a playbook — now undermined — for responding to biological threats — On Saturday, Jan. 11, as we entered the final week of the Biden-Harris administration, I got a call about a suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania.


Elon Musk's call for Germany to ‘move beyond’ Nazi guilt is dangerous, Holocaust memorial chair says — Musk made a virtual appearance at a campaign event for Germany's far-right AfD party, saying “children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents.”


Children of the 1960s watch in pain as the story of our lifetime is erased — My almost pathological obsession with what historians now call “the Long Sixties” — especially the years between JFK's assassination in 1963 and Richard Nixon's Watergate downfall in 1974 — includes …


Trump Administration Begins Immigration Arrests in Chicago — The number of arrests was uncertain. Illinois officials, including the governor, said they had not been given advance notice. — The Justice Department announced Sunday it had begun a multiagency immigration enforcement operation in Chicago …
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