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‘Make them pay’: Canada puts Trump's ‘first friend’ Elon Musk's Tesla in the crosshairs of tariff war — Canada's EV adoption rate is outpacing that of the U.S., with nearly 17% of new cars sold in the third quarter of 2024 being fully electric, compared to just 8% in the US. — Business Today Desk
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Elon Musk's team has gotten access to the Treasury Department's payments system. — Trump tariffs: The Canadian government has been notified by the United States government that goods exported to the United States will be subject to a 25 percent tariff, with a lower rate for Canadian oil …


B.C. premier announces countermeasures against U.S. tariffs, including ban on ‘red-state’ liquor — U.S. President Donald Trump will impose 25% tariff on most Canadian imports beginning Tuesday — B.C. Premier David Eby has announced immediate countermeasures in response to incoming U.S. tariffs …


Elon Musk's Team Now Has Access to Treasury's Payments System — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk's representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending. — 1.4k
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Tariffs Are Here. The Price Hikes Coming for These Items May Surprise You. — Now might be a good time to buy a car. You might grab some tomatoes, toy trucks or tequila along the way. — The Trump administration said Saturday it will levy 25% import tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada …
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Trump Favors Blunt Force in Dealing With Foreign Allies and Enemies Alike — With Canada, Mexico, China, Colombia and the Middle East, President Trump has wasted no time threatening to use American might to force recalcitrant countries to back down and do what he wants. — Soft power is out.
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Trump signs order imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China — It's the first official action of the president's second-term trade war. — President Donald Trump on Saturday imposed tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China, the nation's three largest trading partners …
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Mexican president orders retaliatory tariffs against U.S.
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We do not know what exactly Elon Musk is doing to the federal government
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Hockey fans boo U.S. national anthem at Ottawa Senators game after Trump imposes tariffs

China to retaliate after Trump fires first salvo in trade war
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DOGE Gains Access to Payment System Doling Out Trillions to Americans
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Musk aides gain access to sensitive Treasury Department payment system
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With tariffs and threats, Trump turns on America's closest allies
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‘Complete Betrayal’: Canada Reels as Trump Tariff Rattles Major Trading Relationship
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Trump imposes tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China: ‘National emergency’
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U.S. Chamber: Tariffs Are Not the Answer
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Trump puts tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, spurring trade war as North American allies respond
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Elon Musk's DOGE commission gains access to sensitive Treasury payment systems: AP sources
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Stanton Leads 40+ House Democrats in Letter Calling on Trump to Immediately Rescind Tariffs on Mexico and Canada
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Mexico, Canada announce retaliatory measures following Trump tariffs
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Critical FAA warning system outage could cause ‘residual’ flight delays today — Flights across the US could experience “residual delays” Sunday morning as the Federal Aviation Administration works to restore a critical warning system that experienced an outage Saturday night, according to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy.
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F.A.A.'s Main Warning System for Pilots Is Down, U.S. Official Says — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the Federal Aviation Administration was using a backup system while it worked to address the problem. — The Federal Aviation Administration was using a backup system to send real …
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The Gateway Pundit and Fortune


The power of independent journalism: From her Brooklyn apartment, she ‘scooped’ the nation's media — First word of the Trump administration's since-rescinded order to freeze spending on federal loans and grants came not from a major news organization, but from a woman working alone in her Brooklyn apartment.

The Logic of Destruction — What is a country? The way its people govern themselves. America exists because its people elect those who make and execute laws. The assumption of a democracy is that individuals have dignity and rights that they realize and protect by acting together.


‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump — More than 50 interviews with Democratic leaders revealed a party struggling to decide what it believes in, what issues to prioritize and how to confront an aggressive right-wing administration.
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Senior FBI official forcefully resisted Trump administration firings — Brian Driscoll pushed back so aggressively that some feared he would be dismissed. Driscoll has so far not handed over the names of thousands of FBI agents who worked on Jan. 6th cases.
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Education Officials Placed on Leave in Trump's Sprawling Effort to Curb D.E.I. — The Education Department told employees of the suspensions in letters on Friday. Some of those put on leave said they had only a minimal connection to diversity or equity efforts.
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Education Department employees placed on leave for attending diversity training
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NTSB forces reporters to get plane crash updates on X — The agency says it will no longer notify reporters about plane crash press briefings via email. — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Saturday said it will stop e-mailing news organizations and reporters with updates …
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. — I believe we are breaking news some news here. To help sustain independent journalism and analysis, please support Inside Medicine.
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Donald Trump and the incredible shrinking Congress — The framers of the Constitution imagined Congress as the preeminent branch of government. But many Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill seem content to play second fiddle. — Republican lawmakers spent the last two weeks deferring …
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End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say — A sense of crisis among aid groups was growing as U.S.A.I.D.'s website went dark. — The website for the U.S. Agency for International Development went dark Saturday afternoon as lawmakers and aid workers …
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