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Mexico's Sheinbaum Says Tariffs Delayed for One Month … President Claudia Sheinbaum said US tariffs against Mexico will be delayed for one month after a conversation with Donald Trump on Monday. — “Tariffs were paused for a month from now,” Sheinbaum said in a post on X. The Mexican peso gained 0.8% after her comments.
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White House: Mexico is ‘serious’, Canada appears to have ‘misunderstood’ Trump's executive order — The White House said on Monday it has noticed that Mexico is “serious” about President Donald Trump's executive order on tariffs but Canada has “misunderstood” it.
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Trump used fentanyl to justify tariffs, but the crisis was already easing — President Trump says illegal street fentanyl is one of the main justifications for sweeping trade tariffs he plans to impose against Canada, China and Mexico on Tuesday. A statement issued by the White House describes …
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Canada's tariff list targets Republican states, Trump allies — “Canadians understand that we need to respond,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday night. — OTTAWA — Canada's retaliatory tariffs will target Republican states and Donald Trump allies.
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Live Updates: Mexico Reaches Deal With U.S. to Delay Trump Tariffs
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Dow futures drop more than 450 points after Trump hits U.S. trading partners with tariffs: Live updates
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Markets Tumble as Trump Tariffs Loom
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Trump halts tariffs on Mexico as it rushes troops to border
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‘Ripping up the contract’: Canadian premier scraps Musk business amid tariff fight
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Monopoly Round-Up: What Did Trump Just Do on Tariffs?
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USAID workers at Washington HQ told to stay home on Monday in unexpected, early-morning email — The main office of the US Agency for International Development in Washington was unexpectedly closed Monday and workers were emailed shortly after midnight that they should not come in …
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USAID staffers told to stay out of Washington headquarters after Musk said Trump agreed to close it — Staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency's Washington headquarters on Monday, according to a notice distributed to them …
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Trump Administration Closes USAID Headquarters — Monday closure comes as Elon Musk and DOGE are pushing to get rid of foreign-assistance agency — WASHINGTON—The U.S. Agency for International Development closed its headquarters to agency personnel on Monday following moves …
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Behind DOGE's Standoff at USAID: Desk Searches and Elon Musk Calling
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Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Sounds ‘Five Alarm Fire’ Over Latest Elon Musk News
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Primary Every Democrat — I spent almost a decade covering the United States Senate. So, believe me when I tell you that I do not want to be a United States senator. Imagine having a job where your mere existence in the role is a symbol of democratic backsliding, where your leaders torture …
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‘Trump will screw up’: Schumer plots the Democratic comeback — Chuck Schumer's advice for Democrats staring at a long two or more years out of power: Just wait. — “Trump will screw up,” he told Semafor in an interview. — The Senate minority leader and his 47-member caucus finally got …
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The split personality of Big Journalism in covering this nightmare — On Friday, three reporters at the Washington Post broke a huge story. It might have sounded like some kind of bureaucratic development inside the federal government, but it was much more important than that.
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Musk Says DOGE Halting Treasury Payments to US Contractors — Musk Calls USAID ‘a criminal organization’ that should ‘die’ — Billionaire expanding his reach across government spending — Elon Musk said his “DOGE team” of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down payments …


Warren Questions Bessent Over Musk Access to Treasury Payment System — In a letter to the Treasury secretary, the Democratic senator warned against meddling with a system that processes trillions of dollars of transactions. — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts sent a letter …
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Federal Workers Block Doors of Admin Building Over Elon Musk Data Breach — Nearly 100 Federal employees took part in a protest now into its second day of a takeover by Elon Musk surrogates of the high administration arm of the Federal government. Photo: DCMediaGroup
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The GOP Still Has No Legislative Plan — Republicans agree on what they want broadly, but not on the details or how to get there. Failure is not an option, and yet it may happen anyway. — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), with fellow Republicans, speaks during a news conference …
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Follow the Money — Hey guys, I'm sending out Monday's Triad on Sunday night for reasons that will be clear when you read it. So you won't get another Triad in your inbox on Monday—but keep your eyes on the Bulwark homepage, YouTube channel, and podcasts. The team is doing great work making sense of the chaos monkeys.
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More Dangerous than Watergate — In case you missed it—or if you don't subscribe to The Triad …
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Trump plans to invoke obscure 18th century wartime law in bid for mass deportations — President Donald Trump is set to test the limits of his immigration crackdown by invoking a wartime law to deport immigrants alleged to be gang members without court hearings, a broad authority …
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Thousands rally in downtown Los Angeles, shut down 101 Freeway to protest Trump's immigration policies — Thousands of demonstrators rallied in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday and shut down a section of the 101 Freeway to protest President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration and his aggressive deportation policies.
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Senator's ‘flatly unconstitutional’ proposal would lock in Republican control of chamber for years — A Republican senator is proposing an amendment to the state Constitution that would radically alter the structure of the Senate and effectively lock in Republican control of the chamber for the foreseeable future.


Exclusive: Trump's meme coin made nearly $100 million in trading fees, as small traders lost money — Entities behind President Donald Trump's crypto coin have accumulated close to $100 million in trading fees in less than two weeks, according to estimates from three blockchain analysis firms …
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