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The newly appointed FBI director, Kash Patel, who has also been tapped to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, told his employees to ignore Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s latest...
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Relations between the United States and Ukraine curdled over the course of a meeting of some 50 minutes in the Oval Office, during which President Trump discussed a deal that would require Ukraine to...
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The president of the United States was reported to have told the prime minister of Canada last month that he wanted the two countries to renegotiate their 117-year-old boundary; the Canadian prime...
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Ranjani Srinivasan, a doctoral student who had signed letters in support of Palestine and was arrested at Columbia University last spring, flew to Canada after immigration authorities revoked her...
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A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on December 2, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took Donald Trump seriously when...
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In Turkey, the opposition party’s supporters accused the government of orchestrating the arrest of their party’s presidential candidate; judges in South Korea overturned the impeachment of their prime...
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In the United States, the White House announced a 25 percent tariff on the import of all foreign-made passenger vehicles, and the domestic automaker Ford recalled several vehicles with transmission...
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The number of people confirmed to have been killed by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar increased to 3,354, and the United States increased its tariff on Myanmar exports to 44 percent.1 2 The U.S....
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Apple transported 600 tons of iPhones from India to the United States via chartered cargo jets before the U.S. president’s “Liberation Day” tariffs took effect, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection...
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On Holy Saturday, Russia’s president announced that its forces invading Ukraine would respect a temporary Easter ceasefire; and on Easter Sunday, Ukraine’s president accused him of violating that...
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