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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 8h
For the best part of a century, the biggest threat to the residents of Svalbard was polar bears. Increasingly, it now comes from Russia. 🔗 vist.ly/5kvn9
Headline on maroon background: Putin is testing NATO on Norway’s remote Arctic islands.
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The Economist @economist.com · 8h
Most who had been considering a move to the United States are now simply staying put, either at home or wherever they ended up en route. Some countries are keen to keep more of their people, and to welcome others
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The world’s busiest migration route has gone quiet
Donald Trump’s immigration curbs have changed the movement of people throughout a hemisphere
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Reuters @reuters.com · 23h
'Handful' of G20 countries reject US stance on excess industrial capacity reut.rs/4zxmpsT
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'Handful' of G20 countries reject US stance on excess industrial capacity
A "handful" of G20 trade ministers rejected US calls to curb excess industrial capacity and "non-market" policies, the US Trade Representative's office ​said on Friday, exposing divisions within the group of major ‌economies.
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 23h
If they win, the Democrats would push to expand Medicare coverage to include dental, vision and hearing benefits.
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Medicare update: Major changes proposed by Democrats if they win midterms
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 02/10/2026
B.C. unions say that employers aren’t willing to play ball when they try to bring to the bargaining table issues around job displacement, data privacy and safety related to AI in the workplace. thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...
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Should Workers Get to Bargain on AI? | The Tyee
Employers are refusing to include protections on artificial intelligence in contract negotiations, unions say.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/10/2026
“They’re not just going to fall in line in the general when you see Talarico using the exact same issues against Paxton that Cornyn did.” trib.al/aV0znwM
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New Fox Poll—a Disaster for Trump—Rattles Fox Anchors: “Wake Up!”
They were freaking out on Fox News Friday morning over a new Texas poll. A look at the internals shows they had every reason to.
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026
See what it’s like to travel in the occupied West Bank, for the nearly 3.5 million Palestinians who live there. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/experi...
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OPB @opb.org · 02/10/2026
Trump sought to make an ally out of fishermen during his first term, but recently fishermen have expressed frustration with high fuel costs, a trade war with Canada and cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Trump tried to make an ally out of fishermen. Some have started to turn on him
Fuel costs have also crept up during the war with Iran, pushing diesel fuel into the $6-per-gallon range when it was less than $4 per gallon a year ago. And the trade war with Canada has complicated the American seafood industry’s relationship with a country it has long been interconnected with.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 02/10/2026
"We're at a crossroads." With the midterms one month away, some election officials are hiring lawyers in case federal agents come for their voting machines. A new Reuters investigation shows how the administration got here.
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White House turmoil as Stephen Miller pushed midterm voting machine seizures: report
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller pushed to bring in the FBI and potentially seize more voting machines after investigators found no evidence of vote tampering ahead of the midterm elections.The account comes from a Reuters investigation published Friday into an effort by President Do...
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 02/10/2026
Opponents of Proposition 40 have a message for voters: Don’t be fooled. The billionaire tax is a “Trojan horse” for new taxes on all Californians, ads proclaim. But is that true? cal.news/4yuNeOb 📸 Jeff Chiu, AP
A sign displayed at the Billionaire Tax Now booth at the 2026 California Democratic Party State Convention in San Francisco on Feb. 21, 2026. Photo by Jeff Chiu, AP Photo
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 02/10/2026
An intact explosive device that struck the wing of a Ukrainian aircraft at Germany’s Leipzig Airport has given investigators their clearest look yet at what European officials believe is a wider Russian campaign of attacks. 🔗 vist.ly/5ksm2
Antonov cargo plane at airport with drone flying above.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 02/10/2026
OPINION: "TRUMP is the national security problem and always has been. Maybe someday we’ll find out all of the truth about how he compromised what used to be the GOP, but first, we’ll need to rehab the media."
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This hissy fit exposes what Trump fears most
Donald Trump learned how to manipulate the media while instilling distrust in it directly from his Daddy Vladdy Putin. Beginning in 2015, when Trump ousted a Univision reporter from a press conference, what started as a simmer became a roiling boil that led to his petty, arbitrary, and unconstitutio...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
Burned cattle, drought, smoke-choked pastures—and the SCOTUS case to make Exxon and Suncor pay
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Burned cattle, drought, smoke-choked pastures—and the SCOTUS case to make Exxon and Suncor pay
“Government can’t fix everything, but it's the tool we have to hold the private sector accountable.”
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/10/2026
Major League Baseball has abandoned a proposal to build a ballpark in Grand Teton National Park. After The Post reported on the proposal, local leaders sent letters to the Interior Secretary and MLB Commissioner expressing “strong opposition” to the idea. wapo.st/4zb8I2p
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 02/10/2026
Women of color continue to lag average Americans in measures of wealth and wellness. But when it comes to tracking how Ohio women are doing in the aftermath of last year's deep cuts to the social safety net, people who study the issue say they're flying blind. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/02/h...
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How is Ohio doing amid safety-net cuts? Trump hasn't released the data • Ohio Capital Journal
After making historic cuts to the social safety net, the Trump administration is blocking data showing their effects
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 02/10/2026
Books in different languages do more than support language learning. They connect families, amplify diverse voices and make reading more inclusive.
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National Year of Reading: linguistic diversity should be central to reading for pleasure intiatives
Books in different languages do more than support language learning. They connect families, amplify diverse voices and make reading more inclusive.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 02/10/2026
The City of Chicago joined other cities and states suing the Trump administration for repealing rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas.
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Chicago joins lawsuit over Trump’s EPA repealing rule that limits emissions from power plants
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 01/10/2026
The Milwaukee Art Museum has returned two 19th-century stoneware vessels by Dave (David) Drake to the descendants of the African-American ceramicist under an ownership transfer agreement that allows the objects to be displayed long-term.
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Milwaukee Art Museum Returns Two Jars to David Drake’s Descendants
The Wisconsin museum’s ownership transfer was followed up by a Virginia museum’s announcement of the return of another “Dave the Potter” vessel this week.
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The Economist @economist.com · 01/10/2026
Playing catch-up with the technology is not an option
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Mirror life is dangerous. Regulators must act before it becomes real
Playing catch-up with the technology is not an option
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 01/10/2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has told military academies to stop awarding tenure to civilian faculty, arguing it pulls curricula away from “warfighter” education. The move follows recent court fights over faculty speech at West Point. chroni.cl/4iZpoFh
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Defense Secretary Tells Military Academies to Stop Giving Out Tenure
In making the directive, Pete Hegseth wrote that tenure “often leads to academic stagnation, faculty complacency, and institutional inability to adapt to emerging needs.”
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 01/10/2026
The California colleges where popular majors deliver top pay
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The California colleges where popular majors deliver top pay
Which California colleges lead to the highest pay? New data reveal graduate earnings for popular majors such as business, psychology and nursing.
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family sues U.S. government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis
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Renee Good's family sues U.S. government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis
Renee Good's family sued U.S. government officials in a wrongful death suit over her killing by an ICE agent during the Minneapolis immigration crackdown.
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1mitzvah.bsky.social @1mitzvah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Do you remember President Johnson?
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brucemyka.bsky.social @brucemyka.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Now that Elon has Trump’s tax information. He should release it to the public.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026
A powerful El Niño is already influencing extreme weather around the planet. During the last strong El Niño, federal agencies ramped up research in the hope of improving weather forecasts. This year, they won't be matching that effort. trib.al/dkJLZ2X
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Studying this super El Niño could save lives. NOAA is scaling back research
A powerful El Niño is already influencing extreme weather around the planet. During the last strong El Niño, federal agencies ramped up research in the hope of improving weather forecasts. This year, they won't be matching that effort.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 01/10/2026
'It's a sign of a morality that has largely evaporated since Donald Trump returned to power.' Simon Marks dissects the case of Christa Pike, the death row inmate who murdered her classmate in 1995 and, today, survived two lethal injections.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 01/10/2026
An Indian airline captain is hailed as a hero after a cockpit attack on a FlyDubai flight
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An Indian airline captain is hailed as a hero after a cockpit attack on a FlyDubai flight
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 01/10/2026
A Republican political action committee spent $131 million over 17 days supporting Ken Paxton's Senate bid, according to filings.
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GOP spending over $7m per day to try and save Ken Paxton in Texas
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
Rob Sand does not want to turn a red state blue, he insists. He wants to be the candidate who gets you to stop thinking like that altogether.
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Rob Sand says he isn’t trying to turn Iowa blue. It just might happen anyway.
In a midterms wave fueled by resistance and revenge, the Democratic candidate for governor is singing a different tune.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/10/2026
Switzerland’s iconic glaciers lost an enormous amount of ice in 2026, a new report shows, signaling an ongoing rapid meltdown driven by climate change that has astonished scientists. About 20 percent of glacial ice in Switzerland has vanished since 2021.
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Switzerland’s glaciers are losing an astonishing amount of ice. See the meltdown.
Dry winters and a warming climate are taking a toll on centuries-old ice in the Alps, researchers say, with about 20 percent of Swiss glacial ice melting since 2021.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 01/10/2026
Indian ​pilot Smit Machchhar, hailed as a hero for averting a crash of Israel-bound flydubai jet, is recovering in a hospital in Saudi Arabia where his flight was diverted after the co-pilot reportedly ​stabbed him mid-air in an attempt to crash the plane reut.rs/4jywFfq
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From textile engineering to cockpit hero: Indian pilot wins praise after flydubai drama
For Indian ​pilot Smit Machchhar, aviation was never ‌part of his childhood dreams.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/09/2026
"One in 10 people told us that they are selling their blood plasma just to make more money." trib.al/n6GR4L6
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Transcript: Trump Erupts in Panic as GOP Midterm Fears Grow: “Wipeout”
As Trump unravels on Truth Social and GOP alarm worsens, a progressive data researcher explains the deeper reasons voters are so dissatisfied right now—especially in red states with big Senate races.
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 30/09/2026
We speak with labor organizers across the USA and Canada about why labor unions are more important now than ever, and how workers organizing collectively can change their workplaces, their lives, and the world.
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Want to save the world? Start by unionizing your workplace
We speak with labor organizers across the USA and Canada about why labor unions are more important now than ever, and how workers organizing collectively can change their workplaces, their lives, and ...
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Wayne in Oro🇨🇦🍁 @wahope18.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another positive step for Canada as it increases ties to the world!
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Wayne in Oro🇨🇦🍁 @wahope18.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump is so used to having his own way despite a constitution and law in the US that he naturally thinks he can break international agreements with impunity, including trade agreements. The US will be a long time overcoming Trump dung!
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
FBI accuses Chloe Freeman of federal misdemeanor in case of undocumented Mexican migrant arrested in Michigan
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Nurse charged with helping man in hospital escape from ICE custody
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Decrypt @decrypt.co · 30/09/2026
US Government's New AI Chatbot Has a Weird Minecraft Secret
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US Government's New AI Chatbot Has a Weird Minecraft Secret
Ask the U.S. government's new AI chatbot about Minecraft and it produces a roughly 1,800-word bureaucratic remix of the game's ending poem. It's an easter egg, not a hallucination.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/09/2026
Breaking News: The Federal Reserve’s independent watchdog found no misconduct associated with the central bank’s nearly $2.5 billion project to overhaul its headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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Fed’s Watchdog Finds No Misconduct or Illegal Activity in Costly Renovations
A new report by the Federal Reserve’s independent inspector general concluded that a nearly $2.5 billion construction project was poorly managed but made no referrals to the U.S. Attorney General.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 30/09/2026
Bill Gates told NBC News' Kristen Welker that AI is “powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths.” President Trump brushed aside AI doomsday warnings when questioned by NBC News’ White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
Perhaps Senator Eric Schmitt was a little too hawkish during his questioning of Jack Smith today. After accusing the former special counsel of perjury over whether he’d been at a Hawks basketball game, Schmitt was hit with an awkward moment of live fact-checking.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
Late-night hosts discussed Trump’s private ballroom tour for China’s Xi Jinping and his ‘great interest’ in granite
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Jon Stewart on Trump offering to sell weapons to China: ‘How does America even stay on the map sometimes?’
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 29/09/2026
Here’s what the data reveals about the country’s factory farm hotbed. buff.ly/bjjwbk3
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We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned.
Here’s what the data reveal about the country’s factory farm hotbed.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/09/2026
A slew of reports that Arab officials warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about a serious threat emerging from Gaza days before the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas have put him on the defensive less than 30 days before a pivotal election.
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Reports that Netanyahu ignored Oct. 7 warnings dominate Israeli election
The Israeli prime minister has denied any advance knowledge of the Hamas attack in 2023, but as a national election nears his role is under new scrutiny.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 29/09/2026
Trump's DOJ has ignored court orders before. It may do it again. A judge ordered the administration to give notice before releasing federal voter eligibility lists. DOJ lawyers pushed back hard. If it doesn't comply, voters could be purged during the midterms: demdock.com/4rBk0u6
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 29/09/2026
The Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump that have drawn widespread criticism from Republicans and Democrats as a misuse of taxpayer dollars that likely runs afoul of anti-propaganda law. to.pbs.org/46W8fFh
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Homeland Security spending $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads
The Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump that have drawn widespread criticism from Republicans and Democrats as a ...
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Prism @prismreports.org · 29/09/2026
Vargas Moreno’s family is telling their story for the first time. “The people with the power need to do something so that what happened to Carlos doesn’t happen to anyone else.” prismreports.org/2026/09/29/f...
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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina
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Prism @prismreports.org · 29/09/2026
It was 4 p.m. & 90 degrees when farmworker Carlos Vargas Moreno set out to weed a watermelon field in Goldsboro, North Carolina, on July 19, 2022. Just before 6 p.m., he collapsed. He was later diagnosed with heat stroke. Since then, the 38-year-old man is unable to walk or care for himself.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 29/09/2026
A farmworker died. Another became disabled by a heat stroke. Their employer, Florida Orange Gold, keeps sending hundreds of migrant farmworkers out to the blistering North Carolina fields, @tinavasquez.bsky.social reports in an investigation with @us.theguardian.com & @enlacelatinonc.bsky.social.
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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 29/09/2026
U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles.
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From motorcycles to booze, US ban on $1 billion worth of Canadian imports goes into effect
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
Federal workers’ union alleges EPA illegally terminated agreement with the goal of repressing political dissent
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EPA union sues Trump administration to restore collective bargaining contract
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