Nation and World Politics
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Canada agrees to cut tariff on Chinese EVs in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products
Jan 16, 2026 7:49 am - Breaking with the United States, Canada has agreed to cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric cars in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday.
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'A great deal of fear': Inside a year of firings that have shaken the Trump Justice Department
Jan 16, 2026 7:22 am - WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Ben'Ary was driving one of his children to soccer practice on an October evening last year when he paused at a red light to check his work phone...
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Trump cabinet secretaries conspired to violate Constitution, judge says
Jan 15, 2026 8:00 pm - A federal judge Thursday decried what he said were “breathtaking” constitutional violations by senior Trump administration officials and called the president an “authoritarian” who expects everyone in the executive branch to “toe the line absolutely.”
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Trump announces outlines of health care plan he wants Congress to consider
Jan 15, 2026 3:54 pm - President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the outlines of a health care plan he wants Congress to take up as Republicans have faced increasing pressure to address rising health costs after lawmakers let subsidies expire.
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Venezuela’s Machado tells supporters ‘we can count on President Trump’ after meeting him
Jan 15, 2026 2:28 pm - Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado discussed her country's future with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, even though he has dismissed her credibility to take over after an audacious U.S. military raid captured then-President Nicolás Maduro.
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Harris to deliver key remarks at Chicago’s MLK interfaith breakfastJan 15, 2026 9:58 am - Former Vice President Kamala Harris will return to Chicago to deliver the keynote speech at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. interfaith breakfast on Monday, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced.
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US seizes sixth sanctioned tanker it says has ties to Venezuela in Trump’s effort to control its oil
Jan 15, 2026 9:05 am - U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker that the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela, part of a broader U.S. effort to take control of the South American country’s oil.
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Trump threatens to use the Insurrection Act to ‘put an end’ to protests in Minneapolis
Jan 15, 2026 7:39 am - President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act allowing him to deploy troops as protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement persist in Minneapolis.
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A new era for Canada-China relations? Prime Minister Carney signals change in Beijing
Jan 15, 2026 7:29 am - BEIJING — On the first trip by a Canadian leader to China in eight years, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that the two countries are entering a new era of relati...
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Senators launch a cross-party effort to end stock trading by lawmakers
Jan 15, 2026 7:24 am - Two senators from opposite parties are joining forces in a renewed push to ban members of Congress from trading stocks, an effort that has broad public support but has repeatedly stalled on Capitol Hill.