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Trump's threats and statehood taunts reset race to lead Canada

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For over a year, Canada’s Conservative Party seemed on track to win a decisive victory in the next election as Justin Trudeau’s governing coalition crumbled. Now, nothing seems guaranteed — and the reason is Donald Trump.

The national mood has changed and with it the landscape for this year’s vote. Trudeau’s Liberal Party is making ...Read more

Rejoicing, apprehension as 3 more hostages freed under Israel-Hamas ceasefire

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JERUSALEM — After the most perilous week yet for an already shaky ceasefire that has paused the calamitous Gaza war, the truce stayed on track Saturday with Hamas' release of three Israeli hostages, one of them a U.S. citizen.

Israel, in turn, freed 369 Palestinian prisoners, its government said.

The exchange, the sixth of its kind since the...Read more

Top officials meet next week to prepare Trump-Putin summit

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Senior officials from the U.S. and Russia are meeting next week in Saudi Arabia to pave the way for a potential leaders’ summit as soon as the end of the month to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, according to people familiar with the matter.

Details of the meeting and the list of attendees are still being worked out, but people briefed on ...Read more

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Messy winter storm set to drop snow, rain from NYC to Toronto

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New York and the U.S. Northeast will pick up a few inches of snow overnight on Saturday from a winter storm that will also blanket the Midwest and southern Ontario.

New York City may get 1 to 2 inches of snow beginning late afternoon on Saturday before changing to rain. The system will spread heavier snow over a much wider area, with Boston ...Read more

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'A lot of chaos': Companies try to make sense of working with Trump

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The chief executives of General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. made recent pilgrimages to Washington to figure out answers to questions on every CEO's mind: How do you know which policies President Donald Trump will push through, attempt to influence his decisions, and, meanwhile, explain the business impact to investors without irritating the ...Read more

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For many immigrants arrested by ICE, the next stop is rural Georgia

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ATLANTA -- In late January, federal agents arrested Wilson Velásquez outside of the Honduran immigrant’s church in Tucker, Georgia — a first sign of the expanded immigration enforcement dragnet under President Donald Trump’s second administration. Until Trump’s return to the White House last month, arrests in or near “sensitive” ...Read more

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Trump vows to end Education Department. DOGE has already started

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump this week reiterated his aim to shut down the U.S. Education Department “immediately.” Elon Musk’s budget-slashers have already started doing their part.

Six people are carrying out the work of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency at the agency, reviewing operations, auditing student loan data...Read more

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Flu cases up due to lagging vaccinations and better tests

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ATLANTA — Flu season is well underway, and metro Atlanta hasn’t been spared.

Cases remain high, according to data from the Georgia Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But metro Atlanta doctors say it’s not too late to get vaccinated against influenza. For those who feel the flu coming on, antiviral ...Read more

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The '51st state'? Canadians say no, thanks. They don't want US products either

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TORONTO — Shopping for groceries the other afternoon at his neighborhood supermarket here, Victor Meunier reached for a head of broccoli — then reconsidered. It had been imported from the United States.

Meunier ditched the broccoli and reached for a package of mushrooms with a different label: “Product of Canada.”

It was a small act ...Read more

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LA is already getting fire recovery wrong. 2 experts explain how to do it better

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LOS ANGELES — Soon after catastrophic fires swept through Pacific Palisades and Altadena, wildfire experts Stephen Pyne and Jack Cohen were in high demand. Respected for their historical and scientific expertise, they provided commentary and perspective.

Although neither live in California, they are familiar with its topography, its devil ...Read more

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US seeks to own 50% of Ukraine rare earth minerals in deal: NBC

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The U.S. is seeking to own 50% of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals in a proposal presented to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as part of a partnership accord between the two countries, NBC reported.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent presented the proposal to Zelenskyy in a draft contract, which was brought to their meeting on Wednesday, ...Read more

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Andrew Lester pleads guilty to assault in shooting of KC teen Ralph Yarl. Trial canceled

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Andrew Lester, the Kansas City man accused in the high-profile shooting of Ralph Yarl, the teen who mistakenly went to the door of his Northland home in 2023, pleaded guilty Friday to a lesser charge of second-degree assault.

The plea came on the eve of Lester’s trial in Clay County Circuit Court, which was scheduled to ...Read more

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EPA terminates nearly 400 workers amid US government purge

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WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it had fired 388 workers, part of a wave of terminations across the federal government this week spurred by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

The agency added that the probationary workers were terminated after “a thorough review of agency functions in accordance ...Read more

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LAPD officers accused of making racist and sexist remarks in recruiting office; mayor calls it 'outrageous'

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LOS ANGELES — Four Los Angeles Police Department officers are under investigation for allegedly making racist and sexist remarks while working with new officer recruits — accusations that Mayor Karen Bass called “especially outrageous and unacceptable” on Friday.

A lieutenant, a sergeant and two officers assigned to the Recruiting ...Read more

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Pacific Coast Highway went from smoldering to flooded in just few weeks: California's drought-to-deluge cycle on steroids

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LOS ANGELES — Just five weeks ago, Pacific Coast Highway was smoldering from one of the most destructive firestorms in Los Angeles County history, with burned-out shells where scores of oceanside homes once stood.

On Friday, the storied coastal road had dissolved into a river of mud and debris after a powerful rainstorm sent those burned ...Read more

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SoCal digs out after mudslides, flooding, rain rescues; tornado damages homes

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LOS ANGELES — The biggest storm of the winter walloped Southern California on Thursday, forcing the closure of Pacific Coast Highway, damaging homes and vehicles and bringing with it the possibility of “life-threatening” debris flows just a month after fierce Santa Ana winds propelled a firestorm across Los Angeles County.

Street flooding...Read more

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Trump says new tariffs on autos coming around April 2

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President Donald Trump said he would unveil new tariffs on automobiles, adding to a wave of sweeping import levies as he seeks to remake global trade relationships and pressure companies to move production to the U.S.

“We are going to do that on around April 2,” Trump told reporters Friday in the Oval Office, as he signed an executive order...Read more

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Trump DOJ files motion to dismiss corruption case against NYC Mayor Adams after mass resignations

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NEW YORK — The Department of Justice moved to dismiss the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s sweeping public corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams late Friday after at least seven people quit rather than obey an order from Trump’s new DOJ leaders to abandon the historic prosecution.

The motion was filed by President Donald Trump’s No. 2 at ...Read more

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NYC move to reopen ICE office on Rikers Island stirs passion on both sides

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NEW YORK — The reaction to the mayor’s deal with the Trump administration to re-open ICE immigration operations on Rikers Island has sparked sharp division, with angry opposition among advocates and support in law enforcement circles.

Coincidentally, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in a trailer on Rikers Island was shut down ...Read more

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Dismissed earlier, nuclear bomb specialists may get called back to Energy Department

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WASHINGTON — The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The employees, responsible for designing and maintaining the nation’s cache of nuclear weapons at the National Nuclear Safety ...Read more