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President Trump on Thursday threatened to impose 35% tariffs on goods from Canada starting next month, hiking import duties on one of the U.S.’s largest trading partners.The president announced the 35% tax in a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney posted to Truth Social, citing Canada’s alleged “failure to stop the drugs from pouring into our country,” as well as retaliatory tariffs Canada has imposed on U.S. goods. The new tariffs are set to take effect Aug. 1, the president said.The move is an escalation from the 25% tariffs on Canadian — and Mexican — imports announced by Mr.…

July 10, 2025 The Constitution, properly interpreted, protects workers. But the Trump administration isn’t going to enforce those protections unless labor fights for them. Ad Policy Members of the International Association of Machinists walking the picket line on Friday, May 23, 2025. In Thornhill v. Alabama, the Court held that picketing is an “indispensable” right.(Jim Michaud / Connecticut Post via Getty Images) Over the past half century, the Supreme Court has continually twisted the Constitution into a document that is implacably hostile to workers. In 2020, a conservative majority on the court used the Fifth Amendment to strike down a…

A top Trump administration official accused Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell of leading an “ostentatious” office renovation project that may be “violating the law” on Thursday, a new broadside against the central bank chief as President Trump tangles with him over interest rates.”The President is extremely troubled by your management of the Federal Reserve System,” Office of Management and Budget Chair Russell Vought wrote in a letter Thursday.The letter came after months of criticism from Mr. Trump over the Fed’s decision not to slash interest rates. Economists say lowering rates may accelerate economic growth, but also runs the risk of…

On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the child’s birth in New York. For a moment, the outspoken Palestinian activist found himself uncharacteristically speechless. “I cannot describe the pain of that night,” Khalil said finally, gazing down as the baby, Deen, cooed in his arms. “This is something I will never forgive.” Now, weeks after regaining his freedom, Khalil is seeking restitution. On Thursday, his lawyers filed a claim for $20 million in…

Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, talks to the media during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, July 11, 2023. Salvatore Di Nolfi/AP/Keystone hide caption toggle caption Salvatore Di Nolfi/AP/Keystone UNITED NATIONS — The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it is issuing sanctions against an independent investigator tasked with probing human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, the latest effort by the United States to punish critics of Israel’s 21-month war in Gaza. The State Department’s decision to impose sanctions on…

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said that if Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, were to be released from pretrial detention, ICE officials have not determined where he would be sent. “There’s been no decision made, as he is not in ICE custody,” Thomas Giles, assistant director for ICE enforcement and removal operations, testified Thursday in federal court in Maryland. Giles was in court after U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis earlier this week ordered the government to produce someone with firsthand knowledge of any third country Abrego Garcia where he could be…

July 10, 2025 It’s hard not to see a straight line between Stalin’s version of photoshopping and the purge of the Pentagon archives in 2025. Ad Policy Former US president Donald Trump during a campaign event at Alro Steel in Potterville, Michigan, on August 29, 2024.(Emily Elconin / Bloomberg) This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. In early June, The Washington Post published a follow-up to earlier stories on a Trump administration plan to remove thousands of photographs from Defense Department websites because…

Walmart is recalling roughly 850,000 water bottles after a problem with the lid caused two people to suffer permanent vision loss and another to sustain injuries.The lid on the Ozark Trail stainless steel bottles can forcefully eject when users try to open it, posing “serious impact and laceration hazards,” according to a July 10 notice posted by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The federal regulatory agency said people who own the water bottle should stop using it immediately and contact Walmart for a full refund. Consumers may also get a refund by bringing the product to their nearest Walmart. Walmart is…

President Trump announced Wednesday that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will temporarily lead the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, weeks after Mr. Trump withdrew an Elon Musk-linked entrepreneur as his pick to lead the space agency. The president praised Duffy in a Wednesday Truth Social post, writing: “He will be a fantastic leader of the ever more important Space Agency, even if only for a short period of time.””Honored to accept this mission. Time to take over space. Let’s launch,” Duffy wrote on X.NASA was being led by Janet Petro, a former leader of the Kennedy Space Center who has served as the agency’s…