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OTTAWA – Canada’s insistence on taxing American tech companies for Canadian-sourced revenue has prompted the U.S. to walk away from ongoing trade negotiations. In a social media post on Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced an immediate suspension of trade and tariff talks with Canada due to the Digital Services Tax (DST) – describing it as “egregious” and a “direct and blatant attack” on the U.S. “Based on this egregious tax, we are hereby terminating all discussions on trade with Canada, effective immediately,” Trump wrote on TruthSocial. “We will let Canada know the tariff that they will be paying to...

CompaniesStellantis NVVolkswagen AG BERLIN/BEIJING, June 27 (Reuters) - The threat of mass shutdowns across the automotive supply chain is fading as Chinese rare earth magnets begin to flow, though automakers and suppliers say production plans still face uncertainties and a continued risk of shortages. European suppliers have received enough licences to avoid the widespread disruptions predicted earlier this month but hundreds of permits remain pending, said Nils Poel, head of market affairs at supplier association CLEPA. The rate of issuance is "accelerating" and has risen to 60% from 25%, he said, but cases where the end users are based in...

Just because the judiciary chooses to violate the Constitution does not mean the other branches are required to follow suit. ... Since returning to office, President Trump has faced what can only be described as a judicial coup. Through the use of overreaching nationwide injunctions, predominantly Democrat-appointed judges have gleefully granted requests from left-wing activists to block enforcement of the agenda 77 million Americans voted for last year. Yet, despite this egregious affront to America’s constitutional framework, Trump and his administration are neglecting to stop it. The latest example of the administration’s refusal to uphold separation of powers is its...

Like any conservative, I'm horrified to see what New York City has chosen as its top candidate in its primary.Slick-talking, endlessly cheerful, communist-as-they-come Ugandan-born Zohran Mamdani defeated a weak slate of candidates and now heads to the runoff in a largely one-party city at the end of the year. Low turnout, white trust-fund babies, and the Asian achiever vote are reportedly responsible for the outcome.Overwhelming majority of the NYC Asians voted for Mamdani—namely Chinese and Indians. It’s so sad that so many Chinese still prefer socialism/communism after fleeing China as they still believe in free handouts from the government 😱...

Trump and Israel dismantled Iran’s terror mystique in days—no nukes, no saviors, just a regime stewing in its own impotence as the world quietly moved on. It is hard even to digest the incredible train of events of the last few days in the Middle East. Iran had been reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile attack on our base in Qatar—the last Parthian shot from a terrified regime, desperate for an out—and a ceasefire. Iran would have been better off not launching such a ceremonial but ultimately humiliating proof of impotence. Even worse for the theocracy, Iran’s temporary reprieve came...

President Trump’s decision to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, after earlier denouncing U.S. embroilment in foreign wars, introduces another complication for China’s leaders trying to fathom how he might handle conflict over Taiwan. Chinese officials and experts were already trying to game out Mr. Trump’s approach to Taiwan, the island democracy that Beijing claims as its territory. They will now likely be assessing the Iran strikes for new insights into Mr. Trump, who had opposed military action months earlier while he pursued diplomacy, and then rained missiles and bombs on three key nuclear sites on Sunday. For China, Mr. Trump is...

Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed two budget proposals Wednesday, calling them partisan and reckless, as legislators near a deadline to reach a deal and avoid a state government shutdown. Her action comes after House Republicans indicated last week that a budget negotiated by the state Senate and Hobbs’ office lacked the needed votes in its chamber. The House instead introduced a budget to keep state operations running beyond June 30 and buy more time for negotiations. The chamber passed a separate budget earlier this month. “It cuts tuition, raises pay for law enforcement, fixes critical roads, and reins in...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Spain's refusal to meet the NATO defense spending target of 5% of gross domestic product will mean a tougher trade deal for the southern European country. Speaking at a news conference at NATO's annual summit in the Netherlands, Trump said it was "terrible" that Spain wouldn't commit to meeting the target by 2035. "You know they are doing very well. The economy is [doing] very well. And that economy could be blown right out of the water with something bad happening," Trump said. "You know what we're going to do? We're negotiating with...

Israel said its airports were returning to full activity and it was lifting restrictions on civilian movements after the president announced a truce.President Trump responded with anger when there was continued fire between Israel and Iran after a U.S.-brokered cease-fire went into effect. But in subsequent hours, there were initial signs that the cease-fire might be holding.Israel said on Tuesday that it was lifting nearly all wartime restrictions on civilian movement and economic activity, and the Israeli airport authority said Ben Gurion and Haifa airports are returning to full activity.Israel had earlier Tuesday confirmed the cease-fire, saying it had achieved...

The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti, upholding Tennessee’s ban on medical gender interventions for children, reflects a split in the Justices’ views of medicine: Is it about restoring patients’ health or satisfying their wants? The court held last week that the Tennessee law permissibly distinguished between different medical uses of puberty blockers and hormones for children. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts explained that medical treatments are defined not only by the drug used but by the purpose for which it is prescribed. Administering testosterone to a boy with delayed puberty is categorically different from...

Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said she had “many questions” about the success of President Donald Trump’s military strike on three Iranian nuclear facilities. Cooper asked, “You’re somebody in Washington who’s, you know, people on both sides of the aisle consider a straight shooter. You have your what you believe in and you stand by it, sometimes it’s out of favor, sometimes it’s in favor with your own party. Do you think it was the right move by President Trump to order air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities given what we have seen now as...

Where is the missing nuclear material? Geraldo Rivera says that should be the biggest headline regarding the Iran conflict, adding that it's really the reason for Israel and the U.S. to be involved in the battle, should be the priority and part of negotiations with the country. More: https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/trump-announces-us-attack-on-iran/

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Never-Trumper Bill Kristol proclaimed the revival neo-conservatism after President Donald Trump bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities and mused that perhaps the “current regime” was incapable of making Iran “great.”Earlier in the weekend, Trump ordered attacks on three key sites in Iran’s uranium enrichment infrastructure, which were carried out using 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs. Then, on Sunday, he mused that if the current regime was “unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!”In response, Kristol quipped back, “brb – starting up PNAC again…” referencing the defunct neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which...

The Supreme Court issued decisions in six cases today, so that leaves just ten cases remaining on its docket for the term. It’s now possible to hazard a decent guess as to which justice will write the majority opinion in each of the remaining cases.… … …The two remaining cases from April are both big: Kennedy v. Braidwood Management (Appointments Clause challenge to Preventive Services Task Force) and Mahmoud v. Taylor (religious rights of public-school parents). Alito, Kagan, and Jackson haven’t written for April. I’ll guess Alito for Mahmoud. I can’t see either Kagan or Jackson being assigned to write...

.. every objective metric, support for trans rights is worse now than it was six or seven years ago. And that’s not isolated to just trans issues. I think if you look across issues of gender right now, you have seen a regression. Marriage equality support is actually lower now than it was a couple of years ago in a recent poll. support that we saw for trans rights in 2016, 2017 — it was a mirage of support in some ways. Because I think, in the postmarriage world, there was a transfer of support from the L.G.B. to the...

What Trump’s Strike Means for Iran, the Middle East, and American Power. 1. What are we to make of Saturday night’s destruction of the three Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan?Trump and the U.S. military took a great risk and succeeded in astounding fashion. Operationally, the destruction of the nuclear sites seems to have gone perfectly, in contrast to a long history of America’s Middle East debacles from the failed 1980 Carter rescue mission to the 2021 flight from Kabul. The long-overdue message to Iran is that there are finally consequences for a half-century effort of killing Americans,...

Imagine going to the doctor and being told that the medication you’ve been taking for years is now illegal to prescribe to you. The doctor can give it to other people who are different from you — people experiencing depression, for example, or women going through menopause, or cancer patients — but it’s no longer allowed for people like you. ...news broke of a manager’s amendment to the budget that changed what was initially a ban on gender-affirming care for youth on Medicaid into a ban on adult transition care on Medicaid. A change to one line in the budget...

President Trump’s decision to strike Iran’s three most significant nuclear sites on Saturday helped rid the world of a grave nuclear threat and was a large step toward restoring U.S. deterrence. It also creates an opportunity for a more peaceful Middle East, if the nations of the region will seize it. “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” Mr. Trump said Saturday night. He made clear Iran brought this on itself. “For 40 years, Iran has been saying ‘death to America,’ ‘death to Israel.’ They’ve been killing our people,” he said, citing 1,000 Americans killed by...

For 40 years, Iran’s relentless hostility toward the U.S. has fueled proxy wars, terror attacks, and nuclear ambitions. Now, after diplomatic overtures were rejected, America’s decisive strike on Iran’s nuclear sites signals a historic turning point in the Middle East power struggle. For 40 years, Iran has reverberated with the menacing chant of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” a rallying cry born from the 1979 Islamic Revolution under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Last night, Saturday, June 21, 2025, that decades-long hostility faced a decisive response when President Donald Trump authorized a U.S. military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities at...