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The US president has said businesses will avoid impending tariffs by moving south US President Donald Trump has urged Canadian businesses operating in the American market to relocate south of the border “immediately,” amid an escalating trade war between the two neighboring nations.The demand follows Trump’s announcement of new 50% tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks, automotive parts, and steel, set to take effect on January 1, in response to what he called Canada’s “unequal treatment” of American vehicles, dairy products, and alcohol. The duties are in addition to 50% levies imposed earlier this month on around $20 billion worth of…

Image: Video screenshot. Federal prosecutors have convened a rarely used special grand jury to investigate attendance, truancy and graduation practices inside Washington, D.C.’s scandal-plagued public school system. The sprawling investigation reportedly centers on how the Democrat-run District supervises and protects young people, and whether its schools are accurately documenting student attendance and awarding diplomas. Teachers and other employees from several D.C. Public Schools campuses have been contacted by federal prosecutors and questioned about student absences, graduation practices and how attendance records are maintained, according to 7News. Some of those called before the panel are connected to Ballou High School, which…

On this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) responded to a question about what Congress could accomplish with 14 days left on the Senate calendar before the November midterms. The Florida Republican pledged that she and her colleagues would push back on the “historic obstruction” they were facing from their Democrat colleagues. “I do want to ask you about the business at hand. So, the Senate returns September 14,” host Cheryl Casone said. “You’re only, though, going to have 14 scheduled days in session before the Upper Chamber then leaves to head home, campaign for…

Washington will roll out new secondary sanctions targeting Tehran’s partners every week, Treasury chief Scott Bessent has said The US is preparing to unleash “financial violence” against Iran by rolling out new secondary sanctions every week, with banks first in line, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said. Foreign banks dealing with Iranian funds could ultimately be cut off from the dollar-based financial system.The renewed economic pressure comes as US and Iranian forces exchanged strikes for the first time since late July.On Sunday, Washington struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island near the Strait of Hormuz, claiming the Islamic Republic’s…

Screenshot Louisiana Senator John Kennedy says Senate Republicans have no money budgeted to defend Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his Senate race and is looking to President Trump for help. “We in the Senate don’t have the money budgeted for Texas,” Kennedy said in an interview with Fox News on Sunday. ”We need help from the President. The President says he has $850 million in his campaign accounts. That’s a lot of jack.” Watch the clip below: 🚨Just in: Louisiana Senator John Kennedy says Senate Republicans don’t have any plans to spend on Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate…

A U.N. committee warned Monday a host countries are legally bound to offer immediate cash settlements as reparations for the transatlantic slave trade alongside other yet to be determined measures – including, but not limited to “truth commissions” – to address the “enduring legacy of racial discrimination” it cautions still envelops the world to this day. The beneficiaries will be “people of African descent.” Reuters reports the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination stated the obligations arise from a legally binding 1965 convention on racial discrimination, not from the legal standards that existed when the slave trade took place. The committee…

Spanish law enforcement officials on Sunday night detained three Moroccan illegal migrants involved in throwing bottles filled with corrosive liquids at military officials in Ceuta. Over the past days, Spanish military officials have been the target of at least three different attacks and ambushes by groups of illegal migrants who invaded Ceuta last month. El Faro de Ceuta and other Spanish outlets report that the third known such attack occurred on Sunday afternoon. Per the reports, three Moroccan nationals threw bottles containing a corrosive liquid at military officials at Ceuta’s San Amaro neighborhood. Police officers and illegal migrants clash at…

The House is back in session, but it might be a short one.Speaker Mike Johnson is looking to tick off the lone essential item on the chamber’s to-do list in lawmakers’ first days back: a Senate-passed, shutdown-averting spending bill.A handful of other priorities are caught up in partisan battles and Senate limbo. Rebel factions in a thin House GOP majority continue to threaten Republicans’ plans of opening the floor for debate. And many Republicans are simply eager to get back home to campaign ahead of the November midterms rather than endure more headaches in Washington.Together, those dynamics have fueled open…

RT explores the reasons why people in the island nation chose to keep the European Union at arm’s length Icelanders appear to have found a way to have their cake and eat it by rejecting a proposal to restart integration talks with the EU, RT’s Rachel Marsden reports.In a referendum on the weekend, almost 53% of voters in the northern Atlantic nation supported maintaining the status quo rather than exploring the possibility of EU membership.The small island country already has access to many of the benefits offered by the economic bloc, but cannot be dictated to by Brussels on key…

A federal appeals court has ruled that the private possession of AI-generated child pornography is protected by the First Amendment, so long as no real child was involved in creating the images. The Seventh Circuit upheld the dismissal of a possession charge against Wisconsin resident Steven Anderegg. According to investigators, Anderegg had hundreds of AI-generated sexually explicit images depicting children on his personal devices. Anderegg still faces three other charges related to allegedly producing and distributing the material and transferring it to a minor under 16. The Justice Department appealed the dismissal, arguing that the government should be permitted to…