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The European Union (E.U.) is set to ban Brazilian meat imports on September 3 over the use of antibiotics to stimulate growth unless producers show compliance with safety regulations before the deadline — an announcement that comes roughly two weeks after the E.U. provisionally kicked off its controversial free trade deal with Mercosur. An E.U. committee group unanimously voted on Tuesday to remove Brazil from the list of countries authorized to export animal products intended for human consumption. The decision reportedly makes Brazil the first country to be removed from the list of states that complies with E.U. restrictions on…

A California-based data software company violated federal employment discrimination laws by importing foreign workers for high-paying tech jobs instead of hiring qualified Americans, Labor Department officials say. On Tuesday, officials announced that Cloudera Inc. has been suspended for 180 days from the federal government’s PERM program, which allows companies to import foreign workers on employment-based green cards. Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said Cloudera violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by discriminating against qualified Americans in their job application process in favor of foreign workers. “Protecting the integrity of our immigration and labor systems requires employers to follow the…

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary resigned from his position on Tuesday, amid reports that President Donald Trump was considering firing him. Makary’s resignation comes after NBC News reported on Friday that “a source familiar with the matter” shared that Trump was considering firing Makary. The report came as Makary had received criticism as he “had yet to release a promised safety review of the abortion pill mifepristone, something he told Republican senators he would pursue during his confirmation process last year,” the outlet reported. Makary was also described as having “struggled to manage the FDA’s bureaucracy…

House Republicans are aiming to finish before August another party-line bill that they hope will persuade voters to keep them in power in midterm elections. House GOP leaders and a group of GOP members in closed-door meetings Tuesday discussed passing a third reconciliation bill by the end of July, five people with direct knowledge of the conversations told POLITICO. The third party-line bill would be in addition to the current immigration enforcement spending bill moving through the Senate. Speaker Mike Johnson told POLITICO as he left the House floor Tuesday “I do” think Republicans can meet that timeline. Rep. August…

Rana Dasgupta maps the decay of Britain and America, but his vision of what comes next is far less convincing than his diagnosis It is apposite that ‘After Nations, The Making and Unmaking of a World Order’ – written by English novelist turned historian Rana Dasgupta – should be published as Donald Trump is desperately seeking to extract America from an ill-judged and calamitous war in Iran.‘After Nations’ is an analysis of the rise and fall of the modern nation state – which Dasgupta sees as a uniquely powerful, secular political entity that first emerged in Western Europe some 300…

Days of plotting against Britain’s lame-duck Prime Minister took a pause for a key part of Britain’s living constitution to be played out, with the pomp and ceremony of the State Opening of Parliament. The UK Parliament has been re-opened after a two week prorogation, the house sitting again and hearing The King’s Speech, the formal means by which the elected government presents its legislative plan for the coming year. His Majesty the King arrived at the Palace of Westminster, which contains both the House of Lords and the House of Commons, by coach from Buckingham Palace, and proceeded to…

On Tuesday, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a lawsuit against the city of Jacksonville over the alleged compilation of a registry of guns brought into city buildings. On May 4, 2025, Breitbart News reported that Jacksonville Councilman Nick Howland (R) alleged the city had been gathering information and keeping a gun registry since July 2023. Howland told Action News Jax the registry was allegedly compiled from information gathered on people entering two city buildings while armed. First Coast News pointed out that “two binders containing the logs were discovered,” and “a State Attorney’s Office investigation determined that the registry was illegal, but the…

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “All In,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) claimed FBI Director Kash Patel was wasting taxpayer money on “political witch hunts.” Van Hollen said, “What we witnessed today was the latest in a long line of abuses by this FBI director. He’s fired people for purely political reasons, longtime professional FBI agents. He’s concocted this made up new assault against Comey, with respect to the case, the political prosecution. And now we have all these reports from multiple sources that he drinks so heavily that it interferes with his job. As I told him today, I don’t give a damn…

Code Pink activists have accused the weapons giant of complicity in the wars in Gaza, Iran, and Lebanon Anti-war activists have disrupted a Politico security forum sponsored by Lockheed Martin in Washington, DC, protesting the company’s role in supplying weapons for wars in the Middle East.The ‘Security Summit’ held on Tuesday brought together US officials, lawmakers, defense executives, and foreign figures to discuss military priorities, Iran, cybersecurity, and AI warfare.Politico said it aimed to “dissect the administration’s changing posture” on defense and future weapons. Critics mocked it as a war-planning shop dressed up as a security event.Members of the anti-war…

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Tuesday reported two new hantavirus infections linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius, bringing the total up to 11, including 9 confirmed cases and 2 suspected. W.H.O. considers the outbreak to be under control, with low risk to the general public – although a few more infections may yet be detected. “We expect more cases given the dynamics of spread on a ship and the virus’ incubation period. At the moment, there is no sign that we are seeing the start of a larger outbreak,” W.H.O. said in its latest hantavirus update. The Spanish…