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Trump agrees to delay tariffs after Mexican President vows to send troops to border

President Donald Trump agreed to delay the imposition of sweeping tariffs on Mexico by one month after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum promised to send 10,000 troops to the southern border to help the U.S. curb illegal immigration and fentanyl trafficking.

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Air traffic control and the DEI debate in wake of mid-air Reagan Airport collision

As Charlie notes, even after last night’s air disaster culminated a series of near-misses over the past four years, American air travel remains astonishingly safe, and the likelihood is that a full investigation will find that last night’s crash of an Army Blackhawk helicopter into a commercial airliner was (1) a total freak accident, (2) the result of a mechanical problem with the helicopter, and/or (3) human error by the helicopter pilot, perhaps compounded by poor air-traffic control. Efforts to blame this on Donald Trump, whose transportation secretary Sean Duffy only took office yesterday morning, say more about the people …

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Tulsi Gabbard grilled on Snowden, warrantless wiretaps, Assad meeting in fraught DNI confirmation hearing

U.S. senators’ private concerns with Tulsi Gabbard’s history of unconventional national security views burst into public view on Thursday when the director of intelligence nominee — a former Hawaii congresswoman, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, and lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve — sat before the Senate Intelligence Committee for a tense confirmation hearing that did little to dispel the narrative that her path to confirmation remains narrow.

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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau announces resignation ahead of general election

Embattled Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday morning he will resign as leader of the nation’s ruling Liberal Party, stepping aside ahead of a general election in which his prospects looked grim due to growing voter dissatisfaction with his nine-year tenure and a high-profile feud with President-elect Donald Trump over trade policy.

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Biden bans new oil and gas drilling in 625 million acres of federal waters

President Joe Biden will ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in more than 625 million acres of federal waters, the White House announced Monday, striking a final blow against domestic energy production just two weeks before President elect Donald Trump takes office.

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Geraghty: Trump prioritizes purchases of mineral-rich Greenland from Denmark

On the menu today: I doubt it will ever come to pass, but sometimes President-elect Donald Trump is like a dog with a bone — he just keeps going at it. With just 25 days until Inauguration Day, Trump is bringing up his dream of purchasing the giant, sparsely populated, mineral-rich, and darn cold island of Greenland from Denmark. There’s simultaneously a genuine U.S. geopolitical advantage at stake — but also a sparsely populated, vast frozen island whose economy is currently dependent on subsidies from Denmark.

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Grand jury indicts Luigi Mangione, 26, the suspected assassin of CEO Brian Thompson, on ‘act of terrorism’

A New York grand jury has indicted the suspected assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on charges of murder as an “act of terrorism” for the cold-blooded killing, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg (D) announced Tuesday.

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