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FILE - Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces his resignation as Liberal leader and prime minister outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa, Jan. 6, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Canada's Liberals will elect new leader to replace Trudeau as country deals with Trump's trade war

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Canada’s governing Liberals are set to choose a replacement for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The announcement will come as the country deals with U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats … more

By ROB GILLIES | 3/9/25

Bryan Szeliga owner of Fishtown Seafood poses for a photograph at his location in Haddonfield, N.J., Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

How one small business is navigating Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs on Canadian goods

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At Fishtown Seafood, owner Bryan Szeliga is worried about the oysters. Szeliga, who operates three retail and wholesale locations in Philadelphia and Haddonfield, N.J., sells a range of seafood. But … more

By MAE ANDERSON | 3/9/25

An area in front of the security checkpoints is empty at Hamburg Airport, Germany Sunday, March 9, 2025. (Georg Wendt/dpa via AP)

Flight cancellations at Germany's Hamburg Airport affect more than 40,000 passengers after strike

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Flight cancellations at Hamburg Airport after a surprise strike by workers have affected more than 40,000 passengers. The disruption came a day before a planned wider protest across Germany amid new … more

3/9/25

FILE - Salvador Nasralla is surrounded by supporters as he arrives for a rally where he reaffirmed his claim on the presidency of Honduras, in the central park of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Jan. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio, File)

Honduras holds primaries as voter frustration simmers over security and the economy

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Voters in Honduras will select candidates from the three main parties to compete in November’s general election for the presidency. The primaries are being held on Sunday. The Central American … more

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ | 3/9/25

FILE - A sign reading "Property rights matter, no CO2" stands by a highway near Strasburg, N.D., Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Dura, File)

South Dakota law raises questions about future of massive Midwest pipeline

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A new law in South Dakota prohibiting the use of eminent domain to acquire land for carbon capture pipelines challenges the viability of a proposed project snaking through five Midwest states. Summit … more

By SARAH RAZA and JACK DURA | 3/9/25

FILE - President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

China learned from Trump's first trade war and changed its tactics when tariffs came again

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The leaders of both Canada and Mexico got on the phone with President Donald Trump this past week to seek solutions after he slapped tariffs on their countries, but China’s president appears … more

By DIDI TANG | 3/9/25

FILE - Trucks loaded with avocados are seen reflected on a rear view mirror as they are escorted by the police on their way to the city of Uruapan, in Santa Ana Zirosto, Michoacan state, Mexico, Jan. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Armando Solis, File)

Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here

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Long-threatened tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into a trade war abroad — all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty. Since taking … more

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS | 3/8/25

Duke University pharmacology and cancer biology professor Donald McDonnell talks during a tour, Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in Durham, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Universities are facing big cuts to research funding. At Duke, it's a time for 'damage control'

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Facing the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, Duke University is preparing for the worst. Like research universities around the United States, the private college … more

By MAKIYA SEMINERA | 3/8/25

President Donald Trump walks up the stairs of Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Friday, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

US economic worries mount as Trump implements tariffs, cuts workforce and freezes spending

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President Donald Trump's flurry of tariffs, government layoffs and spending freezes may be doing more to harm the U.S. economy than to fix it. The labor market remains healthy with a 4.1% … more

By JOSH BOAK | 3/8/25

This image provided by Travis Bond shows Amy Gleason, the acting administrator of the DOGE Service, pictured in 2014 at a health care technology conference in San Francisco, (Travis Bond via AP)

Meet Amy Gleason, the DOGE administrator who may — or may not — be wielding extraordinary power

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Amy Gleason, the acting administrator of the U.S. DOGE Service, is not a household name. But as Elon Musk’s effort to dramatically reduce the federal government faces a series of legal challenges, … more

By RYAN J. FOLEY and BRIAN SLODYSKO | 3/8/25

FILE - A worker transfers steel cables at a steel factory in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province, on June 8, 2018. (Chinatopix via AP, File)

China imposes retaliatory tariffs on Canadian farm and food products

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China has announced retaliatory tariffs on some Canadian farm and food imports, after Canada imposed duties in October on Chinese-made electric vehicles and steel and aluminum products. The new … more

By SIMINA MISTREANU | 3/7/25

FILE - The Fifth Ward Elementary School and residential neighborhoods sit near the Denka Performance Elastomer Plant, back, in Reserve, La., Sept. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Justice Dept. says ending Louisiana petrochemical case helps 'dismantle radical DEI programs'

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The Justice Department is celebrating its decision to drop a federal lawsuit against a Louisiana petrochemical plant accused of worsening cancer risks for residents in a majority-Black community. The … more

By MATTHEW DALY and MICHAEL PHILLIS | 3/7/25

Jonah Paul, Digital Marketing Analyst at Employment Development Department, stands for photographs at the Jack London Square Amtrak Train station in Oakland, Calif., Friday, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

California and Texas join push to end remote work among state employees

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Hundreds of thousands of state employees across the U.S. are being ordered back into the office as governors move to shadow President Trump’s mandate for federal workers. The directives in … more

By NADIA LATHAN | 3/7/25

FILE - Rioters wave flags on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Trump Organization sues Capital One for closing bank accounts after Jan. 6 attack on US Capitol

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A company owned by President Donald Trump is suing Capital One. It claims the bank unjustifiably terminated over 300 of the Trump Organization’s accounts without cause shortly after the Jan. 6, … more

3/7/25

President Donald Trump speaks as administrator Kelly Loeffler, of the Small Business Administration, from left, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks and Bo Hines, a member of the presidential council of advisers for digital assets, listen at the White House Crypto Summit in Washington, Friday, March 7, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Trump tells crypto leaders at White House summit he's committed to helping their industry

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President Donald Trump said Friday that he’s committed to making the U.S. a world leader in cryptocurrencies as industry leaders heaped praise on him for reversing what they said had been unfair … more

By ALAN SUDERMAN | 3/7/25

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Mexican Finance Secretary Rogelio Ramirez de la O, shake hands after a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Dec. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexican finance minister, a holdover from previous administration, resigns and is replaced by deputy

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Mexican Finance Secretary Rogelio Ramírez de la O, a holdover from the previous administration, has resigned for personal reasons and will be replaced by his deputy. President Claudia Sheinbaum said … more

3/7/25

Administrator of the Small Business Administration Kelly Loeffler arrives before President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

Small Business Administration to relocate 6 offices in so-called 'sanctuary cities'

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The Small Business Administration said it will relocate six of its regional offices in so-called “sanctuary cities,” part of a broader Trump administration effort to crack down on cities that it … more

By MAE ANDERSON | 3/7/25

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, arrives for a round table meeting at an EU Summit in Brussels, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Takeaways from the EU's landmark security summit after Trump said Europe must fend for itself

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European Union leaders are trumpeting their endorsement of a plan to free up hundreds of billions of euros to inject into their defense budgets. It was agreed late Thursday after the Trump … more

By LORNE COOK and RAF CASERT | 3/7/25

Dan Towriss, the new owner of Andretti Global, laughs with Mario Andretti before the IndyCar Series season-opening race, Sunday, March 2, 2025, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Jenna Fryer)

F1 stamps Cadillac ready to join the grid in 2026. American team will be 11th in global series

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Cadillac’s Formula 1 team has received official approval to join the grid in 2026 and its owners insist the team will be ready to compete. Although the grid expansion was approved last November, it … more

By JENNA FRYER | 3/7/25

This photo provided by NASA shows the Intuitive Machines' Athena lander approaching the surface of the moon on Thursday, March 6, 2025. (NASA via AP)

Private lunar lander is declared dead after landing sideways in a crater near the moon's south pole

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A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon's south pole. The Texas company Intuitive Machines announced the news Friday, less than 24 hours after the … more

By MARCIA DUNN | 3/7/25