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CNN News
America will refund about ‘half the tariffs’ if SCOTUS rules Trump overstepped, Bessent says

BBC News
Pilot who tried to cut off engine midair after taking mushrooms pleads guilty

CBS News
Experts work to ID remains of Revolutionary War soldiers found in woods of South Carolina

NBC News
Evacuation orders issued in Southern California as wildfire rages

The Observer
Big Tech woos Trumps to fend off the big stick - More

The Observer
Why the world’s navies are queuing for sub-hunters built on the Clyde

France 24
Ukraine’s main government building ablaze in massive Russian air attack - More

BBC News
Inflatable tanks and flat-pack guns - inside Ukraine's decoy war

NBC News
Fate of thousands of Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia hangs in the balance of talks

BBC News
Boko Haram kills at least 60 in overnight attack on Nigerian village

The Jerusalem Post
Trump says that Israel has agreed to a new US-backed hostage deal

The Jerusalem Post
Netanyahu says 100,000 Palestinians left Gaza, Hamas trying to stop them

The Guardian
Palestinians to ask UK to own up to ‘law violations’ between 1917 and 1948

The Associated Press
Undersea cables cut in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Asia and the Middle East

NBC News
Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to step down

The Associated Press
Today in History: 8 September - More

This Day in Aviation
8 September

Radio-Canada
Menacés, des juges américains témoignent

Radio-Canada
Le moustique tigre – et les virus qu’il propage – envahit l’Europe

France 24
Ukraine : le siège du gouvernement en feu après une attaque aérienne russe

Le Figaro
La Turquie va construire le plus gros navire de guerre d’un pays méditerranéen

Agence France-Presse
Thaïlande : le nouveau premier ministre prend ses fonctions

International Commentary

Zeeshan Aleem | MSNBC News
Trump's 'Department of War' launch is more than just a shallow rebrand

Simon Tisdall | The Guardian
One by one, leaders learn that grovelling to Trump leads to disaster. When will it dawn on Starmer?

Heather Cox Richardson | Global News
Trump demands Republicans’ loyalty

Scott Lincicome | The Atlantic
America’s Perón

Will Gottsegen | The Atlantic
Trump’s Crypto Dealings Now Have the Perfect Cover

Sir Richard Lambert | The Observer
The six warning signs as crypto is welcomed into the US mainstream

Rogé Karma | The Atlantic
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

Dhruv Khullar | The New Yorker
R.F.K., Jr., Brings More Chaos to COVID Policy and the C.D.C.

Zeeshan Aleem | MSNBC News
Trump's tariffs were supposed to revive U.S. manufacturing. They're wrecking it.

Patricia Clarke | The Observer
The millionaire guinea pigs risking death to live for ever

Kate Maltby | The Observer
Putin’s fear of death is his weak spot

Kim Willsher | The Observer
Revolution 2.0: France’s political future could be won or lost by bots and memes

Kenan Malik | The Observer
British identity isn’t neatly tied in red, white and blue

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