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Canadian News

The Canadian Press
Canada Post receives strike notice; workers plan Friday walkout

Reuters News Agency
Carney talks trade with U.S. Vice-President JD Vance in Rome

BBC News
How Canada voted - in charts

CTV News
Trump’s influence on gas prices: What to expect this summer

CBC News
Residents of 'Canada's smallest town' are moving out

CBC News
Sun Peaks adopts European 'snow blankets' to preserve season amid climate change

CBC News
Could much of eastern Ontario become a dark-sky preserve? One group hopes so.

Radio-Canada
Postes Canada : le syndicat a l’intention de déclencher une grève vendredi

La Presse canadienne
Feux de forêt : plus de 800 personnes évacuées dans la Première Nation de Wabaseemoong

Radio-Canada
Les patriotes « se sont battus pour vous, pour les droits que vous avez en ce moment »

Radio-Canada
Les jeunes caquistes veulent que Legault affronte les syndicats

Radio-Canada
La police de Waterloo invite les résidents à déclarer l’emplacement de leurs caméras

Radio-Canada
« Les Canadiens ont toujours été importants pour Old Orchard Beach »

Canadian Commentary

David M. Shribman | The Globe and Mail
Republicans and Democrats both struggle in their own way to define who’s taking the high road - More

Mike Crawley | CBC News
Why Ontario's 1.5M new homes target looks increasingly out of reach

International News

NPR News
Standing by in San Antonio: The Qatari plane intended to replace Air Force One

NPR News
Federal judge blocks Trump's takeover of U.S. Institute of Peace

CBC News
Administration to pay $5 million to family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt - More - More

BBC News
The secretive US factory that lays bare the contradiction in Trump's America First plan

NBC News
Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke protected status for thousands of Venezuelans - More

NBC News
More storms on the way after deadly weekend that killed 28

BBC News
The people stuck using ancient Windows

Axios
Microsoft's need for AI speed

Axios
Budget panel sends Trump's "big, beautiful bill" to House floor

The Hill
Trump congratulates Republicans after ‘big beautiful bill’ passes House panel - More

NBC News
CBS News chief steps down amid tensions over Trump lawsuit

Army Times
U.S. Army battalion bans use of profanity

Army Times
Desert Storm AH-64 Apache crews awarded Distinguished Flying Crosses

BBC News
The pilots chasing 'sky rivers' and cyclones from Japan to the US

Breaking Defense
NATO aims to bolster investments in space, intelligence sharing

The Guardian
Alarm over defence agreement giving US ‘unhindered access’ to Danish airbases

NPR News
Pope Leo meets with Vance, who delivers an invitation to visit the White House - More

The Associated Press
Trump says call with Putin 'went very well' - More - More

NBC News
Trump backs off meeting with Putin, calls for direct Ukraine-Russia talk - More

BBC News
Trump's call with Putin exposes shifting ground on Ukraine peace talks

BBC News
Russia and Ukraine to 'immediately' start ceasefire talks, says Trump

The Guardian
IDF tells Palestinians to evacuate Khan Younis ahead of ‘unprecedented attack’ - More

Reuters News Agency
Canada, Britain, France threaten action if Israel does not stop military offensive and lift aid restrictions

BBC News
Israel lets aid into Gaza after 11-week blockade

BBC News
Apple boosts India's factory hopes - but a US-China deal could derail plans

CNBC News
China says U.S. undermined trade talks with Huawei chip warning

The Associated Press
Today in History: 23 June

This Day in Aviation
23 June

Agence France-Presse
La Cour suprême autorise Donald Trump à révoquer le statut d’immigrés vénézuéliens

Radio-Canada
L’ex-président américain Joe Biden est atteint d’un cancer

Agence France-Presse
Dans une lettre, Donald Trump invite le pape Léon XIV à la Maison-Blanche

Agence France-Presse
Microsoft va héberger Grok, le chatbot d'intelligence artificielle d’Elon Musk

Agence France-Presse
Royaume-Uni : un troisième homme arrêté après les incendies ayant visé des propriétés liées à Starmer

Agence France-Presse
Paris : une femme victime d’un home-jacking dans le quartier du Champ-de-Mars

Le Figaro
Lyon : un commando tente de braquer un laboratoire de métal précieux

Agence France-Presse
Des milliers de taxis défilent dans toute la France contre les nouvelles règles du transport sanitaire

Le Figaro
Trump affirme que Kiev et Moscou vont « démarrer immédiatement des négociations en vue d’un cessez-le-feu » - Plus

Agence France-Presse
Israël veut prendre le contrôle de toute la bande de Gaza

Agence France-Presse
Gaza : des dirigeants occidentaux haussent le ton contre Nétanyahou

Agence France-Presse
En Indonésie, le volcan Lewotobi Laki-Laki entre à nouveau en éruption sur l’île de Flores

Agence France-Presse
Venezuela : dénonçant l'arrivée de « mercenaires », le pays suspend les vols avec la Colombie

International Commentary

Paul Rosenzweig | The Atlantic
Trump the Grifter

Ben Berkowitz | Axios
The argument's over: Americans pay for tariffs

Becket Adams | The Hill
The media’s coverage of deportations is consciously manipulative

Sergei Lebedev | The Guardian
The USSR occupied eastern Europe, calling it ‘liberation’ – Russia is repeating the crime in Ukraine

Sarah Stein Lubrano | The Guardian
This article won’t change your mind. Here’s why.

Dorothy Robyn | The Atlantic
How to Really Fix Air-Traffic Control

Nesrine Malik | The Guardian
Trump makes the Gulf states feel powerful, but the real test is: can they stop Israel’s war?

Patrick Tucker | Defense One
Special operations are becoming the Pentagon’s future ‘normal’

Book Reviews

David Smith | The Guardian
Original Sin: book on Biden’s health decline reopens Democratic party’s wounds