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Canadian News

CBC News
Canada Post warns of service delays after union opts for overtime ban

The Canadian Press
RCMP, local police say security planning underway for G7 summit

CBC News
PM Carney sets up throne speech

CBC News
Neighbour hands RCMP days of footage leading up to disappearance of N.S. children

Canadian Commentary

Joseph S. Nye | The Globe and Mail
The future of American soft power - More

International News

CNBC News
Top $TRUMP holders head to crypto dinner with president - More - More

Common Dreams
Protest Planned as Trump Dines With Crypto Investors

The Associated Press
May nor'easter could bring a soggy start to Memorial Day weekend in New England

The Associated Press
RFK Jr.'s MAHA report raises concerns about vaccines, American foods and prescription drugs

NPR News
Judge blocks Trump administration from closing the Education Department - More

Reuters News Agency
Trump administration revokes Harvard's ability to enrol international students

NPR News
Raising ethics questions, top Trump meme coin investors to dine with president tonight

NBC News
Bitcoin price surges to fresh record ahead of Trump's crypto dinner

BBC News
The loud hum sparking unrest in Trump's MAGA heartlands

The Associated Press
ICE agents wait in hallways of immigration court as Trump seeks to deliver on mass arrest pledge

NPR News
No more pennies: In big change, Treasury will stop minting them

The Associated Press
Three music talent agency employees died on a plane that crashed into Navy-owned housing - More

The Associated Press
What we know about a private plane’s fatal crash into a San Diego neighborhood

NBC News
Guards shoot one person in security incident outside CIA headquarters

The Associated Press
A look at the deportees on plane that headed for South Sudan from US

Global News
Trump hits Springsteen with a golf ball in fake video as feud escalates

CNN News
Trump threatens Apple with a 25% tariff if it doesn’t build iPhones in America - More

BBC News
Harvard's foreign students are stuck and scared

The Jerusalem Post
Federal judge blocks Trump administration from barring foreign student enrollment at Harvard - More

Politico
Belgium’s future queen caught up in Trump’s war on Harvard

CNN News
Harvard sues Trump administration to halt federal ban on enrolling international students - More

PBS News
Kermit the Frog delivers University of Maryland commencement address - More

Agence France-Presse
Napoleon's sword sold at auction for 4.7 mn euros

CNN News
Ukraine and Russia begin large-scale prisoner exchange

BBC News
Netanyahu accuses Starmer of being on 'wrong side of humanity' and siding with Hamas

Reuters News Agency
Israeli military says 107 aid trucks entered Gaza on Thursday - More

The Associated Press
Today in History: 24 May

This Day in Aviation
24 May

International Commentary

Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American
Open corruption in the Trump administration

Lives Lived

Agence France-Presse
Joseph Nye has died aged 88

Fred Langan | The Globe and Mail
Dian Cohen has died aged 92

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