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Canadian News

CBC News
WW II veteran's grave found empty after daughter hoped to relocate burial site

CBC News
A Chinese research vessel returns to Arctic waters

CBC News
Many Canadian exports can avoid Trump tariffs if CUSMA-compliant

CBC News
Carney says he'll only sign a U.S. trade deal 'in the best interest of Canadians'

CBC News
Zoom bombing causes some Ontario courts to ban public from attending virtually

Canadian Commentary

Eugene Lang |The Globe and Mail
Great defence spending plan, Carney. It’d be a shame if Ottawa bureaucracy got in the way.

Donald J. Savoie | The Globe and Mail
Shaving department budgets won’t be enough to rein in federal spending

International News

NBC News
Musk's xAI was a late addition to the Pentagon’s set of $200 million AI contracts

NBC News
Republicans propose naming the Kennedy Center's opera house after Melania Trump

MSNBC News
Resignations and a ‘dissent’ letter suggest Trump has put NASA’s future in doubt - More

NBC News
Deputy attorney general to meet with Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell - More

NBC News
House cancels last day of votes before summer break

The Washington Post
China-backed hackers used Microsoft flaw in attacks, defenders say

NBC News
Alina Habba replaced as interim U.S. attorney in New Jersey

CBC News
Are Trump’s social posts an Epstein distraction tactic? - More

The Washington Post
Trump Intervenes to Boost Hegseth Aide Who Left Military for Politics

The Washington Post
Stephen Colbert mocks CBS’s reasoning for canceling ‘The Late Show’

The Guardian
Britain told US that invading Iraq could cost Blair his premiership, papers reveal

The Guardian
Man found guilty over sharing Grant Shapps’s details with ‘Russian spies’

The Guardian
Man rescued trying to reach Spain from Morocco in rubber ring and flippers

The Guardian
In Ukraine’s bombed out reservoir a huge forest has grown

The Guardian
Russia launches 42 drone strikes on Ukraine overnight

The Guardian
Russia using children to design and test its military drones, investigation finds

The Guardian
Putin appears unfazed by ‘emotional’ Trump’s threats over Ukraine

The Guardian
The go-between: How Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy

BBC News
The voices in the cockpit fuelling controversy over Air India crash

CBS News
U.S. airman killed on mountain with 10 other soldiers during Vietnam War accounted for

The Associated Press
South Korean pilot may have shut off less-damaged engine in crash that killed 179 people

NBC News
The tiny Pacific nation of Vanuatu turns to the world court as climate disasters mount

Reuters News Agency
Pentagon ends weeks-long deployment of U.S. Marines to Los Angeles

CBC News
Are Trump’s social posts an Epstein distraction tactic?

The Washington Post
Trump Intervenes to Boost Hegseth Aide Who Left Military for Politics

The Washington Post
Stephen Colbert mocks CBS’s reasoning for canceling ‘The Late Show’

CBS News
Trump Media buys $2 billion in bitcoin as it pursues crypto treasury strategy

International Commentary

The New York Times
Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein

Stephen Wertheim | The New York Times
Trump Is a Situational Man in a Structural Bind

Charlie Warzel | The Atlantic
The Desperation of Donald Trump’s Posts

Tom Nichols | The Guardian
Presidential Pettiness

Rajan Menon | The Atlantic
Trump’s shift on Ukraine has been dramatic – but will it change the war?

James Carville | The New York Times
My Fix for the Confused and Leaderless Democrats

Frank Kendall | The New York Times
Fear Comes to America

Barry Svrluga | The Washington Post
Trump has nothing better to do than debate an NFL team’s name?

Peter M. Shane | The Atlantic
This Is the Presidency John Roberts Has Built

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