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Canadian News

The Canadian Press
Carney surprises many with appearance at long-distance trail race - More

CBC News
TSB sends investigators to Sint Maarten after WestJet flight's 'hard landing'

Le Devoir
Le Québec s’en va chasser des contrats en défense à Londres

Canadian Commentary

Marcus Kolga | The Globe and Mail
The U.S. is interfering with public debate in Greenland. Canada could be next.

John IbbitsonThe Globe and Mail
Canada and America can’t break up - but we do need a trial separation

Ronald Deibert | The Globe and Mail
Canada’s new Minister of AI Evan Solomon must not be naive to its harms

Nina L. Khrushcheva | The Globe and Mail
The 9/11 attacks reverberate around the world to this day

Marie Vastel | Le Devoir
Les vraies couleurs de Mark Carney

François Brousseau | Le Devoir
L’heure de l’Europe

Richard Hétu | La Presse
Quand Trump joue au « faiseur de rois » à New York

Yves Boisvert | La Presse
Trump perd en cour… et alors ?

Éric Martel | La Presse
Vote de confiance : Vers une chute du gouvernement français

International News

NBC News
A new generation of Tuskegee pilots is flying with history under their wings

NBC News
New tariff rules bring 'maximum chaos' as surprise charges hit consumers

NBC News
Senate Republicans eye 'nuclear option' for rules change to speed up Trump nominees

NBC News
Supreme Court lifts limits on roving immigration patrols in Los Angeles area

The Associated Press
Trump asks Supreme Court for emergency order to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid frozen - More

CNBC News
Trump loses bid to overturn $83.3 million judgment in E. Jean Carroll defamation case - More

The Guardian
Trump’s strongman image got boos at the US Open, and perhaps that was the point - More

NBC News
House Democrats release lewd birthday message Trump allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein - More

NBC News
Trial begins today for man accused of Trump assassination attempt - More - More

The Associated Press
A decades-long peace vigil outside the White House is dismantled

The New York Times
How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein

NBC News
23-year-old Ukrainian refugee killed on North Carolina transit system - More

BBC News
In US town hoping for revival, Trump's tariffs put to test

NBC News
Supreme Court allows Trump to fire FTC commissioner

The Associated Press
White House review of Smithsonian's content could reach into classrooms nationwide

MSNBC News
West Point alumni group cancels award ceremony for Tom Hanks

NBC News
Trump praises West Point for reportedly cancelling ceremony honoring Tom Hanks

The Guardian
Facebook fiasco: Why is Mark Zuckerberg suing Meta?

BBC News
Why the US is going back to the moon after 50 years

BBC News
Timelapse shows Blood Moon rising around the world - More - More

BBC News
European leaders to visit US to discuss war in Ukraine, Trump says

The Associated Press
Florida's plan to drop school vaccine rule won't cover all diseases

NBC News
Trump helps pad Vance's political fund as questions about 2028 loom

NBC News
Questions hang over Prince Harry's trip back to the U.K.

BBC News
Snug with your bugs? How microbes control your sleep.

The Guardian
French PM loses confidence vote and will tender resignation amid political crisis

Politico
NATO’s eastern flank braces for Russia’s war games

BBC News
Greta Thunberg's Gaza flotilla arrives in Tunisia

The Guardian
‘Leave now,’ Netanyahu tells Gaza City residents as he says Israeli forces readying for ground ‘manoeuvre’

Agence France-Presse
Palestinian gunmen kill six people in attack on Jerusalem bus stop - More

BBC News
Netanyahu vows to 'catch everyone who helped' attackers, after six killed in Jerusalem shooting

The Associated Press
Nepali police open fire on protesters outside Parliament, killing 17

The Guardian
Revealed: The huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people

BBC News
South Korean officials will travel to US to secure return of detained workers

Agence France-Presse
Avec la chute attendue du gouvernement, la France replonge dans l’incertitude

Agence France-Presse
L’ONU s’inquiète de l’omniprésence de la propagande en faveur de la guerre

Agence France-Presse
Six morts dans un attentat par des Palestiniens à Jérusalem-Est

Agence France-Presse
La police ouvre le feu sur des manifestants au Népal, tuant 16 personnes

Agence France-Presse
Ce que l’on sait de l’arrestation de Sud-Coréens aux États-Unis

The Associated Press
Le président argentin Milei subit une défaite écrasante aux élections provinciales

International Commentary

Steve Benen | MSNBC News
Rand Paul thinks JD Vance's line on war crimes accusations is 'despicable' - More

Nick Paton Walsh | CNN News
Trump’s misreading of Russia has cost Ukraine. Now Putin is making his intentions clearer than ever.

Joyce Vance | Civil Discourse
The American Dictator

David A. Graham | The Atlantic
Donald Trump’s War of Words

Jonathan Chait | The Atlantic
The Epstein Letter Is Real, and It’s Bad

Jonathan Lemire | The Atlantic
Fear of Losing the Midterms Is Driving Trump’s Decisions

Books

Mark Sherman | The Associated Press
In new memoir, Supreme Court Justice Barrett reflects on historic cases, is largely silent on Trump