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Canadian News

CBC News
Two in critical condition after grizzly bear attack involving students in Bella Coola - More

CBC News
Why Canada is winning the travel trade war with the U.S.

CBC News
Trump's G20 boycott could make room for Canada to advance other trade talks

CBC News
Donation of Second World War grenade prompts Ontario thrift store evacuation

CBC News
Roughly 500,000 Canadians left ERs before seeing a doctor last year, data shows

CBC News
Canadian blogger accepted ‘significant' amount of money from fugitive Ryan Wedding

Radio-Canada
Un projet de radar du NORAD sème l’inquiétude

Radio-Canada
Toujours pas de portrait de la productivité dans la fonction publique fédérale

Radio-Canada
Le « Pablo Escobar » canadien à la tête d’un réseau international de tueurs à gages

Radio-Canada
Comment traquer un délateur : des documents détaillent les méthodes de Ryan Wedding

Canadian Commentary

Brian Lilley | Toronto Sun
Will the F-35 program ever get off the ground?

Natalie Stechyson | CBC News
As Trump berates female reporters, what's the breaking point? - More

International News

CBC News
New Ken Burns series features Indigenous nations' role in American Revolution - More

NBC News
Controllers, techs with perfect shutdown attendance getting $10,000 bonuses - More

The Associated Press
Coast Guard releases new policy on display of swastikas and nooses

The New York Times
Senate Democrats Investigate Kennedy Center Deals With Trump Allies

The Guardian
Swiss gold and Rolex gifts to Trump arouse ‘disgust’ in Europe

The Guardian
Karoline Leavitt defends Trump’s ‘piggy’ insult - Video

ABC News
Karoline Leavitt defends Trump calling Democrats 'traitors'

NBC News
Trump says he wasn't threatening Democrats he accused of 'seditious behavior

ABC News
What the military oath of enlistment says about legal and illegal orders

NBC News
Larry Summers' years of emails with Jeffrey Epstein roil Harvard

NBC News
House committee unlikely to interview Ghislaine Maxwell

The Guardian
Group of Epstein abuse survivors say they have received death threats

The Guardian
Trump says he ‘absolutely’ would live in Mamdani’s New York - More

The Guardian
Tens of thousands of people were detained and deported during US government shutdown

The Associated Press
Federal judge orders release of 16 migrants detained in Idaho raid

NBC News
Hawaii army hospital is notifying former patients of gynecologist accused of secretly filming women

The New Republic
Lindsey Graham Blocks Repeal of Payout That Could Get Him Millions

ABC News
In reversal, DOJ says Comey indictment was reviewed by full grand jury

NBC News
Trump offers Zohran Mamdani nothing but praise

NPR News
After calling him a 'communist,' Trump will meet Mamdani in the Oval Office Friday - More

NPR News
How could Trump interfere in the midterms?

NBC NOW
As Americans sour on Trump and the economy, the White House moves the goalposts

The Guardian
Robert F Kennedy Jr instructed CDC to change stance on vaccines and autism

Agence France-Presse
CDS warns France should be 'prepared to lose children' in face of Russian threat

CBS News
U.S. plays smaller role in NATO exercise designed to counter evolving Russian threats

CBC News
Poland rail explosion shows Europe still struggling to respond to Russia’s shadow war

NBC News
Ukraine working with U.S. to study new peace plan - More

The Guardian
Zelenskyy says Ukraine has impossible choice as Trump pushes plan to end war

The Associated Press
White House says South African president was ‘running his mouth’ about US participation in G20 - More

NPR News
Who are Afrikaners, the group at the center of Trump's dispute with South Africa?

NBC News
American who spied for Israel says he met Ambassador Mike Huckabee to 'thank' him for his support

The Associated Press
Pilot killed when Indian fighter jet crashes at Dubai Air Show - More

Reuters News Agency
Death toll rises to 41 in central Vietnam flooding, more heavy rain forecast

NPR News
Rare earths: Federal backing and tech advances aim to help the U.S. catch up to China

Agence France-Presse
Fire forces evacuation at COP30 climate talks in Brazil

Agence France-Presse
30-plus nations oppose COP30 draft over fossil fuel omission

NBC News
Drug boats from Venezuela are mainly moving cocaine to Europe

Agence France-Presse
Trump annonce qu’il a signé la loi pour rendre public le dossier Epstein

Radio-Canada
Courriels compromettants dans l’affaire Epstein : Larry Summers quitte OpenAI

Le Parisien
« Pas d’endroit pour s’entraîner » : le fiasco des chasseurs belges F-35

France 24
80ème anniversaire du procès de Nuremberg : les maîtres du Reich sur le banc des accusés

Le Monde
Pourquoi la mort de Franco divise-t-elle toujours les Espagnols ?

Agence France-Presse
Une ONG alerte sur le lourd bilan des armes explosives sur les enfants en zone de guerre

Agence France-Presse
Ukraine : un plan de paix américain comprend la cession de territoires à la Russie - Plus

Le Monde
La paix en Ukraine ne doit pas passer par une « capitulation » de Kiev, déclare Jean-Noël Barrot

Le Monde
Gaza : nouveaux bombardements israéliens dans l’enclave, les autorités locales annoncent quatre morts

Radio-Canada
L’abandon du nucléaire alimente les craintes d’une crise énergétique à Taïwan

Agence France-Presse
Lula au chevet de la COP30 en Amazonie

Radio-Canada
COP30 : les vies menacées des gardiens de la forêt amazonienne

International Commentary

Catherine Rampell | Receipts
Trump’s One Weird Trick for Eliminating Bad News: Delete It

David Bianculli | NPR News
Ken Burns' 'American Revolution' will make you think differently about U.S. history

David Smith | The Guardian
Ken Burns on his American Revolution documentary: ‘We won’t work on a more important film’.

Benjamin Mazer | The Atlantic
Do Childhood Vaccines Cause Tornadoes? It hasn’t been ruled out.

Robert Reich | Office Hours
How long will it take us to recover from Trump? If we ever will?

Tom Nichols | The Atlantic
The President Is Losing Control of Himself

Rachel E. VanLandingham | MSN NOW
Guidance from Democrats to disobey illegal orders is of no use to our service members

Michael Tomasky | The New Republic
President Wants Legislators Hanged, and It’s Not Even the Lead Story - More

Editorial | Le Monde
Ukraine: The danger to Europe of a Trump-Putin axis

Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American
Don’t Give Up the Ship!

Michal Ruprecht | Goats and Soda
Are there lessons for the U.S. in Romania's struggle with measles?

Robert Reich | Substack
Antisemitism in Trumpworld? It is an inherent part of neofascism.

Aaron Rupar and David Nir | Public Notice
The lame-duckification of Donald Trump

Cynthia Miller-Idriss | NBC NOW
Why Trump’s ‘quiet, piggy’ comment should be seen as a warning

Mark Hertling | The Bulwark
The U.S. Must Not Push Ukraine Into an Unjust, Unstable Peace

William Kristol | The Bulwark
A Panicking Trump Is a Dangerous Trump

Daniel Jernigan, Demetre Daskalakis and Debra Houry | NBC NOW
We are former CDC officials. RFK Jr.’s change to vaccine guidance is propaganda.

Books

Mattea Roach | CBC Books
Final Orbit: Back on earth, astronaut Chris Hadfield writes about space

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