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Canada shares U.S. concerns about Mexican trade with China as possible trade talks loom

Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s point person for U.S-Canada relations says she shares U.S. concerns about Mexico serving as as back door for China into the North American market as a review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement looms. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says members of the outgoing Biden administration and supporters and advisers of

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Congo accuses rebel group of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in country’s east

Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government has accused the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group of “ethnic cleansing” in the central African nation’s east. The minister of the interior, Jacquemain Shabani, on Tuesday denounced the “massive arrival of foreign populations” in the territories of Rutshuru and Masisi in the North Kivu province. Shabani says locals

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Jake Paul-Mike Tyson was highest-grossing combat event in Texas at $18.1M, organizers say

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jake Paul’s promotions company says the fighter’s unanimous decision over Mike Tyson was the highest-grossing combat sports event in Texas at $18.1 million. The eight-round fight at the home of the Dallas Cowboys drew about 72,000 fans. It was part of a co-main event that featured Katie Taylor’s latest disputed decision

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Survivors of LGBTQ+ club shooting say the deaths and trauma could’ve been avoided in lawsuits

Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Victims and family of those killed in the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs in 2022 spoke Tuesday after filing lawsuits against the El Paso County commissioners and former sheriff. The lawsuits allege the killings could have been prevented if the sheriff’s office used the

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House Republicans signal support for proposal to ban bathroom access for 1st transgender member

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson signaled support Tuesday for a Republican effort to ban Democrat Sarah McBride — the first transgender person to be elected to Congress — from using women’s restrooms in the Capitol once she’s sworn into office next year. “We’re not going to have men in women’s bathrooms,”

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A battle over mail ballots in Pennsylvania is latest example of messy disputes over election rules

Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The recount underway in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race marks the end of a chaotic post-election period that has become the latest example of how disputed election rules can expose weak points in a core function of American democracy. The ballot-counting process in the race has become a spectacle of

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Texas board advances plan to allow Bible material in elementary school lessons

Associated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas State Board of Education has given initial approval to a Bible-infused curriculum that would be optional for public schools to adopt for lessons from kindergarten through fifth grade. The plan advancing Tuesday is the latest Republican-led effort to incorporate more religious teaching into U.S. public

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Belarus police launch sweeping anti-riot drills ahead of January’s election

Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian police have launched sweeping anti-riot drills ahead of January’s election in which authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is seeking a seventh term, a signal from the authorities that they won’t tolerate any protests. Interior Minister Ivan Kubrkakov said Tuesday that the exercise is intended to train the country’s police

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What is a ‘bomb cyclone’?

Associated Press A powerful storm is bearing down on the West Coast and bringing with it a scary-sounding weather term – bomb cyclone. Bomb cyclone is a term used by weather enthusiasts to describe a process that meteorologists usually call bombogenesis. It’s the rapid intensification of a cyclone in a short period of time, and

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