In first post-election speech, Kamala Harris calls President Trump's tariff war the "greatest man-made economic crisis in modern presidential history."
@cbcnews reports on the choice between Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in a race drastically altered by U.S. President Donald Trump.
The U.S. is the only place considered a “safe third country” by Canada. But under U.S. President Donald Trump, asylum seekers have been subjected to “randomness and cruelty” after being turned away at the Canadian border. @cbcnews has more https://flip.it/6xK3s3 #Asylum#US#Trump#Canada#Migrant#Immigration
In its attacks on American academic institutions, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration claims to be fighting anti-semitism. But as @TeenVogue explains, last week’s shooting at Florida State University shows white supremacy is a bigger threat than student activists. https://flip.it/aP1oYf #Racism#Florida#FSU#Shooting#Trump#AntiSemitism
The gunman who killed 23 people in 2019 racist attack at a Texas Walmart has pleaded guilty and will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. Read more from @NBCNews https://flip.it/WjXg92 #Racism#Texas#ElPaso#Guns#Shooting @Walmart
In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has thrown out the order of District Judge James Boasberg, who blocked removal of Venezuelans to El Salvador without legal process under the Alien Enemies Act. The government had previously indicated that deportations would immediately resume if Boasberg's order was lifted. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in her dissent: "We are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are now less willing to face it,” adding: "At least when the Court went off base in the past, it left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong,” citing the notorious ruling that allowed government confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II. Here's more from NBC.
Five years ago today, police burst into Breonna Taylor's home and shot her dead. @19thnews spoke to her mother, Tamika Palmer, about her ongoing quest for truth and justice, and how she is spending today. “I just want to honor her myself,” Palmer said. “I don’t want to argue with the world, I don’t want to share her with the world, I don’t want to have to prove that she deserves justice.”
President Donald Trump threatens 200% tariff on EU champagne, other alcohol products.
@abc reports: "The move came a day after the EU announced plans to slap tariffs on $28 billion worth of U.S. goods, including a 50% tariff on whiskey" in response to Trump's steel tariffs.
Five years ago today, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Here's a @Flipboard Storyboard looking at that day. Plus, some of the things that have happened since, from the emergence of long COVID to how Africa defied dire predictions of a catastrophic loss of life.
A Welsh woman speaks to @BBCNews about the “horrendous” conditions she is being kept in after “visa mix-up” at the U.S. border. “They keep saying in all their booklets that this is not a prison. It’s hard to distinguish from my conception of a prison,” Becky Burke says. https://flip.it/DTwvgA #Wales#US#Visa#Customs#Immigration
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