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International Trade Minister Mary Ng, right, looks on as U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai speaks during a joint news conference in Ottawa, Thursday, May 5, 2022. Canada is siding with the U.S. in an ongoing trade dispute over Mexico’s restrictions on importing products made with genetically modified corn. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Canada joins U.S. trade fight with Mexico over genetically modified corn products

Mexico imposed a ban in February on importing tortillas or dough made with biotech corn

International Trade Minister Mary Ng, right, looks on as U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai speaks during a joint news conference in Ottawa, Thursday, May 5, 2022. Canada is siding with the U.S. in an ongoing trade dispute over Mexico’s restrictions on importing products made with genetically modified corn. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
FILE - Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks about the verdicts in the Proud Boys trial, May 4, 2023, at the Department of Justice in Washington. The Justice Department is facing the biggest test in its history in the prosecution of former President Donald Trump. It is navigating unprecedented conditions in American democracy while trying to fight back against relentless attacks on its own credibility and that of the U.S. election system. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Justice Department faces biggest test in its history with election conspiracy case against Trump

Biden has sought to distance himself from the Justice Department to avoid any appearance of meddling

FILE - Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks about the verdicts in the Proud Boys trial, May 4, 2023, at the Department of Justice in Washington. The Justice Department is facing the biggest test in its history in the prosecution of former President Donald Trump. It is navigating unprecedented conditions in American democracy while trying to fight back against relentless attacks on its own credibility and that of the U.S. election system. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
FILE - The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One as it flies over Washington, March 2, 2022. The U.S. is set to announce $345 million in military aid for Taiwan, two U.S. officials said Friday. It would be the Biden administration’s first major package drawing on America’s own stockpiles under a new policy intended to speed up military aid to help Taiwan counter China. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

US announces $345 million military aid package for Taiwan

The goals are to help it counter China and to deter China from considering attacking

FILE - The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One as it flies over Washington, March 2, 2022. The U.S. is set to announce $345 million in military aid for Taiwan, two U.S. officials said Friday. It would be the Biden administration’s first major package drawing on America’s own stockpiles under a new policy intended to speed up military aid to help Taiwan counter China. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
This undated photo provided by the Hampton Police Department, in Hampton, Ga., shows Andre Longmore. On Saturday, July 15, 2023, authorities were searching for Longmore, who is suspected of gunning down three men and a woman in Georgia. (Courtesy of Hampton Police Department via AP)

Authorities search for man suspected of killing 4 people in Georgia

Andre Longmore, 40, is believed to be armed and dangerous

This undated photo provided by the Hampton Police Department, in Hampton, Ga., shows Andre Longmore. On Saturday, July 15, 2023, authorities were searching for Longmore, who is suspected of gunning down three men and a woman in Georgia. (Courtesy of Hampton Police Department via AP)
FILE - Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

U.S. court conservatives dash decades of abortion, affirmative action precedents

In 370 days, a Supreme Court reshaped by 3 justices nominated by Trump made both a reality

FILE - Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during his regularly scheduled morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Feb. 28, 2023. Mexico has imposed a 50% tariff on white corn imports, a move the Mexican president says is intended to boost national production and prevent imports of genetically modified corn. The Saturday, June 24, 2023 announcement is the latest in an ongoing trade dispute between Mexico and its North American trade partners, Canada and the United States, over GM corn. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
FILE - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during his regularly scheduled morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Feb. 28, 2023. Mexico has imposed a 50% tariff on white corn imports, a move the Mexican president says is intended to boost national production and prevent imports of genetically modified corn. The Saturday, June 24, 2023 announcement is the latest in an ongoing trade dispute between Mexico and its North American trade partners, Canada and the United States, over GM corn. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
Demonstrators mark the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case widely considered to have overturned Roe v. Wade, by displaying neon signage in support of abortion access in front of the Supreme Court on Friday, June 23, 2023, Washington. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

Supreme Court’s abortion decision is both scorned and praised a year later

The court’s conservative majority overturned the Roe v. Wade decision on June 24, 2022

Demonstrators mark the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case widely considered to have overturned Roe v. Wade, by displaying neon signage in support of abortion access in front of the Supreme Court on Friday, June 23, 2023, Washington. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)
People gather during a dedication ceremony on the Fayetteville square renaming Archibald Yell Boulevard to Nelson Hackett Boulevard on Friday, June 16, 2023 in Fayetteville, Ark. Hackett was the first and last slave to be extradited from Canada back to the United States. A marker telling his story was installed Friday in the flower bed at the northwest corner of the downtown square, in front of the Bank of Fayetteville, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. (J.T. Wampler/The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)

Arkansas city honors enslaved man who fled to Canada and was later extradited

The unprecedented 1842 extradition of Nelson Hackett from Canada sparked an uproar in the British colony

People gather during a dedication ceremony on the Fayetteville square renaming Archibald Yell Boulevard to Nelson Hackett Boulevard on Friday, June 16, 2023 in Fayetteville, Ark. Hackett was the first and last slave to be extradited from Canada back to the United States. A marker telling his story was installed Friday in the flower bed at the northwest corner of the downtown square, in front of the Bank of Fayetteville, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. (J.T. Wampler/The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)
An evacuation order has been lifted for the community of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., nine days after more than 2,000 residents were forced out by an encroaching wildfire. The West Kiskatinaw River wildfire (G70645) in the District of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., is shown in this handout image provided by the BC Wildfire Service, Thursday, June 8, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, BC Wildfire Service *MANDATORY CREDIT*

U.S. deploys high-tech Pentagon program to help Canada detect, suppress new wildfires

The White House says the FireGuard system uses real-time data from drones and satellites

An evacuation order has been lifted for the community of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., nine days after more than 2,000 residents were forced out by an encroaching wildfire. The West Kiskatinaw River wildfire (G70645) in the District of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., is shown in this handout image provided by the BC Wildfire Service, Thursday, June 8, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, BC Wildfire Service *MANDATORY CREDIT*
People take part in the Equality Parade, an LGBT pride parade, in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

US ambassador marches in Warsaw Pride parade, sending message to NATO ally

In recent years Western governments have been alarmed by a conservative government in Warsaw

People take part in the Equality Parade, an LGBT pride parade, in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the State Dining Room of the White House on April 4 in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden unveils LGBTQ+ initiatives ahead of Pride Month celebration

President Joe Biden has invited thousands to celebrate Pride at the White House in a high-profile show of support

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the State Dining Room of the White House on April 4 in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III speaks at the 20th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s annual defense and security forum in Singapore, Saturday, June 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

U.S. defense secretary says Washington won’t stand for ‘coercion and bullying’ from China

The U.S. has been expanding its own activities around the Indo-Pacific to counter sweeping territorial claims from China

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III speaks at the 20th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s annual defense and security forum in Singapore, Saturday, June 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
FILE - The draft of a bill that President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., negotiated to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, is photographed Monday, May 29, 2023. Democrats are deeply conflicted about the food aid requirements President Joe Biden negotiated as part of the debt-ceiling deal. They fear damage has been done to safety net programs that will be difficult to unravel as Republicans demand further cuts.(AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Debt deal imposes new work requirements for food aid and that frustrates many Democrats

Democrats are deeply conflicted about the requirements President Joe Biden negotiated

FILE - The draft of a bill that President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., negotiated to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, is photographed Monday, May 29, 2023. Democrats are deeply conflicted about the food aid requirements President Joe Biden negotiated as part of the debt-ceiling deal. They fear damage has been done to safety net programs that will be difficult to unravel as Republicans demand further cuts.(AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2019, photo, Jon Combes holds his bottle of buprenorphine, a medicine that prevents withdrawal sickness in people trying to stop using opiates, as he prepares to take a dose in a clinic in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2019, photo, Jon Combes holds his bottle of buprenorphine, a medicine that prevents withdrawal sickness in people trying to stop using opiates, as he prepares to take a dose in a clinic in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
FILE - FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the House Appropriations subcommittee Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies budget hearing for Fiscal Year 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 27, 2023. The FBI has offered to show top lawmakers next week a bureau document that purports to relate to President Joe Biden and his family following weeks of demands by congressional Republicans and a contempt threat against Director Christopher Wray. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

FBI offers to show GOP chairman document that purports to relate to Biden, his family

The FBI said it would produce the document in a secure location inside the U.S. Capitol

FILE - FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the House Appropriations subcommittee Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies budget hearing for Fiscal Year 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 27, 2023. The FBI has offered to show top lawmakers next week a bureau document that purports to relate to President Joe Biden and his family following weeks of demands by congressional Republicans and a contempt threat against Director Christopher Wray. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Sept. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Republicans schedule 1st presidential debate for Aug. 23, but there’s no guarantee Trump will attend

The RNC also detailed the criteria that will be used for candidates to qualify for the debate stage

FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Sept. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
President Joe Biden says “I got sandbagged” in talking about falling earlier in the day at the U.S. Air Force Academy, as he walks from Marine One upon arrival on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Deal approved, Biden will address budget, debt agreement from Oval Office

After days of default threats, the debt limit-budget agreement was worked out by Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

President Joe Biden says “I got sandbagged” in talking about falling earlier in the day at the U.S. Air Force Academy, as he walks from Marine One upon arrival on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
FILE -The ARC Automotive manufacturing plant is seen, July 14, 2015 in Knoxville, Tenn. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday, May 12, 2023 that ARC Automotive Inc. of Knoxville should recall 67 million inflators in the U.S. because they could explode and hurl shrapnel. (Adam Lau/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP, File, File)

U.S. turns up pressure on air bag inflator company that refuses a recall despite deaths, injuries

Regulator argues recall is justified because 2 people have been killed in the United States and Canada

FILE -The ARC Automotive manufacturing plant is seen, July 14, 2015 in Knoxville, Tenn. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday, May 12, 2023 that ARC Automotive Inc. of Knoxville should recall 67 million inflators in the U.S. because they could explode and hurl shrapnel. (Adam Lau/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP, File, File)
FILE - A sign is displayed outside the Internal Revenue Service building on May 4, 2021, in Washington. While Republicans seek to make good on campaign promises to cut IRS funding through the proposed debt ceiling and budget cuts package now moving through Congress, Democrats are offering assurances that the spending cuts will have little impact on the federal tax collector. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Debt limit bill gives Republicans IRS cuts, but Democrats say they expect little near-term impact

The bill rescinds $1.4B given to the federal tax collector in the Democrats’ health and energy package

FILE - A sign is displayed outside the Internal Revenue Service building on May 4, 2021, in Washington. While Republicans seek to make good on campaign promises to cut IRS funding through the proposed debt ceiling and budget cuts package now moving through Congress, Democrats are offering assurances that the spending cuts will have little impact on the federal tax collector. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

White House announces sanctions in Sudan as warring sides fail to abide by cease-fire deal

The United States is imposing visa restrictions on specific people in Sudan

This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)