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Trump: U.S., Canada Reached Last-Minute Deal to Delay 50% US Tariffs on Canadian Imports

President Trump said Tuesday he was delaying 50% U.S. tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian imports after the two countries reached a last-minute deal hours before the sanctions were to go into effect.

Reps. Wasserman Schultz and Moskowitz fend off rivals in Florida Democratic primaries

Longtime Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz won the Democratic primary in Florida's 20th Congressional District, defeating a field of Black rivals in the majority-minority district.

Amazon set to expand drone delivery of lightweight packages to 500 U.S. cities

Millions more people may be able to get smaller, lightweight Amazon packages delivered by drones by the end of the year under a plan the company announced Thursday to expand the airborne shipping to suburban areas in nearly 500 U.S. cities.

Crews work to restore power to thousands after Lala raked Hawaii

Crews were working to restore power to thousands of Hawaii residents Tuesday after the outer bands of Lala battered the archipelago over the weekend, causing destructive flooding and killing one person, before weakening from a hurricane to a tropical storm.

Florida holds primaries for governor and Congress, testing Trump's grip on adopted state

A Republican attempting to become Florida's first Black governor faces a crowded field Tuesday while Democrats wage primary battles for a reduced pool of left-leaning seats under redrawn congressional maps.

Florida carries out its 13th execution of the year on a man convicted of killing estranged wife

A Florida man convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife and wounding his mother-in-law was executed Tuesday, continuing the state's aggressive use of the death penalty in Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis ' final term.

Nonprofit sues U.S. as it pushes to auction massive tracks of water around American Samoa

A legal environmental group sued the U.S. government on Tuesday to halt the Trump administration's plans announced last month to auction off massive sections of water surrounding American Samoa for potential deep-sea mining.

Fake polling from mysterious company highlights danger of unvetted election surveys

Locked in a competitive reelection race, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared on social media last week that a new poll was evidence that her campaign was "gaining momentum."

Judge clears Trump administration to end deportation amnesty for roughly one million TPS migrants

President Trump's decade-long project to end deportation amnesties for a large swath of countries has finally come to fruition, after battling from district courts up to the Supreme Court and back down again.

San Diego County will stop letting federal immigration agents train at local firing ranges

A Southern California county will stop letting federal immigration authorities train at a local firing range over concerns about the Trump administration's violent crackdown on immigrants.

Fauci's former chief of staff pleads guilty to hiding records to thwart COVID origins inquiries

Dr. David Morens, who spent years as chief of staff to Dr. Anthony Fauci, pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to hide critical documents about the origin of the coronavirus pandemic and his attempts to restore funding to a firm that was siphoning U.S. cash to a Chinese virus lab.

Liberia agrees to take 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S.

Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States, authorities in the West African country said Tuesday, in one of the largest such arrangements under the Trump administration's broader crackdown on immigration.