TORONTO (AP) – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday his country has no intention of pursuing a free trade deal with China. He was responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 100% tariff on goods imported from Canada if America’s northern neighbor went ahead with a trade deal with Beijing
PARIS (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron says he wants his government to fast-track the legal process to ensure that a ban on social media for children under the age of 15 can enter into force in September at the start of the next school year.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A handful of Republicans called for a deeper investigation into federal immigration tactics after a U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis, an early sign that the accounting of events by President Donald Trump’s administration may face bipartisan scrutiny.
Jan. 19 – The Washington Post says Congress has dropped the ball regarding oversight of ICE, DHS. Geraldo Lunas Campos died at a Texas detention center on Jan. 3 while pleading for air as guards choked him, according to a fellow detainee. The local medical examiner’s office is considering classifying his death as a homicide, The Post reports.
NASHVILLE (AP) – A massive winter storm made for a brutal travel day Sunday, with widespread cancellations and delays at some of the nation’s busiest airports. Widespread snow, sleet and freezing rain threatened nearly 180 million people – more than half the U.S. population – in a path stretching from the southern Rocky Mountains to New England.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Local leaders and Democrats across the country demanded federal immigration officers leave Minnesota after a Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis and set off clashes with protesters in a city already shaken by another shooting death weeks earlier.
BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) – Improved weather on Sunday helped rescuers on Indonesia’s main island of Java recover more bodies as they dug through mud and debris in search of scores of missing in a landslide that killed more than two dozen villagers.
LONDON (AP) – A row erupted Sunday within Britain’s governing Labour Party after the ambitious mayor of Manchester was prevented from trying to reenter Parliament at a special election in the city, with critics claiming that Prime Minister Keir Starmer did not want to see a potential rival back in the House of Commons.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Voting was held Sunday in Myanmar in the final round of a three-stage general election, capping a nearly monthlong process that has already ensured the country’s military rulers and their allies will command a parliamentary majority to form a new government.
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