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How to Panic Italians? Jack Up the Price of Espresso.

Prices for coffee beans have risen, but in a country where coffee drinking is a ritual, customers demand cheap espresso. That has left coffee bars in a bind.

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A cup of espresso at the Lavazza Museum in Turin, Italy. Executives from Lavazza and Illy have warned for more than a year that higher coffee prices are most likely here to stay.

Judge Blocks Trump Administration Tactics in L.A. Immigration Raids

A federal judge temporarily halted the administration from making indiscriminate arrests based on race and denying detainees access to lawyers, in a lawsuit that could have national repercussions.

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The initial rulings represented a sharp rebuke of the tactics that federal agents have employed in and around Los Angeles during raids, which have entered their second month.

Russia Sees France as Its Main Enemy in Europe, French General Says

During a rare news conference on Friday, the head of the French military, Thierry Burkhard, said Russia remains a “lasting, close” threat.

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Gen. Thierry Burkhard, the head of the French military, speaking about the Russian threat in Paris during a news conference on Friday.

Farmworker Dies After Fleeing a Federal Raid in Southern California

During a chaotic raid in Ventura County on Thursday, the worker fell from a greenhouse at a cannabis farm, suffered spinal and skull injuries, and died on Friday.

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Federal agents blocked people protesting an ICE immigration raid at a licensed cannabis farm on Thursday, near Camarillo, Calif.

After Texas Disaster, Trump Shifts His Tone on FEMA

Earlier this year, President Trump suggested he wanted to shutter the agency. Now, he says his aides “fixed it up in no time.”

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“We have some good people running FEMA,” President Trump said during his tour of Texas flood damage on Friday.

Judge Orders Los Angeles Police to Stop Shooting Projectiles at Journalists

Los Angeles Police Department officers fired foam projectiles and flash-bang devices at reporters and photographers who were covering the immigration protests in June.

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Flash-bangs and gas canisters being used against protesters at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles last month.

Man Had 14 Toucans Stashed in His Volkswagen Dashboard, U.S. Says

Carlos Abundez, 35, is facing federal smuggling charges after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers made the discovery. The birds, a threatened species, were in stable condition.

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Carlos Abundez of San Ysidro, Calif., is charged with smuggling 14 live, bound Keel-billed toucans that the authorities said were hidden inside the dashboard of his Volkswagen Passat.

Aware of Trump's Desire for Retribution, Experts Appear Shy to Speak Up

A New York Times investigative reporter explains how a problem he encountered while reporting reveals something important about the second Trump era.

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President Trump’s retribution campaigns have been more sophisticated and more wide-ranging in his second term.
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