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Trump’s Summer of Fun Ends With IndyCar Race on Streets of D.C.

Par : Shawn McCreesh
It was the final, major event planned for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations. The president took a lap.

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The Freedom 250 Grand Prix took place on Sunday on a 1.7-mile track made up of streets around the National Mall.
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Trump’s Economic Approach Draws Concern From Some Republicans

Par : Bayliss Wagner
A plan to lower tariffs on imported beef and trade tensions with Canada have compounded some G.O.P. worries about a central issue in the midterms.

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President Trump arriving aboard Air Force One at Kennedy International Airport on Aug. 14.
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Trump’s Summer of Fun Ends With an IndyCar Race on the Streets of D.C.

Par : Shawn McCreesh
It was the final, major event planned for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations. The president took a lap.

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The Freedom 250 Grand Prix took place on Sunday on a 1.7-mile track made up of streets around the National Mall.
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Iran Warns Gulf States Not to Join Trump’s Economic War

Par : Erika Solomon
Iran’s new hard-line national security adviser, Mohsen Rezaei, vowed to prevent “a single drop of oil” from leaving the region.

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Mohsen Rezaei, Iran’s new security chief, last month in Tehran. Though hostilities have largely ceased, the United States and Iran are locked in an economic standoff.
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U.S.-Canada Trade War: What to Know About Tariffs and the Negotiations

Par : The New York Times
Canada suspended trade negotiations, triggering President Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on a range of Canadian goods. Mark Carney retaliated “dollar for dollar.”

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses the trade dispute with the United States in Levis, Quebec, on Aug. 24.
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What Canadian Goods Will Take Trump’s 50% Tariffs? Some Pretty Strange Items.

Par : Ian Austen
Buoys, dog muzzles, capes, national flags and “base metal statuettes” from Canada are now more expensive for U.S. shoppers.

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Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly

Par : Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.

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Echoing Trump, Latin America’s Leaders Boost Allies Across Borders

Par : Emma Bubola · Annie Correal and Ana Ionova
With cheers, endorsements and insults for rivals and “wokismo,” a new crop of right-wing leaders are openly stepping into one another’s elections.

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President Javier Milei of Argentina, left, with Flávio Bolsonaro, who hopes to be Brazil’s next president, last month. Mr. Milei’s strident support of Mr. Bolsonaro’s candidacy led to a rift with the current Brazilian president.
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Trump’s Top Trade Representative Details Offer That Canada Rejected

Par : Ana Swanson
In an interview, Jamieson Greer, President Trump’s trade representative, laid out details of what the United States offered to Canada before talks crumbled.

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Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said Canada would have been given the most preferential treatment of any trading partner.
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Carney Slams U.S.-Canada Trade Proposal and Vows Retaliation

Par : Ian Austen
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a powerful speech to Canadians on Saturday morning, hours after ordering negotiators to suspend U.S. trade talks despite President Trump’s punishing tariffs.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said that he had pulled negotiators out of trade talks with the United States because the Trump administration had “asked too much and offered too little.”
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Waking Up to an Escalating Canada-U.S. Trade War

Par : Ian Austen
The two countries are locked in a potentially devastating tariff war after last-minute demands ended talks in Washington late Friday night.

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Dominic LeBlanc and Janice Charette at the Canadian Embassy in Washington in June.
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Carney Stands Up to Trump in U.S.-Canada Trade War

Par : Matina Stevis-Gridneff
Canada’s prime minister walked away from what he thought was a bad trade deal with the United States. Many Canadians are behind him, but it will be costly.

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Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, said on Saturday that “Canada is becoming stronger and less dependent on America.”
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For Some in a Disrupted D.C., Grand Prix Is More Irritation Than Celebration

Par : Karoun Demirjian
Race preparations have snarled traffic, rerouted flights and forced the National Gallery of Art to conduct vibration tests.

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How the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy

Par : Ellen Barry and Jason DeParle
As Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.

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Joe Lonsdale, founder of the Cicero Institute, is an ally of President Trump’s whose group has commandeered Republican policy on homelessness.
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How a Trump Envoy Uses Vodka and Dirty Jokes to Conduct U.S. Diplomacy

Par : Valerie Hopkins
The diplomat, John Coale, says his personalized approach gets results and matches the president’s style. Critics contend he is giving up too much to an authoritarian leader.

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John Coale, the U.S. special envoy to Belarus, was on hand last year in Lithuania for the arrival of released prisoners from Belarus.
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Canada-U.S. Tariff Talks Continue as Trump’s Midnight Deadline Looms

Par : Matina Stevis-Gridneff
Canadian negotiators were in Washington to finalize a deal that would stave off new tariffs and improve the terms of existing ones, but Mark Carney faces a tough sell back home.

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The ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario. President Trump hit the Canadian steel industry with tariffs of up to 50 percent last year.
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Canada-U.S. Trade War Escalates as Talks Collapse

Par : Matina Stevis-Gridneff · Ian Austen and Ana Swanson
Intense negotiations to stave off new levies by the Trump administration ended in an impasse as Mark Carney suspended talks. U.S. tariffs on Canada, and retaliatory tariffs on the U.S., will come into effect.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said he suspended the trade talks because the American side introduced last-minute terms that ”called into question the reliability of any deal.”
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With Midterms Approaching, Trump Implores Republicans: Pretend I’m on the Ballot!

Par : Shawn McCreesh
President Trump was in South Carolina to stump for Darline Graham, sister of Lindsey. But his own political future was on his mind, too.

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President Trump appeared at a rally with Senator Darline Graham ahead of the South Carolina Senate runoff.
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Postal Service Publishes Finalized Plan to Restrict Mail Ballots

Par : Adam Sella
The plan, which complies with President Trump’s executive order to curtail mail voting, will only go into effect if the Supreme Court rules in the order’s favor.

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A worker sorting ballots in 2025.
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Judge Strikes Down Trump’s 75-Country Visa Ban

Par : Mattathias Schwartz
The ruling from the Southern District of New York found that the policy went beyond Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s legal authority.

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Travelers arriving from international flights outside the U.S. Customs and Border Protection exit at Kennedy International Airport in New York last year.
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Trump Accounts Get an Unlikely Endorser: Gavin Newsom

Par : Laurel Rosenhall
Mr. Newsom, the governor of California, normally has harsh words for President Trump. But he called the new children’s savings accounts “one of the best things” the president has done.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California gave an unusual endorsement for an endeavor led by President Trump — investment funds for American children born during Mr. Trump’s presidency.
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Drawing on His Rust Belt Roots, Vance Campaigns for Republicans

Par : Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Vice President JD Vance traveled to his hometown, Middletown, Ohio, and spoke at a steel factory where his grandfather once worked.

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Vice President JD Vance spoke at a factory in Middletown, Ohio, on Friday.
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U.S. Agreed to Pay Liberia $5 Million in Connection with Deportees, Documents Say

Par : Madeleine Ngo · Hamed Aleaziz and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
The Trump administration approved the payment after Liberia said it would consider taking migrants from other countries.

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A plane carrying deportees from the United States at Roberts International Airport in Liberia on Thursday.
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5 Deportees Are Flown by US to Equatorial Guinea After they Resist Deplaning in Liberia

Par : Pranav Baskar · Hamed Aleaziz and Genevieve Glatsky
At least five of the people flown to Liberia under the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program resisted leaving the plane. They were then flown to Equatorial Guinea.

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The Bamy Hotel, where migrants are held, in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
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Chief Justice Allows Trump to Continue White House Ballroom Construction, for Now

Par : Ann E. Marimow
The 90,000-square-foot ballroom project has grown in size and scope, with the president’s lawyers saying it is intertwined with the renovation of an underground military bunker.

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The construction site for the new White House ballroom in March.
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Prison Firm Donated to Trump’s PAC After ICE Gave It $165 Million a Year in Contracts

Par : Kenneth P. Vogel and Hamed Aleaziz
The GEO Group has profited from the administration’s mass deportation campaign. A subsidiary donated more than $1.4 million to the president’s super PAC last month.

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The GEO Group signed a five-year contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to operate a detention facility in Winton, N.C.
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Canada-U.S. Tariff Talks Continue as Trump’s Midnight Deadline Looms

Par : Matina Stevis-Gridneff
Canadian negotiators were in Washington to finalize a deal that would stave off new tariffs and improve the terms of existing ones, but Mark Carney faces a tough sell back home.

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The ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario. President Trump hit the Canadian steel industry with tariffs of up to 50 percent last year.
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Gazebos From Uzbekistan: The Latest Foreign Gifts in Trump’s Washington

Par : Luke Broadwater
The structures will go up in West Potomac Park, the site of President Trump’s planned National Garden of American Heroes.

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Workers moving materials for Uzbek gazebos at West Potomac Park on Tuesday. President Trump’s expansive plans for the area also include reflecting pools, dining facilities and an amphitheater.
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Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic

Par : Alan Feuer
It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.

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A report by the Center for American Progress determined that there was “no evidence” that President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to cities across the country had affected the crime rate.
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Push for Online Gun Sales Meets a Surprising Opponent: Small Gun Dealers

Par : Aishvarya Kavi
The Trump administration wants average Americans to be able to buy guns online and have them shipped to their doors. Small gun stores warn it could upend the industry and risk public safety.

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Colin Overbey, the manager for Dunn’s Attic in Ormond Beach, Fla., is one of hundreds of people lobbying the A.T.F. to halt proposals that could alter the gun industry.
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Why China Thinks It Can Resist Trump’s Economic Threats on Iran

Par : David Pierson and Berry Wang
Beijing can squeeze U.S. critical mineral supplies and has enough oil to withstand the loss of Iranian crude, Chinese analysts say.

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Oil storage tanks and facilities in Shanghai in March. China has large stockpiles of oil that make it less vulnerable to energy supply disruptions.
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Iran Must Plan to Overcome U.S. Sanctions After Trump’s ‘Economic D-Day’ Threats, Tehran Official Says

Par : Aurelien Breeden
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, lead negotiator in talks with Washington, made the comments after President Trump vowed an “economic D-Day” against Iran.

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In Tehran last month. Before the latest round of sanctions was announced, Iranians were already contending with sky-high inflation and other economic hardships.
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Giorgia Meloni Has a Lot to Say: The Takeaways

Par : Roger Cohen
The Italian prime minister is leading what will soon be the longest-lasting government in the country’s postwar history. She shows herself by turns funny and fierce in a rare interview.

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Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy.
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Giorgia Meloni Cuts the Hard Right a Path to Power

Par : Roger Cohen
In a rare interview, the onetime political outcast reflects on her route from “the uncomfortable side of history” to the threshold of leading Italy’s most durable postwar government.

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Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at Palazzo Chigi in Rome last month.
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How Harvard’s Epic Fight With Trump Is Costing the University

Par : Mark Arsenault and Irena Hwang
The federal government has slowed Harvard’s funding, despite the university’s legal victories. The conflict is forcing hard choices on campus.

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The Trump administration has found new ways of trying to pressure Harvard to comply with its wishes.
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On the Radio, Trump Has a Reunion (of Sorts) With Michael Cohen

Par : Shawn McCreesh
President Trump’s former personal lawyer tried to revisit the past in a radio interview. But this was not exactly a stroll down memory lane.

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Michael Cohen in front of promotional material for his new radio show, which is meant to look like him in the Oval Office, during a news conference in New York last month.
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The Message Behind Trump’s Threats of ‘Economic Warfare’ Against Iran

Par : Anton Troianovski and Alan Rappeport
President Trump’s threats of an “economic D-Day” carry a clear signal to Iran that he does not want to go back to war.

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Among the challenges for President Trump is that he has repeatedly threatened Iran with destruction, only to pull back.
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Japan’s U.S. Ties Could Not Save a Top Judge From Trump’s I.C.C. Sanctions

Par : Javier C. Hernández and Kiuko Notoya
Japan had tried to dissuade the U.S. from imposing sanctions on Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court, but the White House pressed ahead.

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Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court, in The Hague in 2024.
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Targeted by an Islamophobic Provocateur, a City’s Muslims Are on Edge

Par : Richard Fausset
Jake Lang has descended four times on Dearborn, Mich., which is majority Arab American. His rhetoric and protests have stirred fear among residents.

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Jake Lang, the far-right agitator, outside a City Council meeting on Tuesday in Dearborn, Mich.
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Homeland Security Made a Big Claim About Noncitizen Voting. Now It Can’t Prove It.

Par : Nick Corasaniti
The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.

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Nevada election officials have questioned the Trump administration’s claims that thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in the state. Above, a poll worker stands in a polling location in Las Vegas during the state’s primary in June.
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Darline Graham’s Debate Misstep Tests South Carolina’s Appetite for a Political Newcomer

Par : Emily Davies
The South Carolina senator has argued that her lack of political experience is a strength as she runs to succeed her late brother, Lindsey Graham. But a debate misstep has rattled some of her supporters.

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Senator Darline Graham is campaigning to hold on to the seat of her late brother, Lindsey Graham.
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Trump Boasts of Declassifying Secrets, but Withholds Key Election Files From Public

Par : Dustin Volz
Even as the White House claims to be focused on transparency, it has ignored a congressional requirement to disclose a report on foreign meddling in the 2024 election.

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A polling location in New York during the 2024 election.
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Trump Officials Move to Fund Gaza Peacekeepers Even as Peace Plan Falters

Par : Adam Sella
The State Department informed Congress of its intent to fund the stabilization force on the same day the president’s Board of Peace announced a plan to disarm Hamas.

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Palestinians inspecting the damage to a mosque after it was struck by Israeli airstrikes in July in Gaza City. Deadly clashes have continued on and off since an initial cease-fire was reached in October.
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U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Leaves Middle East After Months at Sea in Operation Against Iran

Par : John Ismay
The aircraft carrier has been deployed for nine months, largely in support of U.S. operations against Iran, and is now heading home to San Diego.

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The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in San Diego in 2021. The carrier’s most recent deployment began on Nov. 21, and the thousands of sailors on board have spent almost the entirety of the time since at sea.
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Trump Tariff Talks Leave Key Canadian Official Hopeful

Par : Ian Austen and Ana Swanson
While President Trump has declared that the two countries effectively have a deal, a Canadian trade official said progress continued ahead of the Saturday deadline.

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Dominic LeBlanc, the Canadian minister in charge of U.S. trade, arriving to meet with Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, on Thursday in Washington.
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A Few Expert Lawyers Dominate Supreme Court Arguments, a New Study Finds

Par : Adam Liptak
Chief Justice Roberts, once such a lawyer, has said he has mixed feelings about the trend.

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Chief Justice John Roberts argued 39 Supreme Court cases as a lawyer in the solicitor general’s office and in private practice.
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State Dept. Declares U.S. Citizen in China Wrongfully Detained

Par : Karoun Demirjian
U Min Zin, a scholar who studied Myanmar, is one of two U.S. citizens the department has designated as wrongfully detained in China.

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The detained U.S. citizen U Min Zin disappeared in China’s Yunnan province after traveling there to attend an academic conference at the invitation of the Chinese government, according to the State Department.
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State Dept. Declares U.S. Citizen in China Wrongfully Detained

Par : Karoun Demirjian
U Min Zin, a scholar who studied Myanmar, is one of two U.S. citizens the department has designated as wrongfully detained in China.

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The detained U.S. citizen U Min Zin disappeared in China’s Yunnan province after traveling there to attend an academic conference at the invitation of the Chinese government, according to the State Department.
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Trump’s Economic Threat Puts Focus on Iran’s Trading Partners

Par : Leo Sands
President Trump appeared to suggest that the United States would impose economic penalties on countries that do business with Iran, though he did not specify what actions he would take.

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Oil tankers moored at Tsing Yi port in Hong Kong.
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Trump’s Order to Cut Military Exercises With South Korea Carries Risks, Experts Say

Par : Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper
President Trump’s decision to curtail the military exercises came as allies question the U.S. commitment to longstanding alliances.

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American and South Korean troops participating in the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises last year.
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