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Today's Top News Compilation - Friday, Mar. 26, 2020

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Trump signs tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China: 'National emergency'

  • News source: FOX News
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The Trump administration is implementing tariffs through its new International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

In a statement obtained by Fox News on Saturday, the White House said that the legislation comes amid an "extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl, constitutes a national emergency.

"President Donald J. Trump is implementing a 25% additional tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% additional tariff on imports from China. Energy resources from Canada will have a lower 10% tariff,"...
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Four dead in Russian strike on Kursk school, Ukraine says

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Ukrainian army said four people were killed and dozens injured in the Kursk region.
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Medical jet was in the air for less than a minute before crash in Philadelphia: NTSB

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Six people aboard a medical transport plane, along with one person on the ground, died in the fiery crash near a busy mall.
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DOJ's deletion of Jan. 6 records triggers legal challenge

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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A decision by the acting leadership at the U.S. Justice Department to delete its public webpages and case summaries of the Jan. 6 siege at the Capitol prosecution has triggered a legal challenge from a watchdog group and blowback from a federal judge who oversaw some of the cases.

The controversial decision has also drawn the ire of one of the rioters who pleaded guilty.

The Justice Department had built a comprehensive database of the approximately 1,600 defendants from the U.S. Capitol attack and had produced a monthly set of reports updating the...
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Soldier killed in D.C. midair collision identified as former White House aide

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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One of three soldiers aboard an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was involved in the deadly midair collision with an American Airlines flight Wednesday near Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., was identified Saturday by the Army as 28-year-old Capt. Rebecca Lobach, who had worked as a White House aide in the Biden administration.

The Army said Lobach had served as an aviation officer in the Army from July 2019 until January 2025. She had been awarded the Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal and...
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Trump signs executive orders to impose steep tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The policy risks raising prices for essential products like gas and groceries.
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Trump slaps tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, risking higher prices for U.S. consumers

  • News source: Shannon Pettypiece | NBC News
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President Donald Trump has signed tariffs on goods coming into the U.S. from Canada, Mexico and China, the White House said Saturday, raising the risk of a trade war with America’s closest trading partners and threatening to drive up prices on everything from cars to avocados.

Canadian energy products would have a lower tariff rate of 10%.

Trump said he was imposing the tariffs because he claimed the countries were allowing fentanyl to come into the U.S. More than 107,000 people died from drug overdose in 2023, with nearly 70% of those deaths from...
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Ken Martin wins race to become chair of the Democratic National Committee

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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National Harbor, Maryland – Ken Martin, the chair of Minnesota's arm of the Democratic party, will become the new leader of the Democratic National Committee after winning during the first round of voting as the party attempts to rebound from a challenging election cycle.

In his acceptance speech, Martin looked to unify the party after a somewhat contentious chair race.

"The fight's not in here. The fight is for our values. The fight is for working people. The fight right now is against Donald Trump and the billionaires who bought this country,"...
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What are tariffs and how do they work?

  • News source: Paul Wiseman | The Associated Press
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Tariffs are in the news at the moment. Here's what they are and what you need to know about them:

Tariffs are typically charged as a percentage of the price a buyer pays a foreign seller. In the United States, tariffs are collected by Customs and Border Protection agents at 328 ports of entry across the country.

U.S. tariff rates vary: They are generally 2.5% on passenger cars, for instance, and 6% on golf shoes. Tariffs can be lower for countries with which the United States has trade agreements. For example, most goods can move among the United...
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Here's how tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico may impact U.S. consumers

  • News source: Greg Iacurci, CNBC
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly discussed imposing tariffs, both during the campaign and since taking office, and the first tranche, on goods from Canada, China and Mexico will take effect Feb. 1, the White House confirmed Friday.

While there are still some unknowns, one thing is clear, economists said: U.S. consumers should brace for a negative financial impact.

It's "hard to find positives" from tariffs, said Mary Lovely, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, whose research specializes in trade with China...
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Multiple health agency websites on HIV, contraception taken down

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Multiple health agency websites on HIV, contraception taken down to comply with executive orders.
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White House takes aim at Selena Gomez for video of her crying amid ICE raids

  • News source: Mirna Alsharif | NBC News
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The White House is the latest to take aim at Selena Gomez for a now-deleted video she posted of herself crying during recent immigration crackdowns.

In a video of their own, the White House featured the mothers of two women and a 12-year-old girl who were killed by convicted undocumented migrants.

Tammy Nobles, the mother of Kathy Hamilton, who was killed and raped in a Maryland mobile home by El Salvadorian national Walter Javier Martinez, said to Gomez, "You don't know who you're crying for."

"What about our children who were brutally murdered...
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Democrats elect Ken Martin, the party leader in Minnesota, as national chair

  • News source: Steve Peoples | The Associated Press
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Democrats on Saturday elected Ken Martin, the party leader in Minnesota, as the national chair, turning to a low-profile Midwestern political operative to coordinate their resistance to Donald Trump’s presidency.

Martin succeeds Jaime Harrison of South Carolina atop the Democratic National Committee. Harrison did not seek another term after the 2024 election when Trump became the first Republican to win the popular vote in two decades and made modest gains with core Democratic constituencies — African Americans, Latinos and working-class voters...
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Democrats elect new chair who branded Trump a 'traitor' as party aims to rebound from disastrous 2024 election

  • News source: FOX News
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Saturday elected Minnesota party leader Ken Martin as its next national chair, in the wake of major setbacks up and down the ballot in the 2024 elections.

The election of Martin is the party's first formal step to try and rebound from the November elections, in which President Donald Trump recaptured the White House, and Republicans flipped the Senate, held on to their fragile majority in the House and made major gains with working-class, minority and younger voters.

"We have one team, one team, the...
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Reagan National Airport has bothered lawmakers for years, but quick access to power has stalled change

  • News source: FOX News
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Ask many of Congress' frequent fliers, and they'll tell you Ronald Reagan National Airport has sent up red flags for years.

"I've long been very, very nervous about congestion at Reagan National," said Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va.

"The congestion of the airspace around Reagan and D.C. as a whole definitely played a part in this," said Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., a former firefighting pilot. "The sheer number of aircraft in the air is as high as it's ever been."

"A lot of aircraft transit up and down the Potomac," said Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., a former...
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