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Today's Top News Compilation - Monday, Mar. 30, 2020

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US businesses brace for Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China to drive up costs

  • News source: Paul Wiseman | The Associated Press
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From an ice cream parlor in California to a medical supply business in North Carolina to a T-shirt vendor outside Detroit, U.S. businesses are bracing to take a hit from the taxes President Donald Trump imposed Saturday on imports from Canada, Mexico and China — America’s three biggest trading partners.

The levies — 25% on Canadian and Mexican and 10% on Chinese goods – will take effect Tuesday. Canadian energy, including oil, natural gas and electricity, will be taxed at a lower 10% rate.

Mexico’s president immediately ordered retaliatory tariffs...
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'Is it for a day or four years?' Tariff uncertainty spooks small businesses

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Entrepreneurs in the US, Mexico and Canada worry that even a short trade war could push up prices and cost jobs.
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Trump says he ordered air strikes on Islamic State group in Somalia

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Trump says he ordered air strikes on a senior attack planner from the Islamic State group in Somalia.
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How LA fires devastation will change the Grammys this year

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Showrunners say the ceremony will look different as they honour fire victims and first responders.
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USAID website goes offline in Trump's 2-week-old freeze on foreign aid worldwide

  • News source: Ellen Knickmeyer | The Associated Press
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The website of the U.S. Agency for International Development went offline without explanation Saturday as thousands of furloughs, layoffs and program shutdowns continued in President Donald Trump's freeze on U.S.-funded foreign aid and development worldwide.

Congressional Democrats battled the Trump administration increasingly openly, expressing concern that Trump may be headed toward ending USAID as an independent agency and absorbing it into the State Department. Democrats say Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded...
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‘Declaration of economic war': Canada and Mexico vow response to Trump's tariffs

  • News source: Josh Boak | The Associated Press
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President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an order to impose stiff tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China — fulfilling one of his post-campaign commitments to voters that threatened to spark higher inflation and disrupt businesses across North America as the countries vowed harsh measures in response.

The Republican president posted on social media that the tariffs were necessary “to protect Americans," pressing the three nations to do more to curb the manufacture and export of illicit fentanyl and for Canada and Mexico to reduce illegal...
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Trump enacts tariffs on America's largest trading partners, China, Mexico and Canada

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump, as he threatened, has enacted tariffs of 25% on imports from Mexico and Canada, along with an additional 10% tariff on goods from China. Energy imports from Canada, however, will only be hit with a 10% tariff. Willie James Inman has the details. Then, Ontario Premier Doug Ford discusses whether this is the start of a trade war.
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Trump hits China, Mexico and Canada with tariffs

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The US president will tax imports from America's three largest trading partners but retaliation is expected.
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How countries respond to Trump's tariffs is what matters next

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Retaliatory taxes against the US by other nations could lead global trade into uncharted territory.
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Nasa needs saving from itself – but is this billionaire right for that job?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The success of SpaceX and other private-sector space firms is throwing up hard questions about America's "great national treasure".
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Who should count as African at the Grammy Awards?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The dedicated award for African music is proving contentious with the inclusion of Chris Brown.
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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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