Category: Americas
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Four people were killed, including the perpetrator, at a daycare and a house in Hopkins, Minnesota. Why we are withholding the name and the method, what is worth reporting instead, and why incident counts differ so wildly between sources.
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Trump renewed his criticism of Canada amid the tariff dispute, saying it wants the benefits of statehood without being a state. What the argument claims, the case against it, and why sovereignty framing makes a technical dispute harder to settle.
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Nine CJNG members were arrested in a military operation in Michoacán, including a man said to have run cartel training camps. Why that phrase matters more than the arrest count, and what two decades of leader-removal has actually produced.
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TikTok and ByteDance will pay $400 million to settle a Justice Department lawsuit over children’s privacy. What COPPA actually requires, why the payment is split $300m and $100m, why no wrongdoing is admitted, and what a settlement does and does not establish.
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A yearlong US ban on Mexican cattle imports ends on 24 August, reopening a $1.2 billion trade. Why a fly closed the border, why the reopening is deliberately slow, and why the ban did not keep the screwworm out of Texas anyway.
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Rodrigo Paz dismissed economy minister José Gabriel Espinoza on Friday, days after calling the congressional vote against him unconstitutional. What a censure vote does under Bolivia’s constitution, why a car purchase became the trigger, and what the reversal signals.
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Around 1,200 people face deportation from the US to countries that are not their own, starting with a group of twenty. What third-country removal is, why governments use it, the legal limit that applies, and why the first flight is the least informative part.
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Eight people died when a charter aircraft crashed at a remote radar site in western Alaska. Why radar installations sit where nobody lives, why Alaskan aviation is statistically more dangerous, and what “charter” means for the rules that applied.
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The FBI has arrested a woman over an alleged plot against the New York State Capitol. How the law prosecutes an attack that never happened, why implausibility is not a defence, and the contested role of undercover operations.
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Tens of thousands in Indiana are starting a second week without power. Why the last few per cent of customers take longest to reconnect, what a week without electricity actually does to a household, and the real trade-offs in burying power lines.