Category: Americas
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The Gang Suppression Force authorised for Haiti last September expires on 30 September, and the United States and Panama are expected to ask the Security Council to renew it. Around 1.5 million Haitians are displaced, and the conduct of the operations themselves has become part of the argument.
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Three people died in a shooting outside a Tucson bar frequented by LGBTQ people. Five days later, investigators confirmed it was motivated by homophobia. What that classification changes when the perpetrator is already dead.
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Federal authorities want to check state voter rolls against federal citizenship records. Whether that removes ineligible registrations or eligible voters comes down to three procedural details, not to the stated purpose.
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A Europe-based US Army unit has been told to stop specialising in drone warfare, a few hundred miles from the war that has redefined it. There is a defensible doctrine behind that — and a familiar way it goes wrong.
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The USDA is moving about half its Washington staff to regional hubs. It tried a smaller version of this in 2019, and most of the affected specialists resigned rather than move.
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Gloria Steinem died on 2 September at 92. She founded a magazine on the premise that a market existed for addressing women as political subjects, and was proved right — and the criticisms of her work are part of the record too.
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The president called the confrontation with Iran “small potatoes” a day before strikes killed five in Kermanshah. Whether an operation counts as hostilities is not just a figure of speech — it is the legal hinge the War Powers Resolution turns on.
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Missouri’s top court has blocked the state’s mid-decade congressional map for November. It did so on state constitutional grounds — which, since 2019, is the only avenue left for challenges of this kind.
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Catholic health providers are suing Illinois over its assisted-dying law. The fight is not over whether a doctor can refuse — it is over what an institution owes a patient after it has refused.
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C$27.6 billion in Canadian retaliatory tariffs start on Monday, on top of 50 per cent American duties. No talks have resumed since 22 August. Retaliation is a tax a country levies on itself — and governments choose it anyway.