Category: Americas
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Two dead and about fifteen missing after a flash flood through Bright Angel Creek. Sixty were airlifted out. The flood also destroyed the only water pipeline serving the park, where 1,600 people live year-round.
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Targeted killings, PCC–CV clashes and dead farm workers along Bolivia’s border with Brazil. ACLED’s analyst says pressure on gangs inside Brazil may be pushing them across — the same displacement logic as Michoacán.
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New Mexico’s former House Democratic floor leader was convicted of diverting education funds. It is the latest in a run of cases in one small, unsalaried legislature — and it stopped at the state line.
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Washington stopped inspecting Michoacán avocados in August and Mexico sent 1,557 troops. ACLED’s reading is that guarding one crop moves the extortion rather than ending it — and the state’s own violence data already shows the shift.
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Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Programme ties a worker’s immigration status to one employer. Amnesty made 32 recommendations; the closed permit remains. A minister once visited and saw nothing wrong.
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Seventeen fields, 65 billion barrels, 25 years, a 55 per cent US stake and the right to buy at cost. No text has been released, and the terms that decide whether it is worth anything are the ones not published.
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Thirteen of more than fifty people taken at Kenscoff were released. The figures underneath the incident — 1.47 million displaced, thirty documented cases of gender-based violence a day — are the story.
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On 2 August, California’s AI Transparency Act and the EU AI Act’s transparency rules took effect on the same day. Both demand a machine-readable answer to one question: did a machine make this? A month on, here is what actually changed.
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The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell to 289.7 million barrels, its lowest since November 1982. The stockpile is not empty — but the reserve’s usefulness is measured in barrels per day, not barrels, and that number has fallen too.
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Canada’s answer to “Lake America” is a large sign on its own shore reading “Lake Ontario now and always”. Both gestures are free, both are visible, and neither touches the 50 per cent tariffs underneath.