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Trump’s Tariff Threat for Drug imports Poses Big Political Risks

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Rebecca Robbins
Levies on Americans’ daily prescriptions and other medicines could raise costs, spur rationing and lead to shortages of critical drugs.

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Most medications consumed in the United States are produced at least partly overseas. China and India do most of the production of cheaper generic drugs, while expensive patented medications are more often made in Europe or the United States.

Inside Trump’s Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants

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Julie Turkewitz， Jazmine Ulloa， Isayen Herrera， Hamed Aleaziz and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
The Trump administration sent them to a prison in El Salvador under a wartime act, calling them members of a Venezuelan gang. But a New York Times investigation found little evidence of criminal backgrounds or links to the gang.

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Nathali Sánchez, the wife of Arturo Suárez, a migrant sent to prison in El Salvador, with her daughter in Santiago, Chile.

In Canada’s Fight With Trump, Danielle Smith Is Playing Good Cop

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Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Amber Bracken
Danielle Smith, the premier of the oil-rich province of Alberta, takes pride in her MAGA ties. As her country faces existential threats from President Trump, she thinks her party and her province stand to gain.

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at a provincial government office building in Calgary, Alberta, in February.

Trump’s Dilemma: A Trade War That Threatens Every Other Negotiation With China

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David E. Sanger
President Trump is staking everything on winning by imposing tariffs on China. But the fight threatens to choke off negotiations about other issues like Taiwan, fentanyl, TikTok and more.

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President Trump may be entering any eventual negotiations alone because he has alienated the allies who in recent years had come to a common approach to countering Chinese power.

China’s Halt of Critical Minerals Poses Risk for U.S. Military Programs

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Helene Cooper
The Pentagon and defense contractors are heavily reliant on magnets and rare earth minerals mined or processed in China, which has suspended exports of the materials in an escalating trade war.

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Rare earth minerals are present in almost every form of American defense technology. They can form very powerful magnets, for use in fighter jets, warships, missiles, tanks and lasers.
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