US and Canada fall deeper into a trade war with new tariffs as talks collapse and blame is spread

Each side blamed the other for the collapse of negotiations in Washington late Friday, leading the U.S. to impose 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods and Canada setting Sept. 8 as the start of its retaliatory penalties.

AP News

Trump administration’s 75-country visa ban was illegal, judge rules

A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration ban on issuing immigrant visas to people from 75 countries, saying the policy violated federal immigration law by discriminating on the basis of nationality.

NPR

Gary, Indiana, Has Been Without Power For 11 Days. Too Bad We Don’t Have A Functioning FEMA.

According to NIPSCO, the energy company used by 100 percent of Gary residents, over 300,000 people initially lost power last week, and 33,000 are still going without. NIPSCO says that full power should be restored by Tuesday, though many residents are skeptical that this will happen at all, as they’ve said the same thing about other dates (including yesterday) that have since come and gone.

Wonkette

Opinion | Fertilizers Carry a Hidden Cost for Soil’s Crucial Microbes

After an expensive spring, with the war in Iran restricting fertilizer and petroleum shipments and raising prices, farmers may be wondering whether they can cut back on fertilizer now and in the future to save money.

The answer has a lot to do with a hidden world beneath our feet, where billions of soil-dwelling, beneficial microbes help sustain productive, resilient and healthy crops and agricultural systems.

Mississippi Free Press

Rick Wilson on Republicans’ big orange problem

“Trump has become a crazy old man yelling at the clouds.”

Public Notice

Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application

The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.

NotUs

A Youth Sports Giant Promised Reforms to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse. Most Never Happened.

The AAU has become a haven for coaches suspected of abuse, ProPublica and The Post found, based on a review of public disciplinary lists and interviews with current and former executives from six national sports governing bodies and other key stakeholders. Those sports officials say the AAU has earned a reputation as a place where coaches can escape discipline and are not bound by strict safety laws, making it more difficult to protect young athletes. ProPublica and The Post identified eight coaches who continued to work with children under the AAU in the last five years after being banned or suspended by other youth sports organizations — even though the AAU pledged in 2012 that it would ban such coaches.

ProPublica

Federal officials announce water cuts as Colorado River supplies continue to plunge

“We’ve been in this 26-year prolonged drought period,” said Andrea Travnicek, the Interior Department’s assistant secretary for water and science. “We continue to see a prolonged drought in our future. So continuing to work together as a whole within the basin is going to be extremely important.”

PBS

Pentagon dismisses Stars and Stripes leadership after editor, reporter oppose military interference

Erik Slavin, editor-in-chief of the military newspaper that is partly funded by the Pentagon, told The Associated Press he was dismissed for insubordination after an interview he gave that objected to potential censorship by the U.S. military. He received a notice of separation, as did publisher Max Lederer — who had just announced his upcoming retirement — and Middle East reporter Lara Korte, Slavin said.

AP News

US families, healthcare providers under strain after Trump crackdown on Haitian immigrants

Jawonio was forced to lay off nearly two dozen Haitians last month, totaling 7% of its staff. Most of ​those affected provided round-the-clock care for disabled patients for around $20 per hour, just a few dollars above New York’s minimum wage.

“These are among the most difficult positions to fill,” Jawonio’s CEO, Randi Rios-Castro, told Reuters in response to emailed questions.

“This has never been just an immigration issue,” she wrote of the decision to end TPS. “It is a healthcare workforce issue for us and our country.”

Reuters

Woke What? Let’s Be Fucking Serious

Our politics are not the politics that have detached this country from reality, or normalized increasingly inhuman policies.

Organizing My Thoughts

A Muslim educator and a rabbi: One ideology threatens us both

White supremacy does not distinguish between the communities it seeks to intimidate. Our resistance shouldn’t distinguish between them, either.

Religion News Service

Fired Federal Employees Are Bringing Climate Change Info Back to the People

Scientists are preserving vital climate-related information amid the Trump administration’s attacks on climate science.

Truthout

Beef producers ‘disappointed’ by Trump tariff suspension

National Cattlemen’s Beef Association CEO Colin Woodall said “flooding” the market with “government-subsidized, below-market beef” would not help producers to “rebuild the American cattle herd,” which continues to decline.

North Dakota Monitor

The Era of Anti-Trump Resistance Heroes Is Over

A string of races has shown that relying solely on an anti-Trump message may no longer be a viable winning strategy.

NotUs

Higher grades and belonging: Trans students thrive when their teachers support them

Actions as simple as asking for and affirming a student’s name and pronouns can make trans students feel substantially safer and more likely to succeed in the classroom, a new report shows.

Michigan Advance

Startling new study shows 12% of US adults are LGBTQ+, the highest estimate yet

The analysis shows that a majority of LGBTQ+-identifying adults are below the age of 35.

LGBTQ Nation

Jordan’s energy diplomacy: The power of being in between

Jordan sits at the intersection of the Levant, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula and the eastern Mediterranean. Geography alone does not generate power. But when electricity grids, pipelines and energy infrastructure connect across borders, location can be transformed from a geographic fact into a strategic asset.

Middle East Monitor

If the Home Office Really Wants to Prevent Rape, Why Give Guidelines Only to Asylum Seekers?

The government may have thought it was addressing the far-right’s fixation on migrants and sexual violence by producing its guide to consent. Instead, it has ended up reinforcing that link.

Zeteo UK

Student killed in sword attack at a Swedish school was a 17-year-old girl

An 18-year-old man armed with a sword carried out the attack at the Brinell School in Fagersta, northwest of Stockholm, while classes were in session on Friday. One person was killed and three others were wounded, two of them severely.

AP News

Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage

Clément Vandenkerckhove’s mother, a Belgian singer who had a relationship with Prince Laurent in the 1990s, only told him who his father was when he turned 16 a decade ago.

CNN

Over 100 ex-diplomats urge France, UK to sanction Israel over Palestine

An open letter demands a ban on arms transfers and a freeze on EU-Israel and UK-Israel trade agreements.

AlJazeera

Why Le Pen’s plan for a constitutional referendum would be ‘a coup d’état in form and content’

If she were to win, far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has pledged to call a referendum to revise the Constitution and enshrine the far right’s core principles in it. According to a member of the highest administrative court, this would be ‘a double coup d’état, both in form and content.’

Le Monde

Brand Hype Has Existed Since the Bronze Age, Scientists Discover

The Qurayyah Painted Ware of Bronze Age Arabia had distinct visual identity, material consistency, technological continuity, and cultural reputation—all features of a commodified brand, scientists say.

404 Media

Former French, British ambassadors urge halt to arms exports, ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank

The signatories said France and the UK, which recognized the state of Palestine in 2025, should take “urgent action” to safeguard the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination.

They said the Israeli government was seeking to “destroy any prospect of an independent Palestinian state” and accused it of showing “contempt for the law, the rulings of the International Court of Justice and countless UNSC Resolutions.”

Middle East Monitor

Lake Victoria’s Peatland Conundrum

The Lake Victoria Basin Commission, headquartered in Kisumu, advises the governments of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda on managing the basin’s shared waters. Paul Kariuki, the commission’s regional ecosystems monitoring specialist, says the rising water level is not a new phenomenon. “In some seasons, the lake level has risen by more than half a metre,” he says. “That’s enough to submerge ports, roads, and entire communities along the shoreline.”

The Xylom

The Voter Roll Purge That Helped End Trinamool Rule

A brief orientation for readers less familiar with Indian politics. The Trinamool Congress is a regional party, not a national one; it governs only West Bengal, a state of roughly one hundred million people in India’s east, bordering Bangladesh. Banerjee founded the party in 1998 and has run the state since 2011, building a base heavily concentrated among Muslim voters (about twenty-seven percent of the state’s population) and the rural poor. Just like how the Prime Minister is the head of the central government, the Chief Minister is the head of the state government. The BJP is India’s governing national party, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and has spent over a decade trying and failing to break Trinamool’s hold on Bengal. The Election Commission of India (ECI) is a constitutionally independent body, roughly analogous to a combination of the Federal Election Commission and every US state’s chief election official rolled into one, which administers elections directly rather than merely regulating campaign finance. Its independence from the ruling party is a foundational assumption of Indian democracy, which is precisely why accusations that it has been used as a partisan instrument are as serious as they are.

Liberal Currents

U.S. investment in international reporting is shrinking, taking international journalists’ opportunities with it

As Donald Trump wins more attention from news media, one loser has often been international reporting — despite the growing imperative for American readers to have a more expansive view of their place in an increasingly interconnected world.

The Objective

The discursive function of gendered online hate speech in Kosovo

Understanding these dynamics is important because online discourse increasingly shapes public attitudes, political participation, and perceptions of who belongs in public life. If misogynistic narratives become normalized online, they can discourage women from participating in public debate and reinforce existing inequalities.

Global Voices

Somali pirates hijack oil tanker off Yemen in latest attack

Somali pirates hijacked an oil products tanker off Yemen, a Somali maritime security official said, the latest in a resurgence of piracy that has seen six commercial vessels seized since April across the Gulf of Aden and western Indian Ocean.

AP News

Immigration Equality

Immigration Equality is the national leader in the field we pioneered: LGBTQ and HIV immigration rights. We work on both the personal and systemic levels to protect and uplift LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrants and families.

National Immigration Law Center

Established in 1979, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is one of the leading advocacy organizations in the U.S. dedicated to advancing and defending the rights and opportunities of low-income immigrants and their loved ones.

Immigration Advocates Network

Harnessing the power of technology and collaboration to support immigrants and their allies.

RAICES

We deliver legal and social services to people and families who want to put down roots in the U.S.—and cultivate welcoming communities that uphold our collective freedoms.

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) is the premier nonprofit and nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to developing the next generation of Latino leaders.

MALDEF

Founded in 1968, MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) is the nation’s leading Latino legal civil rights organization. Our commitment is to protect and defend the rights of all Latinos living in the United States and the constitutional rights of all Americans.

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists

The beginnings of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) can be traced back to a 1982 convention in San Diego, California. Organized by the California Chicano News Media Association (CCNMA) and a few journalists from the rest of the country, the convention attracted 300 participants.

UnidosUS

Since 1968, we’ve served the Hispanic community through our research, policy analysis, and state and national advocacy efforts, as well as in our program work in communities nationwide and through our network of over 300 affiliates across the country.

GLAAD

Founded in 1985, GLAAD is a non-profit organization focused on LGBTQ advocacy and cultural change. GLAAD works to ensure fair, accurate, and inclusive representation and creates national and local programs that advance LGBTQ acceptance. Serving as a storyteller, media force, resource, and advocate, GLAAD tackles tough issues and provokes dialogue so that authentic LGBTQ stories are seen, heard, and actualized. GLAAD strives to protect all that has been accomplished and helps create a world where everyone can live the life they love.

PFLAG

PFLAG is creating a caring, just, and affirming world for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them.

GLAD Law

Since 1978, GLAD Law’s bold litigation has achieved scores of precedent-setting victories on behalf of LGBTQ+ people and people with HIV.

Transgender Law Center

Transgender Law Center is the largest national, trans-led organization working to set all people free. We champion the right of all transgender and gender-nonconforming people to make their own choices and live freely, safely, and authentically. Prioritizing BIPOC, disabled, and HIV+ communities, we advance community-driven strategies that harness trans knowledge, power, and joy to ensure that we all not only survive but thrive at all ages and phases of life.

NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists

NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists is the premier network of LGBTQ+ media professionals, dedicated to the highest journalistic standards in the coverage of LGBTQ+ issues.

Lambda Literary

For over 30 years, Lambda Literary has championed LGBTQ books and authors. No other organization in the world serves LGBTQ writers and readers more comprehensively than Lambda Literary. We believe that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer literature is fundamental to the preservation of our culture, and that LGBTQ lives are affirmed when our stories are written, published, and read.