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President Donald Trump has targeted Canadian airline manufacturer Bombardier in his trade war with Canada. In this photo, an Air Canada Express Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft departs Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. (Photo by Getty Images/Yassine Bahammou) WASHINGTON — Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on American goods kicked in Tuesday, escalating a trade war with one of the largest U.S. trading partners that President Donald Trump continued to antagonize over the holiday weekend. Trump posted an AI-generated cartoon image of himself Sunday evening in which he is depicted as a hockey player striking Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who is shown down on the ice, with a hockey stick.  “Get up, governor,” a speech bubble from Trump’s mouth reads, apparently referring to Canada as a U.S. state rather than a sovereign country.  Nearly $28 billion in U.S. exports crossing the border to Canada now carry up to 50% tariffs, a dollar-for-dollar match on Trump’s taxes on Canadi...

Election workers sort ballots at Contra Costa County's election operations facility on May 27, 2026 in Martinez, California. (Photo by Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images) A U.S. Postal Service rule restricting mail-in voting, like the executive order from President Donald Trump that spurred it, is unconstitutional, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said in a Friday order extending a freeze on the policy. The Trump administration quickly appealed the order to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday. Then Sunday, the administration also  asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the preliminary injunction, saying Talwani rushed it without considering the actual text of its final rule. “The district court’s continuing prejudgment of the rule is baseless, and an immediate stay is warranted,” U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in a Sunday application to the court. Sauer described the rule as containing “only modest envelope-design and addressee-information requirements fo...

A prison corridor in Holman Correctional Facility in 2019. An Alabama state representative last week said he wanted to know whether settling a long-running lawsuit over mental health care in state prisons would be cheaper than pursuing a settlement. (File) An Alabama lawmaker and outspoken critic of the Alabama Department of Corrections said Thursday the Alabama Attorney General’s Office should have settled an ongoing lawsuit over mental health care in state prisons instead of continuing with litigation. Rep. Chris England, D-Tuscaloosa, said at the Contract Review Committee meeting Thursday that he wanted answers from ADOC about mounting costs in the lawsuit, known as Braggs v. Lovelace. “I am just really sick and tired of giving more money to the Department of Corrections under this current administration and under this leadership, because clearly, we are just burning it,” England said in an interview with the media following the meeting. “There aren’t any real reforms, changes or ...

A youngster holds up a pro-union sign at Laborfest in Milwaukee on Labor Day, Sept. 2, 2024. The percentage of unionized workers in Alabama has declined amid an aging population, outsourcing and technology changes. (Erik Gunn/Wisconsin Examiner) Alabama’s union membership declined last year amid a broader decline of the workforce, the aging of union members and outsourcing.  According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics , Alabama’s total employment dropped from 2.110 million in 2024 to 2.090 million in 2025. Labor union representation fell from 140,000 in 2024 to 131,000, or from 6.6% of the workforce to 6.3%. The number of workers represented by unions also fell, from 165,000 in 2024 (7.8% of the workforce) to 150,000 (7.2%) in 2025. Nationwide, the unionization rate is 10%.  Alabama was historically one of the most unionized states in the South, due to the number of manufacturing jobs available during the 1940s. As late as 2015, about 10% of the state workforce belonged to unio...

An explosion of data center facilities, including the one pictured here in northeast Oregon on May 18 have been built along the Columbia River Gorge during the last few years. (Photo by Jordan Gale/Oregon Capital Chronicle) Officials in Page, Arizona, a small city near the Glen Canyon Dam, passed a land sale  agreement last fall that establishes a framework for future construction of a data center. The  sale of the 500-acre parcel about a mile away from the Colorado River’s Horseshoe Bend — one of the  most visited natural landmarks in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area — to Huntley LLC for $7 million specifies that the company intends to build a 1 gigawatt data center. Residents have been pushing back and launched a  petition earlier this year to stop the planned data center from being built.  About 5 miles south of the city, a group of tribal leaders began to take notice. The proposed data center borders the LeChee Chapter of the Navajo Nation, lo...

Sisters watch as a skid-steer loader pulls a tree in Highmore, South Dakota, on June 29, 2026, after a severe storm that morning. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced it will reimburse eight South Dakota counties and three tribes for storm-related infrastructure fixes. (Photo by Meghan O’Brien/South Dakota Searchlight) State leaders are breathing a sigh of relief that the Trump administration’s threats to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency have subsided.  But experts say there’s still confusion about President Donald Trump’s decisions to approve or deny disaster declarations, leaving states with uncertainty about whether they can expect federal recovery funds. “The foundation (at FEMA) seems stronger than it did six months ago, but this is an unreliable administration when it comes to the fair and equitable distribution of disaster funds,” said Juliette Kayyem, faculty chair of the Homeland Security Project at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Governm...