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Canada could delay ratification of new NAFTA until U.S. metals tariffs are lifted: Garneau

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Transport Minister Marc Garneau said today the federal government isn’t ruling out delaying the ratification of the new North American free trade pact until after the U.S. lifts controversial tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

Alec Baldwin interview: actor fears for family’s safety after Trump threats

In Dworkin Report podcast, SNL sketch actor wonders what ‘retribution’ will look like, and jokes about jail for Trump Jr

Alec Baldwin has spoken of his fear that Donald Trump is stirring up some supporters to exact “retribution” against him for his satirical performance of the president on Saturday Night Live, saying the president “signals people” to become angry and bitter “and then the actions flow from there”.

The actor also offered a joking reply to Donald Trump Jnr who tweeted that Baldwin’s claims he was afraid for his safety were “bullshit”, saying the president’s son would have “a lot of time to watch SNL” in prison.

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Hoda Muthana: US bars Alabama woman who joined Isis from returning

He’s the traitor denying citizen rights without due process – she wants to pay for any crime she may have committed but he wants her to go free and be a stateless non-person so he and Trump can look tough?

Mike Pompeo says Muthana, 24, is not a US citizen but refusal to take her back likely to face legal challenge

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has said the state department will block an American-born woman who left Alabama to join Islamic State in 2014 from returning to the US.

Hoda Muthana, 24, told the Guardian this week that she regretted leaving the US to join the terrorist group and wants to return from Syria with her 18-month-old son.

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High risk: anti-vaxxers in the delivery ward

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What can a doctor say to a mother who refuses a potentially life-saving treatment for her newborn? By Rachel Pearson

For paediatric resident physicians, the newborn nursery at a high-risk delivery centre is a potent mix of the mundane and the terrifying. We spend most of our time teaching new parents how many wet nappies to expect in a day, making slight adjustments to breastfeeding positions, listening again and again to normal hearts. Most babies don’t need a paediatrician at delivery, and these kids simply arrive on our unit, swaddled and ready for life outside the womb.

Sometimes, though, birth is an emergency: the baby has no heartbeat; the baby is not breathing. I wear running shoes at work even though I’ve lost a pair to bloodstains, so that every time my pager sounds, I am ready to sprint upstairs to the labour and delivery floor.

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It’s a bit rich of bankers to criticise the spending habits of millennials | Zoe Williams

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Infantalising financial advice from Barclays won’t wash when young people can only dream of home ownership

Yesterday, I was woken with a start by a call from someone who wanted me to talk on the radio about millennials, an age bracket that tops out at 37, and starts in the early 20s: I am not in this range. They had someone who was, but he pulled out, because millennials are snowflakes.

Barclays had conducted research that showed millennials spent £3,000 a year on “treats” – coffees, clothes, going out – and it was going to explain how if they swapped out some of those treats, they could afford to save, then get bigger things such as houses.

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Shamima Begum has a right to British citizenship, whether you like it or not | Gary Younge

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Sajid Javid makes Britain look weak by refusing to take back a groomed teenager – nationality doesn’t depend on whim

When I was 16 I stopped off in Holland, during a camping holiday with a friend. We bought as much marijuana as we could and smoked it all in an afternoon. Sat behind a housing estate in the border town of Nijmegen, we giggled, rambled and lay around until the local police came. They took us back to the campsite (we found the fact that they spoke Dutch hilarious), where we were asked for our passports and train tickets. They already had our number: a couple of idiots out of their minds and out of their depth. They told us to get on the next train in the direction of the port. We’d stopped laughing by then. We went home.

Adolescents do stupid things. Often they know they are stupid at the time

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Jamaican high commissioner calls for halt to deportations from UK

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Top diplomat hosts emotional meeting of relatives of those deported this month

The Jamaican high commissioner has called for a suspension of deportations to Jamaica until the Home Office has published its investigation into the Windrush scandal.

At an emotional meeting of relatives of people who were deported to Jamaica earlier this month, held at the Jamaican high commission in London, the high commissioner, Seth George Ramocan, said he was particularly concerned about the deportation of people who had lived in the UK since they were children, and also the removal of parents who had young children living in Britain.

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Neo-Nazi coast guard officer accused of domestic terror plot denied bail

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Government says Christopher Hasson was plotting ‘to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country’

A federal judge on Thursday denied bail for lieutenant Christopher Hasson, a neo-Nazi member of the US coast guard who the government says was plotting “to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country”.

Law enforcement officers seized 15 guns and 1,000 rounds of ammunition from Hasson’s Silver Spring, Maryland, home earlier this week. Court documents quoted an email in which Hasson wrote he was “dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth”. He was arrested this week on drug and gun charges.

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‘Apology rings hollow’: judge rebukes Roger Stone and slaps stricter gag order

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Longtime Donald Trump ally was spared prison for posting an Instagram picture lambasting Judge Amy Berman Jackson

His swagger gone and his humiliation complete, political operative Roger Stone took the witness stand on Thursday to deliver an abject apology for attacking the judge in his case on social media only to be told it “rings quite hollow” and warned he could have incited violence by his supporters.

The longtime confidante of Donald Trump was spared prison for posting an Instagram picture lambasting Judge Amy Berman Jackson but he was slapped with an expanded gagging order that prevents him speaking publicly about his ongoing criminal case.

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