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Canada hits US with retaliatory tariffs on metals, whiskey, maple syrup

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Canada is the latest country to retaliate against the Trump administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs. The Canadian tariffs were designed to cause political pain for Republican-controlled states and districts.

Hillary Clinton: ‘What is more uncivil than taking children away?’

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She has made peace with losing the election – but not with Donald Trump. Now she is fighting to undo the damage of the president’s child-separation policy – and has no time for debates over civility

When Hillary Clinton made her first public appearance after losing the 2016 election, it was her admission that she had felt like “never leaving the house again” that made headlines. Twenty months later, other details of the speech seem much more significant. That Clinton had left her house to address the Children’s Defense Fund, a child advocacy organisation, said a lot about where the defeated candidate saw her future. Her warning about “the little girl I met in Nevada who started to cry when she told me how scared she was that her parents would be taken away from her and be deported”, told us more about her country’s future than we knew. But when I quote her words back to her, it’s not the accuracy of her prescience that makes her shudder, but its inadequacy.

“I was hopeful that I wouldn’t see the worst of my fears come true. But it has been worse. I have to tell you, even I did not believe this would happen.”

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Canada hits US with retaliatory tariffs: ‘We will not back down’

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Country announced taxes on items including ketchup, lawnmowers, whiskey and yoghurt amounting to $12.6bn

Canada has announced billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs against the US in a tit-for-tat response to the Trump administration’s duties on Canadian steel and aluminum.

Justin Trudeau’s government released the final list of items that will be targeted beginning 1 July. Some items will be subject to taxes of 10 or 25%.

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More than 700 anti-Trump protests planned across all 50 states

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Mass events, spurred by immigration policy and supreme court, urge unity in trying times: ‘It’s not about red or blue’

Organizers of demonstrations expected to take place across all 50 states on Saturday are calling for Americans outraged by Donald Trump’s immigration policies and the prospect of a supreme court swinging sharply right to put aside party differences and protest with one voice.

“This is an all hands on deck, stop the madness moment. It’s not a red or blue thing,” the national protest organizer, Ai-jen Poo, told the Guardian.

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Iowa law forcing women to wait 72 hours before abortion ruled illegal

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  • Iowa supreme court finds law violates state constitution
  • Ruling does not affect new ban on abortions after 20 weeks

The Iowa supreme court on Friday blocked a law requiring a 72-hour waiting period before a woman can get an abortion.

Related: Abortion rights in ‘dire, immediate danger’ as Anthony Kennedy retires

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‘What’s wrong with our society?’ Annapolis mayor voices concern at hostility to media

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Gavin Buckley says Capital Gazette ‘reports on our kids’ soccer games and good, local, interesting stuff’

Gavin Buckley, the mayor of Annapolis, was distraught in the wake of the mass shooting at his city’s local newspaper, telling the Guardian: “What’s wrong with our society that we’re this tightly wound that you can be this upset at a newspaper that reports stories on cats being stuck up a tree?”

Although Buckley made clear that the Annapolis Capital-Gazette, the newspaper where five people were shot dead on Thursday, was a good paper; he was just still in shock that it was a target. After all, when he was told that there had been a shooting at the Capital, his initial response was to think of Maryland’s state capital in the heart of downtown Annapolis.

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Birdbrainy: New Caledonian crows make tools using mental images

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Study finds birds have design templates in their minds and may pass them on to future generations

New Caledonian crows use mental pictures to twist twigs into hooks and make other tools, according to a provocative study that suggests the notoriously clever birds pass on successful designs to future generations, a hallmark of culture.

“We find evidence for a specific type of emulation we call mental template matching,” co-author Alex Taylor, director of the Language, Cognition and Culture Lab at the University of Auckland, told AFP.

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