Efforts to lower the threshold amount or exclude certain countries altogether from duty-free treatment are set to become a major trade fight in this Congress.
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Russia says Wagner Group’s leader will move to Belarus after his rebellious march challenged Putin
After the deal was reached, Yevgeny Prigozhin said he was ordering his troops to halt their march on Moscow and retreat to field camps in Ukraine, where they have been fighting alongside Russian troops.
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Wagner leader calls for rebellion against Russian defense chief, Kremlin orders his arrest
The owner of the Wagner private military contractor has escalated his direct challenge to the Kremlin, calling for an armed rebellion aimed at ousting Russia’s defense minister.
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Georgia congressman wants to block federal agency from slowing boats to protect endangered whales
U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, a Republican whose district includes Georgia’s 100-mile coast, said NOAA’s proposed enhanced slowdown rules would be restrictive enough to cause charter fishing boats to quit the business and to disrupt the efficiency of busy seaports like the Port of Savannah.
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Wall Street falls to close out its first losing week in the last six
Another drop for stocks helped drag Wall Street to its first losing week in the last six.
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Paris climate summit ends without a deal on global tax on shipping
The idea of a global tax on the greenhouse gas emissions produced from international shipping has been gaining traction and could potentially be adopted at a July meeting of the International Maritime Organization.
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Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ creator and Tony-winning lyricist, dies at 99
Harnick and composer Jerry Bock made up the premier musical-theater songwriting duos of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Tourist sub’s implosion draws attention to murky regulations of deep-sea expeditions
It’s a space on the high seas where laws and conventions can be sidestepped by risk-taking entrepreneurs and the wealthy tourists who help fund their dreams.
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Tropical Storm Cindy forms behind Bret in early, aggressive start to hurricane season
‘The Atlantic is awfully warm this year,’ says a meteorologist with MIT, partially a result of global warming, natural variability and the ocean’s recovering from sulfate aerosols pollution that cooled it decades ago.
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Animal sedative adds new suffering to opioid drug crisis, but is it driving up deaths?
Xylazine can cause severe skin wounds, but whether it is leading to more deaths is not yet clear.