Trump: ‘Canada has been ripping off the United States for many, many years’<\/p>\n
The resumption of US-Canada trade talks does not seem to be on the horizon. During a press conference with US travel executives, Trump was asked if negotiations would resume.<\/p>\n
\u201cCanada has been ripping off the United States for many, many years, for decades, many decades,\u201d Trump said, adding shortly thereafter, \u201cIt\u2019s a very unfair deal. They charge tremendous tariffs to our farmers. They take advantage of our farmers. They take advantage of our tourists. They take advantage of airlines.\u201d<\/p>\n
The collapse of discussions resulted in Trump imposing 50% tariffs on $20bn in Canadian goods and Canada threatening retaliatory tariffs starting 8 September.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.11 EDT<\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n Congressman James Comer said the US Department of Justice is investigating Ilhan Omar and her \u201centire family\u201d.<\/p>\n In an interview with the rightwing podcaster Benny Johnson, the chair of the House oversight committee referenced a \u201cdiscrepancy\u201d on a financial disclosure form and said the Minnesota congresswoman was seeking \u201cearmarks for things that would have benefited the Somali community that have already been identified in committing fraud in Minnesota\u201d.<\/p>\n Omar has long been the subject of attacks and criticism from the politicians on the right, including JD Vance, who have accused the representative of immigration fraud, among other accusations. The Democrat has also frequently faced xenophobic attacks from Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n Earlier this year a man sprayed her<\/a> with vinegar as while was speaking at an event. She told the Guardian in December 2025<\/a> that she faced no death threats during Joe Biden\u2019s presidency, but that changed when Trump returned to office.<\/p>\n \u201cNow they are back up, and so there is a clear correlation between [Trump\u2019s] presidency and the political violence that we see and the political danger that a lot of members of Congress and electeds feel across the country,\u201d she said at the time.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>US judge blocks Trump’s newest order limiting birthright citizenship<\/p>\n A US judge has blocked Donald Trump\u2019s latest effort to restrict birthright citizenship.<\/p>\n Deborah Boardman issued a preliminary injunction, preventing the Trump administration<\/a> from enforcing the president\u2019s new executive order, which he signed after the US Supreme Court rejected a previous effort.<\/p>\n The new order targets so-called \u201cbirth tourism\u201d, and seeks to make children of people who work for foreign governments and those classified as an \u201calien enemy\u201d, among other groups, ineligible for automatic citizenship.<\/p>\n Boardman said the order was \u201calmost certainly unconstitutional\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThis \u200bCourt must, once again, preliminarily enjoin enforcement of the President\u2019s most recent attempt to strip the right to citizenship from them,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.26 EDT<\/p>\n Patagonia, the outdoor clothing and gear company, has joined a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump\u2019s decision to significantly reduce the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah, removing protections from nearly 3m acres.<\/p>\n In July, the president approved<\/a> the reduction of the sites by 90%, clearing the way to open the land to oil and gas companies. He argued in his proclamations that doing so would allow lands to be \u201cput to a higher-priority use\u201d and that they contained critical minerals important to \u201c resource independence \u2026[and] national security\u201d.<\/p>\n Patagonia said it was joining the lawsuit to put a stop to what it described as illegal orders that \u201cbetray Tribal sovereignty\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will not stand idly by while anti-public lands crusaders attempt to exploit these lands for their extractive-industry friends or disrespect tribal nations,\u201d Ryan Gellert, the company\u2019s CEO, said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n House Democrats rejected a constitutional amendment proposed by Republicans<\/a> to ensure the size of the supreme court is permanently capped at nine justices. It failed 212-206.<\/p>\n As Reuters pointed out, the proposal was part of a Republican effort to make the supreme court a campaign issue ahead of the November midterms. The GOP was quick to seize on the issue with the National Republican Congressional Committee claiming in a statement that House Democrats<\/a> \u201cwant to pack the Supreme Court with liberal justices so they can follow through on their radical socialist agenda\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cGive House Democrats an ounce of power, and they\u2019ll use every bit of it to fundamentally transform America into an unrecognizable socialist hellscape,\u201d spokesperson Mike Marinella said.<\/p>\n Congressman Jamie Raskin argued Republicans were seeking to \u201ccement their stacked and packed MAGA Supreme Court majority into the Constitution and strip away yet another basic power the Framers gave to Congress\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter sycophantically surrendering to Donald Trump<\/a> our war powers, spending powers, tariff powers, and powers over federal buildings, to name a few, now they want to give up a power we have had since the Republic was founded: the power to decide how many Justices will be on the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>DSA of LA endorses Nithya Raman in mayoral race against Karen Bass<\/p>\n Nithya Raman, the progressive Los Angeles city councillor challenging Mayor Karen Bass, has received an endorsement from the city\u2019s chapter Democratic Socialists of America.<\/p>\n The Los Angeles Times<\/a> reported on Wednesday that the organization endorsed Raman after more than 60% of voters in an online election among chapter members backed her for mayor.<\/p>\n Nithya Raman, Los Angeles mayoral candidate and city councilmember, takes photos with members of the Western State Carpenters before a debate on 19 August 2026. Photograph: Jackson Tammariello\/ZUMA Press Wire\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n The decision came after significant debate given her relationship with the chapter \u2013 she has long been a DSA member but the organization censured her in 2024 for pursuing an endorsement from a Democrats<\/a> for Israel group. The DSA LA endorsement is expected to boost Raman\u2019s campaign, as the organization has a significant volunteer base.<\/p>\n Raman beat out reality TV personality Spencer Pratt to advance to the November election against her former political ally Bass.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.14 EDT<\/p>\n Donald Trump celebrated the news that Apple had fulfilled his request to rename Lake Ontario to \u201cLake America\u201d for Maps app users in the US following an executive order that came amid rising trade tensions between the US and Canada.<\/p>\n \u201cApple Maps has just announced that it has changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, so now that very important change of names, between Google Maps and Apple Maps, is complete, ratified, and binding,\u201d Trump said in a post online on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear what the president meant by \u201cratified\u201d and \u201cbinding\u201d.<\/p>\n Read more on Apple\u2019s decision here:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva has slammed new border wall construction near Quitobaquito Springs on the Tohono O\u2019odham Nation\u2019s ancestral lands.<\/p>\n \u201cThis morning, bulldozers are tearing through protected lands to make way for Trump\u2019s second border wall \u2014 just 0.7 miles east of Quitobaquito Springs and getting closer,\u201d Grijalva said in a statement, which included a link to video<\/a> apparently showing this construction. \u201cThis is tribal land. It does not belong to Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n Grijalva said that authorities and private contractors had gone onto sovereign tribal lands despite objections from the Tohono O\u2019odham Nation.<\/p>\n \u201cThis level of disrespect is shameful and will go down as a stain on our nation\u2019s history and its treatment of Indigenous Peoples,\u201d Grijalva\u2019s statement also said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t just about a wall.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s about erasing people, cultures, and bulldozing over tribal sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.58 EDT<\/p>\n Department of Homeland Security secretary Markwayne Mullin said he was on a plane that made an emergency landing.<\/p>\n Mullin\u2019s disclosure was in an X post on Wednesday that shared another account\u2019s description of this incident.<\/p>\n \u201cA Coast Guard aircraft has landed safely at DCA after declaring an emergency in the air C101 had lost its right engine mid-flight and diverted to Reagan Airport for an immediate landing. All 14 members on board have landed safely,\u201d @TheDMVLive posted<\/a> just before 2 pm local time.<\/p>\n Just over an hour later, Mullin posted<\/a>: \u201cThe United States Coast Guard pilots made the single engine landing feel routine. No panic, just straight professionalism. After we landed, the pilots told me that was a first for them! We could not have been in better hands.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.58 EDT<\/p>\n The Trump administration<\/a> rejected New York\u2019s request for help related to a major snowstorm that caused $168m in damage, governor Kathy Hochul said.<\/p>\n \u201cAnother day, another denial of critical federal assistance for New York by the Trump Administration,\u201d Hochul said in a statement Wednesday. \u201cJust one day after calling out President Trump and Secretary Mullin for continuing to withhold $87 million in counterterrorism funding, my Administration was informed today that FEMA has officially denied our appeal for a Major Disaster Declaration following the February blizzard that caused more than $168 million in damages and placed a serious financial burden on communities across New York City, Long Island and the Mid-Hudson.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis storm met every FEMA threshold for federal assistance, yet the Trump Administration continues to play political games and betray every New Yorker who believes that the federal government is there to protect and support them,\u201d Hochul also said. \u201cBy refusing to intervene and grant our request, President Trump has told every New Yorker who weathered this major storm and the first responders, utility crews and emergency management staff who worked tirelessly to keep our communities safe that you do not matter to him.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut let\u2019s be clear, Republican members of Congress across New York are also enabling this neglect,\u201d Hochul also said. \u201cTheir continued silence and refusal to break with the President is a direct betrayal of the communities they were elected to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt is past time these members of congress demand that the President grant this disaster declaration and deliver every dollar of relief their constituents are owed.\u201d<\/p>\n The Guardian has reached out to The White House and FEMA for comment.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.57 EDT<\/p>\n Trump: ‘happy about’ Harry and Meghan returning to UK, says he ‘was not a fan’<\/p>\n