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Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday it will take time to solve economic and security issues between Canada and the U.S. amid President Donald Trump’s trade war, warning no “magic” single meeting will “unlock things.” Carney is expected to hold his first conversation with Trump as prime minister in the coming days, as officials on both sides of the border continue talks on a broader trade relationship that Ottawa hopes will include exemptions from Trump’s punitive tariffs.Carney told reporters in Iqaluit those tariffs and other actions from the Trump administration have “called into question the validity” of free trade rules…

Russia agreed to pause strikes on energy in UkrainePresident Vladimir Putin of Russia agreed yesterday on a call with President Trump to halt strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure for 30 days, as long as Ukraine does the same, the Kremlin said. Putin declined for now to agree to a broader cease-fire that the U.S. and Ukraine had proposed.President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said he was open to the truce on attacks on energy infrastructure.My colleague Paul Sonne, who covers Russia, told me that Putin told Trump “that the ‘key condition’ to resolving the conflict was an end to military and…

Republican lawmakers are calling out Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for “mocking hardworking Americans” during an appearance on “The View,” where the Democratic leader criticized individuals who want to keep more of the money they make.House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., wrote that Schumer “is so out of touch with the American people that he would MOCK hardworking taxpayers for wanting to keep more of the money THEY EARN and run the businesses THEY OWN.””Seriously Chuck?” Emmer said in a post on X.Schumer, during his appearance on the daytime talk show on Tuesday, criticized individuals who want more control over…

Dan Houston’s outstanding Collingwood debut has whetted the appetite for what is to come as the Magpies seek to bounce back into AFL premiership contention.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, has an unorthodox idea for tackling the bird flu bedeviling U.S. poultry farms. Let the virus rip.Instead of culling birds when the infection is discovered, farmers “should consider maybe the possibility of letting it run through the flock so that we can identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it,” Mr. Kennedy said recently on Fox News.He has repeated the idea in other interviews on the channel.Mr. Kennedy does not have jurisdiction over farms. But Brooke Rollins, the agriculture secretary, also has voiced support for the notion.“There…

Open-world games tend to structure themselves around a central, driving plot. You’ve got to save the planet from catastrophe in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. In Avowed, you’re seeking the cure for a spreading contagion. The rest of the side-quests — their mini-games and their hidden zones — are mostly extraneous. They’re rest stops along the shoulder of the five-lane highway of plot.Assassin’s Creed Shadows reverses this formula. Its story line feels diminished and sits in the background of a more vibrant world.Like past Assassin’s Creed games, Shadows serves up a clear premise: saving Japan from malevolent actors, this time through…

A federal judge found on Tuesday that efforts by Elon Musk and his team to permanently shutter the United States Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution “in multiple ways” and robbed Congress of its authority to oversee the dissolution of an agency it created.The ruling by Judge Theodore D. Chuang of U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland appeared to be the first time a judge has moved to rein in Mr. Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency directly. It was based on the finding that Mr. Musk has acted as an officer of the United…

Hudson’s Bay may start to liquidate its stores this week, and operators at the two Maritime malls are worried how the iconic store’s closure could impact them and shoppers. Lawyers were in court Monday asking for permission to begin a liquidation of all 80 of its stores, and the judge’s decision is on hold.There are only two Bay stores in the region — both in Nova Scotia — at the Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth and the Mayflower Mall in Sydney.Mayflower Mall’s property manager says while things are still up in the air, the Bay’s closure would hurt.“It’s detrimental to…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldUS stocks dropped sharply on Tuesday with shares in technology groups including Elon Musk’s Tesla selling off as investors continued fretting over President Donald Trump’s economic and trade policies.The blue-chip S&P 500 ended the session 1.1 per cent lower, with nine of the index’s 11 sectors in negative territory and consumer cyclicals, which tend to fall during times of rising worries over the economy, posting some of the steepest declines.The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.7 per cent, erasing Monday’s rally. Tesla…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the UK property myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.UK first-time buyers with mortgages bought homes further out of London in 2023 compared with 10 years earlier, underlining the affordability challenges of getting on the housing ladder in the capital. All local authorities in London, where the average house costs £549,000, registered a drop in first-time buyer mortgages per 1,000 dwellings between 2013 and 2023, the Office for National Statistics said on Tuesday. In the same period, the number of first-time buyers per 1,000 dwellings increased in most local authorities in…