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Trump announced 30% tariffs against the EU and Mexico to begin August 1.
President Donald Trump announced the tariffs Saturday on two of the United States’ biggest trade partners in letters posted to his social media account. In his letter to Mexico, Trump acknowledged that the country has been helpful in stemming the flow of undocumented migrants and fentanyl into the United States. But he said the country has not done enough to stop North America from turning into a “Narco-Trafficking Playground.” In his letter to the European Union, he said the U.S. trade deficit was a national security threat.
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Trump toured Texas flood sites and defended officials.
President Donald Trump lauded local officials amid criticism that they failed to warn residents quickly enough about impending floods. He met Friday with first responders and state and local officials gathered at an emergency operations center in Kerrville, Texas. The president said his administration “is doing everything it can to help Texas” and said that good people were running the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Since the July 4 event, the president has been silent on his past promises to do away with FEMA.
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Protesters and federal agents clashed at a Southern California farm.
The confrontation erupted Thursday while a raid took place. Vehicles from Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection blocked the road in an agricultural area of Camarillo, California. Glass House Farms said it was visited by officials and “fully complied with agent search warrants.” A witness whose father works on the farm says she arrived to protest and saw agents spray the crowd with deterrents. The Department of Homeland Security didn't respond to a request to the AP for comment.
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Cambodia passes law to strip citizenship on the basis of treason.
Cambodian lawmakers passed a constitutional amendment that would allow the government to draft legislation seeking to revoke the citizenship of anyone found guilty of conspiring with foreign nations to harm the national interest. The legal move by supporters of Prime Minister Hun Manet, and the first of its kind in Cambodia, was viewed by critics as a way to suppress internal dissent and eliminate political opponents of his administration and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. The change would apply to lifelong Cambodian citizens, people with dual citizenship, and people from other countries who have been granted citizenship.
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