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Alexander Panetta

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, New York,

'Nowhere near close:' U.S. rebuffs Trudeau hope for quick NAFTA deal

The United States declared the NAFTA countries were nowhere close to a deal in a statement on Thursday, May 17, 2018, designed to douse expectations that an agreement might be just a few minor adjustments away.
News, US News, Politics | May 19th 2018
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Donald Trump, White House, Washington,

NAFTA: As deadline nears, Trudeau, Trump discuss prospects of quick deal

President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discussed the possibility on Monday, May 14, 2018, of immediately wrapping up a NAFTA deal despite signs of skepticism about whether that goal is feasible.
News, US News, Politics | May 15th 2018
national flags, United States, Canada, Mexico, New Orleans

Canada, U.S. spar over late-stage sticking point in NAFTA: sunset clause

Canada and the U.S. have had a testy exchange over the idea of including a termination clause in NAFTA, with this idea of a so-called sunset clause emerging as a late-stage sticking point in the negotiations.
News, US News, Politics | April 27th 2018
Chrystia Freeland, Rex Tillerson, Ottawa

NAFTA: Talks continue through weekend in scramble to get a deal soon

NAFTA negotiating teams will keep bargaining through the weekend in a rush to get a deal by early May, fuelled by a Trump administration desire to meet a legislative deadline.
News, US News, Politics | April 23rd 2018
FBI director, James Comey, Senate Intelligence Committee,

Highlights of Comey book: Seven details from tell-all tome that has Trump fuming

James Comey's new tell-all isn't officially out yet, but it's already infuriated President Donald Trump, who has called Comey an "untruthful slime ball," and declared that he considered it an honour to fire the FBI director.
News, US News, Politics | April 14th 2018
Unifor President, Jerry Dias,

NAFTA deal 'not close at all': Union leader Jerry Dias, from Washington talks

Talk of an impending NAFTA deal is premature, Canadian union leader Jerry Dias said in Washington while officials were negotiating there on Wednesday, April 11, 2018.
News, US News, Politics | April 12th 2018
Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, re-election,

Top GOPer Paul Ryan joins a historic pre-election stampede for the exits

Republicans were already sprinting for the exits in historic numbers, with fears of an impending electoral horror show driving them into political retirement before congressional elections this fall.
News, US News, Politics | April 12th 2018
President Donald Trump, Cabinet Room, White House, Washington,

As Russia probe heats up, White House declares: We could fire Mueller if we want

The president is fuming after a police raid into his inner sanctum. Arms crossed, Donald Trump pointedly refused to rule out firing the special counsel now inching into his business ties.
News, US News, Politics | April 11th 2018
Chrystia Freeland, Robert Lighthizer, Ildefonso Guajardo Villarrea, NAFTA, Montreal,

Mexico: 80 per cent chance of new NAFTA deal announced within a month

There's an 80 per cent chance of a new NAFTA agreement in principle within a month, the Mexican minister leading the file said on Monday, April 9, 2018.
News, US News, Politics | April 9th 2018
Jacqueline Smith, Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Martin Luther King Jr., killed, sniper,

Martin Luther King: 50 years later, his mission not quite accomplished

Just across the street from the scene where Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered 50 years ago Wednesday, a woman has stood vigil, day after day, for several decades, protesting against the site becoming a museum.
News, US News, Politics | April 4th 2018
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