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What started as an eye-catching retaliation tactic to tariffs has become a sticking point in the US-Canada trade war — and neither side is standing down.The booze battle began last year after President Donald Trump imposed broad 25% tariffs on Canadian goods. Canada responded with its own 25% retaliatory tariffs targeting alcohol, among other products. The country’s provinces went further, pulling American alcohol from shelves and halting new purchases or distribution.A year and a half later, American alcohol remains shut out of much of Canada. The boycott was so effective that Trump cited it as a driving force for his…

Olivia Konar holds a banner with names of young people who advocates say died as a result of social media outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, in Oakland, Calif. Her sister Coco Konar died in 2022 when she was 17. Social media company Meta agreed to a nearly $17 billion settlement with a group of states over its child safety practices. Noah Berger/Associated Press hide caption toggle caption Noah Berger/Associated Press Sign up for NPR’s Up First morning newsletter for the stories you need to start your day. Meta has agreed to change…

Canada is escalating its response to President Donald Trump’s trade war, with another round of retaliatory tariffs set to take effect September 8.But two key Canadian exports — oil and potash, a key fertilizer ingredient — should stay out of the fight, one Canadian premier said Wednesday.”What we as a province cannot and will not support is any kind of export tariff on our natural resources or any of our resources that are being exported to the US or through the US to other areas of the world,” said Scott Moe, the premier of Saskatchewan in Western Canada, at a…

Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face, the popular AI platform for sharing and building with open-source models, in what could be one of the chip giant’s biggest deals yet.The two parties have had acquisition conversations in recent weeks about a deal that would value Hugging Face at more than $13 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. The companies have not yet reached a deal, and the talks could still fall apart, the person said. Business Insider on Sunday was the first to report that Hugging Face was fielding takeover interest.Nvidia and Hugging Face did…

Jensen Huang is feeling spendy. In the span of a few weeks, the Nvidia CEO has committed billions to deals and investments — with more potentially right around the corner.The spending spree shows how far Nvidia is expanding beyond chips and raises a bigger question: how much of the AI ecosystem does it want a hand in?Nvidia said in its earnings report on Wednesday that it has $18 billion committed to equity investments for the rest of the fiscal year, with a focus on AI model makers, infrastructure financiers, and other private companies.It held $47.9 billion in private companies as…

This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Valerie Crisp, the 38-year-old founder of Common Goods, an online Canadian marketplace. She is based in Toronto. Her words have been edited for length and clarity.The Buy Canadian movement certainly ebbs and flows. But right now I’m blown away by the way Canadians have taken this on as a group project.Last year, when US President Donald Trump implemented his tariff policy, conversations about solidarity and sovereignty in Canada were swelling, and it became apparent to me that this probably wasn’t going to be a temporary conversation.I’d been working on a pilot project…

Beyond her 9-to-5 as a performer and prolific songwriter, Dolly Parton was also a master of connection.That was clear in a letter she sent Eminem, whose given name is Marshall Mathers, following his 2022 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.In a post on X on Tuesday following Parton’s death at age 80, the rapper wrote that Parton’s words had an impact on him, in part because “she definitely didn’t have to take the time to do it.””Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon,” Eminem said, saying that the two never…

Working as a manager or engineer for a data center can pay off.A recent Indeed Hiring Lab post about the data center job market showed that data center roles typically pay better than their counterparts in similar non-data center jobs. There can be work-life trade-offs, such as working nights or required traveling, depending on the role.Based on job postings on Indeed from January to June, data-center-related roles among several job titles typically pay higher than non-data-center gigs. The median for data-center facilities managers was $134,000, 64% higher than the median for other kinds of facilities managers. Big household names dominate…

A U.S. Postal Service worker loads mail-in ballots onto a truck in 2022 in Miami. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images A federal judge in Boston has handed the Trump administration another temporary win in the legal fight over the president’s executive order to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani on Wednesday canceled a nationwide ruling she had issued that blocked the U.S. Postal Service from working on Trump’s directives. The decision sets up another possible consideration of the executive order by the Supreme Court. The court ruled on a…

When Stanley Druckenmiller speaks, markets listen. When the legendary trader uses AI to craft his message, investors can’t stop talking.Druckenmiller has said he used AI to help write his viral op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this week. In the piece, he criticized Scott Bessent, the US Treasury chief and his former protégé, for ramping up bond buybacks in a bid to drive down Treasury yields.The billionaire investor — who worked with Bessent at George Soros’ hedge fund and Fed Chair Kevin Warsh at Duquesne Family Office — told the Journal that he felt “kind of proud” at age 73…