This NPR News segment covers a series of urgent developments: Canada’s unified pushback against U.S. tariffs under Prime Minister Mark Carney, the political implications of Trump’s midterm campaign strategy, a worsening weather crisis in Hawaii, a deadly landfill collapse in Guinea, and a
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