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Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins misleads on trade deficit by cherry picking data
During Trump’s first term, the U.S. recorded its first agricultural trade deficit in nearly 60 years, USDA reported. ​ ...
Opinion: The fallout of cancelling funding for food in pantries and schools. 'Real people, real farms, and real families'
A dramatic loss in funding for programs that allowed food banks and schools to source food from local small farmers in CT ...
From juice to jewellery: which U.S. goods will EU hit with tariffs?
The European Union will launch countermeasures from next Tuesday against U.S. President Donald Trump’s steel and aluminium ...
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The Mercury’s Sound Off for Tuesday, April 8
Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...
Tom Zirpoli: Trump’s tariff mania | COMMENTARY
“Mania is a psychological condition that causes a person to experience unreasonable euphoria … and delusions,” according to ...
Letters for April 10: Citizens’ power lies in caring about each other
Letter writers discuss Department of Education IEP assistance, Signal chat leak and “Trump derangement syndrome.” ...
Opinion
President Trump's Reduced Tariff/Taxes Are Still Unconstitutional
President Trump blinked today after his "Liberation Day" tariff/taxes catastrophe led to the worst S & P stock market performance for the start of a ...
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Explainer: What's behind the EU's watered down retaliation against Trump’s tariffs?
The European Commission bowed to pressure from EU countries to water down countermeasures against US President Donald Trump’s ...
Local food banks feel loss of Biden-era funds with missing truckloads, smaller senior program
Nancy Ayala and her husband were second in line Wednesday morning for Facing Hunger Foodbank’s mobile distribution at Raceland Christian Church. Although distributions typically start around 11 a.m.