Why is toilet paper suddenly part of a trade fight, and what’s getting caught in the crossfire of this tit-for-tat US-Canada tariff war? Al Jazeera’s Yasmeen ElTahan explains. Published On 9 Sep 20269 Sep 2026 Share The losers of the US-Canada trade war on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters outside the White House, in Washington, Aug. 19, 2026. Kylie Cooper | Reuters As President Donald Trump’s wartime directives in Iran repeatedly jolted global markets, his personal energy portfolio surged. Throughout the first six months of fighting, Trump’s investment accounts continued aggressively trading energy stocks. Between the eve of the war, on Feb. 27, and Aug. 31, his nine largest oil and gas holdings gained approximately $1.5 million to $4.4 million, according to a CNBC analysis of his annual financial disclosure, quarterly corporate reports and FactSet market data. CNBC identified the nine holdings by aggregating Trump’s year-end 2025 positions in the same oil and gas companies across his investment accounts and ranking them by their disclosed value. They are: Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, Kinder Morgan, Marathon Petroleum, Occidental Petroleum, Phillips 66, Valero Energy and the Williams Companies. CNBC calculated the range of gains using the minimum and maximum values Trump disclosed for each holding and their share-price changes from market close on Feb. 27 through market close on Aug. …
Former Census officials say the breadth of data used, as well as the lack of clear explanation of the methodology employed to analyze it, raises significant red flags. “We don’t know whether or how the sources are updating their citizenship info,” Amy O’Hara, a former official who used to run the administrative data linkage unit at Census, tells WIRED. “It is really hard to join and deduplicate these files, especially across a range of years.” In order to match people between surveys and records without revealing their identities, the Census Bureau uses what are known as Protected Identification Keys (PIKs), which replace identifying information with a unique code. Sources who spoke to WIRED say that they are unsure which data points were used to match PIK data across the many datasets, though something like an address could be used for cross-referencing. Though PIKs have been used for years to allow academics and government employees to conduct studies without compromising the privacy of the people whose data it is, they are not foolproof. A January 2026 …
U.S. President Donald Trump (R) walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin as they arrives at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on August 15, 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin that a swift resolution to the Ukraine war could pave the way for the countries to fully restore trade and economic ties, according to a Kremlin readout of a call between the two leaders. Trump and Putin were said to have exchanged views on the results of the recent visits to Moscow and Kyiv by U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who have sought to revive stalled diplomatic talks to bring an end to the conflict. Russia has resumed air attacks on major Ukrainian cities after a brief pause for the visit of U.S. peace negotiators over the weekend. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that there has been “too little response” from the international community to the latest deadly strikes. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said Trump and Putin spoke to …
Iceland Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir participates in a listening session on the upcoming referendum on August 26, 2026 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Jonathan Nackstrand | Afp | Getty Images Iceland has sharply criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s social media post of a map that appears to show the island and several other countries covered by the American flag. Trump posted the image on Truth Social on Monday, depicting the U.S., Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean under the Stars and Stripes flag. The map was published without comment and came after a flurry of preceding posts suggesting that the U.S. state of New Mexico should be renamed “New America.” Iceland summoned U.S. Ambassador Billy Long over the incident, with Foreign Minister Thorgerdur Gunnarsdottir saying the meeting was necessary to “make it absolutely clear that, from our perspective, this was completely unacceptable.” Speaking at a news conference, Gunnarsdottir said that the Nordic nation of nearly 400,000 stood with Greenland over Trump’s annexation threats and would not soften its position on the matter. “It is …
The United States banned a broad swath of Canadian alcoholic beverages, motorcycles and dairy products from import on Tuesday, sharply escalating an already acrimonious trade spat. The import bans, which go into effect on September 29 and were published on the White House’s website, came after Canada’s own retaliatory tariffs on US goods took effect after midnight on Tuesday. Those Canadian levies themselves followed 50 percent tariffs that the United States imposed on some $20 billion of Canadian goods last month, after several rounds of negotiations collapsed. The breakdown has widened a rift between the longtime allies, who have blamed each other for the failed talks, spurred Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to urge a further shift away from Canada’s biggest trading partner, and cast doubt on the viability of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement. “We have everything we need to pivot and prosper,” Carney said on Tuesday in a video posted on YouTube. Read moreCanada’s counter-tariffs take effect on several US goods as trade war reignites “That pivot will come at a cost. There’s always a …
U.S. Sailors conduct flight operations aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), July 29, 2026. George H.W. Bush is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to support maritime security and stability in the Middle East. Courtesy: U.S. Navy The U.S. military destroyed five Iranian crude oil tankers on Tuesday in retaliation for the Revolutionary Guard firing ballistic missiles at an American warship twice over the past two days, according to U.S. Central Command. The U.S. warship successfully evaded Iranian attack and no American personnel were harmed, Centcom said in a statement. U.S. forces struck four tankers in the Gulf of Oman, Centcom said. They are the M/T Kaviz, M/T Charminar, M/T Horizon 1 and M/T Riesco. The military hit the M/T Derya near Iran’s Kharg Island. “American forces directed the crews to abandon ship before the vessels were struck and rendered inoperable,” Centcom said. The U.S. and Iran have traded new attacks in the Persian Gulf in recent days, rekindling hostilities in the region even as the Trump administration …
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The US military has launched new strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island as tensions soar in the Middle East. The US military has struck targets near Kharg Island and Jask. Quoting senior US officials, Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reported: “The US military has struck targets near Kharg Island and Jask. “The targets include Iranian oil tankers. This is part of a larger effort to squeeze Iran economically. The strategy includes sinking and disabling Iranian crude oil tankers.” The IRGC (Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps)-affiliated Tasnim news agency reported the tanker was hit by a missile about four miles from Kharg Island. The semi-official agency also said there were no reports of casualties. Kharg Island, just like the Strait of Hormuz, is one of the world’s most vital maritime routes for global energy transport. The territory is also known as “Iran’s crown jewel”. It is believed that the crucial Iranian territory handles roughly 90% of the Middle Eastern country’s crude exports. Back in March, a few weeks after the war broke out, Mr Trump …
A Boeing 747 (top) belonging to the Iranian Mahan Air airline is photographed at Mehrabad Airport in western Tehran, Iran, on October 16, 2024. Morteza Nikoubazl | Nurphoto | Getty Images The Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned 27 Iranian airlines and a handful of other entities as part of its ongoing effort to isolate Iran’s economy. The move comes as Tehran and its proxies continue to launch attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and the surrounding region, further entangling other countries in the U.S.’ more-than-six-month war and placing more pressure on global energy prices. The latest U.S. action under “Operation Economic Outcast” targets all Iranian airlines that were not already facing sanctions. “Let this be a warning to anyone doing business with Iran’s remaining airlines, all of which we sanctioned today: You are at risk of being cut off from the global financial system,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement. The plan to sever Iran’s economic lifelines followed on-again, off-again hostilities between the U.S. and Iran around the Hormuz Strait, a vital path …
