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• Tesla stock fell 1.21% to $358.1 following President Trump's announcement of a 50% tariff on all Canadian imports. • The tariffs target a wide range of goods, including vehicles, automotive components, and steel, creating significant cost risks for U.S. automakers. • This move has triggered broad negative sentiment across the auto and EV sectors as investors worry about increased production costs and diminished profitability.

• South Korean President has accepted the resignation of Justice Minister Jung Sung-ho. • The departure follows a period of political tension after the liberal bloc implemented a controversial overhaul of the nation's criminal justice system. • Jung previously cited personal health struggles, specifically mentioning a sleep disorder during a late July meeting with the National Assembly's Legislation and Judiciary Committee.

• Utah’s U.S. attorney, Melissa Holyoak, is defending the ruling in *Trump v. Slaughter*, which addresses the president's authority to remove federal officials. • Holyoak’s perspective is informed by her time at the FTC, where she witnessed former President Trump dismiss several Democratic colleagues. • Law professor Aaron Nielson emphasizes that the case is not a partisan dispute but a fundamental question regarding the limits of federal government power.

• Former President Donald Trump appeared on a radio show hosted by Michael D. Cohen, his former personal lawyer who previously pleaded guilty to federal crimes and implicated Trump. • Trump asserted that the U.S. effectively controls Venezuela's government and predicted that Cuba would be the next leftist Latin American government to fall. • Cuba is currently facing its worst energy crisis in history, characterized by nationwide blackouts and a lack of cooking gas, following an oil blockade imposed by Trump in February.

• OpenAI's president recently published a blog post promoting "agentic AI," though analysts argue the piece omitted critical discussions on safety and control. • Mark Tauschek of Info-Tech Research Group notes that major AI labs are deprioritizing early ethics guardrails in favor of cybersecurity capabilities to attract investment. • The shift is significant because it suggests a waning appetite to slow development for the sake of ensuring models act ethically for average users.

President Lee Jae Myung has long pushed for stronger homegrown defences, yet Donald Trump’s move has sparked alarm in some quartersAt their first summit, in August last year, South Korean president Lee Jae Myung told Donald Trump: “If you, Mr President, become the peacemaker, then I will assist you as the pacemaker.”The remark at the Oval Office captured the thrust of Lee’s approach to the North: dial down the military posturing and make repeated peace overtures to revive dialogue, even if they have been consistently rejected by Pyongyang largely over Seoul’s insistence on denuclearisation. Continue reading...

Democratic senator intensifies White House feud after remarks about ‘Natalie’ drew ire of president and alliesDemocratic senator Jon Ossoff called Donald Trump a “draft-dodging, crook president” while defending senator Mark Kelly as a hero during a Tuesday campaign appearance in Georgia, escalating his public feud with the US president.“I don’t think anything illustrates the times more aptly than that the draft-dodging, crook president, who has plunged our nation recklessly into a war he knows not how to end or to win, tried to imprison this man, who embodies American heroism,” Ossoff said while appearing alongside Kelly and his wife, the former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Continue reading...