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NEWS NEWS.

President Trump says the United States has no talks planned with Iran. Tehran says the Strait of Hormuz will remain shut until Washington meets its conditions, while Trump insists the waterway is operating. Confirmed crossings fell to ninety-five last week, from one hundred eighteen the week before and more than seven hundred in a typical pre-crisis week. An unidentified projectile also damaged a ship near Oman and caused a crew casualty.

Next, the Trump administration sanctioned International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye. The measures freeze assets they hold in United States jurisdictions or that touch the American financial system. Washington says the court overreached by pursuing American and Israeli personnel over alleged crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Gaza. Earlier sanctions have also made banking and email harder for the court.

The United States and Canada were making a final push Tuesday evening to stop fifty-percent tariffs on twenty billion dollars in Canadian goods. The duties were scheduled for twelve-oh-one Eastern this morning. They cover about five percent of Canadian exports to the United States, while nearly two billion dollars in goods crosses the border each day. The White House invoked a nineteen-thirty law allowing tariffs of up to fifty percent on countries the president says discriminate against American businesses.

NOT NEWS NEWS.

The FBI’s preliminary estimate says reported violent crime fell nine-point-three percent from twenty twenty-four to twenty twenty-five, the bureau’s largest reported one-year decline since nineteen thirty-seven. Murder fell eighteen-point-one percent and robbery eighteen-point-five percent. More than seventeen thousand agencies covering ninety-six percent of the population submitted data, but participation is voluntary and the figures may change before the final report.

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