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Trade Deal: Donald Trump announced he is “terminating” NAFTA after reaching a trade agreement with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. Yet the details of the deal—in keeping with Trump’s recurrent strategy of bluffs and tweaks—look more like a rebranding. Here’s what the agreement means in practice.

A man opened fire on competitors in Jacksonville, Florida, on Sunday, killing three people, including himself, and wounding at least 11

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