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Thursday, 08 August 2019

“About 80% of our sales into mainland China have gone away.” Last year, Beijing retaliated against U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods by raising their own tariffs on U.S. food and agricultural exports, including live lobsters. That’s a challenge for lobstermen in Portland, Maine, who are scrambling to make up their losses. They say it’s hard to compete with the additional 25% tariff levied on U.S. lobsters. 

On This Day in American History
On Aug. 8, 1974, Richard M. Nixon announces that he will resign the office of president of the United States. It is a landmark moment — the first president in U.S. history to resign. He makes the announcement under considerable pressure. Impeachment proceedings are already underway against Nixon for his connection to a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C..

Americans are asking how to stop the carnage after two mass shootings last weekend. Thirty-one people were murdered. Los Angeles researchers say a critical piece of the solution involves ending online hate speech.

It’s been 25 years since the U.S. government passed a gun control bill, but that ban expired in 2004. The two recent mass shootings have set the stage for a titanic political and legislative fight in Washington over gun control, an issue the country’s elected leaders argue about but seldom reach consensus on.

Stop plundering our past. That’s the message Native Americans have for the Boy Scouts. The youth organization stages ceremonies that are directly attached to tribal identity and spirituality. Most Native Americans find this role-playing offensive, saying it not only involves misappropriating culture, but also perpetuates negative stereotypes.

VIDEO: Russia’s population is expected to decline sharply in the next few decades, an exodus that threatens to negatively impact the country’s economy and Moscow’s ability to project power abroad. Emigration of young, educated professionals is a main driver of the population drop. VOA traveled to Perm, in the Ural mountains, to find out why one-fifth of Russians would leave the country if they could.

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