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Smithsonian’s dark take on America exposed: Washington dubbed ‘town destroyer,’ Revolutionary War ‘dangerous'
NEW YORK — A Smithsonian museum in Manhattan presents a sharply critical account of George Washington, the Revolutionary War and America’s early years, while some historical context that complicates that narrative is omitted or given less prominent treatment, Fox News Digital found.
The findings come as the Smithsonian faces heightened scrutiny from the Trump administration over how it presents American history. President Donald Trump has ordered a review of the institution’s exhibits and educational materials as part of an effort to change what his administration says is an overly negative portrayal of the country’s history.
Fox News Digital visited the Manhattan branch of the National Museum of the American Indian earlier in September and found exhibits that emphasize the destruction suffered by Native communities while offering comparatively little context about the conflicts and events surrounding American military campaigns.
One display near the center of the museum’s "Native New York" exhibit features an illustration of Washington’s profile — similar to the one that appears on quarters — over a label that reads "town destroyer."
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The description underneath the image recounts how "American armies destroyed 40 Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) towns and burned their harvests while residents fled," noting that "the Haudenosaunee still call George Washington and all U.S. presidents Hanadahguyus. The name means ‘town destroyer.’"
The panel does not mention the raids on American settlements that led to the campaign or explain why Washington ordered the attack.
"The American destruction of the Six Nations' homelands came as a result of the destructive raids carried out by the Indians and American loyalists on the frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania in 1778," an excerpt from the National Park Service reads. "The raids crippled the American Continental Army by depriving it of food and manpower and spread terror by destroying frontier settlements and taking prisoners."
The exhibit comes as the Trump administration continues its broader dispute with the Smithsonian over how the institution presents American history. Specifically, the president has taken issue with the institution allegedly seeking to divert the telling of American history "away from America’s Founding and the Founders and towards a narrative of a deeply flawed creation of the country."
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The administration has threatened changes to Smithsonian funding and federal-agency support as it presses the institution to alter what it describes as divisive or historically inaccurate portrayals of the country.
Many of the other exhibits in the museum take a similar line to the display on Washington, highlighting the alleged brutality of American settlers while downplaying the violence of natives.
One placard, recounting the history of the Iroquois between 1779 and 1804 from the point of view of a native woman, states that "it was peaceful, she said, until the white men began their revolution."
For roughly 100 years, between 1609 and 1701, the Iroquois were engaged in a series of conflicts with other native tribes over access to animal pelts.
Even before the Trump administration’s current dispute with the Smithsonian, the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., attracted criticism over how it presents American history.
"In recent years, I have been chronicling the evolution of the ‘identity museum’ … designed to affirm a particular group’s claims, outline its accomplishments, boost its pride," a cultural critic wrote for the New York Times in 2010. "The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington — a pioneering example of the genre — jettisons Western scholarship and tells its own story, leading one tribe to solemnly describe its earliest historical milestone: ‘Birds teach people to call for rain.’"
"Through a gauze of romance, that museum portrays an impossibly peace-loving, harmonious, homogeneous, pastoral world that preceded the invasion of white people — a vision with far less detail and insight than the old natural history museums once provided," the critic continued.
The exhibits acknowledge some conflicts involving Native tribes but focus far more heavily on the violence inflicted on them than on the events that led to the fighting.
The museum also maintains a catalog of online materials geared towards middle school students that generally take the same editorial line.
Teachers, for instance, are instructed to show a video to students that opens by saying that "the American War for independence was such a disruptive and dangerous project." It goes on to frame the actions of American colonists negatively, referring to them as trespassers and squatters.
In several displays dealing with the Revolutionary War, the exhibit portrays American actions toward Native allies in sharply negative terms.
A video display near the beginning of the exhibit claims, unequivocally, that an American soldier shot and killed Chief White Eyes, a Lenape chief who had allied with the Americans. The cause of White Eyes’ death, however, is historically contested — something the museum outlines in relatively small text underneath the video display, which states that White Eyes was "probably" murdered by an American soldier.
The museum is housed within the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, a building formerly used for collecting trade duties and named after the Founding Father to commemorate his role as the first secretary of the Treasury.
Just before exiting the building, visitors pass a museum store where several books present sharply critical accounts of American history. "An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States," for instance, is displayed prominently on the store shelves.
Among other things, the book criticizes Americans for having a "cult-like" dedication to the Constitution, suggests that the United States was founded upon White supremacy and genocide and claims that the federal government is still carrying out ethnic cleansing against natives. A graphic novel adaptation of the text marketed toward younger readers was also available.
Other titles on display included "Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in US History," "An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States," a tome about the "two spirit" gender identity and a children’s picture book about Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden’s interior secretary.
The Smithsonian did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Monday.
Alito, Thomas shred 'Hail Mary' challenge to federal ballot mail rules in dissent
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas firmly dissented Monday as the Supreme Court denied a request by President Donald Trump's administration for relief from a universal injunction against its mail-in ballot rules.
The dissent, which Alito authored and Thomas joined, argued that the plaintiffs in the case were relying on claims that the court had previously identified as weak and unlikely to succeed.
"The Court incorrectly denies the Government’s application for a stay of a universal injunction that bars implementation of a final rule concerning election ballot mail," Alito wrote. "Some of the plaintiffs lack standing, while the remainder are pursuing a claim that this Court has recently called a ‘Hail Mary pass’ that ‘rarely succeeds.'"
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"The Government has made the showings necessary for a stay, so I respectfully dissent," he concluded.
The Court's Monday order went unsigned, but Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence that allowed room for a potential Trump victory down the line. He nevertheless argued that it is too close to Election Day to realistically implement the rules for the 2026 midterm elections.
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"In my view, based on the briefing the Court has received at this interim stage, there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service’s statutory authority," Kavanaugh wrote. "But applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections."
Kavanaugh's concurrence echoes Alito's dissent in acknowledging the expansive authority the USPS holds to regulate the collection, handling, transportation and delivery of mail.
The Trump rules would require federal ballot mail to be sent in envelopes bearing an election-mail logo, capable of being scanned by high-speed equipment and carrying a barcode unique to each voter.
State and local election officials would also be required to submit envelope designs to the Postal Service for review and upload basic voter information to an online USPS portal.
Under the USPS rule, mailings that failed to comply would not be accepted and would instead be returned to election officials to correct and resubmit.
Fox News' Stepheny Price and Shannon Bream contributed to this report.
Seven-figure blitz as GOP embraces push to compete with China in booming new tech space
FIRST ON FOX: Three sitting Republican lawmakers, all facing midterm elections for U.S. Senate in less than two months, are paving the way for a pro-artificial intelligence push as Washington looks to balance regulation with American innovation despite the public's increasing skepticism over the emerging technology.
The conservative Alliance for a Better Future (ABF) is pouring millions into backing the campaigns of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, according to new ads shared exclusively with Fox News Digital ahead of their release.
The lawmakers, ABF says, mirror President Donald Trump's balanced stance on applying both safeguards and common sense to AI developments. When speaking on the topic in June, Trump said, "[AI] can be used for tremendous good, mostly good and some bad. And the bad we have to stop."
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The advertisements come as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei over the weekend warned the industry that his company helps lead to give safety measures more time to catch up with rapidly advancing AI capabilities. Just days earlier an Anthropic researcher resigned while publicly raising concerns about the technology's risks. Anthropic is most known for its LLM AI Claude, one of the leading chatbots in the U.S.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the father of ChatGPT, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis all expressed support for Amodei’s stance on slowing the pace of AI development.
Trump on Monday rejected the calls for implementing safeguards and restrictions on AI, arguing the technology needs a "STRONG AND SMART" president rather than added restraints.
The new advertisements, which will run throughout September, follow the ABF's previously unreported $1 million donation made to MAGA Inc. last week to promote candidates who share the group's values of pushing both innovation and security in emerging technologies like AI.
But the ads aren't limited to praising Republicans — they also take shots at the perceived risks ABF believes could result from allowing socialist lawmakers like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to lead policies dictating the direction of AI.
"The same people who consistently fail you will write an AI rulebook for their benefit," the advertisement reads as images ofs of Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., appear on screen.
Security concerns have been top of mind for many Americans and AI experts as the United States races to stay ahead of China in technology developments, with worry that the rapidly increasing growth of AI poses national and cybersecurity threats.
"The only way we win the AI race against China is to build a technology that is trusted by the American people," ABF CEO Janet Kelly said in a statement to Fox News Digital on the new ad buys.
"We cannot cede this responsibility to Socialists like Bernie Sanders who have a track record of destroying our economy and palling around with our enemies," she continued. "Conservatives like Susan Collins, Roger Marshall, and Ashley Hinson know the time is now to enact an agenda that ensures AI is built with American values."
Sanders’ office did not reply to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on being singled out in the campaign ads.
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Kelly, the former Secretary of Health in Virginia, warned that China will "cheat and steal and lie" to beat the U.S. in the AI race in a policy event hosted by Breitbart news last week. She emphasized the need for America to be both diligent and urgent in developing this technology at a pace that puts the U.S. above foreign adversaries.
Collins, Marshall and Hinson have each backed policies that align with ABF’s goal to pursue AI development with protections that work to combat any emerging risks.
Hinson has argued that the U.S. must maintain its technological edge over Beijing while being thorough in analyzing AI's risks. Marshall acknowledged AI as a tool to assist, not replace American workers — also backing measures addressing its workforce and energy impacts.
Collins has supported federal investment in advanced computing while championing in Maine safeguards against deceptive AI-generated election content.
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ABF is a conservative AI policy organization that believes that as the technology continues to rapidly develop, American values should be prioritized — protecting children, the economy and national security.
The three GOP lawmakers are all Republican nominees for Senate seats in the upcoming midterm elections for their respective states.
Collins, Marshall and Hinson’s offices did not reply to Fox News Digital’s request to comment on the new advertisements and clarify their stances on AI.
Mysterious disease sending young, healthy Texas workers into kidney failure
A mysterious form of kidney disease that has devastated young to middle-aged agricultural workers in Central America and South Asia appears to have surfaced in Texas.
Known as chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) — or Mesoamerican nephropathy — the condition continues to baffle researchers, as some otherwise healthy adults develop kidney failure without having any of the traditional risk factors.
Chronic kidney disease can range from mild to severe, potentially causing fluid buildup and increasing the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and premature death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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But unlike typical cases, CKDu develops without common risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension and glomerulonephritis, a disease that inflames and damages the kidneys' filtering units, according to Dr. Gokul Paidi, a family medicine physician at Community Healthcare Network in New York.
"It typically strikes young to middle-aged adults, more often men, who work in agriculture and manual labor in hot, low-resource regions," he told Fox News Digital.
Several regional kidney diseases have been described over the decades, although not all are considered CKDu.
"Balkan endemic nephropathy has been documented since the 1950s, Itai itai disease in Japan was tied to cadmium contaminated rice, and Sri Lanka nephropathy has been studied since the 1990s," said Paidi, who has published a review on the condition.
Mesoamerican nephropathy – which was first described among sugarcane workers in El Salvador and Nicaragua in the late 1990s – is the form now being reported in the U.S., he noted.
Other locations have reported similar types of local epidemics, including Sri Lanka, India, rural Thailand and the Tierra Blanca area in Mexico, according to previous research.
"What’s emerging is that these are likely related conditions, essentially clusters of the same underlying disease process showing up in different farming and industrial regions around the world," Paidi said.
Physicians at Houston safety-net hospitals, including Ben Taub, have treated otherwise healthy men in their 20s and 30s who presented with kidney failure — some with "Coca-Cola-colored urine," according to Texas Monthly.
They reportedly don’t have any of the typical risk factors that cause kidney disease, like high blood pressure or diabetes.
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"What’s striking about the Texas cases is how closely they mirror what we saw originally in Central America," Paidi noted.
The patients are largely undocumented laborers from Mexico and Central America working in construction, roofing and outdoor trades in extreme heat – jobs where water breaks are often limited, he added.
According to a review of Harris County hospital records cited by Texas Monthly, roughly one in six emergency dialysis cases in uninsured or undocumented patients had no identifiable cause, "which is consistent with CKDu," Paidi told Fox News Digital.
Some patients are reluctant to seek care or participate in research because of their immigration status, making it harder to track the disease in Texas and detect kidney damage before it becomes irreversible, experts say.
Experts refer to CKDu as a "silent disease" because most patients don’t initially complain of any symptoms.
Most patients – especially those who work in sugarcane fields – learn they have the condition during routine screening blood tests, according to Dr. Richard J. Johnson, a leading expert on kidney diseases and emeritus professor of medicine at the University of Colorado.
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"Later, it can cause typical signs of severe chronic kidney disease, including fatigue, sleep disturbances, nausea, weakness [and] shortness of breath from anemia," he told Fox News Digital.
By the time symptoms appear, and the disease is diagnosed, many patients are approaching end-stage kidney disease.
Many affected people are located in resource-poor regions where dialysis and transplants are often unaffordable or inaccessible, which can increase the odds of premature death, Paidi noted.
Heat stress is considered one of the leading suspected drivers of the disease, although its exact cause remains unknown, according to Johnson.
Experts believe a combination of occupational and environmental factors may gradually damage the kidneys. Strenuous outdoor labor can lead to repeated heat stress and dehydration, potentially compounded by exposure to crop pesticides and smoke from burning sugarcane.
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Workers may also contend with potentially unsafe drinking water and rely on over-the-counter NSAIDs for pain — factors that, combined with repeated dehydration and heat stress, could further strain the kidneys, according to Texas Monthly.
Some experts suggest that improving hydration and shade, reducing work hours, and starting earlier in the day could reduce kidney damage.
There is no specific test for CKDu. Doctors diagnose it by ruling out other causes of chronic kidney disease, along with a patient's occupational and environmental exposures, Paidi said.
"Kidney biopsy is the closest thing to a gold standard, but isn’t practical for widespread screening," he added.
There is no disease-specific treatment for CKDu. Management focuses on controlling blood pressure, avoiding additional kidney injury — including from NSAIDs — and using dialysis or kidney transplantation in advanced disease, according to Paidi.
Some patients receive ACE inhibitors — medications commonly used to treat high blood pressure — but these drugs can sometimes worsen kidney function in people who are dehydrated, Johnson cautioned.
"Disease often progresses rapidly over a few years, and dialysis and transplantation are rarely available, so mortality is high," he added – which highlights the importance of screening for the condition.
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For people living or working in agricultural or outdoor labor jobs, especially in hot climates, Paidi recommends getting kidney function checked with a primary care doctor at least twice a year.
"A simple blood test for creatinine (a waste product normally filtered from the blood by the kidneys) and a urine test for protein can catch early changes long before symptoms appear," he advised.
Prince Harry's first birthday back in Britain unlikely to bring reconciliation with the royal family: experts
Prince Harry "will likely hear" from King Charles III on his birthday, but "don’t expect some grand royal reunion," according to a royal expert.
Kinsey Schofield, host of YouTube’s "Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered," told Fox News Digital that the prince would probably have a celebration "similar to what we recently saw from Meghan Markle. Singing and dancing in the kitchen. Party hats for the pups."
"I imagine Harry will keep it relatively private with Meghan and the children," she added. "Being back in Britain makes this birthday significant, but I don’t expect some grand royal reunion. There is still far too much unresolved behind the scenes."
Harry is celebrating his first birthday — he turns 42 on Sept. 15 — since the couple returned to his home country from California after six years late last month.
"Harry will likely hear from his father on his birthday," Schofield said. "He will most definitely chat with his uncle, Earl Spencer, and aunts, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes."
She added that birthdays "have a way of reminding you who is in your life and who isn’t. Harry may be physically closer to his family, but emotionally, there is still enormous distance there. Moving back to Britain doesn’t automatically repair years of broken trust."
Schofield noted that the Spencer side of the family — Princess Diana’s — "seems to be embracing him."
British royal expert Hilary Fordwich agreed that it’s "highly unlikely there will be any sort of public reconciliation" for Harry on his birthday. "Perhaps there will be merely a private call from" the king.
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Grant Harrold, King Charles’ former royal butler, speaking on behalf of OLBG, told Fox News Digital that he didn’t "think celebrations will massively change just because he’s back home."
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"I imagine Meghan will plan a nice meal to mark the day, with lots of thoughtful personal touches. Last week I would have said it would be likely that he would see his father, the king — but after this week’s drama I believe that’s out of the question now," he said, referring to the letter the king sent out, clarifying that the Sussexes remain private citizens. "It’s a shame, as this would have been a great opportunity for a happy meet up."
"I do expect the king will exchange cards and gifts with Harry, despite what is going on," he added. "The king is a kind man, and when it comes to birthdays and celebrations he is quite strict on marking the occasion."
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Harrold said he believes "all the news surrounding" Harry will "overshadow" his special day.
Royal broadcaster Ian Pelham Turner agreed that Harry’s birthday "could have been one positive step" toward reconciling with his family, "but as always egos have got in the way."
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"Let's hope it's not just another day of royal drama," Helena Chard, British broadcaster and photographer, echoed.
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"I imagine Harry will enjoy a low-key private birthday affair. It will be family first," she said. "Maybe the school run in the morning to the co-ed prep school with Archie and Lilibet, then family time with Meghan, the children, and you never know, Doria [Ragland, Markle’s mother] may rear her head. Maybe a small gathering of old friends?"
Any public recognition, she noted, would likely come from Markle’s social media. "As per the norm, it will not be via Buckingham Palace."
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Chard said "it’s rumoured his birthday return is set to be a private British countryside affair."
The couple reportedly plan to settle their family in the picturesque Cotswolds region in the English countryside, a couple of hours outside of London.
"Harry and King Charles' personal relationship is said to be thawing. I'm sure his father will give a private call to his 'dear boy,’" she continued, adding, "At 42, Harry should choose peace. Hopefully the ebullient Prince Harry will be back in the not so distant future."
Fox News Digital has reached out to Buckingham Palace and Archewell for comment.
'MAGA Act' could rip House seats from Dem states ahead of next presidential race
FIRST ON FOX: A new House GOP proposal targeting the nation's congressional map could kneecap blue states and dramatically change their representation on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., is introducing legislation that would only count citizens when deciding how many House representatives each state gets, called the Make Apportionment Great Again (MAGA) Act.
It would be a fundamental change in congressional representation across the country, particularly hitting states where the most noncitizens live. The U.S. census has traditionally sought to count all people living within the country's borders, regardless of citizenship or even lawful status.
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According to the U.S. census website, immigrants — both citizens and noncitizens — make up a fifth of the population in California, New Jersey, New York and Florida. Illegal immigrants living in sanctuary jurisdictions are also in theory counted by the census.
A 2024 report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) said immigrants, both legal and illegal, resulted in a "net increase" of 14 seats in Democrat-leaning states. Republican states had 10 fewer seats than they otherwise would have, the report said.
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The legislation would not require a new census after 2020, instead forcing states to rely on existing records to reapportion by sometime in 2027.
It would, however, add a new question to the 2030 census, asking people whether they are a U.S. citizen, U.S. national but not a citizen, an alien lawfully residing in the United States, or an alien unlawfully residing in the United States.
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But Clyde's bill could see a significant legal battle in the courts, even if passed.
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution states that House seats will be apportioned after "counting the whole number of persons in each State," not specifying citizenship status. It could invite challenges from pro-immigrant groups and left-wing organizations that have long been critical of GOP election efforts.
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Clyde's bill comes after a video clip resurfaced in July that appears to show Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., claiming she needs more immigrants in her district "just for redistricting purposes."
The video, from a 2021 House Foreign Affairs Committee briefing, shows longtime Democrat Clarke suggesting that the local Haitian community in Brooklyn could "absorb a significant number of these migrants."
"When I hear my colleagues talk about, you know, the doors of the inn being closed, no room in the inn, I’m saying, you know, I need more people in my district, just for redistricting purposes and those members could clearly fit here," said Clarke.
Clarke's office did not respond to a request for comment at the time by Fox News Digital.
AMB GORDON SONDLAND: Canada doesn't need Europe. It needs a new economic deal with America
The United States and Canada have spent the past several months behaving like two people in a bad marriage: each is convinced the other is taking advantage, each is speaking loudly enough for the neighbors to hear, and neither seems willing to acknowledge how much is at stake if the relationship truly breaks down.
It is time to stop measuring each other's manhood across the border.
Canada should return to the table. So should the United States. Not to negotiate another small, defensive tariff truce, but to construct a new North American economic relationship worthy of the two most integrated economies in the democratic world.
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The first principle must be plain: Canada is a sovereign country. It is not the 51st state, and no good can come from language that treats it as one. America does not need a submissive Canada. It needs a prosperous, capable, secure, and willing partner on its northern border—one that shares a continent, a NATO commitment, a vast energy system, critical supply chains, and values that are far more alike than different.
The second principle is equally plain: sovereignty is not a license for permanent economic asymmetry. If Canada wishes to preserve privileged access to the American market—and it should—then it must be willing to address the barriers that American businesses and workers reasonably see as one-sided. Banking, dairy, procurement, digital rules, industrial subsidies, and autos all belong on the table. But they should be resolved through reciprocity, not coercion.
The current approach has it backward. Washington has too often treated tariffs and public humiliation as a negotiating strategy. Ottawa, understandably angered by that treatment, has increasingly treated diversification away from the United States as a strategic end in itself. Both instincts are emotionally satisfying. Neither is a strategy.
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Canada can and should diversify trade. A country that sends the overwhelming majority of its goods exports to one market should want alternatives. Europe, Britain, Japan, India, and other partners all have a role to play. But diversification is not substitution. Canada will not replace North America with Europe, and it would be foolish to try.
The fashionable idea that Canada should join the European Union is the clearest example of mistaking a political gesture for an economic plan. It is also, as a legal matter, implausible: EU membership is available to European states, and Canada is not one. But even if Brussels chose to rewrite its treaties, full membership would be a terrible bargain for Canada.
Canada would trade its own commercial policy for the European Union’s common external tariff and regulatory system. It would risk erecting a customs and regulatory border with its largest customer, most important supplier, and closest industrial partner. It would become a distant member of a bloc whose decisions are necessarily shaped by European geography, European politics, and European priorities. Canadian businesses would be subject to rules made thousands of miles away, while the factories, pipelines, farms, mines, and research centers that actually sustain the Canadian economy remain tied by roads, rails, grids, and pipelines to the United States.
That is not sovereignty. It is outsourcing sovereignty.
Canada’s future lies in a deeper North American relationship—one that preserves Canadian political independence while recognizing the economic reality that the two countries already make things together.
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Consider the automobile sector. A car assembled in Ontario or Michigan is not meaningfully "Canadian" or "American" in the old-fashioned sense. Its parts may cross the border several times before final assembly. Engineers, tooling companies, battery suppliers, semiconductor firms, steel producers, and logistics operators work on both sides. The sensible goal is not to force Canadian manufacturing to become an appendage of American manufacturing, nor to let either country subsidize factories that merely displace the other’s workers. It is to create a common North American manufacturing zone in which both countries benefit from production, investment, and innovation.
That means common rules of origin with real North American content; common standards for electric vehicles, batteries, and charging; mutually recognized safety and environmental rules; and incentive programs designed to reward continental production rather than trigger subsidy wars. If a Canadian worker, American worker, and Mexican worker all contribute to a product made in North America, the system should favor that product over subsidized imports from strategic competitors—not turn the three partners against one another.
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The same principle applies to energy. The United States and Canada should be the world’s most reliable combined supplier of oil, natural gas, electricity, uranium, critical minerals, and next-generation energy technology. Canada has the resources. The United States has immense capital markets, demand, technology, and security capacity. Rather than squabble over tariffs and permits, the two countries should create a North American energy-security compact: shared infrastructure planning, accelerated cross-border approvals, joint critical-mineral processing, integrated grids, and long-term commitments to supply one another in a crisis.
Banking is another obvious place for a serious bargain. Canada has a stable banking system, but it is also one of the most protected financial markets in the developed world. America should be entitled to ask for genuine reciprocity: fair access for qualified U.S. financial institutions, transparent rules, and a level playing field for cross-border capital. In return, Canada should receive dependable access to American capital markets and a commitment that U.S. policy will not casually punish Canadian institutions simply because they are Canadian. Reciprocity must run in both directions.
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The two governments should also build a North American mobility regime for workers. Not open borders. Not a surrender of either country’s immigration system. A practical, secure, reciprocal system for verified workers in designated sectors—engineers, nurses, skilled trades, energy technicians, aerospace specialists, construction crews, researchers, and advanced-manufacturing employees—to cross the border quickly and work where their skills are needed.
If a Canadian electrician is needed at a Michigan battery plant, or an American aerospace engineer is needed at a Montreal facility, the answer should not be months of paperwork. It should be a trusted-worker credential, tied to an employer, subject to background checks, wage protections, and labor-law enforcement. The United States and Canada already trust each other enough to defend North America together. We should trust each other enough to let skilled workers help build it.
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There will be hard issues. Canada will not abandon supply management overnight. The United States will not abandon its desire to bring more manufacturing home. Provinces will guard their procurement authority; states will guard theirs. Those are normal negotiations between sovereign democracies. They are not reasons to turn the border into an economic fault line.
The real choice is not between American dominance and Canadian independence. It is between a continent that builds together and one that slowly hands market share, industrial capacity, and strategic leverage to others.
Washington should stop treating Canada as a trophy to be won. Ottawa should stop treating distance from the United States as a measure of national success. The two countries should get back to the table, lower the temperature, recognize each other’s legitimate interests, and negotiate economic parity where it is warranted.
Canada does not need to join Europe to preserve its dignity. It needs to help the United States build the most competitive, secure, and productive democratic economic space on earth.
Trump’s data center push fractures Congress as local anger explodes: 'Grasping at straws'
Democratic lawmakers are calling for tighter restrictions on data centers, while Republicans say the facilities could boost the economy and keep the U.S. ahead in the artificial intelligence (AI) race.
President Donald Trump doubled down on data centers this week, rejecting calls to slow development after previously warning that communities blocking the facilities would "end up being backwards and poor."
Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., told Fox News Digital last month that Arizona needs to slow the expansion of data centers until the state fully assesses its long-term impacts.
"We in Arizona need to pause the expansion of data centers in the state until we really figure out a plan on how we're going to preserve our water, how we are going to make sure that ratepayers aren't taking on the responsibility," Ansari said.
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Ansari called President Trump's support for data centers "out of touch," saying it runs counter to what the "vast majority" of Americans want.
"If Donald Trump is such a big fan of data centers, then he should welcome them in his own backyard," she said.
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., pointed to his proposed Data Center Bill of Rights, which would ban data centers within 2,500 feet of homes, schools, childcare facilities, hospitals and nursing homes and give communities greater authority over where they're built.
Khanna dismissed President Donald Trump's comments that communities opposing data centers would fall behind.
"Trump has failed to deliver for the forgotten American, so he's just grasping at straws," he said.
Rep. Jonathan Jackson, D-Ill., said lawmakers must prioritize what's "fair" for local communities.
"The wealth has gone into the tech sector, and they are unregulated, unbridled and not very philanthropic," Jackson said.
Higher electricity bills shouldn't fall on communities as data centers expand, according to Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich.
"It baffles me that we are just not guaranteeing, for average ratepayers, low utility bills," she said. "These data centers could play a role in that."
Republican lawmakers were split on data centers, with some saying they can boost economies and others stressing local control.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., backed AI investment to compete with China but opposed building data centers in residential neighborhoods.
"We've got to stay ahead of China with AI, and data centers are a part of that," Mace said. "But you don't put them in somebody's backyard and that's the whole point."
Praising data centers, Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., said they can generate tax revenue, improve local infrastructure and support energy production.
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"You should be fighting over them," McCormick said. "But, I mean, if you don't want one, that's up to you. I think you're missing out."
Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said decisions about data centers should be left to states and local communities.
"I believe in 10th Amendment rights, state rights," Norman said. "Let each community take ownership, and they'll make the right decisions."
As several states raise concerns over electricity costs, water use and development, the debate highlights growing divisions over where data centers belong in local communities.
2026 Emmy Awards: Winners and losers
The 78th Emmy Awards took place Monday night at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, with Mariska Hargitay hosting the ceremony – the first woman to host the award show in 15 years.
"The Pitt" led all programs with 25 nominations, while "Hacks" earned a record 24 nominations during its final season. Apple TV’s "Widow’s Bay" followed with 19 nominations, and "Pluribus" had 18.
The Creative Arts Emmys were presented ahead of Monday night, with notable wins for Shailene Woodley, Mariska Hargitay, Bad Bunny and the late Rob Reiner. "Widow’s Bay" led the early awards with eight wins, while "DTF St. Louis" earned six.
Matthew Rhys made Emmy history Monday night by winning two lead acting awards in the same ceremony. The actor first won outstanding lead actor in a limited or anthology series for Netflix’s "The Beast in Me" before taking home outstanding lead actor in a comedy series for Apple TV’s "Widow’s Bay."
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Here are the night’s biggest winners and all the nominees.
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