France braces for third heatwave as PM Lecornu defends crisis response, cites surge in at-home deaths · Pollar

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Trump tests Hormuz pause as courts, quakes and corporate breakups jolt governments and markets

The day’s news turned on fragile systems: a sea lane, a court doctrine, a heat-stressed railway and a rescue operation under broken concrete. Politics and markets both hunted for signs of control, and found plenty of improvisation instead.

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The US under Trump: second term

The US Supreme Court expanded presidential control over foreign policy, validating aggressive tariff use, and the Trump administration threatened new tariffs on EU industrial goods, intensifying trade tensions.

France braces for third heatwave as PM Lecornu defends crisis response, cites surge in at-home deaths · Pollar