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Home Sourdough Bakers Are Turning Their Hobbies Into Full-Time Jobs

Home bakers are finding devoted customer bases that allow them to stay home with family and still make a decent living — but they do have get up in the middle of the night.

© Lissa Gotwals for The New York Times

Home sourdough bakers like Marcelle Malkin, who left a career in finance to start her operation, have found balance between work and family.
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White House Distances Trump From Initial Response to Minnesota Killing

Officials clearly understood that the fatal shooting of a demonstrator posed one of the gravest political threats to President Trump since his inauguration.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

“This has obviously been a very fluid and fast-moving situation throughout the weekend,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said on Monday.
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Democrats Embrace a Shutdown Fight They Wanted to Avoid

After a second fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis, Democrats say public opinion is on their side and they are willing to risk a backlash to counter what they see as police-state tactics.

© David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

Federal agents in Minneapolis after the shooting of a U.S. citizen on Saturday.
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Chris Selley: Indigenous crime victims get ‘less justice’ by government design

Our friends at the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) published some important data over the weekend with respect to Indigenous female victims of crime. This is perhaps the most-discussed group of crime victims in recent Canadian history, culminating in the 2019 report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). And yet, the IJB analysis found, their criminal assailants tend to get off easier than when the victim is non-Indigenous. Read More
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Barry Appleton: Canada faces the most serious trade threat in a generation — and Carney’s to blame

On Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Canada with 100 per cent tariffs on all goods if Prime Minister Mark Carney proceeds with his China trade deal. The president’s language was characteristically blunt: Canada would become a “drop off port” for Chinese goods, and “China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it.” This is the predictable consequence of Carney's reckless foreign policy. Read More
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