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On Friday morning, a spokesperson for China's ministry of commerce announced that Beijing was assessing the possibility of tariff negotiations with the United States. It was news the rest of the world had been waiting to hear as astonishingly high tariffs - up to 245% on some Chinese exports to the US - throttle trade between the world's two biggest economies, raising the spectre of a recession.

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Beyond Real ID deadline panic, national identity document plan raises new privacy questions

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All states, the District of Columbia, and the five U.S. territories are Real ID compliant and issuing Real ID-compliant driver’s licenses and IDs, according to DHS. But not all states are happy about it. Representative Laurel Libby, R-Maine, has sponsored a bill to repeal the law in Maine that allows the secretary of state to issue state IDs in compliance with federal Real ID legislation.