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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks April 18 at Snap-on Tools’ headquarters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (Video screengrab from Whitehouse.gov)
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White House readies order to quit NAFTA

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Washington | Reuters — The White House is considering a draft executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the North American Free Trade Agreement, a senior Trump administration official said on Wednesday. It was unclear whether the order would be enacted by President Donald Trump, who has vowed to pull out from the U.S./Mexico/Canada trade
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White House still weighing U.S. biofuels program change

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Washington | Reuters — The Trump administration is reviewing the possibility of a key change to U.S. biofuels policy requested by oil refiners and Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor and special advisor on regulations to President Donald Trump, a White House official said Monday. The administration has no position “either way on this issue at
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U.S. GMO label law clears Congress

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A law for mandatory labelling of foods for sale in the U.S. with genetically modified or otherwise “bioengineered” ingredients has cleared both houses of Congress and now goes to President Barack Obama. The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved the Senate’s bipartisan bill S.764 by a 306-117 vote, sending it to the White House
Democratic U.S presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the Circle of Mothers conference, Trayvon Martin Foundation Gala in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 21, 2016.
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Trade deals going nowhere

The three front-runners in the U.S. presidential race are leery of trade deals

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As the politics of this U.S. election year heat up, the chances of Congress debating — let alone passing — either of the White House’s marquee trade deals continue to melt away. Oh, there’s plenty of talk about the westward-looking Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Euro-centred Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TPP and TTIP, respectively.
Deb Eschmeyer, executive director of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! program and senior adviser for nutrition policy, says the White House kitchen garden has been effective in promoting community gardens, nutritious eating and the need to tackle obesity, especially among children.
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White House kitchen garden used to promote nutrition, tackle obesity

Michelle Obama hopes the next first family will continue the garden and turn it into a White House tradition

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account_id=”2206156280001″ player_id=”ryGLIkmv”] This is the eighth planting of Michelle Obama’s kitchen garden, seen here April 25. Obama hopes the next first family will continue the garden and make it into a White House tradition.[/caption] The kitchen garden is part of Obama’s ‘Let’s Move’ campaign, created to reduce childhood obesity to five per cent by 2030
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Japan, White House rule out re-opening TPP pact

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Reuters — Japan and the Obama administration on Tuesday rejected calls from some U.S. lawmakers to consider re-opening a Pacific trade deal and said any renegotiation attempt could scupper the whole pact. “Renegotiation is not an option,” Caroline Atkinson, Obama’s deputy national security adviser for international economics, said on a call hosted by the Atlantic
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White House may have to renegotiate on TPP, senator says

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Washington | Reuters –– A key U.S. senator said on Friday the Obama administration may have to renegotiate parts of a Pacific trade pact, heralding a tough battle to win support in Congress. The administration notified lawmakers Thursday it plans to sign the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, starting a countdown to a congressional vote that could
(Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
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White House directs U.S. GMO regulators to update oversight

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Reuters — The White House on Thursday directed the three U.S. agencies that oversee biotech crop products to improve and modernize their regulatory “framework” to boost public confidence in a system that critics call a failure. The order, announced in a statement by President Barack Obama’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, followed demands by
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China readies to fight new bird flu

Reuters / Chinese authorities slaughtered over 20,000 birds at a poultry market in Shanghai April 5 as the death toll from a new strain of bird flu mounted to six, spreading concern overseas and sparking a sell-off in airline shares in Europe and Hong Kong. The local government in Shanghai said the Huhuai market for

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