Eight stories in the news for today, Sept. 1
Eight stories in the news for Friday, Sept. 1
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ROUND TWO OF NAFTA TALKS BEGIN TODAY IN MEXICO
A second round of NAFTA negotiations begin today in a country that has long served as Donald Trump’s political whipping boy. Increasingly, there are indications Mexico is willing to whip back. After quietly, calmly working with Trump, the centrist governing party has declared a red line: if the president starts to withdraw from NAFTA as he’s threatening, the Enrique Pena Nieto government says it’s leaving the negotiating table.