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Ford Motor Co. has paused production at multiple factories, including its Chicago plant, due to a critical shortage of rare-earth magnets caused by China’s retaliatory export restrictions. Over 90 percent of global rare-earth magnet supply is controlled by China, a vulnerability exposed by trade tensions after U.S. tariffs. The U.S. once had domestic refining capacity but lost it to China's market dominance. A June agreement between U.S. and Chinese negotiators may resume […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. An Australian writer was recently detained for some 15 hours then deported from a U.S. airport for his writings about pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University. Alistair Kitchen was detained by border agents after he’d flown from Melbourne, Australia to Los Angeles. He reports a border agent told him, […]