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Rahm Emanuel, former ambassador to Japan, said on CNN Monday that Trump's disastrous lack of diplomacy with Canada is plunging the U.S. toward a "totally unnecessary" recession, while stoking anti-American sentiment around the world.

The Situation Room's Wolf Blitzer began, "As you know, Canada is going to be getting a new prime minister this week, Mark Carney. He's already talking tough when it comes to fighting back against Trump's tariffs against Canada. Is there any chance that Trump could seize this opportunity to dial back the tension with Canada?"

Emanuel answered that now is the time de-escalate the rift with Canada. He added that to the thing to watch is "both what's happening to the Liberal Party in Canada that's been revived because of Donald Trump and the elections in Greenland. Donald Trump is now the instigation for elections overseas that are anti-American when they used to be pro-American and he's creating a scenario where there's political hay to be made by attacking America or standing up to America."...

Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago who acted as White House chief of staff until 2010, is hoping to initiate a nationwide campaign of disinvestment from companies that make and sell military-style assault rifles along the lines of the 1980s disinvestment from apartheid South Africa.

Chicago mayor and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has thrown his support behind an Illinois bill that would grant same sex couples all the marriage rights now exclusively available to heterosexual couples.

First Lady Michelle Obama on Monday denied accusations that she had not gotten along with her husband's former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

Someone in the Chicago Board of Trade dropped leaflets on top of "Occupy Chicago" protesters Wednesday afternoon as they rallied alongside unions in the city's financial district.

Volunteers from National Nurses United and "Occupy Chicago" demonstrators marched to City Hall on Tuesday to protest their arrest late Saturday night in Grant Park.