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Prime Minister Mark Carney has been invited by U.S. President Donald Trump to join the "Board of Peace" that will supervise the temporary governance of the Gaza Strip, a senior Canadian official told journalists travelling with the prime minister on his overseas trip.
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President Donald Trump threatened to unleash a familiar tool this week when he sought to stop protests against immigration agents in Minnesota: the military. His warning to send federal troops into the state came as administration officials debated whether to order Pentagon strikes against Iran and use troops to seize Greenland from Denmark....
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President Trump said he may hike tariffs on countries that decline to "go along with" his administration's efforts to acquire Greenland, as Denmark, Greenland and other NATO allies remain staunchly opposed to his plans to acquire it. Weijia Jiang has the latest.
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This week, Mayor Jacob Frey basically took a Fox "News” host down, pointing out that Trump's own federal prosecutors just quit their jobs rather than investigate and prosecute Renee Nicole Good's wife for "domestic terrorism.”Which raises the question: what is ICE really doing in Minneapolis?Well over a decade ago, the very Anglo daughter of a...
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The same outsized influence that popular podcaster Joe Rogan had in helping Donald Trump get re-elected in 2024 could cripple the president's last three years in office, now that he seems to have turned on the president.According to the Wall Street Journal, Rogan's recent comments opposing the administration's immigration enforcement policies...
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) put a right-wing influencer on notice Friday night that unless they walk back a series of inflammatory claims within 24 hours, they would face dire legal consequences.On Friday morning, X user "JoeM,” a right-wing political commentator who's amassed more than 53,000 followers, hurled a series of unverified claims against...
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Podcaster turned FBI senior official Dan Bongino is facing an uphill battle as he attempts to fix his damaged reputation with his fans after leaving Donald Trump's administration to become a pundit again.Bongino, who grew his popularity by trading in far-right conspiracy theories, accepted an appointment from Trump to become the 20th deputy...
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Gavin Newsom is taking his Donald Trump-bashing and California boosterism international, with plans to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland next week. Newsom, a likely presidential contender, will attend the nonpartisan confab of corporate and cultural elites to offer a counterbalance to the president, who will also be...
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The Justice Department quietly filed a motion in federal court Friday to block a new effort to compel the agency to release its trove of files on Jeffrey Epstein – as it's required to by law – in a move that sparked fierce backlash among critics."Oh my god,” wrote Brett Meiselas, cofounder of MeidasTouch, in a social media post on X to his...
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The Trump administration is trying to take the world back not just to the Dark Ages, when people were tortured to death for their beliefs, but to the Stone Age when neanderthals with the heaviest clubs held most power. Neanderthals commandeered rare earth minerals fecund hunting grounds from weaker neighbors because they could. But when they came...
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Infighting inside the Department of Homeland Security has erupted with senior leadership turning on a top border official over what aides described as an excessive office renovation request.That's according to a Politico exclusive, which reported Friday that Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott is at the center of the internal...
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Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig warned Friday that Justice Department officials may be actively undermining their own case through inflammatory public comments, as outrage continues to ripple through Minnesota following last week's fatal shooting of 37-year-old mother of three Renee Good.Honig's comments came Friday during an appearance on...
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A water ski racing group has planned an alleged unsanctioned racing event in South Australia, which the state's Department for Infrastructure and Transport says it has not approved. It comes as the peak body for the sport has nationally suspended racing due to safety concerns.
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President Donald Trump's Justice Department made another massive escalation in the unrest in Minnesota as they announced a federal investigation into Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, allegedly on the basis that their remarks criticizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in the Twin Cities were part of a plot to obstruct...
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Donald Trump lashed out on social media Friday after his former personal attorney issued a shocking walk-back criticizing New York prosecutors involved in the president's hush money case.Trump swiftly responded after Michael Cohen published a Substack post titled "When Politics Blind Justice,” where he accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin...
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado's gifting of her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to US President Donald Trump raised eyebrows around the world Friday—but it wasn't the first time that the winner of the prestigious award gave it away.Last month, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the peace prize to the 58-year-old opposition leader...
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President Donald Trump received bad news on Friday from a federal judge whom he lavished with public compliments earlier this week.The case concerned a lawsuit from the state of Minnesota that seeks to rein in the increasingly brutal tactics being used on protesters in Minneapolis by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Unrest has mounted in...
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Alabama is among the states that have seen a significant drop in the number of obstetrician-gynecologists working there since Roe v. Wade was overturned and cleared the way for states to ban abortion, resulting in doctors being unable to provide standard care and in a number of cases, placing patients in serious and even deadly danger.On Friday, at...
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Billionaire US Education Secretary Linda McMahon has temporarily suspended the Trump administration's plan to resume garnishing the wages of defaulted student loan borrowers, a reversal that came after advocates warned the pay seizures would have had devastating economic consequences for people across the country amid a worsening cost-of-living...
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Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to Donald Trump, issued a shocking walk-back Friday, sharply criticizing New York prosecutors while weighing in on the legal battles still surrounding the president's hush money conviction.The remarks came in a Substack post titled "When Politics Blind Justice,” where Cohen framed the latest appeals...
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An ICE officer fatally shot a woman Wednesday morning in south Minneapolis, according to the Department of Homeland Security. A U.S. official identified her as Renee Good. City leaders said the victim was a legal observer of federal actions in the city.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is gutting its disaster recovery workforce, leaving disaster-ravaged communities in the lurch, including in two states that voted for President Donald Trump, according to a new report. The agency is on pace to axe thousands of Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery, or CORE, employees, the boots-on-the-ground...
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A damning new Wall Street Journal poll on Friday delivered a another devastating blow to President Donald Trump's economic boasts, revealing crumbling voter confidence just weeks into 2026.By a crushing 15-point margin, voters now rate the economy as weak rather than strong, a dramatic swing from July, when the negative gap was just 4 points....
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President Donald Trump's heavy-handed tactics in Minneapolis as people gather to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement and defend their communities, are only going to make things worse for him and turn people further against his agenda, MS NOW analyst Chai Komanduri told "The Beat" anchor Ari Melber on Friday evening.Melber played a number of...
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President Donald Trump set off a stream of mockery and online backlash after he issued a full and unconditional pardon to a Southern California portable toilet executive convicted of illegally dumping sludge.According to New York Times reporter Kenneth P. Vogel, Trump pardoned Arie Eric De Jong III, a 59-year-old executive at Diamond Environmental...
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Former Republican chairman Michael Steele was enraged Friday night when discussing a recent incident in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials dined at the El Tapatio Mexican restaurant in Willmar, Minnesota, then came back hours later to arrest the waitstaff."Can I just ask a question ... arrest them for what?" Steele asked former GOP...
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In an interview with "CBS Evening News" anchor Tony Dokoupil, Sens. John Fetterman and Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania discuss working together despite their political differences, how they view President Trump's push to acquire Greenland, health care, and more.
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For years, fear has raged in liberal and libertarian circles that the immigration enforcement machine could be weaponized into a so-called "papers, please" system, where federal agents can demand that anyone prove their citizenship on the spot to avoid arrest. But under President Donald Trump, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears to...
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America's oldest dance troupe wants no part of the Kennedy Center after its MAGA makeover.The Martha Graham Dance Company has cancelled its highly anticipated performance scheduled for April, cutting short what was supposed to be a major stop on its centennial nationwide tour, The Daily Beast reported Friday.""The Martha Graham Dance Company...
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Social media lit up Friday after reports that Donald Trump installed a group of loyalists to a federal review panel set to take up his controversial White House ballroom project – a move critics slammed as an attempt by the president to two-step around the approval process.The online backlash erupted after reports emerged that Trump appointed...
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A Fox News commentator's warning that "organized gangs of wine moms” are deploying "antifa tactics” against ICE agents has become the latest object of ridicule — and alarm — as the right searches for villains in the wake of the ICE killing of Renee Good. New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg mocked the panic as a transparent attempt to...
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Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin found himself in the middle of a MAGA-inspired firestorm after comparing the United States under President Donald Trump to Iran's Islamic theocracy – a remark that quickly sparked outrage across conservative circles and social media platforms. Martin's comments came amid nationwide protests following...
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Former Trump administration Department of Homeland Security staffer Miles Taylor, who first became famous for authoring a New York Times op-ed about resistance from within and now heads up the peaceful resistance group DEFIANCE, told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Friday that his group has made a massive investment into a simple measure to help...
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President Donald Trump's Justice Department is reportedly investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, according to reports.CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins and CBS News both reported the revelation.CBS News reported that the Trump administration is accusing the Democratic leaders of conspiring to obstruct federal immigration...
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President Donald Trump installed a group of loyalists to a key federal review panel as his administration moves forward with construction on a controversial White House ballroom project that critics say has already caused irreversible damage to the East Wing.According to a new Washington Post report, Trump recently appointed four allies to the U.S....
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Prime Minister Mark Carney witnessed the signing of an agreement to co-operate more with China on clean and conventional energy the first day of talks in Beijing on Thursday, after years of difficult relations between the two countries. But at this point, none of the agreements included a resolution to tariffs.
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These are the arrests you're not seeingby Madison McVan, Daily Montanan January 16, 2026A man shelters alone under the heaters of a south Minneapolis bus stop on a cold January morning, the hood of a grey sweatshirt pulled over his thick dark hair. He unzips his black outer coat and looks down, apparently searching for something tucked into the...
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Former George W. Bush adviser Mark McKinnon has a dire warning for President Donald Trump on MS NOW Friday: your tariffs are just getting started doing damage to the economy.This came amid a conversation with anchor Katy Tur and economic podcaster Ed Elson, discussing Trump's new grab bag of policies to try to lower the cost of living, including...
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A Minneapolis family says federal agents turned a chaotic immigration protest into a life-threatening nightmare after launching flash-bangs and tear gas into their van, hospitalizing three children — including a 6-month-old who stopped breathing. Parents Shawn and Destiny Jackson say they were innocent bystanders trying to get home when...
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After days of growing backlash across social media, star rapper Ludacris bowed out Friday from a country music festival critics have described as "MAGA-adjacent," following confusion and outrage over his inclusion on a tour led by Kid Rock and Jason Aldean.The festival, first launched in 2024 and described by The New York Times as "a vision of the...
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Two top Trump administration officials could be forced to testify after an ICE agent killed 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, according to reports Friday. Senate Homeland Security Committee Democrats were urging Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) to call on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House border czar Tom Homan to...
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Rumors swirled again Friday as a confused President Donald Trump repeatedly mixed up "Southern Boulevard" and the "southern border" during an event in which a street was renamed after him.A section of Southern Boulevard in Palm Beach County, Florida, was ceremonially renamed "President Donald J. Trump Boulevard,” with a dedication event held...
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The Trump administration stunned observers as it cooks up an eyebrow-raising new scheme to tackle America's housing crisis, which calls for dipping into retirement savings.White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett made the announcement Friday on Fox Business, Reuters reported."We're going to allow people to take money out of their 401(k)s and use...
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Federal Reserve officials grew alarmed after a Trump Justice Department prosecutor sent unusually casual emails seeking an off-the-record chat about costly renovations at the central bank's headquarters, prompting fears the inquiry carried criminal implications. According to multiple sources, the outreach came from a political appointee in U.S....
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On Friday, the official government X account for the Department of Homeland Security posted an attack on a family whose children were hospitalized after being assaulted by federal agents — then quietly removed the post as it became clear the way they characterized what happened wasn't remotely true.The post came in response to a video posted by...
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An explosive focus group revealed Friday that President Donald Trump's troubles with Latino voters go far beyond wallet worries — and it spells disaster for his political future.Seven Latino voters who backed Trump in 2024 completely flipped, Notus reported, expressing buyer's remorse over aggressive immigration enforcement, soaring costs, and...
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Online reactions rolled in Friday after news that President Donald Trump's foreign policy approval rating had sunk to its lowest yet. A new Marist poll found that only 37% of adults in the United States approve of how Trump has handled foreign policy, Newsweek reported. The results were gathered from January 12 to 13 and showed that 56% of those...
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CNN anchor Pamela Brown put Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin on the defensive after viral videos showed immigration agents in Minneapolis violently detaining U.S. citizens and demanding proof of citizenship. As the Trump administration insists the stops are based on "reasonable suspicion,” Brown repeatedly pressed for specifics,...
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I have a recurring nightmare, a nightmare that becomes more realistic with each passing day. It goes like this:It is November 2026. Here in Georgia and elsewhere, the midterm polls have been looking bad for Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans, but the ballots have finally been cast and are being counted. Tensions are high.That's when President...
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A Republican lawmaker got some pushback from a CNN anchor Friday over claims that the economy was improving — despite recent polling that voters feel otherwise and President Donald Trump's plummeting approval rating. Rep. Mark Haridopolos (R-FL) attempted to argue that things were better in the United States today than they were a year ago —...
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Democrats in Virginia just took a big step in their plan to retaliate against mid-decade Republican gerrymanders enacted last year on President Donald Trump's orders.According to Politico, "The Democrat-dominated Virginia Senate passed a constitutional amendment along party lines that allows state lawmakers to begin redrawing congressional maps ......
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A federal judge blasted Trump cabinet members Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem for conspiring to suppress the free speech of pro-Palestinian activists. Judge William G. Young described their actions as a deliberate violation of the First Amendment, carried out with full awareness despite professional warnings. He called the effort an unconstitutional...
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An MS NOW panel chuckled Friday after President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were caught off guard on a question over funding to Planned Parenthood during an Oval Office event this week. The laughter broke out during a segment about abortion advocates indicating that they could turn on Trump ahead of the midterms as both...
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Trump threatens tariffs on Greenland, countries that oppose US takeoverby Jennifer Shutt, Daily Montanan January 16, 2026WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened Friday to place tariffs on Greenland and any country that opposes his efforts to take over the Arctic island, as members of Congress from both political parties were in Europe to...
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Elon Musk, long a self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist,” said teachers should be imprisoned for educating students on America's history of racism and Native American land theft. Responding to a 2022 student survey, Musk claimed lessons about systemic inequality and historical oppression "destroy patriotism” and labeled such teaching...
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A new poll shows that President Donald Trump's approval rating on his handling of foreign policy has dipped to its lowest since he returned to the White House, according to reports Friday. A new Marist poll found that only 37% of adults in the United States approve of how Trump has handled foreign policy, Newsweek reported. The results were...
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