CBC - Politics (17 minutes ago)
U.S. President Donald Trump likes to throw out a lot of figures during speeches to his base that he says prove how successful his first year back in office has been. But given Trump's proclivity for spreading misinformation, we wanted to see how many of these figures are accurate and backed up by real data.
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In 2016, former prime minister Justin Trudeau overhauled the way appointments are made to make them more open and transparent. However, recent appointments by Prime Minister Mark Carney's government raise the question of whether his government is still following the system Trudeau put in place.
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The Lockheed Martin event in Texas comes as the future of the CF-18 replacement program is under review because of the ongoing trade and political disputes between Canada and the United States, and as the first F-35 is set to be delivered within months.
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Famed Montana paleontologist Jack Horner named in Epstein filesby Keila Szpaller, Daily Montanan February 2, 2026Now-retired Montana State University professor and renowned paleontologist Jack Horner thanked Jeffrey Epstein and "the girls” for his visit in an email to an assistant in 2012."Although we didn't find any dinosaur fossils, we did...
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The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board on Monday slammed the Trump administration's attempts to semi-nationalize efforts to extract rare earth minerals to compete with China."What would Republicans have said if the Biden crowd acquired government stakes in companies with ties to its friends and family? Well, that's more or less what...
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President Donald Trump's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator made comments about rural health care on Monday that caused a stir online. Dr. Mehmet Oz, a former television presenter and author, said during an event for the "Action for Progress" initiative, which addresses mental health and addiction, alongside Health and Human...
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President Donald Trump's administration believes that it has identified the "leader of Antifa" in Portland, Oregon, according to a new report. Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reported on Monday that the Department of Homeland Security flagged a 29-year-old named Chandler Patey, who lives near an ICE facility in South Portland, and lets...
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A former federal prosecutor on Monday revealed all of the ways President Donald Trump's latest lawsuit threat could backfire on him. Trump threatened to sue comedian Trevor Noah after he made a joke about Trump being on the infamous "Epstein Island" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday. Noah is the latest comedian to be targeted by Trump...
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Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback unveiled an unorthodox campaign strategy on Monday: take his candidacy onto Tinder.Fishback, a 31-year-old hedge fund manager challenging President Donald Trump's endorsed candidate Rep. Byron Donalds for the Republican nomination, posted to X his plans to campaign through the dating site: "I've joined...
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A former Fox News host said on Monday that President Donald Trump is raising "huge red flags" about the upcoming election. Gretchen Carlson, who left Fox News in 2016, joined CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront" on Monday to talk about some of the latest news coming out of the Trump administration. During the conversation, Carlson brought up a New York...
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A federal judge dealt a major blow to the Trump administration Monday, temporarily blocking the government's attempt to strip immigration protections from hundreds of thousands of Haitians and potentially boot them out of the country.Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, D.C., threw down the hammer, ordering the government to keep the program alive after...
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Former Trump administration communications official Sarah Matthews told MS NOW's "The Weeknight" that President Donald Trump is fracturing his winning coalition with his ongoing obsession about the 2020 presidential election, and his efforts to try to relitigate and change national voting policies based on his conspiracy theories that the race was...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned Republicans to take notice after Democrats stunned the GOP by flipping a deep-red Texas state Senate seat, and CNN data analyst Harry Enten said the numbers back up that concern. Union leader Taylor Rehment defeated Trump-endorsed conservative Leigh Wambsganns in a district Trump carried by 17 points in 2024 —...
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Chaos continues at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office, which is hemorrhaging more talent, with eight more federal prosecutors heading for the exits, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported Monday.The latest wave of departures comes on the heels of a startling mass exodus last month, when six veteran prosecutors walked away in protest over...
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An influencer in President Donald Trump's MAGA movement floated a weird new theory about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after the latest Jeffrey Epstein files were released. Included in the thousands of pages of new documents was a picture of Mamdani's mother, filmmaker Mira Nair, who used to work for Epstein in New York, alongside Epstein and...
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"Today Show" co-host Savannah Guthrie's mother was recently "abducted" from her home, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS News on Monday. "I believe she was abducted, yes," Nanos said. "She didn't walk from there. She didn't go willingly."Guthrie's mother, Nancy, was likely abducted from her home on Jan. 31, Nanos said. She was reported...
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom's press office took a sharp jab at President Donald Trump after his late-night Truth Social meltdown over the Grammy Awards, releasing a sarcastic, all-caps statement mocking his grievances. The post fake-awarded Kid Rock and Nicki Minaj a "California Music Participation Peace Prize,” lampooning Trump's habit of...
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A Trump-appointed federal judge has accused Department of Homeland Security agents of mishandling the handgun carried by nurse Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by agents during an altercation in Minneapolis late last month.However, U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrud has stopped short of continuing court oversight of evidence-handling regarding the...
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Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, the former Secretary of State, agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee during its upcoming hearing on the disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, The New York Times reported on Monday. The announcement ends a months-long stalemate between the Clintons and...
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Vivian Wilson, the estranged daughter of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, publicly corroborated a damaging detail from newly released Jeffrey Epstein files, confirming her family was in St. Barth's during the same 2013 holiday period referenced in emails showing Musk seeking a visit to Epstein's private island. Writing on Threads, Wilson said the emails...
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Drama unfolded behind closed doors at the MAGA-fied CBS News as new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly refuses to dump controversial wellness expert Peter Attia, whose name popped up in the Jeffrey Epstein documents released Friday. And now she's on a collision course with Paramount's top brass.The battle intensified after newly released Epstein...
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Delegates at the Conservative Party's national convention in Calgary voted overwhelmingly Saturday to enact a "stand your ground"-style law to allow someone to protect themselves with lethal force against an intruder in their home. This was one of dozens of policies debated and adopted by delegates, many of which focused on crime, immigration and...
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," we speak to mayors from cities across the country as anger at ICE persists across the country, plus our interview with Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado.
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President Donald Trump stunned political analysts on Monday after he made a wild claim about the upcoming election during a podcast interview with his former FBI deputy director. Trump appeared Monday on "The Dan Bongino Show," where he called on Republicans to "nationalize" the election process to combat voting by illegal immigrants. The U.S....
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Rep. Nancy Mace's penchant for spectacle and scorched-earth politics has left a trail of burned bridges — and former staffers now say they're alarmed by what they describe as a sharp personal and professional decline. According to a New York Magazine report, even aides who disliked the South Carolina Republican say her explosive House floor...
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The bipartisan deal to end the second federal government shutdown of President Donald Trump's second term just got a curveball, as a far-right MAGA loyalist in the House is calling up her colleagues to try to block the measure.According to CNN's Sarah Ferris, "Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is phoning fellow Rs today to whip *against* advancing the gov't...
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CNN anchor Jake Tapper mocked President Donald Trump after he denied the relationship he had with late financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Tapper led his segment Monday with a reference to the letters, photos and other documented materials connected to Epstein and Trump, pointing out the rather frequent examples and evidence...
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President Donald Trump's "attack dog" in the Department of Justice was demoted on Monday, a move that attracted mockery online. Ed Martin, a lawyer who attended Trump's "Stop the Steal" protests before joining the administration, was demoted to pardon attorney for the administration after a slew of unsuccessful prosecutions against Trump's...
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Despite toning down his public rhetoric, President Donald Trump has not abandoned his long-standing fixation on absorbing Greenland into U.S. territory, according to an administration insider speaking to Zeteo. The official told reporter Asawin Suebsaeng that Trump "still wants it” and has privately pushed aides to find a way to make it happen by...
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While President Donald Trump's administration on Monday again made its commitment to planet-wrecking fossil fuels clear, a Republican-appointed judge in Washington, DC dealt yet another blow to the Department of the Interior's attacks on offshore wind power.US District Judge Royce Lamberth, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, issued a...
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The Trump administration is backing down from one of its key demands in negotiations with Harvard University to end investigations into the school's practices and bans on grant funding — and Harvard, emboldened by the president's cratering poll numbers, appears increasingly hostile to making a deal at all, reported The New York Times on...
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A former GOP official was floored on Monday after the results of the special election in Texas showed the "damage" that President Donald Trump's deportation regime has created for Republicans. Mike Madrid, a former Republican strategist and a Latino, discussed how Trump's immigration policies impacted the results of the special election for a Texas...
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that every officer from her department working in Minneapolis would be equipped with a body-worn camera."I just spoke with @RealTomHoman @ICEDirector @CBPCommissioner," Noem revealed Monday on X. "Effective immediately we are deploying body cameras to every officer in the field in...
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A leading scholar of authoritarianism is warning that Donald Trump is already falling into the same self-destructive traps that doomed history's most notorious strongmen. Writing in The New York Times, NYU professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat argues Trump's growing fixation on personal infallibility, loyalty over competence, and performative bravado mirrors...
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A law enforcement and intelligence expert on Monday revealed a new theory into the disappearance of journalist and "Today" host Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother in Tucson, Arizona. CNN law enforcement analyst John Miller suggested that the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie could have been "an abduction" that is potentially tied to "a well-known...
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Former FBI Director Andrew McCabe was flabbergasted on Monday after new reporting revealed that President Donald Trump personally called agents participating in the raid of an elections office in Georgia last week. FBI agents stormed the Fulton County, Georgia, election office last week with a warrant to seize all materials and ballots related to...
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President Donald Trump attempted to hurl an attack on a rebel Republican foe on Monday, but his accusation was actually incorrect.Trump was complaining about Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), a vocal critic of Trump, and his new wife in an accusation and was called out for missing a key detail about her. Trump wrote the following on his Truth Social...
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A right-wing Brazilian influencer who publicly applauded President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has now found himself caught up in it. Júnior Pena, a social media personality with hundreds of thousands of followers, recently praised Trump and falsely claimed federal agents were only targeting "criminal” migrants — just days before he...
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The Amazon-backed "Melania" documentary that has bombed in theaters worldwide actually has an important — however inadvertent — message to reveal about the dark way President Donald Trump's first lady sees America, Inae Oh wrote for Mother Jones in an analysis published on Sunday.This comes as the director of the movie, Brett Ratner, finds...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson ran headlong into a fact-check wall Sunday after repeatedly trying to revive debunked claims of voter fraud in Georgia's 2020 election. Appearing on Meet the Press, Johnson brushed off concerns that Donald Trump could meddle in future elections as "comical,” falsely citing Georgia as proof of election "schemes.” The...
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If Tommy Tuberville's alleged Florida life makes you question his qualifications for Alabama governor, let me offer a few other concerns.Our senior U.S. senator has called most immigrants "garbage.” He compared city residents to rats. Tuberville said Black Americans "do the crime.” He attacked Muslim Americans in dangerous ways.There's also the...
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The Trump administration admitted to a court that the Justice Department had to remove thousands of files from the latest Epstein release because they hadn't been properly redacted to remove private, identifying information about some of the victims.The revelation came in a filing on Monday with federal judges in New York, related to a review of...
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A mysterious whistleblower complaint accusing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard of wrongdoing has been sealed away—literally—sparking alarm on Capitol Hill and raising fresh questions about transparency and executive power. According to The Wall Street Journal, the explosive complaint has been locked in a safe for months, kept out...
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A federal judge has planned to have an urgent hearing this week after the Department of Justice released 3 million documents Friday and accidentally revealed the identities and personal information of several survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a legal expert reported Monday. Legal expert and MS NOW correspondent Lisa Rubin...
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The right-wing group Turning Point USA earned widespread mockery Monday after revealing who will perform at its alternative half-time show after MAGA fans turned on the NFL over its decision to have Bad Bunny perform at the Super Bowl half time show.President Donald Trump fumed after the NFL announced last year that international superstar Bad...
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President Donald Trump's increasingly off-the-wall rants as he's confronted with polls about cratering public support for his Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations are a sign he realizes he's trapped and has no easy way out, immigration advocate Lia Parada told The New Republic's Greg Sargent in a far-reaching interview published on...
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The internet Monday didn't hold back from mocking President Donald Trump after he threatened to sue comedian and Grammy Awards show host Trevor Noah over a searing joke. Noah took a few jabs at Trump during the Sunday night awards show in Hollywood honoring the music industry, including one about term limits, Nicki Minaj and Trump's physique and...
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The Department of Justice has demoted Ed Martin, a close ally to President Donald Trump, in a move that has stripped him of most of his authority. Two people who spoke under the condition of anonymity who were familiar with the DOJ move told The Washington Post on Monday that Martin was sidelined and will no longer chair the DOJ's Weaponization...
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Newly released Epstein files have revived long-simmering rumors about Donald Trump's personal life, after a 2019 text exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and former Trump strategist Steve Bannon appeared to suggest the president skipped his family during the 2018 holidays to spend time with his personal secretary, Madeline Westerhout. In the texts,...
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President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to pressure House Republicans into swift passage of a Senate-approved funding bill, demanding the measure reach his desk for an immediate signature."I am working hard with Speaker Johnson to get the current funding deal, which passed in the Senate last week, through the House and to my desk,...
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Rudy Giuliani revealed that he had investigated President Donald Trump's history with Jeffrey Epstein but had no evidence that the police were called after a masseuse was allegedly assaulted by the sex offender at Mar-a-Lago."I'll tell you a little about Epstein, though, if you want," Giuliani volunteered to MAGA influencer Benny Johnson on Monday....
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The Trump administration was temporarily blocked Monday by a judge who rejected the Department of Homeland Security's move to limit Democratic lawmakers' access to immigrant detention facilities and stop unannounced visits. Thirteen members of the House of Representatives had presented a lawsuit to challenge Trump's DHS and U.S. Immigration and...
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The Liberal Party announced Saturday afternoon that family physician Dr. Danielle Martin will be their candidate for the upcoming federal byelection in University-Rosedale, the downtown Toronto riding Chrystia Freeland held until she stepped down earlier this month.
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President Donald Trump said Monday that Republicans should nationalize elections, continuing to double down on false conspiracy theories about widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The suggestion — which runs contrary to the Constitution's delegation of election administration to state governments — comes less than a week...
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Six former attorneys for the Department of Homeland Security chastised the agency's current general counsel for defending a blatantly unconstitutional policy to allow federal agents to enter homes without a warrant.Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reportedly issued a memorandum authorizing agents to forcibly enter private residences without...
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I haven't seen it. I hope you don't, either.This, from one of the kinder reviews:"Across some 104 minutes, the first lady delivers these blatantly scripted and meaningless narrations with all the conviction of someone who just woke up from a two-hour nap and can't remember what day it is.”Manohla Dargis of The New York Times sees a "glossy,...
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President Donald Trump's revenge effort against independent journalist and former CNN host Don Lemon didn't go off the way he had hoped — and ultimately backfired — as "MAGA created a martyr," an analyst wrote Monday. Salon's Sophia Tesfaye described how Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi has an "abysmal" record of going after Trump enemies and...
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Right-wing influencer Laura Loomer, an influential figure at the White House and self-proclaimed "proud Islamophobe,” will be forced to continue paying the Muslim civil-rights group CAIR after a judge shot down her request Monday to halt payments she had been required to make since 2023 as part of a settlement for a failed lawsuit."Since 2023,...
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President Donald Trump insisted that he "wasn't friendly" with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein despite claims that the two men were "closest friends."After the Department of Justice released thousands of documents tying Trump to Epstein, the president argued on social media that he had never been close to the sex offender."Not only wasn't I friendly...
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One cannot fully appreciate the level of danger President Donald Trump brings to every assumption ever made about American self-governance without acknowledging that whatever else the man may be, he has been a master at reading the room, manipulating the right-wing press, existing less as winner than feral survivor, able to walk the edge, an...
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Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino returned to the airwaves for the first time since leaving the Trump administration.During his Monday program, Bongino lashed out at the people he perceived as his enemies while he was working for the FBI."Now, I am back. The Podfather is back, and I'm here to take back this movement," Bongino announced. "This...
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President Donald Trump denied his involvement in a Texas special election after a major Democratic win in Texas flipped a deep red seat blue. Since November 2025, Democrats have gained significant wins in elections, putting Republicans on edge with midterm elections on the horizon this fall, wrote MS NOW's Steve Benen, producer of "The Rachel...
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British media personality Piers Morgan threatened a far-right influencer Friday with legal action after being accused, without evidence, of visiting Jeffrey Epstein's private island.Morgan has not been accused of any wrongdoing as it relates to Epstein, though he has been photographed posing alongside Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The...
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