CBC - Politics (40 minutes ago)
Despite widespread concern about declining levels of trust, Canadian analytics firm Environics finds that overall levels of trust in many of the institutional pillars of this country's democracy — elections, the prime minister, Parliament, the Supreme Court — have been relatively stable over the last 10 to 15 years.
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Should a police officer be able to pull you over without a reason? The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on a Quebec case that deals with exactly that. Proponents of random police traffic stops say they're important to stop drunk drivers. Detractors say they open the door to racial profiling.
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Former prime minister Justin Trudeau and international pop star Katy Perry took their relationship to the next level, appearing together at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where Trudeau delivered a speech to the world's elite on the virtues of soft power.
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Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said on Tuesday that Ottawa does not plan to pay the $1-billion US price tag for a permanent seat on U.S. President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace," that will oversee the governance and reconstruction of Gaza.
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It's unclear how many leaders have been asked to join the board, and the large number of invitations being sent out, including to countries that don't get along, has raised questions about the board's mandate and decision-making processes.
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Nippon Steel's acquisition of U.S. Steel came with an unusual provision, a so-called "golden share" that gives President Trump the power to approve some major corporate decisions. U.S. Steel CEO David Burritt talked to "CBS Evening News" anchor Tony Dokoupil about that golden share and the future of the company.
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President Trump continued his push for the U.S. to take over Greenland, telling the prime minister of Norway his perceived snub for the Nobel Peace Prize meant he no longer feels obligated to "think only of peace." The prize is awarded by the private Nobel Institute, not the Norwegian government. Ed O'Keefe has more, and then Holly Williams joins...
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," after the devastating Pacific Palisades fire, Jonathan Vigliotti reports from the area, while FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell and Rep. Judy Chu of California discuss the response. Plus, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich joins.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (49 minutes ago)
President Donald Trump rambled after he held up photo after photo of people whom he claimed were criminal immigrants in Minnesota.To mark the first anniversary of his second term, Trump took the podium in the White House briefing room on Tuesday."We've done more than any other administration has done, by far, in terms of military, in terms of...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (49 minutes ago)
The internet was stunned Tuesday as President Donald Trump delivered a bizarre speech at a press conference marking the first anniversary of his second inauguration. Trump walked up to the podium at the White House press briefing room with a large stack of bound papers labeled "accomplishments" and started blaming former President Joe Biden, giving...
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President Donald Trump's former chief of staff warned Tuesday that his aggressive push to seize Greenland could cost him support among Americans. Mick Mulvaney, who served during Trump's first term, suggested in an interview with NewsNation that the president's demand to acquire the Arctic island nation could hurt his messaging for voters around...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (49 minutes ago)
The lack of market reaction to the news that Donald Trump ordered his Justice Department to investigate criminal charges against Fed Chair Jerome Powell surprises many people. After all, everyone knows that the claims about cost overruns being the basis for the investigation are nonsense. Trump wants to threaten Powell with criminal charges because...
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President Donald Trump floated the idea of renaming the former Gulf of Mexico after himself.While recounting the victories of the first year of his second term, Trump recalled renaming the body of water the "Gulf of America.""Gulf of Mexico and now it's the Gulf of America," Trump told reporters on Tuesday. "Because we have 92% of the shoreline. It...
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Two people brought into the Social Security Administration under President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force have been referred to the Justice Department for allegedly conspiring to give sensitive agency information to a group trying to prove election fraud conspiracy theories.According to Politico, "Elizabeth...
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President Donald Trump fawned over a violent outlaw motorcycle gang while simultaneously blasting criminal immigrants during an unusual and rambling press conference on Tuesday marking the anniversary of his second inauguration. Trump spoke for more than 70 minutes, claiming during a bizarre speech and unusual slideshow presentation featuring...
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A federal judge ordered Lindsey Halligan, the disqualified acting U.S. attorney President Donald Trump's Justice Department installed in the Eastern District of Virginia, to stop calling herself a U.S. attorney in a scathing ruling on Tuesday — and went out of his way to rebuke her for a "vitriol"-laden filing with the court that would be "more...
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Donald Trump erupted in a late-night Truth Social tirade at a key NATO ally, blasting the United Kingdom for what he called an act of "GREAT STUPIDITY” while escalating his pressure campaign over Greenland. After slapping 10% tariffs on Denmark, the UK, and Germany for resisting his push to seize the Arctic territory, Trump accused the UK of...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 hours ago)
Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump's Commerce secretary, refused to answer specific questions about the United States' quest for Greenland when he was confronted at the World Economic Forum in Davos.During a Tuesday panel, historian Adam Tooze asked Lutnick to explain how countries outside the U.S. were supposed to view the drive to take over...
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John Roberts' Supreme Court is so afraid of President Donald Trump that it is actively avoiding standing up to him, an MS NOW host said Tuesday. MS NOW's "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough asked "where are the Republicans?" as he hammered the conservative majority Supreme Court for fearing Trump's backlash instead of facing him head-on....
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was ridiculed for suggesting typical middle-class investors owned as many as a dozen homes.Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo asked Bessent during a forum Tuesday at the 2026 World Economic Forum about President Donald Trump's threat to ban "large institutional investors” from buying up single-family homes, and...
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Economist Robert Wolf, a former economic adviser to President Barack Obama, shut down a Fox News host and guest Tuesday after their relentless praise of the economy under President Donald Trump, praise that Wolf argued was unsupported by facts.Conservative economist Stephen Moore spent several minutes praising the state of the economy under Trump's...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is considering sending soldiers to Greenland for military exercises with NATO allies, as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens tariffs on European nations unless they let him purchase and control the semiautonomous island, two senior Canadian officials told CBC News.
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins doubled down after claiming meals in the United States cost $3 each.According to the secretary, she asked a team of economists to estimate the cost of a meal."And I don't want any funny business with numbers," she recalled telling the group in a Tuesday interview. "Like, I really want to know what that looks...
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After President Donald Trump touched down in Davos to meet with the World Economic Forum, he sent out a message to his followers suggesting treaty organizations like NATO and the United Nations were "cults."In a Tuesday post on his Truth Social platform, Trump shared the thoughts of one of his supporters."So at what point are we going to realize...
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Fox News personality Jimmy Failla lashed out at comedian Ellen DeGeneres Tuesday over remarks she made in support of Minnesotans protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement, joking that her comments were proof that every ICE protester is a "white lesbian.”Protesters have taken to the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota in recent weeks over the...
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Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been pulling guns on off-duty officers of color while illegally demanding their citizenship papers.At a press conference on Tuesday, Bruley said he opposed abolishing ICE but disagreed with how federal officers were carrying out immigration...
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The stock market took a dive on the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's return to the White House as investors braced for a global clash over his threats against Greenland.The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted by more than 600 points, while the S&P 500 fell by 1.5 percent and the Nasdaq Composite dropped by 1.8 percent, and U.S....
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Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank assessment of how he views the world in a provocative speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where he said the longstanding U.S.-led, rules-based international order is over and middle powers like Canada must pivot to avoid falling prey to further "coercion" from powerful actors.
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Das Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos beginnt ernst: Statt Networking geht es um Zölle, Bündnisse und die Stabilität der transatlantischen Ordnung. Ursula von der Leyen warnt vor einer Eskalationsspirale mit den USA, während Donald Trump mit neuen Strafzöllen droht und Europa offen unter Druck setzt. Im Fokus stehen die Debatte um Grönland,...
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Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) compared peaceful protesters who showed up to demonstrate against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a church in Minnesota to the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.During a Tuesday Newsmax interview, Self was asked about the decision to interrupt church services over the weekend because the pastor was thought to...
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President Donald Trump's first year in office has been full of blunders — and he has failed to make any lasting change, according to analysis published Tuesday. Yuval Levin, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the editor of National Affairs, wrote in The Atlantic that Trump has attempted to make sweeping shifts during his second...
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On Monday, as more than 3,000 ICE and Border Patrol agents — possibly joined by 1,500 active duty military, as Donald Trump threatened — patrol Minneapolis, hundreds of global CEOs and titans of finance and more than 60 prime ministers and presidents gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual confab of the world's powerful and wealthy,...
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Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump's special envoy, refused to answer specific questions about the United States' quest for Greenland when he was confronted at the World Economic Forum in Davos.During a Tuesday panel, historian Adam Tooze asked Lutnick to explain how countries outside the U.S. were supposed to view the drive to take over...
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Stephen Miller is pushing Donald Trump to create further complications in Minneapolis, a political analyst has claimed. Speaking on The Daily Blast, both Greg Sargent and Mother Jones columnist Mark Follman believe the president could be swayed into invoking the Insurrection Act. The law gives the president the power to deploy the US Armed Forces...
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President Donald Trump took to social media Tuesday to relitigate the 2020 election – specifically, to repeat his false claims that the election had been "rigged,” while also demanding those he alleged to be involved to be "in jail, for a long time.”"These people must be in JAIL, for a long time,” Trump wrote Tuesday on his social media...
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Danish lawmaker Anders Vistisen delivered a shockingly blunt message to President Donald Trump Tuesday while on the floor of the European Parliament — one that saw the lawmaker censured for his use of an expletive."Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President f--- off,” Vistisen said in a clip from the European Parliament in...
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CNN's John Berman seemed impatient with a Republican congresswoman's detailed accounting of the first year of Donald Trump's second presidency — before finally extracting a concession that he's not focused on the topics voters care most about.Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) appeared Tuesday morning on "CNN News Central," where Berman asked her to...
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Missed the second half of the show? The latest on...No date has been set for Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump's controversial choice to lead the FBI. Despite comments by former Trump administration officials about Patel and what Patel wrote in his book, Graham tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that he is "ready to vote for Kash...
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," on the eve of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, a ceasefire deal takes effect and TikTok is shut down. Biden White House Middle East envoy Brett McGurk joins, as does incoming National Security Adviser Mike Waltz.
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Defectors from the Republican Party could rein in Donald Trump's power with just one move, according to a Nobel Prize winner. Paul Krugman believes the GOP would need just eight disgruntled party members to make the switch in the House for the president to be left relatively powerless. The economist, writing in his Substack, suggested four...
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attempted to play clean up Tuesday in the wake of President Donald Trump's "deranged” letter he penned this week that sent shockwaves across the globe.In doing so, he openly contradicted the president's own words.Trump sent a letter Sunday night to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre to express his outrage...
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French President Emmanuel Macron took an apparent jab at President Donald Trump while speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.Specifically, Macron appeared to be referencing Trump's increasingly aggressive efforts to have the United States acquire Greenland – a territory of Denmark – including by slapping eight European...
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Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) lashed out at world leaders who were groveling to President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos.During a Tuesday interview with Sky News, Newsom faced a question about how world leaders should handle Trump's effort to acquire Greenland."Yeah, it's time to buck up. It's time to get serious and stop being...
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Reacting to a new motion from the Department of Justice to dismiss a request for an independent monitor to oversee the release of Jeffrey Epstein Files, the panel on MS NOW's "Morning Joe” once again posed the question of who Attorney General Pam Bondi is protecting.A month after the deadline, mandated by law, to release the files, little...
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A congressional report published Tuesday further undercut US President Donald Trump's claim that he has defeated inflation, estimating that the average American family paid $1,625 in higher costs last year as the Republican president's tariffs and broader policy agenda drove up prices across the nation's economy.The new analysis by Democrats on the...
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Some members of the Republican Party have accused the Rules Committee of "rolling over" to make way for Donald Trump's demands. One member of the GOP claimed there were some bills passed into the House that would not have made it there had it not been for the president's demands. Thomas Massie, an outspoken critic of Trump, told The Independent he...
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A leading Canadian newspaper published a front-page article on the nation's armed forces gaming out a response to a hypothetical response to an invasion by the United States.The Globe and Mail presented the report above the fold of its print edition Tuesday outlining a strategy modeled by the Canadian Armed Forces for responding to an American...
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CNN's John King spoke to Iowa voters a year into President Donald Trump's second term, and found their dissatisfaction could open the door to Democratic gains in the midterm elections.Kellerton cattle farmer Shannon Ebsersol started off 2024 as a Nikki Haley supporter but reluctantly backed Trump in the election, but she rates his first year only...
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Two major bombshells from Donald Trump could lead to major consequences in the long-term, a political analyst has claimed. The president's actions in Venezuela and Greenland could lead to a spike in investigations, subpoenas, and voter backlash. Whether this comes to light is yet to be seen, but The Mirror's Christopher Bucktin believes a midterms...
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Nebraska mom Jamie Bonkiewicz filmed her interaction with Secret Service agents and police who came to her door because of a tweet."The Secret Service came to my door today because of a tweet. No threats. No violence. Just words. That's where we are now.”Meanwhile, the Justice Department is going after multiple Democratic members of the House and...
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During a segment on the violent actions of ICE agents in Minnesota, and officials at the Department of Homeland Security who keep being caught lying about the ruthless snatching of U.S. citizens off the street, MS NOW's Mika Brzezinski had enough — and went on an extended rant.After showing a clip of an ICE official blowing off concerns about...
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The author of an in-depth report on judges overwhelmingly rejecting a Trump administration policy sharply rebuked claims by a senior White House official about his findings.More than 300 federal judges have ruled against President Donald Trump's "mandatory detention" immigration policy as illegal or unconstitutional, according to an analysis by...
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Donald Trump acknowledged to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a weekend phone call that he didn't know what he was talking about when he reacted to a report on NATO military deployments to Greenland.According to CNN, Trump had threatened new tariffs on U.S. allies based on the belief that NATO nations were escalating military presence in...
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European countries held an emergency meeting in Brussels Sunday in response to President Trump's post threatening tariffs against countries that have sent military forces into Greenland amid his push to annex the Arctic island. Leigh Kiniry reports.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
China is not recruiting its spies through meetings in dark alleys, nor by courtship over covert drinks. Rather, the intelligence agency and military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are using LinkedIn, the professional networking site, to send as many as 30,000 messages per hour to recruit spies, according to a new book, "The Great Heist:...
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President Donald Trump took to social media early Tuesday to share private text messages from two world leaders, one of whom is seen in their message expressing confusion over Trump's growing fixation on acquiring Greenland."I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland,” reads a message purportedly from French President Emmanuel Macron,...
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CNN's controversial conservative Scott Jennings set of an explosion of anger Monday night — just hours after another network regular risked her career to hammer his frequent appearances.During a discussion on the Department of Justice stalling on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files, Jennings glibly stated, "They should follow the law, but let's...
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Pam Bondi's constant defense of Donald Trump may be her undoing, according to a political analyst — who believes a single issue will unravel this year. The US Attorney General has been a hard line supporter of Trump during his second term in office, but Stephanie McCrummen believes this dedication will mean Bondi's time in the White House is...
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The New York Times' editorial board aimed a blistering attack at President Donald Trump Tuesday, publishing a partial accounting of his "brazen" pursuit of wealth through the first year of his second term in office.The 79-year-old president, his family and their company have accepted gifts, signed licensing deals, settled aggressive lawsuits and...
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President Donald Trump went on an overnight online posting spree early Tuesday, sharing private text messages with European leaders — and in doing so sparked a wave of outrage from critics who compared his behavior to that of a teen in the "middle of his first high school drama.”Trump shared screenshots of private text exchanges with two...
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The successor to Donald Trump will struggle to deal with the shadow the 47th POTUS casts on the election cycle, a political analyst has claimed. John F. Harris, writing in Politico, believes Trump's second term will be an incendiary topic which any successor, be it JD Vance, Marco Rubio or a different choice, must tackle. Whether that is possible...
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