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The Metis Settlements of Alberta say they're interested in purchasing a stake in a proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast and want to work with First Nations in British Columbia who oppose the project and plan to bring forward an emergency resolution at the Assembly of First Nations meetings in Ottawa Tuesday.
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Police across Canada have seized hundreds of kilos of fentanyl and charged thousands of people over the course of a five-month bust the RCMP is describing as "significant." But officials detailing the results of the blitz on Tuesday stressed that Canada is still not a major exporter of the drug, despite concerns raised by the U.S. administration.
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The family of a Colombian fisherman has filed a formal complaint accusing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of murder.Alejandro Andres Carranza Medina was killed Sept. 15 in a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean, and the 42-year-old fisherman's wife and four children filed the complaint Tuesday with the Inter-American Commission on Human...
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Donald Trump's apparent micro-naps during a long, nationally televised Cabinet meeting on Tuesday were turned into fodder on MSNBC's "Morning Joe” on Wednesday, with the hosts pointing out that it has become a recurring problem.As the New York Times reported, three times it appeared the president dozed off as administration officials touted his...
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An internal memo delivered to the Veterans Affairs team has ordered them to make an internal database documenting non-US citizens. The leaked document, seen by The Guardian, has prompted outrage from government representatives who believe the order was made to "decimate and demoralize" VA workers. Democratic congresswoman Delia Ramirez, who is part...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's hand-waving defense of the reported killing of two survivors clinging for their lives to a purported drug boat attacked on his orders in early September was dismantled on MS NOW Wednesday morning.During a nationally televised Donald Trump Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the embattled Pentagon chief tried to swat away...
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President Trump and his defense secretary spoke Tuesday at a Cabinet meeting about their involvement in a September attack on an alleged drug boat that has come under fire following a Washington Post report that said the military launched a follow-up strike that killed two survivors of the initial attack. At the same Cabinet meeting, Mr. Trump also...
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George Retes, a 26-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran, isn't staying quiet — five months after he says he was assaulted and detained by immigration agents on his commute to work as a security contractor outside Los Angeles."Your voice matters,” Retes told Raw Story. "Calling your representatives, calling your people in charge, letting your...
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A Republican Party strategist believes the GOP will suffer greatly in the midterms should they keep their "head in the sand" on key issues.Mark Van Epps ultimately won the special election in Tennessee but with a much thinner margin than the GOP had been expecting. That six-point gap between Epps and Democrat candidate Aftyn Behn has caused some...
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One of the greatest gifts Donald Trump and the 13 billionaires he pulled into his administration have given America is the reminder, finally and once and for all, that just because somebody is rich doesn't mean they're smart. Particularly if they inherited their starting capital from daddy, like Trump and Elon Musk both did.Wealth in this country...
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A doctor has said the reason Donald Trump gave for receiving an MRI scan in October is "not plausible".Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who served as the cardiologist of former Vice President Dick Cheney for more than 30 years, said the White House report for Trump's MRI and the claim it was preventive is "not plausible". Speaking with CNN last night, Dr....
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A political analyst has suggested there could be a draft of "resignations and retirements" in the GOP following the close race in Tennessee.Though the Republican Party's Matt Van Epps would ultimately win the seat, the close margin by which he did so could be a cause for concern in the GOP. Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn in the congressional...
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Jimmy Kimmel has mocked a recent claim from Donald Trump, describing the president as a "kid running for student council".Trump has made several outlandish claims which were quietly walked back or deconstructed by analysts who said it was simply not possible to legislate said order, and the "no income tax" comment from the president seems to be...
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Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump, has suggested the economy is in such a bad state under the president's administration it's "dragging" businesses down.Her claim comes as Costco file a lawsuit against the Trump administration, seeking a refund on tariffs. Costco's lawsuit urges the federal trade court to declare Trump's 'emergency' tariffs illegal,...
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With reports of a merger, or that Nigel Farage expects to do a deal with the Conservatives before the next election - is it game over for the Tories or Reform? Sam and Anne discuss what this potential pact could mean for the right of British politics and whether the move will be seen as […]
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Die Union kämpft um ihre Mehrheit beim Rentenpaket. In der Fraktion wurde am Dienstag deutlich, wie brüchig die Unterstützung in der Fraktion ist. Gordon Repinski und Rasmus Buchsteiner ordnen ein, wie viele Abweichler sich in der Union abzeichnen, wie man sie umstimmen will und weshalb Merz und Co. dennoch auf eine knappe Zustimmung setzen. Im...
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A journalist who has written four books about President Donald Trump revealed on Tuesday that the president is exhibiting behavior that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein warned about years ago. Michael Wolff, who has described himself as a "Trump chronicler," discussed Trump's use of the presidential pardon power on a new episode of "Inside...
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A Newsmax legal analyst delivered a sharp and stunning rebuke of the Trump administration this week, telling viewers of the right-wing network that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and anyone else involved in a controversial, deadly boat strike ought to be "prosecuted for a war crime."Hegseth has faced intense scrutiny and criticism following a...
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FBI Director Kash Patel was grilled by Fox News' Laura Ingraham on Tuesday about his alleged personal use of a government plane — and he proceeded to defend himself without denying the allegations."Democrats are also, Mr. Director, supposedly going to investigate your use of the FBI jet," said Ingraham. "Because they're claiming you commandeered...
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A national security expert slammed the Trump administration during a podcast interview on Tuesday over its shifting defenses about its strikes against alleged drug boats. The administration has conducted at least 21 strikes against alleged drug boats and killed upwards of 80 people, according to multiple reports. A recent report from The Washington...
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Critics buried Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in ridicule Tuesday night after he uncorked a bizarre rant, taking issue with Pope Leo XIV and urging the new pope to "be on the right side of history."Leo, born Robert Francis Prevost, became the bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church in May following the death of Pope Francis. He has recently...
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President Donald Trump may have put his administration "in a box" over the strikes against alleged drug boats in international waters, according to one CNN analyst. The administration has conducted more than 20 strikes against alleged drug dealers and killed about 100 people in those operations, according to reports. Trump has argued that the...
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A CNN elections expert on Tuesday night singled out one county in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District that should give Republicans "jitters" heading into the 2026 midterm election. John King, a national correspondent for CNN, analyzed the early election results for the Tennessee 7th race during CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" on Tuesday night....
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Republican Matt Van Epps has been projected as the winner in a highly anticipated special election for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District.This race, which has been watched for months, was initially not expected to be competitive, with President Donald Trump carrying the district by a whopping 22 points last year. The race was projected to go in...
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White House correspondent, describes how President Trump's latest immigration restrictions, after the shooting of two National Guard members by a man whom the authorities described as an Afghan national, affect a community that traditionally has been considered an exceptional case.
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CNN host Erin Burnett uncorked a brutal fact check on Tuesday of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's claims that members of the military have to follow orders, regardless of their legality. During a segment on her show, "Erin Burnett OutFront," Burnett played a video that CNN's KFile investigators found of Hegseth talking about illegal orders in 2016....
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The Trump administration is pushing for the US Supreme Court to shield the manufacturer of Roundup from thousands of state lawsuits alleging that its widely used herbicide product causes cancer.On Monday, US Solicitor General D. John Sauer recommended that the high court agree to hear a challenge to a Missouri jury's verdict in 2023 that awarded...
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MAGA TV host Eric Bolling made an eyebrow-raising claim on Tuesday about who is to blame for the shooting that killed one National Guard member and left another critically wounded. Just before Thanksgiving, authorities said 29-year-old immigrant Rahmanullah Lakanwal, of Bellingham, Washington, shot two National Guard troops a couple of blocks from...
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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), one of the highest-ranking Republicans in the House, took yet another sideswipe at GOP leadership and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Tuesday evening — this time with a legislative decision.Stefanik, who is currently running for governor of New York, stated that she signed the bipartisan discharge petition to...
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Republicans on Tuesday invoked drone strikes during then-President Barack Obama's tenure in a dubious effort to justify what experts say is the Trump administration's illegal boat bombing campaign against alleged drug traffickers, while falsely claiming that Democrats and the media ignored airstrikes ordered by the former president.US House Speaker...
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President Donald Trump repeated his claim on Tuesday that any documents bearing a signature from an autopen used during the Biden administration are "null and void" in a social media post that also included a vague new threat against his political foes. Trump first made the claim before Thanksgiving that "radical left lunatics" took Biden's autopen...
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JD Vance appeared to be swiped by his boss on Tuesday, leading one analyst to remark that President Donald Trump "let slip" his disdain for the vice president.During a Cabinet meeting, Trump appeared to struggle with alertness and coherence while disparaging Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D)."I think the man's a grossly incompetent man,” a drowsy Trump...
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Republicans are obeying President Donald Trump not simply out of loyalty, but out of fears that his supporters will resort to violence against them, election law strategist and Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House" on Tuesday.This comes as Indiana state lawmakers advance an extreme mid-decade...
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Political observers and analysts bashed a strange prediction SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk made during a reunion of the Department of Government Efficiency in Texas on Tuesday. Musk appeared via video at the DOGE meet-up, where he predicted the country was in the midst of a "great 12-year span" of the second Trump administration, followed by...
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