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The Liberal government is preparing to give the new Defence Investment Agency broad authority to sidestep normal military procurement rules in cases tied to national and economic security. Proposed legislation would sharply expand exemptions for sole-source contracts while extending the agency's influence into industrial policy, innovation and...
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Germany's cyber warfare commander says allied nations face relentless digital attacks from Russia and other adversaries as rearmament accelerates across Europe and North America. Vice-Admiral Thomas Daum told CBC News that cyber intrusions increasingly target defence industries, supply chains and even ordinary citizens — with human error...
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On the same day the prime minister named Louise Arbour as Canada's next governor general, the Liberals voted to restore proposed legislation that includes Arbour's recommendation to strip the Canadian military of its power to investigate and prosecute sexual offences. Critics say the move ignores survivors, and could even represent a conflict of...
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In dieser Folge spricht Rixa Fürsen mit Rasmus Buchsteiner über den Streit um die Diätenerhöhung im Bundestag. Ab 1. Juli stehen knapp 500 Euro mehr im Monat für jedes Mitglied des Bundestags an. Jetzt ringen Union und SPD darum, ob sie das stoppen und wenn ja, wie und bis wann. Außerdem: Bundesfinanzminister Lars Klingbeil ist […]
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We're talking identity this week on EU Confidential — in more ways than one. First, host Sarah Wheaton sits down with Theresa Kuhn, professor of European studies at the University of Amsterdam, who has led a major research project tracking how European identity has evolved across the continent over the past five decades. At a […]
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President Donald Trump broke with FIFA this week, telling the New York Post he wouldn't pay the sky-high ticket prices for the 2026 World Cup — and hinted that his administration may take a closer look at the pricing.In a brief phone call with the Post on Wednesday night, Trump expressed surprise at the cost of tickets for the U.S. men's team's...
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President Donald Trump was confronted on Thursday evening by ABC News senior correspondent Rachel Scott, who asked him to justify all the vanity projects he is engaged in all over Washington, D.C., like the renovation of the Reflecting Pool — and he lost his temper."Mr. President, we are here against the backdrop of a war in Iran," Scott said....
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President Donald Trump downplayed the risks of the hantavirus outbreak when asked about it by reporters.Hantavirus is a virulent, slow-incubating infection spread by rodents; an estimated 38 percent of infected people who develop respiratory symptoms die, and up to 15 percent who develop hemorrhagic fever symptoms. The disease has flared up on a...
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The Wall Street Journal's editorial board couldn't hide its satisfaction on Thursday after a federal court struck down President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs — calling it "rule of law 2, Trump's tariffs 0" and comparing him unfavorably to Joe Biden.A 2-1 majority of the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Trump's Section 122 tariffs...
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Trump is leaving business executives and CEOs confused and uncertain about whether they're invited to cooperate with China, according to a new report. "The president is 'wheels up' in about a week," Sean Stein, the president at the US-China Business Council, told Politico in a Thursday piece, referring to an upcoming summit with Chinese leader Xi...
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Trump's FBI director has become so paranoid that he ordered dozens of his own staff members to take lie detector tests, according to new reporting. "FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the polygraphing of more than two dozen former and current members of his security detail, as well as other staff," MS NOW reported on Thursday, adding that two...
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The new leader of the Department of Homeland Security is operating as nothing more than a "figurehead" who can't control infighting, according to a recent report. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin "is more like a figurehead. I don't think he realized that going in," a senior Trump administration official told the Daily Mail in a...
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Trump described U.S. military strikes against Iran on Thursday as a "love tap," prompting scathing ridicule and skepticism that the attack didn't violate a delicate ceasefire. "President Trump tells me in a phone call the retaliatory strikes against Iranian targets are just a 'love tap,'" ABC senior political correspondent Rachel Scott posted on X....
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio got a round of derision by MS NOW's "The Weeknight" panel on Thursday for his efforts to patch up the ongoing conflicts between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV, whom the president has repeatedly attacked for condemning war with Iran.Stephen Schneck, who heads the U.S. Commission on International Religious...
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Inmates at a Texas federal prison were punished for speaking to reporters about Ghislaine Maxwell — including one who says the warden told her she had "ruined her weekend," according to a new CNN investigation.Julie Howell, a former inmate at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, told CNN she was transferred to a higher-security federal detention...
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A federal judge ruled against President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency on Thursday, finding that the group's mass cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities grants was illegal — and that a key part of the process relied on ChatGPT.DOGE, partly the brainchild of tech billionaire Elon Musk when he was advising the...
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President Donald Trump boasted about the destruction of Iranian drones in a lengthy rant posted to his Truth Social platform on Thursday evening."Three World Class American Destroyers just transited, very successfully, out of the Strait of Hormuz, under fire," wrote Trump. "There was no damage done to the three Destroyers, but great damage done to...
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Trump's reasoning for carrying on the war in Iran while facing upcoming midterms and trying to open the Strait of Hormuz for shipping doesn't make sense, said New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman."I see it as very confusing," Haberman told CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday. "It is very hard to know what is happening. Frankly, from...
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The fiancé of MAGA ally-turned-Trump critic Marjorie Taylor Greene announced that he will leave his job as a right-wing White House reporter.Brian Glenn announced on Thursday that he will be leaving Real America's Voice and wrap up nearly a decade of "following President Trump, being kind of the MAGA mouthpiece, if you will, for the Trump,...
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Newly revealed transcripts of grand jury proceedings in the Georgia criminal election case against President Donald Trump and his allies paint a picture of Rudy Giuliani as confused, rambling and frequently evasive.In the transcript of Giuliani's interview, which goes on for 127 pages, the former New York City mayor and MAGA ally kicked off by...
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European energy companies are capitalizing on profits from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, triggered by President Donald Trump's war on Iran, while American oil producers report declining earnings. Shell reported first-quarter adjusted earnings of $6.92 billion, up 24 percent, with CEO Wael Sawan attributing the surge to an "unprecedented...
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Donald Trump's acting U.S. attorney general is reversing course on comments he made on a major case that has been plagued with obvious lies from the start, an expert claimed. "Todd Blanche is already backpedaling significantly," said journalist Adam Klasfeld about Blanche and his case against the Southern Poverty Law Center."When he unsealed the...
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A Trump-endorsed congressman has been accused of beating his ex-wife, who's the daughter of a Republican senator, and even hurling a pot of boiling water at her, according to new reports. "Ohio Republican Congressman Max Miller is accused of years of document physical abuse against his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, the daughter of Ohio Senator Bernie...
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The Internet was buzzing on Thursday after the White House launched an attack on Star Wars icon Mark Hamill. Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in "Star Wars," posted an AI image of President Donald Trump lying at a gravestone that said "Donald J. Trump. 1946-2024" and the words "If Only."He wrote the following message: "If Only — He should live...
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A classified CIA memo reveals Iran maintains a substantially stronger military and economic position than President Donald Trump has publicly acknowledged. According to a Washington Post report, the intelligence assessment found Iran can withstand the U.S. naval blockade for three to four months — longer than the White House suggested. Most...
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President Donald Trump got yet another body blow to his trade agenda on Thursday, as a pair of federal judges ruled his 10 percent global tariff illegal."In a split ruling, the Court of International Trade found that Mr. Trump had wrongly invoked a decades-old trade law when he applied those duties in February, almost immediately after his last set...
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The United States and Iran exchanged fire on Thursday in the Strait of Hormuz, according to an Axios report. A U.S. official confirmed the attack, saying the U.S. had conducted strikes on targets in the strait. It appeared to happen as the U.S. attempted to enforce the blockade.The Iranian navy targeted three U.S. destroyers, according to Iranian...
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A Tennessee state lawmaker set a paper Confederate flag on fire Thursday inside the state's capitol amid protests after the state's Republican lawmakers enacted a new U.S. House map and split the state's only majority-Black congressional seat.Rep. Justin Jones, a community organizer and Democrat representing the state's 52nd district, used a...
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Columnist Mona Charen argues President Donald Trump's pattern of corruption and self-dealing, long overlooked by the American public, may finally be catching up to him due to deteriorating economic conditions. Writing for The Bulwark on Thursday, Charen examines Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over a tax return leak, calling it a...
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Federal judges in Rhode Island have appointed a special counsel to investigate a Justice Department lawyer, local U.S. Attorney civil division head Kevin Bolan, for lying to, and subsequently about, a judge in that district.This follows extensive reporting that the administration withheld critical information about a potentially dangerous...
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Former Trumpworld attorney Lin Wood's bizarre rantings were revealed in newly-released transcripts of grand jury testimony for President Donald Trump's criminal election racketeering case in Georgia.Wood, who gave up his law license in the face of disbarment threats after his own role in the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has...
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A Catholic cardinal who appears frequently on Fox News condemned President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on Pope Leo.After Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the pope this week, Cardinal Timothy Dolan spoke out against the U.S. president's claim that the Catholic leader was "weak on crime" because he opposed wars like the conflict in...
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) claimed this week that President Donald Trump took revenge against Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) after she didn't follow his demands. The rebel Republican told former Fox News host and MAGA influencer Tucker Carlson in a podcast interview on Wednesday that the president "vetoed a bill that would've brought water to a large...
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A massive dump of more than five dozen transcripts for grand jury testimony in the Georgia criminal case against President Donald Trump was revealed to the public on Thursday for the first time.The release was announced by Anna Bower of Lawfare in a post to X."Today, we published 61 transcripts of testimony heard by the Fulton County special...
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Saudi Arabia revoked U.S. access to its military bases for "Project Freedom," President Donald Trump's operation to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz and counter Iranian threats, prompting Trump to abruptly reverse course Tuesday. A call between Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman failed to resolve the dispute, forcing the...
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President Donald Trump may have thought he had sufficiently purged the Indiana state senators who stood up to him on his gerrymandering plan — but it may not be so simple.After a majority of GOP lawmakers in the upper chamber refused to pass his plan to redraw the state's congressional districts to delete two Democratic seats, Trump endorsed...
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Democratic political strategist James Carville warned about how Trump will try to hold on to power as it begins to dwindle in the coming elections. "He's going really down in November, and he's going to get crazier," Carville said during a Thursday episode of Politicon. "You think he can't get any crazier. Let me assure you, he can get...
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A legal expert on Thursday revealed a potential pattern in the newly released alleged Epstein suicide note and described why it was something to consider.Lisa Rubin, MS NOW senior legal reporter, told MS NOW anchor Katie Tur that there could be a buried detail found in the note discovered by Nicholas Tartaglione, Jeffrey Epstein's cellmate in 2019....
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The Tennessee state Senate Sergeant at Arms forcibly pulled a banner from the hands of Sen. Charlane Oliver (D) during a debate on redistricting.As the body was considering new maps that would erase the state's only majority-Black district, Oliver held up a banner that said: "No Jim Crow 2 Stop the Steal."In a video captured by NewsChannel 5's...
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President Donald Trump's sudden change of policy on reopening the Strait of Hormuz has angered Gulf allies and changed how they view the United States amid the Iran war, an expert said on Thursday. Ravi Agrawal, editor in chief of Foreign Policy Magazine, told MS NOW that Trump's decision followed Saudi Arabia's move to suspend the U.S. military's...
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After being officially reprimanded for treating COVID-19 without permission in Texas, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden has started selling an unproven horse dewormer to treat hantavirus.Bowden responded to reports that at least five hantavirus cases had been confirmed aboard a cruise ship by speculating about the efficacy of ivermectin."Hantavirus is a RNA...
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President Donald Trump appeared at a Wednesday speech with visible bruises on both hands covered with makeup, prompting social media speculation about his physical health. This isn't the first time the, nearly, 80-year-old President has been spotted using makeup to cover the bruises on his hands. However his appearance on Wednesday drew the...
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Trump broke his silence on a meeting with Brazil's president that perplexed journalists on Thursday. "Just concluded my meeting with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the very dynamic President of Brazil," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. "We discussed many topics, including Trade and, specifically, Tariffs. The meeting went very well."Journalists...
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Right-wing influencers were spreading conspiracy theories about the rat-borne illness that has left three luxury cruise ship passengers dead, according to reports on Thursday. Experts from the World Health Organization have said that the hantavirus outbreak on MV Hondius is being transmitted human-to-human and that MAGA social media accounts are...
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The Trump administration withheld information from a Biden judge and let a lie spread that she knowingly freed a murder suspect, according to a legal expert. Harry Litman, former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, called out the Department of Homeland Security in a piece on Thursday. DHS, the parent agency of Immigration and...
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The out-of-the-blue revelations of the contents of a suicide note reportedly written by convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein in his jail cell have once again focused attention on the cloud hovering over Donald Trump and his administration.Writing for The iPaper, columnist James Ball noted that Epstein stories have fallen by the wayside while the...
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Defenders of the planet took aim at President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday for transferring approximately 1.4 million acres of public lands along the Dalton Utility Corridor from the US Bureau of Land Management to the state of Alaska."This corridor encompasses some of Alaska's most critical transportation and energy assets, including...
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy cheerfully downplayed rising fuel costs as the result of President Donald Trump's war in Iran, and he was pilloried on social media.The Transportation Secretary was asked by reporters Thursday at an event in Philadelphia about average gasoline prices surpassing $4.50 per gallon, and Duffy justified the...
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US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Thursday claimed American farmers are heading toward a "golden age,” even as President Donald Trump's policies are increasingly driving them into financial distress.During an appearance on Fox Business, Rollins discussed Trump's upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to talk trade between the...
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The White House spun out an enraged statement blasting "Star Wars" icon Mark Hamill as "sick" over a social media post he shared.The 74-year-old actor best known for playing Luke Skywalker in the sci-fi blockbusters shared an AI-generated image on Bluesky that appeared to show the 79-year-old president lying in a grave beneath a headstone reading...
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President Donald Trump's decision to send Secretary of State Marco Rubio to meet with Pope Leo shows Trump may be interested in pitting his Cabinet members against each other, according to a report on Thursday. The president's "mission impossible" for Rubio has raised questions about loyalties in the Trump administration — not necessarily healing...
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First Lady Melania Trump's remarks about her husband's empathy prompted audience laughter during a White House event honoring military mothers ahead of Mother's Day. Melania described President Donald Trump as "the strong commander-in-chief" whose "empathy transcends the role and shape of a caring leader, who constantly remembers each and every...
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President Donald Trump reversed himself on a major public health issue after lobbyists from White House chief of staff Susie Wiles' former client visited.The Food and Drug Administration authorized an L.A.-based company to sell flavored vape products, which Trump had opposed as harmful to young people, after the tobacco firm Swisher International...
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The relative calm that Tom Homan brought to immigration policy discussions following the firing of controversial DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was loudly slapped aside this week when Trump's border czar made a vulgar boast about the administration's plans for aggressive deportation enforcement.Speaking at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona,...
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A MAGA lawmaker who was wearing a Trump flag as a cape was forced to take it off before walking into a legislative session as Republican state lawmakers were following demands from President Donald Trump to redraw the state's congressional districts — and facing mounting protests that activists say would split the state's only majority-Black...
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A bombshell CIA memo distributed to administration policymakers the week revealed that Iran is in a far stronger military and economic position than President Trump has publicly claimed — directly contradicting the president's rosy assessments about the state of the war.According to a Washington Post report, the leaked classified intelligence...
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Ashley St. Clair, a former Turning Point USA brand ambassador turned critic, is exposing what she describes as a coordinated paid promotion scheme involving President Donald Trump's top online personalities. In monologue-style videos published on TikTok to 77,000 followers, St. Clair alleges MAGA influencers portrayed as grassroots activists...
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called out a yawning child who did not appear to be thrilled with his speech.During an event in Philadelphia on Thursday, some of the city's schoolchildren were on hand to hear Duffy talk about America's 250th birthday."Are you guys excited to be in Philadelphia?" Duffy asked the kids."Yes," the group responded,...
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Major energy companies are reaping enormous profits from the ongoing Strait of Hormuz stalemate triggered by Donald Trump's war on Iran, with European oil giants reporting dramatic earnings surges while American producers sit on the sidelines, the New York Times is reporting.British energy giant Shell reported robust first-quarter profits Thursday,...
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Friends,We are witnessing what happens to a person who is consumed with the need to dominate but cannot.Iran is unlikely to give in. It can withstand the economic pressure of a blockade better than Trump can withstand the political pressure that comes with rising gas prices (now nearly $4.50 a gallon, on average), soon followed by rising food...
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mulling complained that "Kamikaze" Dems had sabotaged his supply of paperclips during the recent partial government shutdown.During a Fox Business interview on Thursday, host Maria Bartiromo asked Mullin if he could insulate DHS from future shutdowns so "people are still getting...
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