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A controversial pipeline agreement between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith triggered a chain of events that included a cabinet resignation, a cabinet shuffle and — eventually — a fiery debate about the French language in Quebec.
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Hearings for one of the most highly anticipated Supreme Court of Canada cases in years are scheduled to begin March 23. The outcome of the Supreme Court hearings will likely set major precedents across the country, notably on minority rights and on governments' use of the notwithstanding clause.
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Immigration Minister Lena Diab sparred with her Conservative critic at a tense House of Commons committee meeting Thursday as the two disagreed on everything from immigration levels and deporting non-citizen criminals to what kind of salad they prefer.
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The Trump administration acts less like a presidential administration and more like a royal family in medieval Europe — a kind of American "neoroyalism,” Joshua Keating tells Vox."Signs of neoroyalism [include] the degree to which the administration mixes private enterprise and diplomacy,” said Keating. It's also clear in Trump's habit of...
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A Somali immigrant who aggressively campaigned for President Donald Trump in 2024 is severing all ties with the president over his recent remarks where he referred to Somali migrants as "garbage,” condemning them as "racist” in an appearance Saturday on CNN."It was very dehumanizing and very un-presidential coming from the commander in chief to...
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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino was raked over the coals on Saturday morning for changing his tune on the Washington, DC, pipe bomber after spending years spreading conspiracy theories that have now fallen flat after an arrest.As a podcaster, the now-senior FBI official claimed the attempted attack was an "inside job,” telling his fans, "It is a...
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Lourdes Ubieta, a conservative radio host from Miami, Florida and major backer of President Donald Trump, said recently that if it took sending U.S. troops – which may include her own son and cousin – to Venezuela to enact regime change, then the Trump administration should "go for it.”"If to free Venezuela and for the best interest of the...
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On Tuesday, the President of the United States chaired a meeting of his busted cabinet that would have been impossible to believe just 10 years ago. I had no intention of watching this North Korea-like, state-run propaganda, but once I'd bumped into it, I found I couldn't take my eyes off it.It was a train wreck wrapped in a dumpster fire, and in a...
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With a series of critical cases still to be heard, the six conservative justices seated on the Supreme Court were admonished by the New York Times editorial board that they need to listen to one of their own and rein in Donald Trump.In an editorial published Saturday morning, the board pointed out that the lower courts have done a better job of...
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Donald Trump is facing increasing sniping from members of his own party that he is ignoring the mood of the country when it comes to the economy and voters turn on him.According to a report from the Washington Post's Naftali Bendavid, the president is now faced with a "new reality” that he can no longer convince even some of his most ardent...
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Donald Trump started off his Saturday morning by flipping out on the hosts and producers of Fox and Friends for booking a guest who pushed back at the president's insistence that he has turned the economy around.The president, who stayed in snowy Washington, DC, this weekend, took to his Truth Social account to complain about the appearance of...
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President Donald Trump snapped at CNN's Kaitlan Collins Saturday morning over being asked about the price tag of his White House ballroom, the cost of which has increased by at least $100 million since first announced."Caitlin Collin's of Fake News CNN, always Stupid and Nasty, asked me why the new Ballroom was costing more money than originally...
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is now offering new details of conversations she had with President Donald Trump pertaining to deceased child predator Jeffrey Epstein.CBS' 60 Minutes teased its interview of Greene in a post to X on Friday. In the clip, reporter Lesley Stahl is seen asking the Georgia Republican about behind-the-scenes...
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"Why is MLK Day not worthy of a fee-free day anymore?”That's what Kati Schmidt, communications director for the National Parks Conservation Association, wondered in an email to SFGATE, which reported Thursday on the National Park Service's recently announced free admission days for 2026."That has become a day of service throughout the country as...
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The latest South Park episode nailed it: When "Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth gets wind of a small Colorado town's annual holiday race, he declares it an "Antifa uprising” and calls out the troops to crush it. While armed forces assemble their AK-47s, Hegseth struts around filming himself for well-coiffed social media content, unaware that his...
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The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board urged President Donald Trump on Friday not to get involved in what they called a "boondoggle" of a liquefied natural gas project in eastern Africa.The project is run by the French company TotalEnergies, and backed by the U.S. Export-Import Bank — but there are numerous red flags that have...
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The Trump administration's odd social media boast lit up the internet on Friday, as bewildered critics wondered whether the economic brag was meant as satire.The Treasury Department's official account claimed that U.S. Treasuries are having their best year since 2020 and that investors who had "confidence and faith in President Trump's economic...
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President Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services took Admiral Rachel Levine's name off her portrait in the Humphrey Building, according to National Public Radio.Levine, a former director of the Public Health Corps under former President Joe Biden who became the first transgender person to serve in a Senate-confirmed executive role,...
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A federal judge said on Friday that President Donald Trump did not have the legal authority to hold immigrants at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba before shipping them out for deportation, The New York Times reported.U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, did not immediately order the...
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fessed up on Friday over who was responsible for the Trump administration's brazen defiance of a court order.In March, the Trump administration made the controversial decision to transfer Venezuelan detainees to El Salvador despite a judicial order temporarily blocking their removal. The move ignited a...
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A significant number of voters in 2025's statewide elections in New Jersey and Virginia voted for Democrats this year despite casting their ballots for President Donald Trump in 2024. Now, some of them are hinting at what types of candidates they aim to support in next year's midterms.NBC News reported Friday that focus groups interviewing voters...
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A prominent Iraq War veteran tore into President Donald Trump's administration on Friday night after CNN played a supercut of Cabinet members fawning over the president, including one who declared this was the "greatest Cabinet ever for the greatest president ever."Anchor Erin Burnett played a montage of Trump's public Cabinet meeting from Tuesday,...
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President Donald Trump indicated American football needs a rebrand in a rambling speech Friday during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Official Draw at the Kennedy Center. At the event, Trump received the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, which criticss have mocked as a made-up award to make up for him not winning a Nobel Peace Prize. At one point, the president...
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The Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi just took a big step toward surveilling left-wing groups as a counterterrorism operation — and onlookers are alarmed.This comes after reports in September that a DOJ official wanted a terrorism investigation into George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist and Hungarian-born Holocaust...
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Judge James E. Boasberg of the District of Columbia is looking into whether a criminal contempt referral is warranted after the Trump administration in March continued to fly two planeloads of mostly Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador.
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Several groups affiliated with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement are now applying pressure to Republican state legislators in Indiana, who have yet to pass a heavily gerrymandered congressional redistricting map.Politico reported Friday that Turning Point Action — the electoral arm of slain MAGA activist Charlie Kirk's organization — is...
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Two analysts tore into Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday after a federal court in Florida reversed course on the Jeffrey Epstein files.Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner joined progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen to discuss the latest development in the Epstein saga, which has plagued the Trump administration in recent months. Earlier...
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A prominent Republican U.S. senator ducked into a bathroom this week to try to avoid questions about the GOP's efforts to throw together a health care plan, The New York Times reported on Friday evening."Senator Tim Scott, Republican of South Carolina, was on the way to a health committee hearing this week when he was asked what his party was going...
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom, considered by some to be the frontrunner to be the next Democratic presidential nominee, said during a panel on Wednesday that he wants his party to be a "big tent” that welcomes large numbers of people into the fold. But he's "adamantly against” one of the most popular proposals Democrats have to offer: a wealth...
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New details are emerging about the Trump administration's Sept. 2 strike on a vessel they claimed was trafficking drugs to the United States, which cast serious doubt on the validity of the military target.According to The New York Times, "Multiple people who have seen video of the attacks say the survivors climbed on the overturned hull and waved...
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MAGA influencer Laura Loomer melted down Friday over claims that a Republican lawmaker worked to help house Afghan refugees at a Texas military base after the Taliban took over the country in 2021. Loomer was criticizing Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and his work with Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) to house 10,000 Afghan refugees in August 2021 at Fort Bliss...
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A Texas House Democrat has announced he will not seek re-election just a day after the Supreme Court gave the state the green light to use congressional maps backed by President Donald Trump that aim to delete up to five Democratic seats.Rep. Lloyd Doggett announced his decision Friday afternoon on X, after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a new...
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Masked federal agents chased a 22-year-old woman in New Orleans who said she was targeted because "I'm brown," according to reports on Friday. Security video from this week shows her telling the ICE agents to "leave me alone," The Guardian reported. She told reporters that she thought she was going to be kidnapped and ran to her front door to try...
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A well-known conservative commentator has a warning for the Republican Party: take action now or face a repeat of the 2018 midterms when the GOP lost 41 House seats in a landslide. And this time, he says, the Senate could go to the Democrats as well.Award-winning writer and journalist Bernard Goldberg reminded readers at The Hill that in 2018,...
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Protesters in New Orleans made it nearly impossible for Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino to lead an operation to detain undocumented immigrants.As Bovino and his men walked throughout the city on Friday, protesters used their First Amendment rights to blow whistles, effectively warning immigrants that law enforcement was in the area....
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The White House quietly deleted a video that used Sabrina Carpenter's "Juno" to promote ICE raids.Earlier this week, Carpenter slammed the Trump administration for using her song. "This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda," she wrote in a response to the White House post on X."Here's a...
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The internet had a hysterical response to the Village People's performance of their iconic hit "YMCA" at the FIFA World Cup 2026 Final Draw on Friday, while President Donald Trump did not miss the moment to drop his signature moves. Trump, who was given the inaugural peace award by FIFA President Gianni Infantino, stood up at the Kennedy Center —...
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A Department of Homeland Security official took to X on Friday afternoon to deny that a Democratic member of Congress had been pepper-sprayed by immigration agents — but her explanation of what really happened was less than convincing to a legal expert.Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), who became a focus of controversy as House Republican leadership...
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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a gastroenterologist who voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in February, isn't exactly garnering praise for his condemnation of Kennedy's latest controversial health recommendations.Cassidy, whose support during Kennedy's confirmation hearings looked...
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The Indiana House voted Friday to pass a Republican-backed bill to redraw its congressional districts, and it will now move to the Senate.The bill was expected to face additional opposition by the state's Senate as several Republicans have said they are against the redistricting move pushed by President Donald Trump, WTHR reported. Trump initiated...
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) started the year largely holding the GOP caucus together — but now his leadership style, more hands-off than his predecessor Mitch McConnell, is hitting its limit as the party sinks into faction-fighting, leaving many senators frustrated and wishing he would exert more control.This is the assessment of...
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Those of us who came of age during the '60s well remember the Vietnam War, its horrific toll of human life, its cost, the division it caused, and its long-term effects upon those who served and survived. We also remember the phony incidents and propaganda that threw our young men and women into combat in what became our nation's longest war …...
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MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec suggested that former President Barack Obama has been working behind the scenes to insert gay propaganda into Netflix's hit show, "Stranger Things."Posobiec spoke out about his theory in a segment on Real America's Voice on Friday, following Netflix's announcement that it would acquire Warner Bros."This would become...
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A law professor bashed Stephen Miller for pushing discriminatory immigration restrictions in America that have long been gone. Miller, the Trump administration's immigrant policy architect and Homeland Security Advisor, has tried to revive "nationality-based discrimination" policies that formally embarrassed the United States, Amanda Frost, a...
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A big rift is brewing in the Trump administration, as allies of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — the mastermind of the so-called "Make America Healthy Again" movement — lobby President Donald Trump to fire Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency.Kennedy and his supporters are notorious anti-vaccine...
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President Donald Trump is opening yet another front in his war on the free press, columnist Brian Karem wrote for Salon on Friday — and it's getting harder to overlook his true vision for the media."In the latest round of professional malfeasance, the president's sycophants in the communications office have launched a 'Media Bias Portal' on the...
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Revelations surrounding the Washington, D.C. pipe bomb suspect have become humiliating for the Trump administration, a security analyst said Friday. Bradley Moss, a national security analyst, told CNN that the White House now has to manage the fallout after 30-year-old suspect Brian Cole Jr. told law enforcement that he believed that the 2020...
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The U.S. Supreme Court is officially taking up a review of whether President Donald Trump's executive order abolishing birthright citizenship is constitutional, Axios reported Friday.The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees a right to citizenship for anyone born in the United States and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" — which...
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A federal grand jury this week has turned down a Justice Department bid to reindict New York Attorney General Letitia James, a perceived political adversary of President Donald Trump. The failure to make a second attempt at indicting James occurred about two weeks after a judge tossed out a similar mortgage fraud case against James because the...
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A health expert Friday warned that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has made a dangerous error after dropping its recommendation that newborns get the hepatitis B vaccine.Former CDC director Tom Frieden criticized the body, and told CNN that he was hopeful that health leaders, including pediatricians, OBGYNs, nurses and other...
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Three judges this week slammed President Donald Trump's Justice Department for keeping Lindsey Halligan's name on court documents. A district court judge and two magistrate judges in Alexandria, Virginia, said in an open court to prosecutors that they didn't think Halligan's name should be on any of the new criminal case filings, including guilty...
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It did not take long after Donald Trump was awarded a "peace prize” from FIFA, the governing body for international soccer responsible for World Cup events, when the glitter started to come off the gold.On Friday afternoon, the president, who has been lobbying for Nobel Prize for years, attended a FIFA event at the Kennedy Center designed around...
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In an unhinged video this summer, Danielle Jurinsky, a former Aurora City Council member, blamed the Democratic Party for the firebomb attack on peaceful demonstrators in Boulder who called for the release of hostages in Gaza. Through tears, she angrily singled out Jewish leaders in the state, such as Gov. Jared Polis and Attorney General Phil...
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Fox News hosts expressed disappointment after claiming that FIFA had "rigged" an event with President Donald Trump and other world leaders.During a Friday ceremony at the Kennedy Center, Trump received FIFA's first annual peace prize before participating in a draw with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum."So...
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The Trump administration's recent decision to end immigration protections for Haitians shocked many in the migrant community, but for Caribbean-U.S.-based journalist Felicia Persaud, it was a predictable outcome driven in part by pro-Trump immigrant voters.The Department of Homeland Security announced last month that it would be terminating...
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U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith ordered the release of grand jury materials from investigations into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.After rejecting a similar bid earlier this year, Smith said on Friday that the Epstein Files Transparency Act granted him the authority to release grand jury transcripts."The Act applies to unclassified records,...
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Fears that Republicans will lose their small majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms intensified when Democrats enjoyed a variety of off-year election victories on November 4, from double-digit gubernatorial wins in New Jersey and Virginia to three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices winning retention elections by a...
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A number of MAGA figures are pleading with President Donald Trump Friday to intervene after the streaming giant Netflix announced it had reached an agreement to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery for $72 billion, warning that the acquisition would produce an endless "woke nightmare” for films and television."TRUMP MUST STOP THIS!” wrote Matt...
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It would be an understatement to say President Donald Trump's once positive approval among young voters is failing. CNN analyst Harry Enten said the better word for it is probably "collapse.”"Donald Trump put in the best performance for a Republican presidential candidate among young voters since George W. Bush did back in the early 2000. And,...
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A visit by Education Secretary Linda McMahon at a public school in New Jersey ended up infuriating the parents who were invited to take part and then were banned from entering after arriving.According to a report from MS Now, from Colts Neck, New Jersey, McMahon was scheduled to appear before the children at Cedar Drive Middle School with...
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