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America's economic system has never been fair or perfect but for more than a century it rested on basic guardrails that kept instability in check and allowed us to fight for progress and win. Those guardrails are now being stripped away by policies that favor wealth and power over accountability and long-term stability.For over a hundred years, the...
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Author and biographer Michael Wolff claimed that President Donald Trump has been "vaguely irritated” with his wife's new biographical film "Melania” – which released in theaters Friday to abysmal reviews and near-empty screenings – and revealed why he thinks that's true to The Daily Beast, the outlet reported Sunday."Everybody in the family...
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President Donald Trump took to social media Sunday to declare the biographical film "Melania” a runaway success after grossing $8 million in its opening weekend, and despite the $75 million price tag for the film."BLOCKBUSTER!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. "Melania Trump film on track for best opening weekend of any...
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New information from an informant in the case involving three men accused of facilitating terrorism in Quebec City revealed they were planning for a supposed zombie apocalypse. The information comes from a former member of the group Hide & Stalk — an alleged anti-government Instagram group of current and former military members.
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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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Two of the loudest and most important defence policy issues facing Canada have a common — often unrealized — thread, say experts. Both the F-35 and the U.S. threats to annex Greenland are connected over the Trump administration's plan to build its Golden Dome missile defence system.
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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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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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British Columbia Premier David Eby says Alberta separatists meeting with the U.S. administration and seeking financial backing is an act of "treason," as the issue of national sovereignty loomed over a meeting between the premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday.
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Donald Trump went to bat hard for a Republican running for a Texas state senate seat, but ultimately Democrats had a massive "shock upset" instead.According to the Hill, "Democrats scored a stunning upset on Saturday in a special election runoff for Texas Senate, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ, giving the party a major boost ahead...
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President Donald Trump was named more than 3,000 times in the Justice Department's release Friday of around 3.5 million files on Jeffrey Epstein, and on Saturday, he vowed vengeance against author Michael Wolff and potentially Epstein's estate for what the president alleged was a conspiratorial effort to damage him politically."Wolff, who's a...
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For the first time in American history, a foreign government official took "a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president's company," according to a report Saturday night.According to the Wall Street Journal's reporting, a so-called "spy Sheikh" signed an "unprecedented" deal to buy part of Trump's company for half of a billion...
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The Fourth Amendment protects you from tyranny. It protects you from government agents busting down your door without probable cause. It says you are secure in your home "against unreasonable searches and seizures,” which means no warrants shall issue without "probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation.”The Fourth Amendment didn't...
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Prior comments made by JD Vance were thrown in the vice president's face over the weekend.The conflict arose after the DOJ released millions of more files related to deceased child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein.Vance wrote in 2021, "Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child...
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FBI Director Kash Patel's own words came back to haunt him this weekend in the wake of a new release of files on deceased child abuser Jeffrey Epstein.After the DOJ released millions more Epstein files ahead of the weekend, political analysts and observers began circulating an earlier Patel quote that they see as contradictory to the facts.Under...
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The Anti-Defamation League chief spoke out Saturday against Greg Bovino, formally the face of Border Patrol and President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown before his demotion earlier this week, after he was exposed for making "disparaging remarks” to a Trump-nominated prosecutor over their Jewish faith.Bovino spoke by phone on Jan. 12 with...
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Melania Trump on Saturday was accused of living in an "alternate reality" after she bragged that her new documentary, which has reportedly struggled in sales, is "#1" and is "loved by all."The Guardian sent a writer to watch the documentary, Melania, at the busiest movie theater in Times Square, the day of its release. He joined just 12 people in...
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The Department of Homeland Security made a pitch for inexpensive housing that was instantly ridiculed by political observers.Homeland Security took to X ahead of the weekend, writing, "Want affordable housing? Help report illegal aliens in your area. Call 866-DHS-2-ICE."The post added, "If you are an illegal alien, you can take control of your...
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The DOJ recently released millions more files related to the case against deceased child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, but one of his survivors said Saturday that the key info needed to prosecute anyone in Epstein's orbit was suspiciously blacked out and "completely redacted."Public speaker, trauma educator and Epstein survivor Jess Michaels appeared...
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The Department of Justice became the subject of widespread ridicule on Saturday after an ex-official sought help with recruitment on his X account.Chad Mizelle, who previously served as the chief of staff to the Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi and general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump...
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Donald Trump is known to flaunt his pro sports endorsements, but he lost one Saturday.Ryan Garcia, the right-wing, former champion boxer who is known for his Trump support and who was previously expelled by the World Boxing Council for repeatedly hurling racial slurs against Black people and disparaging Muslims, over the weekend announced that...
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After sweeping the Golden Globes and other awards, Paul Thomas Anderson's film One Battle After Another has 13 Oscar nominations. Given the film's clear relevance, if it does end up a winner, those who created it will probably do more than thank their agents, publicists, partners, and pets. They'll likely talk about the times we're living in, as...
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The DOJ is seeking to hire specifically pro-Trump prosecutors, and is turning to social media to accomplish that controversial task.Chad Mizelle, who previously served as the chief of staff to the Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi and general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration, was...
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Donald Trump on Saturday unleashed a nearly 500-word missive on Truth Social, "instructing" Kristi Noem to back off of Dem cities "unless they ask us for help."Taking to Truth Social, the president wrote, "I have instructed Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, that under no circumstances are we going to participate in various poorly run...
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The nation has been convulsed by the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Millions now see with sickening clarity a lawless assault by federal officers on an American city and its people. As the Wall Street Journal editorialized, it is a "moral and political debacle for the Trump presidency.”The videos were followed by a fusillade of lies from...
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Politicians and political observers alike sounded the alarm on Saturday at new video that purportedly shows federal immigration officers stepping in front of a car with guns drawn in an attempt to arrest a Minnesotan.David J. Bier, Cato Institute Director of Immigration Studies, flagged the video over the weekend, writing, "DHS agents in MN swerved...
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An ICE unit from the US Department of Homeland Security is playing a role providing security at the Winter Games. At past Olympics, their involvement would have been unremarkable. But after the violence in Minneapolis, many Italians protesting in Milan say ICE agents are no longer welcome.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is warning that the Trump administration has crossed a "terrifying line” with its use of federal immigration enforcement agents to brutalize and abduct people in his city.In an interview with the New York Times published Saturday, Frey described operations that have taken place in his city as "marauding gangs of guys...
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The police chief for a southern Minnesota city intervened this week to prevent federal immigration officers from arresting a Minnesotan, Minnesota Public Radio reported Saturday.The Minnesotan – a woman who did not want to be identified out of fear of retaliation – spoke with MPR about her encounter with federal immigration officers, who she...
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A judge has ordered freedom for the immigration witness identified as Liam Conejo Ramos, a five-year-old that school officials said was detained in Minneapolis, Minnesota.The use of a 5-year-old Minneapolis child who was grabbed off the street and used as bait to arrest his immigrant father by an ICE agent has set off a wave of outrage comparable...
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By Rachelle Wilson Tollemar, Adjunct Professor of Spanish, University of St. Thomas. Minneapolis residents say they feel besieged under what some are calling a fascist occupation. Thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been swarming a city whose vast majority in 2024 did not vote for Donald Trump — or for a paramilitary...
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Greg Bovino, formally the face of Border Patrol and President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown before his demotion earlier this week, was exposed Saturday for making "disparaging remarks” to a Trump-nominated prosecutor over their Jewish faith, The New York Times reported.Bovino spoke by phone on Jan. 12 with U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen, an...
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Federal judge Kate Menendez denied Minnesota's motion for a temporary restraining order to halt "Operation Metro Surge" on Saturday. The court documents, filed on Saturday, state that Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul have not met their burden of proof.
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Under penalty of perjury, a witness told the FBI back in 2016 that they had "personally witnessed” President Donald Trump threaten to "disappear” a girl and have her entire family killed, according to a document released by the Justice Department on Friday.Released as part of the DOJ's publication of around 3.5 million files on Jeffrey Epstein,...
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Popular outrage over President Donald Trump's deadly campaign targeting immigrants and their defenders sparked a National Shutdown day of protests across the United States on Friday, as people from coast to coast took to the streets demanding an end to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's "reign of terror.”"No school, no work, and no...
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President Donald Trump made a startling new addition to the White House's decor this week, an addition that left journalist Brian Daitzman stunned over what he considered to be its "obscene” message.People magazine reported this week that Trump had redecorated a White House room with framed photographs of himself with various people, though one...
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Critics have weighed in on Amazon MGM Studios' documentary about first lady Melania Trump, and their verdicts are overwhelmingly negative.According to review aggregation website Metacritic, Melania—which Amazon paid $40 million to acquire and $35 million to market—so far has received a collective score of just 6 out of 100 from critics, which...
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Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche this week of having a conflict of interest when he shut down investigations into crypto companies, dealers and exchanges and eliminated an enforcement team dedicated to looking for crypto-related fraud and money-laundering schemes.A letter written by Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Dick...
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk went on a frantic online posting spree Saturday to insist his innocence after being named in the Justice Department's latest release of files on Jeffrey Epstein, files that in some cases blew holes in his previous denials."No one pushed harder than me to have the Epstein files released and I'm glad that has finally happened,”...
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The top Democratic lawmaker on the House Foreign Affairs Committee hammered President Donald Trump Saturday after his administration "bypassed” a "longstanding practice” to force through an arms sale for Israel and Saudi Arabia, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.Friday evening, the Trump administration approved a $15.7 billion arms sale...
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Zena Stendvik, superintendent of the Columbia Heights Public Schools District, has swapped her high heels for a pair of boots amid the ongoing immigration enforcement operations in and around Minneapolis, Minnesota, at times stepping into a security role for her students, HuffPost reported Saturday.Minneapolis has become a hotbed for the Trump...
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When I think of America's so-called president and the way he goes about his job, the same phrase pops into my head: "Nice little country you got there. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it.”Trump speaks the language of mobsters. He threatens, bullies and makes deals pretty much the same way as do the Corleones and Sopranos. Justice...
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GOP reversals in this year's elections, especially in some urban and immigrant communities, are setting off alarm bells for Republicans using redistricting to try to keep control of Congress in next year's midterms.Redistricting plans demanded by President Donald Trump in states such as Texas and Missouri — meant to capitalize on his stronger...
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump's head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is conducting a public campaign to expose what he claims is Medicaid fraud in Los Angeles and across California.But his presence is not being taken seriously by the state's leaders, Politico reported.Since assuming his position, Oz has prioritized...
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President Trump celebrated a new federally-funded investment program, called Trump Accounts, aimed at giving kids a long-term financial foundation. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sat down with "CBS Saturday Morning" to discuss the initiative and the looming changes at the Federal Reserve.
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Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell "presented” an Epstein victim to President Donald Trump while at a party in New York City at an unknown date in an attempt to "effectively pimp her out,” according to a newly released document reported on by The Daily Beast.The accusation comes from an FBI interview with a woman claiming to be a...
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A Donald Trump snub suggests Kristi Noem might have finally pushed him too far.An Atlantic columnist argued Saturday that the fact that the embattled secretary of the Department of Homeland Security was still in a job after disastrous events involving immigration operations in Minnesota was a testament to the president's respect for those who show...
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President Donald Trump unveiled plans Friday for the construction of a large arch in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the United States' 250th anniversary, but on Saturday, the architect behind the project revealed that his recommendations went ignored by the White House, and went on to blast the project over its location and size."I don't think an...
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President Donald Trump unleashed an unhinged attack on Minnesota's Somalian community and Rep. Illhan Omar (D-MN) Saturday in just the latest instance of his ongoing feud with the state's leadership."'Scammer' Illhan Omar and her absolutely terrible friends from Somalia should all be in jail right now or, far worse, send them back to Somalia,”...
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US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Friday that Attorney General Pam Bondi should be facing impeachment, pointing to the top Justice Department official's handling of the Epstein files, efforts to force Minnesota to hand over its voter data, and arrest of journalists including former CNN anchor Don Lemon.Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made the call in...
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In her documentary's opening, First Lady Melania Trump declares: "Everybody wants to know" how she spends her time. It turns out that's far from true, The Guardian found.The newspaper sent a writer to watch Melania at the busiest movie theater in Times Square Friday, the day of its release. He joined just 12 people in the audience. And they were...
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The New York Times issued a full-scale alarm Saturday as fears that Donald Trump and his allies moving to rig the midterm elections reached fever point.The newspaper's editorial board warned readers they couldn't be complacent, days after the president's FBI swooped in Georgia in a supposed investigation into the validity of the 2020 election,...
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