CBC - Politics (24 minutes ago)
U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to impose a 100 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods entering the United States if Canada "makes a deal with China" — a forceful message that comes days after Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech in Davos, Switzerland, widely viewed as pushing back on U.S. actions.
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European military veterans, families of the fallen and politicians have voiced outrage after President Trump claimed the U.S. had "never needed" its NATO allies, and that allied troops had stayed "a little off the front lines" during the 20-year war in Afghanistan. Nancy Cordes has the latest.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 hours ago)
At least one Republican senator is calling for a full investigation into the incident that led to the death of an ICU nurse by DHS immigration agents.After the death of Alex Pretti, who appears to have been shot by agents after being disarmed while carrying a concealed weapon, one GOP lawmaker had some strong words for the "credibility" of the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (4 hours ago)
A federal judge on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to free a man who was arrested while working at the hotel where ICE agents had been staying to conduct their operation in Minnesota.Kyle Cheney, senior political affairs reporter for Politico, broke the news on X."JUST IN: ICE agents in Minnesota arrested an employee at the St. Louis Park...
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Defence department boss Greg Moriarty is named the next ambassador to the United States, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese criticises the US president's claim that allied troops did not serve on the front lines of Afghanistan.
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NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis is calling for a moratorium on artificial intelligence data centres along with other measures in a bid to rein in a technology that he says is being used by corporations to steal private data, threaten jobs and harm the environment.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller came under fire for his response to the latest immigration agent-involved shooting in Minneapolis, with the Democratic Party unleashing a vulgar answer that shocked observers.The official X account for the Democrats Saturday posted a video of the recent killing of Veteran Affairs ICU nurse...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
A Democratic congressman on Saturday revealed that he had been punched in the face by a Trump supporter who threatened him with deportation.Variety reported, "A party crasher was arrested at Park City's High West Saloon on Friday during CAA's Sundance Film Festival celebration.""A source at the talent agency's party said the man, who is Caucasian,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi came under fire on Saturday from an unlikely source: the MAGA base.Bondi went on Fox News over the weekend, where she claimed that people like Alex Pretti, who was killed by immigration agents after apparently being disarmed, were protecting people accused of serious crimes. She then added, "We sent Governor Walz...
ReadAustralian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 hours ago)
Ahead of the national debate around Indigenous rights and recognition this January 26, the ABC has spoken to First Nations leaders about what they think are the top priorities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
A new DHS announcement that it will be investigating the latest agent-involved shooting, instead of the FBI, set off alarm bells for one legal expert.MS NOW host Alex Witt read the statement on air on Saturday, saying, "I'm just getting something handed to me," before noting that it is a statement from DHS suggesting "that it will investigate the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will be the "special guest" at an emergency meeting with House Democrats in the wake of the killing of an ICU nurse in Minneapolis, according to new reporting.The meeting comes after the killing of Alex Pretti, who was carrying a concealed firearm and engaging with immigration agents.Andrew Solender of Axios reported on...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
An immigration agent reportedly hit bystanders with a brutal taunt after the killing of an ICU nurse over the weekend.The killing by DHS agents of American Alex Pretti, who can be seen on video trying to help a woman who was pushed to the ground by the immigration officials, has spawned protests throughout Minnesota. The shooting comes after the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
I don't have all the details yet but it appears that Trump's goons have murdered another American in Minneapolis.This is the third shooting involving federal agents in the city this month, including the murder of Renee Good, 37, on Jan. 7.The person who was killed was Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old man, an American citizen who lived in Minneapolis.At...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
The latest shooting and killing of an American citizen by federal immigration authorities was backed up by an "incorrect" statement, according to an expert.Security analyst Rob D'Amico, a former Marine and FBI agent, appeared on MS NOW on Saturday, where he flagged the "biggest thing" about new videos of the killing of an ICU nurse named Alex...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
Congressman Seth Moulton was visibly outraged on Saturday after "coward" ICE officials shot and killed another American citizen, using the moment to make a bold claim about Donald Trump and white supremacy.Moulton appeared on MS NOW over the weekend, and first made the point that those who killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti were either "murderers or...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
An initial investigation by an investigative journalism site reportedly shows that the recent immigration-involved shooting in Minneapolis took place after the man had been disarmed.Independent site Bellingcat took what it called a "very close look at the killing" of ICU nurse Alex Pretti, and noted that its findings "clearly contradict the DHS...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, will not be brought to justice. Let that sink in. Ross is going to skate, because in Donald Trump's America, his agency operates above the law. As Vice President JD Vance put it at a White House press conference the day after the shooting, Ross has...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
Donald Trump clued supporters in on the next blue state he will target with "massive" fraud allegations, as Minnesota has faced similar claims from the federal government.The president took to Truth Social on Saturday, as Minnesota is under protest stemming from multiple killings of citizens by federal immigration officers. The officers descended...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's job is to calm the economic fears that President Donald Trump creates. He has followed a curious journey to get there, and now he's sacrificing his integrity and legacy to remain.Stage 1: Democratic FundraiserBorn in a small South Carolina town, Bessent, 63, graduated from Yale in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in...
ReadAustralian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (11 hours ago)
Residential care is often a last resort for society's most vulnerable children, but being raised by a "system" can leave both physical and emotional scars. It's why those who have gone through it are asking for their voices to be included to reform it.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
President Donald Trump unloaded on Minnesota elected officials Saturday in the wake of the fatal federal immigration officer shooting earlier that morning, going as far as to accuse state leadership of "inciting insurrection.”A 37-year-old Minneapolis resident was killed Saturday after several federal officers opened fire after having wrestled...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Chad Wolf, who briefly served as acting Homeland Security secretary under the first Trump administration, took to Newsmax Saturday to allege, without evidence, that the man fatally shot by federal immigration officers in Minnesota Saturday was "looking for trouble.”In Minneapolis, federal officers wrestled, beat and ultimately shot 37-year-old...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced Saturday that plans were already underway to hold ICE and immigration agents criminally "responsible” for their actions following the deadly shooting earlier that morning.In Minneapolis, 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti was shot and killed by federal immigration officers after being wrestled to the...
ReadCBS News - Politics (11 hours ago)
Thousands braved subfreezing temperatures in the Twin Cities to protest ICE operations. It comes as Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison calls "Operation Metro Surge" a political tactic meant to punish Minnesotan leaders. Nicole Sganga reports.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
A video of what's been reported to be a fatal federal agent-involved shooting in Minnesota spread wildly on social media Saturday, prompting state leaders to demand Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents leave the North Star State immediately.In the video, which appears to have been recorded by a bystander from inside a nearby building, at...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz issued a fierce demand to the Trump administration after reports of "another horrific shooting by federal agents” circulated on Saturday."I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening,” Walz wrote in a social media post on X. "The...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
ICE attempted to block local police officers from the scene of another Minneapolis shooting Saturday — but the city's police chief defied their orders.The federal agents attempted to demand the city's police officers stay away after gunshots rang out Saturday morning, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported.A video,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
A growing crowd of angry bystanders gathered at the site of a federal immigration agent-involved shooting Saturday in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where tensions quickly escalated into clashes with law enforcement amid heightened federal immigration enforcement in the city."You're gonna have to kill me!” shouted one bystander as they were being...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) voiced her support Saturday for President Donald Trump deploying the National Guard to Minnesota to quash the civil unrest sparked by the latest federal immigration officer-involved shooting in Minneapolis.At least seven federal officers were captured on video Saturday wrestling a man to the ground before shooting...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
I think one of the hard and inconvenient truths that liberals need to hear is that the Democratic Party cannot save democracy on its own. There is no future in which the Republican Party loses forever. That's not realistic. That's perhaps not even desirable.Liberals have to work more to create conditions in which the Republicans choose to behave....
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
According to journalist and author Garrett Graff, critics of Greg Bovino, the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, are making the wrong complaint when they call the abrasive DHS official a Nazi.A comparison to one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan is closer to the mark, he told MS NOW's Ali Velshi on Saturday morning.Discussing the brutal invasion of...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
Europe and Canada must begin preparing — now — for a full strategic break from the United States.It is draconian. It is extreme. And it is urgently necessary.This argument is not born of hostility toward America, nor of contempt for Americans. It is driven by necessity and by alarm, and ultimately by compassion for American democracy itself....
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
An annual conference designed to help train members of law enforcement on combating child exploitation was cancelled this year as part of the Trump administration's massive spending cuts to the Justice Department, leaving several prosecutors and law enforcement officers fuming, The Guardian reported Saturday."We're left figuring out how to survive...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
Attorneys for the Justice Department are pushing a novel theory in federal court that would effectively grant the Trump administration the ability to circumvent Congress in its appointments to federal agencies, a theory that one attorney described as "terrifying,” Politico reported Friday evening.That novel theory was argued Friday by DOJ...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
As US Vice President JD Vance on Friday addressed anti-abortion activists at the March for Life, public health and reproductive rights advocates decried the Trump administration's expansion of the Mexico City Policy, which critics call the global gag rule.Since the Reagan administration, Democrats have repealed and Republicans have reimposed the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
During an appearance on MS NOW's "The Weekend,' Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) concluded his observations about former special counsel Jack Smith's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee earlier this week by noting remarks Smith made about Donald Trump's threats.According to Goldman he fully expects to hear more from Smith about Donald Trump's...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
At the same time that Donald Trump is facing collapsing poll numbers with voters unhappy with his policies that they believe are making their lives worse, he is facing a revolt from the anti-abotion leaders who are threatening to urge their members to stay home when November's election rolls around.According to a report from the Washington Post on...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
The fall-out from Donald Trump's abrasive Davos speech which led Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney to call out the bullying American president, escalated on Saturday morning with a new tariff threat — a favorite Trump weapon when he feels personally aggrieved.Prior to the Davos World Economic Conference, Carney traveled to Beijing where he...
ReadCBC - Politics (17 hours ago)
Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, resonated in Mexico, a country which, much like Canada, has also been forced to grapple with the mercurial temperament of its much larger and powerful U.S. neighbour
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
A longtime Republican Party strategist is cautioning Donald Trump that his days of bulldozing opponents and receiving little to no opposition are drawing to a close, which is a harbinger of worse things to come if he loses control of Congress.As Naftali Bendavid of the Washington Post wrote on Saturday, the president is getting it from all sides as...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
Europe and Canada must begin preparing — now — for a full strategic break from the United States.It is draconian. It is extreme. And it is urgently necessary.This argument is not born of hostility toward America, nor of contempt for Americans. It is driven by necessity and by alarm, and ultimately by compassion for American democracy itself....
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
Former CNN host and journalist Don Lemon is under fire from right-wing circles for his coverage and alleged involvement in an anti-ICE protest that disrupted a church service in Minnesota, and on Saturday, conservative radio host Melanie Collette insisted that Lemon must "pay” for having "interrupted God's people.”Protesters disrupted a...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (18 hours ago)
The Trump administration is gearing up for a mass "retribution” campaign over the president's false claims that the 2020 election was "rigged,” NBC News reported Saturday, a campaign that one former federal judge warned may be "beyond all comprehension.”President Donald Trump has long alleged, falsely, that the 2020 election he lost by more...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (20 hours ago)
Before he TACO'd at Davos, Donald Trump's vow to take Greenland by hook or crook because he didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize was next level insanity prancing on the world stage. (No Donnie dear, they're not laughing at you, they're laughing because of you).Prompting a collective eye roll from EU leaders at Davos on Wednesday, Trump's bellicose...
ReadNational Public Radio - Politics (21 hours ago)
The Pentagon released a priority-shifting National Defense Strategy late Friday that chastised U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserted the Trump administration's focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphere above a longtime goal of countering China.
ReadPolitico - Europe (21 hours ago)
Europa steht wirtschaftlich und technologisch unter Druck. Im Gespräch am Rande des World Economic Forums in Davos macht Christian Klein, CEO von SAP, deutlich, warum die eigentliche Bewährungsprobe nicht bei Energiepreisen oder Hardware liegt, sondern bei der konsequenten Anwendung von Künstlicher Intelligenz. Er erklärt, weshalb Europa seine...
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Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to back down Friday after a federal magistrate judge declined to sign off on criminal charges against former CNN anchor Don Lemon, whom she accused of "terrorizing” parishioners during an anti-ICE protest inside a Minneapolis church.Appearing on Fox News' "Hannity,” Bondi sharply criticized Lemon and others...
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The Pentagon on Friday night released a long-awaited National Defense Strategy that marks a "stunning reversal” from decades of U.S. policy by shifting the focus away from China and toward defending the U.S. homeland and the Western Hemisphere.That's according to a report in Politico, which added that the new Trump administration strategy breaks...
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Reaction was swift and brutal online after news broke that the Department of Justice sought to investigate Minnesota mother Renee Good for criminal liability even after her death – a move that elicited an "extremely rare” judicial rejection.According to a report in MS NOW, aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S....
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President Donald Trump's civil rights chief, Harmeet Dhillon, took to the right-wing Newsmax channel on Friday to bash a magistrate judge who blocked the ongoing detention of Minnesota activists charged with conspiracy against rights for protesting inside a church where an ICE official worked."When you go in front of a magistrate with these types...
ReadCBS News - Politics (A day ago)
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said President Trump called him after the April 2025 arson attack at his home in Harrisburg. He recalled the "strange conversation" he had with Mr. Trump to CBS News senior correspondent Norah O'Donnell for "CBS Sunday Morning."
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The Trump administration has lied about the death of Renee Nicole Good at the hands of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis, former prosecutor Kristy Greenberg stated on the latest episode of her "Courtside" web show — and a key new piece of evidence drives this point home."A Minnesota FBI agent did his job," said...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (A day ago)
A year into his second term, President Donald Trump faces a furious backlash from anti-abortion leaders who say he's abandoned them.Abby Johnson, a prominent anti-abortion advocate, railed to Notus on Friday that Trump has "done nothing for the pro-life movement.""He's made things significantly worse, just like he said he would,” Johnson...
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As a major winter storm swept across much of the United States, Donald Trump seized on the cold snap to attack climate science, posting a confused rant on Truth Social mocking what he called "environmental insurrectionists” and questioning global warming. The president, who has repeatedly dismissed climate change as a hoax, has used his second...
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A federal judge in Washington State blocked President Donald Trump's ability to rewrite one of former President Joe Biden's signature policies on Friday.U.S. District Judge Tana Lin, a Biden appointee, ruled that Trump violated the law when he changed the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, which awards grants to states to...
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MAGA activist Laura Loomer unleashed a blistering attack on Vice President JD Vance on Friday, accusing him of protecting conservative figures she says openly attack Donald Trump while refusing to confront extremists within his own political orbit.In an explosive post on X, Loomer tore into Vance over a laundry list of unresolved issues."Since the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (A day ago)
Plans for Donald Trump to hit the campaign trail weeks ahead of schedule have drawn mockery from Democratic strategists, who see the move as a sign of panic inside the White House as his poll numbers slide. After Politico reported Trump would begin campaigning weekly to shore up sagging support, former Trump aide Sarah Matthews said his presence...
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An attempt to troll critics by President Donald Trump's White House backfired spectacularly on Friday as observers gave the administration a geography lesson.As Trump openly fantasizes about taking over Greenland from Denmark, the official White House account posted an artificial intelligence-generated photo of the president walking next to a...
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A public health expert is sounding the alarm after a Trump administration appointee openly questioned the need for measles and polio vaccines — and suggested letting outbreaks spread to observe the consequences. Kirk Milhoan, the newly installed chair of a key federal vaccine advisory panel, argued on a podcast that modern sanitation and medical...
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President Donald Trump and his Republican acolytes are gearing up to try to provoke a "race war" over his Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, veteran Democratic strategist James Carville warned MS NOW's Ari Melber on Friday evening.And the key moment he's going to try to do it, Carville argued, is during the "convention" Republicans are...
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Right-wing conspiracy theorist and activist Laura Loomer unleashed a bombshell claim Friday night that members of the Republican Party are intentionally tanking the midterms to pave the way for President Donald Trump's impeachment.Loomer laid out her theory with stark language on X. "You can tell a lot of people in the GOP are deliberately trying...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (A day ago)
Former Trump administration official turned whistleblower Miles Taylor revealed startling details Friday about the dangers he says Donald Trump posed during his first White House term, revealing that the Department of Homeland Security quietly prepared for the real possibility of nuclear war.Speaking at Zeteo's "One Year of Trump” live event at...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (A day ago)
The Wall Street Journal editorial board tore into President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, for his effort to regulate the ability of late-night comedians to host political interviews.Carr has come under fire for drastic changes at the FCC, including a proclamation that he does not consider his agency...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (A day ago)
Trump suffered a humiliating week of defeats that exposed cracks in his iron-fisted façade, legal experts said Friday. This week, President Donald Trump "suffered a string of defeats that exposed the real limits of his power at home and abroad," noted Slate's Marc Joseph Stern and Dahlia Lithwick on Friday.For starters, the Justice Department...
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A writer at the conservative National Review warned Friday that a looming Supreme Court decision on Donald Trump's tariff powers could trigger political chaos – and potentially turn MAGA world against the high court.In a column titled "The Storm is Coming to Washington, D.C.,” staff writer Jeffrey Blehar zeroed in on the case challenging...
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Prince Harry on Friday rebuked President Donald Trump's comments dismissing NATO allies and spoke out about sacrifices among those who fought alongside the United States. The Duke of Sussex served in the British Army for a decade and did two tours in Afghanistan, among many of the service members who answered the call to serve after NATO invoked...
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ICE agents in Minneapolis sparked outrage after detaining 2-year-old Chloe Renata Tipan Villacis and her father, Elvis Joel Tipan Echeverria, during a traffic stop, raising fresh concerns over the agency's practice of targeting children. The arrest drew bystander protests, chemical irritants, and widespread criticism, even as DHS claimed the father...
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