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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday he told U.S. President Donald Trump that he meant what he said in his speech at Davos, and told him Canada plans to diversify away from the United States with a dozen new trade deals. Carney rolled his eyes and rejected U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s contention to Fox News that he aggressively walked back his comments at the World Economic Forum during a phone call with Trump on Monday. “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos,” Carney said to reporters as...

Dear friends and family, Once again, we are sitting on the edge of our seats. Will Trump attack Iran or won’t he? I want to try to share the feelings here in Israel. On the one hand, most Israelis want a military operation—either by America alone or jointly with Israel—that would result in regime change in Iran. Iran is the proverbial head of the snake. If the Ayatollahs could be replaced with a “normal” regime, it would completely change the face of the Middle East. It would dry up much of the funding, supply lines, and support to Hamas, Hezbollah,...

The fury over CBP and ICE in the dysfunctional city has leftists attempting to elevate the armed insurgent’s status to a combination of martyr and saint. MS NOW took their brainwashing to the next level by adding beautification to the mix. They heavily enhanced his headshot and displayed the new and improved Pretti on Nicolle Wallace’s show.

Illinois governor doubles down on comparing current moment to Nazi Germany rise during podcast appearanceGov. JB Pritzker, D-Ill., said during a podcast on Tuesday that the current political "moment" was "slightly worse" than the COVID pandemic, despite the many deaths COVID caused. "I've Had It" host Jennifer Welch asked Pritzker how he was doing, and the governor said that while every day was a blessing, he's often asked about whether the current Trump administration was comparable the situation Americans were in during the COVID-19 pandemic. "It’s been challenging," he said. "I've been asked, is this like COVID, you know, the...

WASHINGTON — Composer Philip Glass announced Tuesday that he is withdrawing his symphony from the Kennedy Center, pointing to the arts center's values and leadership. "After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw my Symphony No. 15 'Lincoln' from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts," Glass announced in a statement posted to X. "Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony," he continued. "Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center under...

Minneapolis chaos followed leaders’ inaction on a costly fraud probe, with anti-ICE rhetoric fueling tensions that spiraled into violence, National Guard deployment, and lost lives. To think that everything leading up to this started with indifference over trying to resolve a situation that was costing taxpayers billions of dollars. Weeks ago, ICE agents were brought into Minneapolis to arrest Somali immigrants who were behind a real estate scheme that was costing U.S. citizens a great deal of money. It was a move made by President Donald Trump after Mayor Jacob Frey and Governor Tim Walz didn’t do anything about the...

Maine's legendary lobster lady has died at the age of 105 after spending years trapping the seafood with her son and becoming the state's first woman lobsterman. Virginia Oliver died on January 21 at a hospital near her Rockland, Maine home, according to the Boston Globe. 'She was a hard worker and a good mother,' her son, Max Oliver, told the outlet. For years, she and Max would go lobstering three times a week on her late husband's boat named after her. Her days would start at 3am, and she would meet her son to go out and check their...

"Real Time" host Bill Maher said Monday that the Democratic Party needs to "tell celebrities to shut the (expletive) up" if it wants to win elections in the future. Maher told the California Post that Hollywood is holding the party back from achieving its goals. "Hollywood [is] sort of the epicenter of the woke left. I don’t think they’re doing the Democratic Party any favors," he told the outlet. "I think if Democrats want to win elections in the future, job one, tell the celebrities to ‘Just shut the (expletive) up. You’re not helping. You don’t strike people in most...

Alex Pretti had been injured in a scuffle with federal agents in Minneapolis just one week before he was shot dead, it has emerged. Pretti, 37, was left with a broken rib after being tackled by a group of officers during a protest against Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, a source told CNN. The alleged assault occurred after Pretti stopped his car after seeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers chasing a family on foot, the insider said. Pretti allegedly began shouting and blowing a whistle, and was then tackled to the ground by five agents. The source claimed one officer...

U.S. President Donald Trump's ambassador to Canada is warning of consequences to the continental defence pact if Canada does not move forward with the purchase of 88 F-35 fighter jets. "NORAD would have to be altered," U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra told CBC News in an exclusive interview at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. He says the United States would likely need to purchase more of the advanced fighter aircraft for its own air force, and would fly them more often into Canadian airspace to address threats approaching the U.S. "If Canada is no longer going to provide...

Curry says its "absurd" to judge the reality hit by today's standards.Netflix’s documentary re-examining the legacy of America’s Next Top Model is drawing early criticism from one famous former contestant: Adrianne Curry. The upcoming three-part series — Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model — features the show’s former producers and judges, including Tyra Banks, re-examining the long-running reality hit and reflecting on the show’s many controversies. But Curry, who won the show’s debut season in 2003, posted on social media that she declined to take part in the documentary and finds judging the show by current standards “absurd.” “I...

Check this out. $33,000 - $100,000 in scholarships offered to illegals only. American born and raised boys like mine need not apply. My kids are struggling to find money and are paying big bucks for their higher education. Meanwhile, any illegal who is older than sixteen and arrived prior to 2020 can apply for this money. The "partner college" list is locked behind a password, so I don't know which ones are accepting illegals. Man, this really grinds my gears. The founder is Don Graham of Graham Holdings. Other Board Members include former Secretary of Commerce under G.W. Bush, Carlos...

"GO ICE," the teacher at West Chicago’s Gary Elementary School, posted on Facebook last week. Shortly after the post was made, activists in the predominantly Hispanic community quickly began sharing the post and calling for action to be taken against the teacher, who Fox News Digital is not naming due to safety concerns. -snip Activists began circulating a flyer online, with a Change.org petition, calling for the employee's job and for students to stay home from school in protest, saying, "the casual way in which he publicly promoted the actions of ICE in our area is inappropriate and unsuitable for...

A person was shot in an incident involving U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona on Tuesday, according to a Pima County Sheriff's Department spokesperson. The individual, who has not been identified, was shot in southern Pima County near milepost 15 of West Arivaca Road at around 7:30 a.m., according to a news release from the Santa Rita Fire District. The fire department said it transported the person in critical condition. The circumstances leading to the incident were not immediately clear. There is no information whether anyone from law enforcement was injured in the incident. The Department of Homeland Security did not...

Graham Nash, Neal Schon, Tom Morello and other rock stars took to social media to react to a Border Patrol agent fatally shooting 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday. You can see their reactions below. What Happened to Alex Pretti? On Saturday, federal agents in Minneapolis fatally shot killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse who appeared to be using his phone to record U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers. Videos show agents pinning Pretti to the ground and hitting him, and one officer leaving with what appears to be a gun. These videos appear to contradict claims...

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (RNS) — “We have orders of deportation,” said a volunteer in a raised voice, posing as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and pounding on the sanctuary door. “What you’re doing is harboring.” Inside the sanctuary, hundreds of trainees blocked the large wooden double doors. One called out, “We’re exercising our First Amendment right to freedom of worship.” The handful of faux ICE agents moved to a different entryway. As they pried open the side door to the sanctuary, some trainees held up phones to record the encounter while others blew whistles. The scenario was part of a...

A patient paused mid-thought in my Manhattan office the other day and apologized: “I know I’m saying this as a white guy.” The comment felt out of place, so I asked him what he meant. When his explanation still didn’t fit, I asked what being a white guy had to do with the situation at all. He admitted it had nothing to do with it. He was describing a routine scheduling issue at work. There was no racial dimension and no colleague’s identity involved.

One of the more disturbing things to come out of the radical left’s anti-ICE behavior is the realization of how many people who are tasked with protecting people during their most vulnerable and critical moments, healthcare workers, fantasize about harming those they disagree with politically. The Gateway Pundit reported on two nurses, one from Ohio and a labor and delivery nurse from Florida, who publicly wished that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, pregnant with her second child, would suffer a traumatic birth injury. On Sunday, another nurse posted on social media that he would let MAGA supporters suffer and...

When actual Native Americans call out the state’s silly mascot bans, you know progressives have lost their way. The Native American Guardian Association last week called barring indigenous school mascots “the dumbest law of all time” and vowed to take its case against the state Board of Regents all the way to the US Supreme Court. NAGA believes identities like “the Massapequa Chiefs” promote respect for Native American culture and values: You don’t name your team for something you hold in contempt.

The pre-AI world is gone. Estimates suggest that already, as many as one in eight kids personally knows someone who has been the target of a deepfake photo or video, with numbers rising to one in four who have seen a sexualized deepfake of someone they recognize, either a friend or a celebrity. This is a real problem and it’s one that lawmakers are suddenly waking up to. In the 1980s, when I was a kid, it was a picture of a missing child on a milk carton from across the country that encapsulated parental fears. In 2026, it’s an...