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Miffed Canadians are opting out of American vacations as President Donald Trump imposes tariffs on their country to protect his own nation and its people. The Canadians’ decision not to visit America is having an effect on air and land travel as they push back against the tariffs levied against their nation, the New York Post reported on Saturday. On January 31, the White House confirmed that Trump was preparing to impose fresh tariffs on major U.S. trading partners in an effort to shield American industry and national security, per Breitbart News’s John Carney: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt...

President Donald Trump is expected to name FBI Director Kash Patel as the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. A Justice Department official told ABC News that Patel is expected to be sworn into the acting director position early next week.

Federal employees who have worked remotely, either fully or partially, for nearly five years must now return to the office following an executive order from Trump requiring all federal workers to resume in-person work. Newly confirmed Small Business Administration (SBA) head Kelly Loeffler has shared a video tour of her agency's headquarters, highlighting vacant offices amid a push to end remote work for federal employees. 'It's my second day here at the SBA,' Loeffler said on Friday. 'I could not be more excited to be here. So I thought I'd take a walk. 'And what I found is that exactly...

Sir Keir Starmer will use his Scottish Labour speech to condemn the “dangerous right-wing politics” of Reform UK. The Prime Minister is set to insist that Nigel Farage’s party is not the right answer for Scotland or Britain. An opinion poll earlier this week put Reform UK ahead of Labour, with other polls north of the border, meanwhile, suggesting the party could win its first ever seats at Holyrood in next May’s Scottish elections. At a Holyrood level, polls have suggested Scottish Labour could suffer its worst Scottish Parliament election result in the history of devolution. It is a far...

A lawyer for Luigi Mangione, accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has argued that the 26-year-old is not being granted the right to a fair trial. The comments came during a brief procedural hearing on Friday, which drew hundreds of supporters - some from as far as Kansas - chanting the defendant's name and wearing shirts adorned with his face. Mr Mangione arrived in court with his hands and legs shackled, wearing a green sweater and a bulletproof vest. He has pleaded not guilty to the New York charges. The killing of Mr Thompson, 50, a husband and father...

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In a video published by Hamas, Eviatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal are seen inside a vehicle in the stage area set up by the terror group for the release of the three captives in central Gaza’s Nuseirat. This is the first sign of life from David that has been made public since he was abducted on October 7, 2023, and the first sign of life from Gilboa-Dalal that is from later than June 2024. The two are seen calling on Israel to secure their release, in remarks almost certainly dictated by the terrorist captors. Their families have requested that media...

Actor Sean Penn expressed his dissatisfaction with US President Donald Trump's decision to appoint Sylvester Stallone, Jon Voight, and Mel Gibson as Hollywood ambassadors. The two-time Oscar winner referred to the move as a "clown show". The 64-year-old also took issue with the Oscars' organizers for their lack of "backbone" in declining an opportunity to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the 2022 awards ceremony in Los Angeles. When questioned about Trump's trio of high-profile Hollywood ambassadors, he responded to the Oxford Union last week: "Look, clown shows can do great damage but I'm not very interested in them." Penn,...

An illegal alien has been arrested and charged in the rape of a 9-year-old girl in Florida this week, authorities say. On Friday, the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) announced the apprehension of Yobanny Barahona, 24, following a 16-hour manhunt. Barahona is suspected of committing horrific sex crimes against the child on a least two occasions, most recently on Feb. 20. The suspect was home alone with the victim when he forced himself upon her, but was caught in the act by another person and fled the scene, according to PCSO. “I’m not afraid to say it was a manhunt....

Several buses exploded in various locations across central Israel on Thursday evening in a planned mass terror bombing attempt. At least three bombs exploded buses in the area of Bat Yam, Israel Police said. The initial assessment from the security establishment is that the plan for the attack came from Iran, and was carried out by Hamas terrorists from the West Bank. Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) identified Iranian involvement in the West Bank by supplying weapons, training terrorists to carry out attacks, and assembling explosive devices, according to Maariv. Iran also transferred large amounts of money to terror cells...

The United States is persuading its allies to block the Ukrainian UN resolution on the armed conflict. This is reported by Bloomberg, citing sources. The administration of President Donald Trump has called on all UN members to instead support the American draft resolution aimed at paving the way for peace between Kiev and Moscow, the State Department reports. "The people, who spoke on condition of anonymity ... said they were stunned by the persistence of the United States, as well as their reluctance to condemn Russia for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched on February 24, 2022," the publication says....

Federal workers began receiving emails Saturday asking them to explain what work they did last week, as Elon Musk announced that “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.” “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments,” reads the email, which has no signature. CNN has obtained copies of emails sent to multiple federal employees. “Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,” Musk...

TikTok used location tracking to send “railroad themed suicide videos” to a Long Island teen living near a commuter train track before he tragically killed himself by walking in front of a train, court papers claim. The parents of Chase Nasca, 16, of Bayport having been seeking to hold the social-media giant and its parent company ByteDance responsible for their son’s suicide in 2022, arguing its addictive algorithms bombarded him with thousands of suicide-related videos before his death. The China-owned platform actually went so far as to tailor the morbid videos around the fact that Chase lived close to the...

A dangerous new bill introduced in the Oregon legislature would lower guardrails to obtain assisted suicide prescriptions, putting medically vulnerable people at risk in Oregon and across the country. Senate Bill 1003, introduced during Oregon’s 83rd legislative session, would modify existing terminology in Oregon’s “Death With Dignity” law to allow physician assistants and nurse practitioners, rather than exclusively physicians, to prescribe lethal drugs to end the lives of people diagnosed with a terminal illness. The bill would expand access to legal assisted suicide, which has already skyrocketed in recent years as a cause of death for Oregonians and out-of-state residents....

Explanation: Rima Hyginus is a spectacular fissure, some 220 kilometers long, found near the center of the lunar near side. Easy to spot in telescopic views of the Moon, it stretches top left to bottom right across this lunar closeup. The image was made with exaggerated colors that reflect the mineral composition of the lunar soil. Hyginus crater lies near the center of the narrow lunar surface groove. About 10 kilometers in diameter, the low-walled crater is a volcanic caldera, one of the larger non-impact craters on the lunar surface. Dotted with small pits formed by surface collapse, Hyginus rima...

CNN is set to fire hundreds of employees on Thursday as the network prepares to restructure itself for the second term of President Donald Trump. According to CNBC, sources at the network said the layoffs with help CNN lower production costs and consolidate essential teams. Moreover, CNN plans to completely restructure its TV lineup and expand its digital subscriptions. Moreover, the network may move shows that are produced in New York City or Washington D.C. to Atlanta, Georgia, where the cost of production is cheaper.

The 37-year-old suspect was on a terror prevention watchlist, called FSPRT, prosecutor Nicolas Heitz said, and has since been arrested. France's national anti-terror prosecutors unit (PNAT), who are leading the probe, said the assailant first attacked police officers, shouting 'Allahu Akbar' (God is greatest). Witnesses confirmed the Algerian was heard shouting the words - which are used by Muslims as an exclamation of their faith - several times. A civilian passer-by who intervened was fatally injured, the PNAT have confirmed as Mulhouse prosecutors reveal he was a 69-year-old Portuguese national. French President Macron has since said there was 'no doubt'...

Jim McCarthy is a 57-year-old public-relations boss known for being unusually combative with the press. As the head of the boutique firm CounterPoint Strategies, which has offices in New York and Washington, D.C., he is a spokesperson for big seafood (he helped “the shrimp industry to go hard at the AP just a few weeks ago”) and big vape (“my poor little vaping guys,” as he describes the industry to me, referring to its alleged persecution by the FDA). He speaks in a mannered drawl in keeping with his role as the flack who represented Augusta National Golf Club in...

A draft deal between the United States and Ukraine over rare earth minerals and other natural resources is “not the one President Zelensky would accept,” according to a source familiar with the negotiations.“It is a strange offer to try and take from a country that is a victim of war, more than it cost to pay for its defence,” the source told CNN.The US is trying to gain access to Ukraine’s critical minerals and other resources as part of wider negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. In return, Ukraine has been pushing for security guarantees, with Kyiv not...

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social early Saturday morning to blast MSNBC as a “threat to our democracy.” “MSNBC, COMMONLY KNOWN AS MSDNC, IS A THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY. SUCH LYING AND MISREPRESENTATION. BAD PEOPLE AT THE TOP,” Trump wrote. Trump railed against MSNBC last month as well, questioning whether the news outlet should “even have a right to broadcast”. “MSDNC is even worse than CNN. They shouldn’t even have a right to broadcast — Only in America!,” Trump posted to Truth Social, responding to a report from Mediaite about CNN facing layoffs. These comments from Trump come amidst...