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U.S. Vice-President JD Vance made a series of posts criticizing Canada’s political leadership, public broadcaster and immigration system, saying our living standards are “stagnating” because of all the “foreign-born” people living here. “While I'm sure the causes are complicated, no nation has leaned more into ‘diversity is our strength, we don't need a melting pot, we have a salad bowl’ immigration insanity than Canada,” he said. …“With all due respect to my Canadian friends, whose politics focus obsessively on the United States: your stagnating living standards have nothing to do with Donald Trump or whatever bogeyman the CBC tells you...

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “collects, evaluates, and disseminates vital information on economic, military, political, scientific, and other developments abroad (emphasis added) to safeguard national security.” So why are they so involved in Obama’s life? Because he worked for them and shoveled money to the CIA when he was the president, like the $1 billion for Operation Timber Sycamore where U.S. Special Forces trained Islamic fundamentalists who carried out a reign of terror. Obama worked for Business International Corporation, a known CIA front, for a year in 1984. Besides Obama, the CIA also employed his grandparents, mother and stepfather, and...

“[T]he Chinese have now taken delivery of a bunch of physical New York gold in response to that arb.” Housekeeping: The following is informed conjecture into the Gold markets based on history, experience, and sources with access to certain pieces of information. None of this is guaranteed. But we’ve done these type analyses before and have been proven correct over time more than once. Prior examples in footnote.1 This is a behavioral framework based on market structure analysis and experience for the reader to make their own inferences.. It is how things have been done ( by us and others)...

Embattled Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-USVI) had far deeper connections to Jeffrey Epstein than she let on this week while fighting a House resolution to censure her, The Post has learned. On Wednesday, Plaskett downplayed Epstein as just another “constituent,” after files released by Epstein’s estate revealed he fed her questions during a congressional hearing in 2019, prompting the call for the House sanction. But exhibits and depositions in a New York court case reveal the convicted pedophile and his associates shoveled at least $30,000 in campaign funds to Plaskett over three election cycles. Plaskett, a lawyer and former federal prosecutor...

Eric Davis, an astrophysicist who was a scientific advisor on the since-disbanded Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, created by Congress in 2007 by late Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), claimed that Bush (Sr.) confirmed to him in a private conversation details of contact between the military and an alien creature at Holloman Air Force Base in Otero County. Bush told him that three spaceships were seen approaching the base and that an interstellar being emerged from one ship and had a face-to-face encounter with military and CIA officials, Davis said during an interview in “The Age of Disclosure,” a documentary by...

The new peace plan put forth by the White House is not Washington's final offer to Ukraine, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Nov. 22. The 28-point plan, crafted by Trump's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in collaboration with Kremlin aide Kirill Dmitriev, calls for Ukraine to make sweeping territorial concessions to Russia, slash the size of its army, and make a constitutional commitment to never join NATO. The White House has given Kyiv until Nov. 27 to decide whether it will accept these demands — which align closely with Moscow's maximalist aims — or lose American support. Trump's remarks...

Former Dumont Mayor Andrew LaBruno, charged with drugging and raping a teenage boy, will remain at the Bergen County jail until at least November 26 – the day before Thanksgiving — after a judge moved his first appearance bail hearing originally set for tomorrow morning. Prosecutors allege that LaBruno sprayed an unknown substance into his hand and placed it over the mouth of a teenage boy, causing the incapacitated victim to become dizzy, and then forced him to perform ...

“Their approach, according to sources cited by Bloomberg, is careful: to essentially rewrite much of the document while presenting it as constructive updates. Zelensky and several European leaders are now racing to revise key elements of a US peace proposal ahead of a Nov. 27 deadline, hoping to make the plan more acceptable to Kyiv. European governments are scrambling to buy Ukraine more time after the Trump administration set the Thanksgiving cutoff, pushing Kyiv to respond to the 28-point framework circulated this week. According to officials cited by Bloomberg, the European strategy is delicate: rewrite large sections of the proposal...

The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a “professional degree” program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” The move has sparked significant uproar among nurses and nursing groups, with the American Nurses Association saying, as reported by Nursing World, that “limiting nurses’ access to funding for graduate education threatens the very foundation of patient care.

UAB said Saturday that two players were injured in an alleged stabbing ahead of the team's game against South Florida. The players, who were not named by the school, were allegedly stabbed at the football facility by a teammate. The player who allegedly committed the stabbing is in custody.

… U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has been slashing spending for science services at a time of surging demand for analytics due to escalating climate change and extreme weather. That is helping to drive a data industry boom for private data companies like Climate X that are providing everything from drought or pollution risk assessments to locations for untapped mineral reserves. Revenues for the earth intelligence sector should rise at least 10% to $4.2 billion by 2030, market analysis firm Gartner said, teasing the industry in July as a "new revenue growth opportunity." The industry's impact could be even more...

SANTA ANA, California – An Orange County staffing company owner and three other defendants were arrested today on an eight-count federal indictment alleging they cheated the IRS out of more than $90 million and defrauded numerous clients by failing to pay employment taxes withheld from the wages of temporary workers – many of them illegal immigrants – and used the unpaid taxes to fund their luxurious lifestyles. Some of the defendants documented their extravagant lifestyles on Instagram and other social media. Lorena Padilla, 49, of Villa Park, the case’s lead defendant, is charged with one count of wire fraud conspiracy,...

Everywhere in the media today, politicians and commentators repeat the drumbeat, “crisis of affordability.” Headlines warn that younger generations are locked out of the housing market, that homeownership is slipping away, and that the American dream is fading. Yet beneath the noise lies a deeper question: is this truly a crisis of affordability, or is it a crisis of priorities? Perhaps what communities and society need is not simply cheaper homes, but a rediscovery of sacrifice. You cannot have it all, but you can have what is most important. It is a choice. The language of crisis is powerful. It...

Explanation: Now a second supernova in this same galaxy is repeating. The cause is the gravitational lens effect of a massive foreground cluster of galaxies (MACS J0138) -- it creates multiple images of a perfectly aligned background galaxy (MRG-M0138). What's particularly interesting is that this background galaxy has young stars that keep blowing up. And images of each supernova explosion keep coming to us multiple times through different paths through the cluster. The original lensed supernova set, shown in the rollover, is called Requiem and was first seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2016. This second lensed supernova set...

The MAGA-loving board of education member targeted in a vile text-message scandal that went viral was the subject of a second, even more vicious chat, The Post has learned. “I swear she can’t die soon enough,” Mitesh Gandhi, whose wife Aditi is also on the board, allegedly wrote of Marlboro, NJ mom-of-three Danielle Bellomo, screenshots provided to The Post showed. “I’m gonna slaughter her now.” “Already working on a few things,” Gandhi, 47, wrote in another note, screenshots showed. “Need this bitch to crack,” he added in another exchange. The messages were read aloud in Monmouth County Superior Court Thursday...

In the wake of news stories about the massive frauds that have been perpetrated in Minnesota–stories that we have been writing about here, for years–President Trump is moving to revoke temporary protected alien status for Somalis in Minnesota: [President Trump's X post] Unfortunately, this action (assuming Trump follows through) will have no practical impact, since there are only a few hundred Somalis on TPS in Minnesota, and fewer than 1,000 across the country. The Somali situation in Minnesota reflects different problems in our immigration laws–specifically, the broad “refugee” entitlement and chain immigration of alleged relatives. The Star Tribune weighed in...

The United States government has warned that mass migration represents an “existential threat” to Western civilization and has warned Europe against the continuing open borders policies and the creation of two-tier justice systems that favor foreigners over native populations. In a shot across the bow against the open borders ideology that has taken hold in the halls of power in many Western European capitals, the U.S. State Department urged its allies “to take bold action and defend citizens against the threats posed by mass migration.” The diplomatic arm of the Trump administration also warned that its embassies will be actively...

They’re gobbling down these slices. Pino’s Pizza of Deer Park has something savory to be thankful for this Turkey Day — their viral Thanksgiving pizza pie, which is served with sliced roasted turkey breast, gravy, sausage and apple cornbread stuffing and topped off with cranberry sauce. Customers trot from far and wide to get their hands on the $34.99 pie — and this month alone, they’ve already sold 300 and counting. “People from Toms River, New Jersey came in to buy it,” owner Joseph Barbieri, aka Pino, told The Post. “The biggest request I get is, ‘Can you ship it?’...

BOISE, Idaho (KBOI) — A man who had an outstanding federal warrant involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was arrested in connection with a crash that killed an 8-year-old girl in Idaho, according to officials. The City of Boise identified the driver as Elvin Ramos-Caballero. .....

A male entered a 7-Eleven in Oklahoma City just before midnight Thursday and tried to buy burritos, beef sticks, and ice cream with a counterfeit $100 bill, according to a KOKH-TV news video. But the female clerk wasn't buying the con. What's more, the clerk said she was calling police, KWTV-DT reported — and she refused the male's demand that she give him back the counterfeit bill, Gary Knight of the Oklahoma City Police Department added to the station. Then the thug reportedly got violent. “He came around the counter, got behind the counter where she was, and grabbed her...