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Immigration lawyers say they are seeing a 50 per cent surge in Americans living in Canada looking to renounce their U.S. citizenship. Campbell River, B.C.’s Jennifer Doxey and her family are among them. “I’m just so embarrassed by what my country has become,” she told CTV News. Doxey, who grew up in Ohio, met her husband who had dual citizenship, in 2003. Five years later, they decided to raise their children in Canada. “Living in the States is nothing like what we see portrayed in television shows,” she said. “I have no intention of ever going back to the states.”

She lost the election, but she’ll always have the NAACP Chairman’s Award. Former Vice President Kamala Harris reemerged in the public limelight for her first major speech since departing the White House Saturday night and took not-so-subtle shots at both President Trump and tech mogul Elon Musk. During an acceptance speech at the 56th annual NAACP Image Awards, Harris painted a bleak picture of the state of the country and urged attendees not to lose hope as her own party struggles over its direction amid Trump’s return. “While we have no illusions about what we are up against in this...

The district attorney of Philadelphia announced his reelection campaign Tuesday, vowing it could be the start of something big for the Democrats nationwide. Larry Krasner was surrounded by a coalition of politicians, labor leaders and others as he announced his reelection run at Philadelphia’s main public access TV studios near Independence Hall. The two-term district attorney is running for a third term and believes it won’t be a problem for him to win reelection, but the margin of victory could be very important.

Former vice president Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff were spotted at a Los Angeles Lakers game Thursday night — with many quick to boast that “nobody even cared” she was there. Footage circulating on social media showed the ex-veep showing up to the arena with very little fanfare as she and her hubby hiked up the stairs to their non-courtside seats. “Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff arrive at the Lakers game. Pretty much nobody cared,” one person howled on X. “Just goes to show you how unpopular Kamala really is and how all the hoopla while she campaigned...

On CNN This Morning, Jonathan Kott, a DC lobbyist and former aide to senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), predicted that Trump supporters will give him six to eight months, but then "turn quickly" on him when the improvements in their lives he promised don't materialize. That's soothing speculation for CNN's base, but Kott's powers of prognostication have a questionable track record. Less than two months before the 2024 election, here's what Kott, in a Fox News appearance, predicted: "I think voters are still getting to know Kamala Harris. And she's introducing herself. And the more she does,...

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is considering a run for Michigan’s Senate seat, the latest development to roil what is quickly shaping up to be one of next year’s most competitive and closely watched races. Buttigieg moved to the Great Lakes State with his Michigan-native husband in 2022, triggering questions about his political future after eventually leaving his post in the Biden administration’s Transportation Department. Last week’s announcement from Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) that he wouldn’t seek another term in 2026 appears to have opened a clear path for Buttigieg. While he would likely face opposition and wouldn’t automatically coast...

Pop legend Alicia Keys claimed that DEI policies are a “gift” to America as she received the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award at Sunday’s Grammy Awards. After winning the award recognizing her decades in the music industry, Keys called for more “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) in America, not less. “This is not the time to shut down the diversity of voices,” said Keys on sage. “We’ve seen on this stage talented, hardworking people from different backgrounds with different points of view, and it changes the game. DEI is not a threat, it’s a gift.

It is the one question that unites Americans when it comes to President Joe Biden. Ask Democrats, Republicans or independents for their one-word summary of his legacy and they put aside their differences to answer almost unanimously: Nothing. Those are the extraordinary results of an exclusive poll conducted for DailyMail.com by J.L. Partners. Some 1,009 registered voters were asked for their brief description of the legacy of Biden, who leaves the White House on Monday at the age of 82 after four turbulent years. When the results are arranged in a word cloud, the most common answer sticks out at...

John Bolton, national security adviser in Donald Trump's first administration and now a harsh critic of the president-elect, told Newsmax on Friday he will be proven right that Trump is just an aberration in American politics.Bolton also told "Finnerty" he wouldn't take back recent remarks that if Ronald Reagan were alive today, he would be "stunned" that the Republican Party had anything to do with Trump, even after the president-elect defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the popular vote and Electoral College and ushered in GOP control of Congress."We'll see on Monday what the inaugural address looks like," Bolton, the...

Despite being branded as 'disloyal' former Vice President Mike Pence plans to attend President-elect Donald Trump's second inauguration, according to a report. Four years after Trump's 'major falling out' with his once VP, Pence, 65, accepted an invitation to his former running mate's inauguration on Monday, two people with knowledge of the planning told the New York Times. The 48th Vice President of the United States was invited by the congressional committee overseeing the event, as per the custom for all former Presidents and Vice Presidents, according to the New York Times. The two men had hastily parted

WASHINGTON (AP) — Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken told The Associated Press that he hopes the incoming Trump administration will press forward with key points in President Joe Biden’s foreign policy, including on the Middle East and Ukraine. But in an wide-ranging interview Friday on his last workday as America’s top diplomat, he expressed concern that the Trump team might abandon all or some of those policies. Blinken said there is reason to be concerned that the new administration might not follow through on initiatives that Biden’s national security team put into place to end the war in Gaza,...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will raise American flags at the California Capitol on Monday for a limited time during President-elect Trump’s inauguration, according to his office. The decision aligns him with many of his Republican counterparts in other states, Newsom spokesperson Izzy Gardon confirmed to The Associated Press. Flags have been at half-staff across the U.S. to commemorate the Dec. 29 death of former President Carter. The Republican governors who have made similar flag-raising declarations for Inauguration Day are Alabama’s Kay Ivey, Florida’s Ron DeSantis, Idaho’s Brad Little, Iowa’s Kim Reynolds, Nebraska’s Jim Pillen, North Dakota’s Kelly Armstrong, Tennessee’s...

Now he wants unity

Special counsel Jack Smith resigned from the Department of Justice following the completion of his cases against President-elect Donald Trump. Smith resigned on Friday, according to a court filing that was submitted Saturday. Officials at the DOJ urged U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon not to extend the court order issued by her to block Smith's final report, according to Politico. The two cases that Smith oversaw were the so-called classified documents case and the federal election interference case.

US President Joe Biden reportedly regrets withdrawing from this year’s presidential race, expressing confidence that he could have defeated Donald Trump in last month’s election despite polling that suggested otherwise, according to White House sources quoted in a newly published Washington Post profile. The President has also expressed dissatisfaction with his decision to appoint Merrick Garland as attorney general. Biden is said to believe that Garland was slow to prosecute Trump for his role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots while presiding over a Justice Department that aggressively pursued charges against Biden’s son, Hunter. Biden announced his withdrawal from...

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), retiring at 77, accomplished more during his single term than many senators do in decades. Though it helped that he entered the chamber with the gravitas of an elder statesman, having served as the GOP’s 2012 presidential nominee, the reason he proved so effective was his willingness to work across the aisle and prioritize the interests of the country over his party.Mr. Romney joined a group of 10 senators — five Republicans, five Democrats — who cooperated closely in 2020, during the covid-19 pandemic, to hammer out a stalled relief package. They subsequently helped shepherd into...

Retiring Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said he was astonished how badly Democrats misread the electorate in the 2024 elections. Speaking in a wide-ranging interview that aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Romney said, “I look at this last election. Uh, I shake my head as I look at our Democrat friends. How could they have so badly misread the public mood?” He saw trouble ahead for the Democratic Party.“Look, the Republican Party has become the party of the working class, middle class voter, and you’ve got to give Donald Trump credit for having done that,” he told host...

Former President Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination — and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years. As such, he and his coterie proved the virtual architects of the Biden administration, one of the most unpopular and failed presidencies in American history. Recall earlier that after a flailing candidate Biden lost the first three 2020 primaries and caucuses, his inert campaign was headed nowhere. Obama and fellow Democratic insiders abruptly engineered the withdrawal of his rival 2020 presidential candidates: hard left but likely sure-loser candidates including...

Senator Mitt Romney (R-MA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that January 6, 2021 will be seen “as a very dark day in American history.” Host Jake Tapper said, “Four years ago next month you were running for your life from the mob on January 6. And now the person that you said was responsible for that day is about to return to the White House. He says he’s going to pardon a lot of the people that have been convicted for the crimes committed on that day. What do you think the legacy of January 6 will...

Actor George Clooney was a key participant in the coup to push Joe Biden out of the 2024 election. Radar Online reports that Clooney is now said to have expressed outrage at “being manipulated by former President Barack Obama into lobbying for Kamala Harris.” Following Biden’s disastrous June debate performance, Clooney kicked off the calls to put old Joe out to pasture with a column for the New York Times demanding that he step aside. He wrote for The Times, “We are not going to win in November with this president.”