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Canada is preparing a massive evacuation of its citizens from Lebanon should a full-scale war break out between Israel and Hezbollah, Channel 12 reports.The report quotes from a conversation held Friday between Foreign Minister Israel Katz and his Canadian counterpart Mélanie Joly.The report says the conversation was tense and that Joly told Katz that the Canadian military was drawing up plans to evacuate 45,000 people from Lebanon.Katz reportedly urged Ottawa to put pressure on Hezbollah’s Iranian backers to reign in the terror group.There was no official read out of the conversation.However, Katz later posted on X: "Israel cannot allow the...

President Donald Trump retreated from his quest to add a question about US citizenship to the 2020 census on Thursday, instead asking government agencies to provide records that could determine a head-count of citizens without polling census-takers directly. The turnaround comes after Trump repeatedly said he would continue fighting to insert the question despite a Supreme Court ruling that dealt a blow to the effort last month. It reflects legal reality intersecting with Trump's desire to bolster his image as an immigration hard-liner as he moves ahead with his 2020 reelection bid. Instead of attempting to put the question on...

The Trump administration has canceled an Obama-era deal with the Cuban government which would have allowed Cuban players to play in Major League Baseball without having to defect from their oppressive island nation. The deal with Cuban was tendered by the Obama Administration and solidified only last year. The agreement with Cuba’s Baseball Federation was part of the Obama administration’s attempt to thaw relations between the U.S. and Cuba. But now the deal is being canceled. One official told NBC News, “that agreement will not be able to proceed in its current form.” Another U.S. official added, “Major League Baseball...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 03/19/2007 Pelosi: The American People Have Lost Confidence in Bush’s Open-Ended War Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Bush’s remarks on the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq: “Today, as this war enters its fifth year, President Bush continues to ask for an open-ended commitment to this war by our brave troops and the American people. Democrats offer a new direction for Iraq: a plan to hold President Bush and the Iraqi government accountable, protect our troops, support our veterans’ health care, and...