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Apr 18, 2025 - World

PM focuses on threat from across the border as most polls show his Liberals leading Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative party in tight raceCanada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, faced sustained attacks from his Conservative rival at an election debate on Thursday but the Liberal leader sought to focus attention on what he calls Canada’s top threat: Donald Trump, the US president.Most opinion polls show Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative party trailing Carney’s Liberals ahead of the 28 April vote for Canada’s federal government. Continue reading...

Apr 18, 2025 - World

Chris Van Hollen posts photo on X but does not provide update on status of man wrongly deported from USThe Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen met in El Salvador with Kilmar Ábrego García, a man who was sent there by the Trump administration in March despite an immigration court order preventing his deportation.Van Hollen posted a photo of the meeting on X, saying he also called Ábrego García’s wife “to pass along his message of love”. Continue reading...

Apr 18, 2025 - World

Republican and Democratic lawmakers are making their first trip to Taiwan under the new Trump administration a bipartisan one

Apr 17, 2025 - World

Federal prosecutors used disgraced former Rep. George Santos's (R-NY) social media posts against him in a court filing Thursday as they seek a lengthy prison sentence for fraud.Santos pleaded guilty last August to 23 federal fraud charges of stealing state unemployment money and using his donors' credit card information for personal gain.CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane posted the DOJ filing to his X account, along with examples of Santos's posts."Justice Dept files new court filing ahead of sentencing in fraud case of former Rep. George Santos," MacFarlane wrote. "Memo spotlights some of Santos's recent social media posts & argues 'Santos has reverted to form and approaches sentencing with belligerence and an insatiable appetite for 'likes' blaming his situation on everyone except himself.'"ALSO READ: 'Alarming': Small colleges bullied into silence as Trump poses 'existential threat'The memo read, "The government respectfully submits this letter to advise the Court that Santos's recent behavior continues to demonstrate that he remains unrepentant for his crimes."It goes on to accuse Santos of waging a "social media blitz, attacking the U.S. Department of Justice and disclaiming personal responsibility. This conduct is antithetical to the 'genuine remorse' claimed by Santos's attorneys in their sentencing memorandum...His actions speak louder than any words, and they cry out for a significant carceral sentence in this case."One of Santos's posts from April 4 included in the memo read, "No matter how hard the DOJ comes for me, they are mad because they will NEVER break my spirit."In another post from April 5, Santos wrote, "the DOJ has had a h--- on for me since December of 2022. I refuse to let them break me or my spirit and that makes them big Mad...they have used elaborate language to drag me and hinder my ability to earn income...Long story short, I will NOT succumb to their soul crushing antics and that makes them furious."The DOJ called it a "bizarre missive portraying himself as a victim of prosecutorial overreach and selective prosecution."Santos is scheduled to be sentenced on April 25.

Apr 17, 2025 - World

A special correspondent with The Daily Beast connected President Donald Trump's first New York real-estate deal in the 1970s to his desire to punish Harvard University today for defying his authority. According to writer Michael Daly, the common link between the two episodes is the billionaire Pritzker family; Jay Pritzker ran afoul of Trump when the two entered into an ill-fated partnership to manage New York's Hyatt Hotel in 1975, while niece Penny Pritzker currently serves as Harvard's most senior member on its board of governors. Trump vowed revenge on the Pritzkers for asking him to pay his part to upgrade the hotel "at a time when [Trump's] dependence on junk bonds and outsized sense of his own brilliance in other projects had left him at the brink of ruin," Daly wrote. "He narrowly escaped and revealed a taste for revenge that has become familiar to many of us in recent days." Trump finally settled two lawsuits with the Pritzkers and sold his share of the hotel to the family for $140 million in October 1996.“They attacked me when I was down,” Daly quoted Trump as saying. “Now I’m doing great again and it’s my turn. I always said, the first time I got back on my feet, the Pritzkers would be the first people I’d go after.” ALSO READ: 'We know where this leads': How Trump’s crackdown puts Jewish people in peril Fast-forward to 2025 and Trump's beef with Harvard University. His administration sent what Daly called an "extortion letter" this week to Penny Pritzker, representing Harvard's board, as well as to Harvard's president, demanding that the university do away with its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs or forfeit billions in federal funds."Harvard responded in a letter from its lawyers, but... [Penny] Pritzker joined the university’s president in refusing to submit to shameless threats," Daly wrote.As he is wont to do, Trump typed out his outrage on Truth Social this week, writing, "Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds."Penny Pritzker has not commented about Harvard's decision, but the war of words continues through Penny's brother, Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL), who has compared Trump to Hitler and declared, “We don’t have kings in America.”Read The Daily Beast article here.