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Ottawa’s upcoming retaliatory tariffs include toilet and facial tissue, paper towels and pulp, threatening to drive up consumer prices for Americans The US-Canada trade war is reaching the bathroom, with tariffs on paper products threatening to push up prices for toilet paper and other everyday essentials for Americans.Trade talks between the two neighbors collapsed last Friday, with both sides accusing the other of making last-minute changes to a proposed comprehensive deal. US President Donald Trump immediately imposed 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian imports, including wine, cement, plywood, and clothing. Not to be outdone, Canadian Prime Minister Mark…
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave honor where honor was due to three soldiers who acted heroically following the suicide bombing attacks at Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021. Fox News reported that the Pentagon brass downgraded the original award submissions, as the Biden administration sought to quickly put the Afghanistan pullout disaster in the rear-view mirror. “For half a decade, this building allowed bureaucratic caution, or maybe politics, to stand in the way of proper recognition,” Hegseth said on Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the Abbey Gate attack. “Today, on this milestone anniversary, we declare that those…
The Kremlin has once again issued dire threats against the United Kingdom and other European states as it insists Western nations that assist Ukraine’s defence against Russia’s invasion are party to the conflict and will face “unpredictable” consequences. The recent surge in Russian attention on The United Kingdom’s part in aiding Ukraine, manifested in a series of threats ranging from dark allusions to nuclear war to warnings of hybrid warfare attacks on weapons factories on British soil, continues again with fresh comments from Moscow’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Lead spokesman for the Foreign Minister, Maria Zakharova, made the latest threats…
There’s No Struggle Between Fed and Treasury Right Now If you listen to the high priests of financial analysis—a group that includes hedge fund managers, Wall Street economists, and even pixel-stained pundits in the financial press—there’s a battle going on for the soul of the bond market. On one side is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, buying back long-term government bonds. On the other is Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh, who must decide whether to help bring yields down or leave Bessent “in even deeper trouble,” as a newsletter from the Wall Street Journal recently put it. There is just one problem…
An illegal alien, granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status in 2013 by the Obama administration, is now charged with more than 20 counts of possession and distribution of child pornography in Virginia, where Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) has ended cooperation with federal immigration officials. This month, in Rocky Mount, Virginia, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office arrested 36-year-old illegal alien Jorge Gilberto Zamorano-Burciaga of Mexico. Zamorano-Burciaga was charged with nine counts of possession of child pornography, six counts of producing child pornography with a child younger than 15 years old, three counts of reproducing child pornography, two counts of possessing obscene material…
‘Lake America’ appeared on US maps days after Ontario’s premier told Trump to “kiss my ass” US President Donald Trump has officially renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” amid an escalating trade war with Canada and Ontario – whose premier recently told him to “kiss my ass” and threatened to cut electricity supplies to the US.“We’re going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario, effective immediately, to Lake America,” Trump declared in the Oval Office on Thursday before signing an executive order that requires federal agencies to use the new name on government maps, contracts, documents and communications.The change was…
Three Stars and Stripes staffers who were shown the door last week are now running to a D.C. federal court and forcing the Trump administration to keep them on the taxpayer-supported payroll. Publisher Max Lederer, Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin, and Middle East reporter Lara Korte filed a 45-page lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, senior Pentagon official Andrew Brey, and the Department of Defense, Politico reported. The plaintiffs accuse the Pentagon of violating their First Amendment rights and federal personnel rules by moving to fire them…
Rescuers in Nepal and occupied Tibet estimated on Thursday that over 1,000 people remain missing, including nationals from dozens of countries, after heavy rains caused massive landslides and rapidly rising floods to consume entire towns of people. Authorities warned that rain is expected to persist this week, creating the potential for more devastation in areas already severely affected, whether buried in mud or completely isolated from sources of food and medicine as the landslides tore through major roads and bridges. Tibet’s colonial overlord, the Chinese Communist Party, is reportedly monitoring rapidly rising waters in a lake in the region that could…
Fairfax County, Virginia, Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano (D) is obstructing a congressional investigation into whether his office gives preferential treatment to illegal alien defendants, members of the House Judiciary Committee allege. At the start of the year, the House Judiciary Committee opened an investigation into Descano’s office and whether prosecutors in Fairfax County are offering deals, requesting less prison time, and dropping charges against illegal alien defendants preferentially to their American counterparts. Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock (R-CA) sent letters to Descano in January and June of this year requesting documents related to his office’s…
CBC has reportedly issued “language guidance” ahead of the 25th anniversary of the attacks The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has instructed its employees not to refer to the 9/11 attacks as “terrorist,” according to several media reports.This year marks the 25th anniversary of the attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people. According to the official account, 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four passenger airliners, crashing two into the World Trade Center towers in New York City and a third into the Pentagon outside Washington, DC. The fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers and crew attempted to wrest control from the hijackers.The…