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Trump said just before midnight Washington time that he has a deal with Canada to avoid 50% tariffs – for three days. Although that may not be the case a few more seconds from now. Just ask Iran. Whoops, here we go already. Canada has already disputed the existence of any deal.If midnight strikes on the eve of August 19th without Canadian government negotiators agreeing to Trump’s demands, then Canada faces “50% tariffs,” Trump had warned. Except now, apparently, Canada has a deal with Trump. For three days. Clock it. Best to check that reservation again before leaving the house, though.The reality…
Austin Metcalf was allegedly fatally stabbed by Karmelo Anthony during a high school athletics event in Frisco, Texas, on April 2. (@EndWokeness / X screen shot) A Texas judge has granted a motion to recuse Collin County District Judge John Roach Jr. from presiding over the appeal proceedings for Karmelo Anthony, the 19-year-old who was found guilty of murder in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet and sentenced to 35 years in prison. This development comes as Anthony’s new legal team continues its aggressive push for a new trial, citing alleged “irregularities” while…
Legal intern Suzanne Castillo was the principal author of this post. The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo, a case in which EFF filed an amicus brief, alongside the national ACLU, its Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia affiliates, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). We argued that electronic device searches at the border should require a warrant based on probable cause, but at minimum, regardless of whether an officer searches by hand or with forensic software that plugs into a device and downloads its entire contents for search, the same Fourth Amendment standard…
Air conditioning is reasonably inexpensive, readily available, and easily installed. Nevertheless, after Europe suffered 16,000 heat-related deaths and Belgium alone was hit with 1,747 excess deaths during a recent heat wave, these smug Luddites still refuse to embrace one of the great miracles of the previous century. This is monstrous… And could have been easily prevented… “Seniors died in stifling apartments. Emergency calls were left on hold. Doctors treated an onslaught of people sick from heat, sometimes in wards without air-conditioning,” reports the far-left New York Times. “These are scenes that played out in Belgium, one of the world’s wealthiest…
The number of people receiving direct welfare benefit payments in Britain has soared to an all-time high, the government has disclosed. According to data published this week by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), 8.4 million people were receiving Universal Credit welfare payments as of May, an increase of around 700,000 from the previous year and 100,000 more than in February. The DWP said this meant it is now the highest number of people receiving welfare under the Universal Credit scheme since it was introduced in 2013. The number of people on the rolls has increased from 5.5 million since…
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said Sunday that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has not responded to his requests for more information about the senator’s health and ability to serve following a hospitalization and lengthy rehabilitation stay. “I’ve heard absolutely nothing back from Mitch McConnell,” Beshear said on CBS News’s Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan. McConnell, 84, was hospitalized June 14, and he and his staff released limited information about his condition for several weeks. Beshear sent McConnell a letter July 8 seeking an update on his health. Days later, McConnell released his first statement since the hospitalization, saying he…
It took Bill Maher about 30 seconds to prove that the Palestinians have never really wanted a two-state solution. The topic came up on Maher’s “Club Random” podcast in the spring with Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania as his guest. A clip from that interview about Gaza was reposted over the weekend and went viral. Maher noted that “freeing” Palestine is the in-vogue cause that celebrities in Hollywood, where he lives, have grabbed ahold of lately. “As if Palestine would be liberated by living under Hamas,” he first quipped. “By the way, [Gaza], geniuses educated on TikTok, was liberated in…
Noah Wyle, the ER alum and star of HBO’s hit medical drama The Pitt, said he hopes Paramount chief David Ellison is “saber rattling” in his threat to move the iconic studio out of California as the company faces an ongoing lawsuit in its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Wyle revealed his thoughts about the ongoing standoff between California and Paramount at the HBO Max Emmy Nominee Celebration in Los Angeles on Sunday night. “I hope this is saber rattling because I can’t think of anything that would less engender you to the population of this industry than to say you’re going to take…
President Donald Trump says he told Florida Rep. Cory Mills to exit the Republican primary before his election defeat Tuesday but that the embattled lawmaker “wouldn’t listen.” Mills, who was defeated by former local television news reporter Ryan Elijah on Tuesday night in Florida’s 7th District, was dogged by a litany of scandals, including a restraining order issued by a Florida judge last year after a former girlfriend accused him of threatening to reveal her sexually explicit videos. Still, Trump endorsed him in February. But the president suggested on Truth Social on Wednesday that he was far from confident in…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sanctioned Tomoko Akane and a senior trial lawyer amid a dispute over the Netanyahu arrest warrant The US has imposed sanctions on two senior International Criminal Court (ICC) officials, accusing The Hague-based institution of overstepping its authority.Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday designated ICC President Tomoko Akane and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye, describing the court as a “corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate.”The designations are a part of a campaign announced by Rubio last month to “systematically dismantle the threat posed” by…