Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Republican senator says Trump’s 51st state rhetoric not ‘constructive’ during Ottawa visit
A U.S. Republican senator says she doesn’t think President Donald Trump’s past comments about making Canada the 51st state are helpful as the two countries are locked in negotiations to reach some sort of trade agreement. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was in Ottawa as part of a bipartisan delegation meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday morning. Speaking to reporters following the meeting, Murkowski was asked about Trump’s taunts about Canada becoming part of the U.S. “I cannot explain President Trump’s rhetoric about the 51st state. That is his statementRead more
Pentagon ends weeks-long deployment of U.S. Marines to Los Angeles
The Pentagon announced on Monday it was ending its deployment of some 700 active-duty U.S. Marines sent to Los Angeles last month to protect federal property and personnel during a spate of protests tied to U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. The withdrawal follows last week’s decision to remove about half of the 4,000 National Guard troops also sent to Los Angeles. “With stability returning to Los Angeles, the Secretary has directed the redeployment of the 700 marines whose presence sent a clear message: Lawlessness will not be tolerated,” saidRead more
B.C. premier slams U.S. ambassador for saying Trump thinks Canadian boycotts are ‘nasty’
B.C. Premier David Eby said he believes U.S. leadership has “very little awareness” of how offensive their remarks are, like the U.S. ambassador to Canada saying President Donald Trump thinks Canadians are “nasty” to deal with because of U.S. boycotts. “Do they think Canadians are not going to respond when the president says, ‘I want to turn you into the 51st state and begger you economically unless you bow to the U.S.’?” Eby said in an interview on CBC’s Power and Politics Monday evening in Huntsville, Ont., where premiers are meetingRead more
Trump administration releases flood of FBI records on Martin Luther King Jr.
The Trump administration on Monday released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination. The digital document dump includes more than 240,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977, when the FBI first gathered the records and turned them over to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. In a lengthy statement released Monday, King’s two living children, Martin Luther King III, 67, and Bernice,Read more