A family of four from El Salvador crossed the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls to Canada fleeing the ICE raids and sudden deportations sweeping the US. But the CBSA focused on small discrepancies in their paperwork and rejected them, even though they qualified for entry under exception and have a brother who is a Canadian citizen. When the four were disappointingly driven back to the US border, CBP detained them. Canada turns away most asylum seekers who attempt to enter from the US at land border crossings, but there are exceptions to this rule, which these four met. This family has been detained for two weeks now. I hope those CBSA officers are happy with themselves knowing that these four vulnerable people, including two girls (4 and 14), will eventually be deported to rightwing-led El Salvador. Read more
President Donald Trump "wanted shock and awe" when he imposed tariffs against countries including China, but because of flawed execution in doing so, he is now being forced to backtrack, political commentator Bill O'Reilly says.
The Justice Department on Wednesday filed federal immigration charges against an illegal migrant in California who is being released from prison early, despite a double manslaughter conviction. Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano was convicted on two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in 2022, after he crashed his car into another vehicle while recklessly speeding and driving while high and drunk. The crash killed the two people, 19-year-olds Anya Varfolomeev and Nicholay Osokin, who were in the other car, per Fox News. Ortega-Anguiano was initially sentenced to 10 years in prison for the crimes, but will now be released in July, the outlet reported. The new release date means he will have served just 3.5 years of the sentence.
Tuesday's bloodshed in Pahalgam - where at least 26 tourists were killed in a hail of gunfire - marks the deadliest militant attack in Kashmir since 2019. The victims weren't soldiers or officials, but civilians on holiday in one of India's most picturesque valleys. That alone makes this strike both brutal and symbolic: a calculated assault not just on lives, but on a fragile sense of normalcy the Indian state has worked hard to project in the disputed region. Read more
Amundi SA says it's seeing a major reallocation as clients pull away from the US and pile into European funds in response to the market upheaval triggered by tariff wars.
A record-breaking tunnel is being built under the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Germany, which will slash travel times and improve Scandinavia's links with the rest of Europe. Running for 18km (11 miles), the Fehmarnbelt will be the world's longest pre-fabricated road and rail tunnel. It's also a remarkable feat of engineering, that will see segments of the tunnel placed on top of the seafloor, and then joined together.
Liberal learns to keep his hands off of other peoples' property in hilarious way. Read more
Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent got into a heated shouting match in earshot of President Trump and other officials in the White House last week during a dispute about the IRS, two witnesses and three sources briefed on the matter tell Axios.
"It was two billionaire, middle-aged men thinking it was WWE in the hall of the West Wing," one witness said of the argument last Thursday. (Bessent's net worth is actually $520 million.)
Three people with knowledge of the talks told the Guardian that Vladimir Putin had signalled a readiness to effectively freeze the frontlines of the conflict in exchange for numerous concessions, including US recognition of Russian control of Crimea and considerable US sanctions relief. The Financial Times first reported Putin's proposal on Tuesday. The vice-president, JD Vance, confirmed on Wednesday that the US would seek to "freeze the territorial lines at some level close to where they are today". Some territory could change hands, he said. Read more
A contract for a sprawling tent city at the Fort Bliss military base in Texas has been terminated, according to a government document reviewed by NBC News.
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Hassen's LinkedIn profile lists him as the current CEO of Basin Energies, a global oilfield manufacturing and service business. Now, he will wield broad powers for the National Park Service (NPS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).
That includes the power to make funding decisions, fire employees, create policy, and transfer funds.
"The reason we're here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States," Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex. "It's my job to figure out if you have to leave," ul-Haq continued. "It's also my job to figure out if you should stay." The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.
President Donald Trump radically softened some of his most severe rhetoric after CEOs of the nation's biggest retail chains warned him of looming price rises and empty shelves. The CEOs of Walmart, Target, and Home Depot met privately with Trump on Monday and told him that although prices were steady at that moment, his trade policies could have devastating effects within just two weeks with supply chains disrupted, Axios reported.
