After Trump announced that he was slapping tariffs on Canadian goods, hockey fans in both Ottawa and Calgary responded by booing the Star-Spangled Banner' before their respective hockey games. read more
Vanya Gaberova, accused of spying for Moscow, told the Old Bailey she believed she was working for INTERPOL after a man showed her a fake ID and told her he could enroll her at "police school in Wembley." The spy ring conducted surveillance of NATO targets in Europe but have since been rendered ineffective by UK authorities. The detained members of the spy ring will probably be freed in a future trade swap with the Kremlin. All defendants are presumed innocent of all charges unless proven guilty in a court of law.
Tesla paid zero federal income tax in 2024 despite reporting $2.3 billion in US income, using legal loopholes to eliminate its tax liability. Over the past three years, Tesla has reported $10.8 billion in US income but paid only $48 million in federal taxes, bringing its effective tax rate to 0.4% -- far below the 21% corporate tax rate. read more
Cole Schmidtknecht (22) from Wisconsin died after an asthma attack when he couldn't afford to pay for his medication which suddenly rose in price from $66 to $539. Cole left Walgreens that day without filling his prescription because the insurance company wouldn't pay for it. In the days that followed, Cole repeatedly struggled to breathe and relied solely on an old emergency inhaler. Turning blue, his friend drove Cole to the hospital, but doctors were unable to save this young, happy good-looking man. read more
A NY doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the US. read more
Analysis of stripping ex-VIPs such as John Bolton or Gen Milley of personal security detachments (PSD): coriolanus.page (second story).
Trumpf publicly sided with the Russian FSB over the FBI and CIA at the 2018 Helsinki Summit.