Small businesses are hurting as border crossings between the US and Canada are down some 17% since Trump started imposing tariffs. Canadian's car trips to the US are down almost 32% compared to March 2024. Nationally, a 10% drop in Canadian tourism would cost the US up to 14,000 jobs and $2.1bn in business. Michigan is one of the places likely to acutely feel the brunt of Trump's idiocy. In 2023, Canadian visitors spent a collective $238m in that state alone. To stay afloat, a rubber duck museum in Washington State is moving north to Canada. Source: LINK read more
"US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced the suspension of live cattle, horse, and bison imports through US ports of entry along the southern border due to the continued and rapid northward spread of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico, effective immediately. NWS has been recently detected in remote farms with minimal cattle movement as far north as Oaxaca and Veracruz, about 700 miles away from the US border." CDC info: www.cdc.gov read more
A recent study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has found that the richest 10 percent of the world population are responsible for an astonishing two-thirds of observable climate warming since 1990. Basically, that small minority of the wealthiest among us contribute nearly seven times as much to extreme climate change as the entire lower-earning 90 percent of the planet. read more
The Trump Organization, founded by President Donald Trump and co-led by his sons Eric and Donald Jr., announced a new deal to last month to develop a luxury golf resort in Qatar, signaling it has no intention of slowing foreign business activity during Trump's second term. read more
The first group of 49 white South Africans to be granted refugee status by President Donald Trump's administration are due to arrive shortly in the US. read more
The Supreme Court has not yet reversed its 1935 ruling on whether the president can actually do that. read more
As President Donald Trump's administration announced a cooling in the tariff trade war with China, critics were quick to pile on. read more
US beef prices are soaring to record highs as the country's cattle inventory reaches its lowest level in more than 70 years, putting further strains on Americans' grocery bills.
Preliminary data show homicides in the nation's largest cities fell by 21% in the first three months of 2025 from the same period of last year, as overall violent crime continued its post-pandemic drop.
President Donald Trump is slated to "accept a super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the royal family of Qatar," known as "a flying palace," ABC News reports. Attorney General Pam Bondi, along with White House counsel David Warrington, advised the Trump administration "it would be legally permissible' for the donation of the aircraft to be conditioned on transferring its ownership to Trump's presidential library before the end of his term, according to sources familiar with their determination," ABC News reports. The report describes the arrangement as "unprecedented," noting it raises "questions about whether it is legal for the Trump administration, and ultimately, the Trump presidential library foundation, to accept such a valuable gift from a foreign power." read more
NBC has canceled its Night Court comedy re-boot after three seasons and its legal drama Suits: LA after one season. read more
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday called on the Justice Department and FBI to investigate a series of anonymous pizza deliveries made to the homes of federal judges in recent months, saying they appeared to be part of a wave of threats against the judiciary. read more
Tesla driver Nathaniel Radimak, who was charged with attacking motorists' vehicles with a pipe in the Los Angeles area, has been arrested again for allegedly assaulting two women during a road rage incident in Honolulu. The recent arrest comes less than a year after this lunatic was released from prison for the California road attacks. A woman, 18, was parking her vehicle downtown when she saw a gray Tesla speeding past. The woman and Radimak "exchanged words" before he got out of the Tesla and assaulted the woman and her mother. Radimak then fled in his gray 2022 Tesla with Oregon license plates and was located in Waikiki. Charges are pending. read more
Frank Figliuzzi: The more we learn about FBI Director Kash Patel, the more concerned we should be about our nation's security. Even before Patel took office, there were deep concerns about his truthfulness and his perceived blind loyalty to President Donald Trump, and there were reports of an apparent blacklist of people he might target for revenge. Those concerns remain, but now, about 80 days into his tenure, Patel is also looking like an absent, uninterested leader. read more
For decades, the University of Virginia relied on the student-run group, University Guide Services (UGS), to lead admissions and historical tours on campus. That changed earlier this year when the university ended the group's special status designation. UGS leaders saw the move as part of a larger crackdown on history and truth-telling that is happening across the nation. read more
Fewer than half of Americans (44%) now say they can trust all or most of the people in their neighborhood, down from 52% a decade ago. And only around a third say most people can be trusted -- also down around 10 points over the past 10 years. read more
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