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Donald Trump's destabilization of the economic relationship between the U.S. and Canada will have consequences that last longer than some might expect, with one retiring ambassador warning that Canadian businesses will not be coming back "anytime soon."Kirsten Hillman has served as the Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. since 2020 and is set to step down from the role in the coming weeks. Her final year in office, per a Wednesday report from The Hill, has been "a roller coaster ride" amid Trump's return to office and subsequent assault on the longstanding relationship between the two neighboring nati

A prominent Republican senator blasted the U.S. Department of Justice after it attempted — unsuccessfully — to secure indictments against six sitting Democratic lawmakers who urged members of the military to follow the law and not obey illegal orders.U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) had “slammed the Justice Department’s push to criminally charge” the six Democrats, Politico reported. All six Democrats had served in the U.S. Armed Forces or the Intelli

Attorney General Pam Bondi'a House Judiciary Committee hearing erupted in chaos on Wednesday after Department of Justice head cited the stock market in an evasive answer about the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.Speaking to lawmakers who questioned her about the department's rollout of the Epstein files, Bondi wanted to talk about how the Dow Jones Industrial Average spiked to 50,000 on Tuesday. Ironically, as national security analyst Marcy Wheeler pointed out, the comment came as the Dow was falling. It was down over 200 points as of

Fox News host Bret Baier was struggled to defend President Donald Trump in a segment about the economy. The conversation was with former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-S.C.), who is cautioning members of her party that the November midterm election isn't looking good for them and they should adjust accordingly. The Mirror's US site noted that Haley specifically cited recent polls showing Americans don't agree with the president's optimism on the economy.The new Fox News poll from January show that Americans are broadly dissatisfied with their elected leaders. Among the findings is that their economic situation is either the same or worse than it was when Trump took over a ye

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) confronted Attorney General Pam Bondi during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday over the Justice Department's handling of the investigation files related to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.Jayapal pointed out that the DOJ redacted a number of the "Johns" who abused the young girls while protecting their names. She specifically mentioned a "torture video" that Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem requested, but noted his email was protected.Jayapal announced the Epstein survivors sitting in the hearing room and asked them to stand. She then asked them to raise their hands if they'

Conservative Supreme Court journalist and SCOTUSblog founder Adam Feldman wrote on Wednesday that — when it comes to determining the outcomes of cases important to President Donald Trump — Justice Brett Kavanaugh is the judge most likely to split from his Republican leader.On the other hand, Justice Neil Gorsuch is the one most likely to dissent from the Trump line in cases involving Trump and/or his policies. Yet because Kavanaugh is more likely to be a deciding

Donald Trump and his administration are set for a rougher day than expected on Wednesday, with Politico reporting that "two major defeats" show signs of a "rocky road ahead for the White House.""Two defeats in two hours tee up a difficult day for the White House," Politico reported.The first defeat came on Tuesday night, when, in a significant upset, several Republicans broke ranks to vote against a measure that would have restricted Congress's ability to rein in Trump's tariffs. The ability to issue tariffs has long been reserved for Congress. Still, Trump, under a legally dubious "emergency

Although President Donald Trump won Texas handily in 2024 with a 14 percent lead over Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, he performed especially well in a district that includes the Fort Worth suburbs — which he won by 17 percent. Yet in a recent special election for a Texas State Senate seat that same district, Democrat Taylor Rehmet defeated Trump-backed Republican Leigh Wambsganss by 14 percent. In an op-ed published by The Hill on February 11, Kim A. Snyder (director and producer of the PBS documentary "The Librarians") and Texas-based librarian Audrey Wils

President Donald Trump's appointee Susan B. Rogers is “arguably… the public face of the Trump administration’s growing hostility to European liberal democracies,” according to a prominent British publication that accuses her of propping up far right regimes.Rogers, who has been Trump’s Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs since October, has repeatedly characterized efforts to stop the rise of the far right as threats to free speech and met with marginalized extremist parties, according to a Wednesday report in The Guardian. On the social media platform Twitter/X, Rogers has characterized German migrants as “barbarian rapist hordes

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) is on Wednesday went after Fox News host Laura Ingraham for a poll pitting him against President Donald Trump.Ingraham pointed to the 2024 election results of Kentucky voters' when Trump opposed former Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump won the state of Kentucky in the presidential race. Ingraham looked at those election results to ask the question, "Who represents Kentuckians’ (sic) better? President Trump or Rep. Thomas Massie?"Massie has gone up against Trump in the past several months over the release of the investigation files about Jeffrey Epstein. "I’m not running again