Latest News
Former Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was arrested Tuesday night after he took to the podium during a Huntington Beach City Council meeting and laid into U.S. President Donald Trump, his supporters and a plaque that’s set to be installed at a local library. The plaque in question, a piece approved by city council, features … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday ordered a halt to congestion pricing tolls in New York City, which thin traffic and fund mass transit by making people pay to drive into some parts of Manhattan. Launched on Jan. 5, the city’s system uses license plate readers to impose a $9 toll on most vehicles … Read more
In a recent interview, Donald Trump reminded of high tariff on imported cars in India which could play as a deterrent for Tesla. Both Trump and Musk had criticised Indian policy to levy 100 per cent tariff on imported electric cars before. Tesla had to put off its India launch plans in 2022 due to … Read more
President Donald Trump’s initial policy proposals raised concern at the Federal Reserve about higher inflation, with firms telling the U.S. central bank they generally expected to raise prices to pass along the cost of import tariffs, policymakers said at a meeting held about a week after Trump’s January 20 inauguration. Participants at the U.S. central … Read more
Protesters against President Donald Trump and his policies braved frigid temperatures in parts of the U.S. Monday, shouting “No kings on Presidents Day!” in East Coast cities and attempting to enter the Arizona Statehouse to oppose a bill that would bolster fast-changing federal immigration enforcement. In Florida and California, local media outlets reported on hundreds … Read more
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, president of the … Read more
An internal government report warned a year ago that allowing “the trend of negative rhetoric” about the security of the Canada-U.S. border could lead to a thickening of the 49th parallel, adversely affecting trade and travel. The report, written by a diplomat at Canada’s embassy in Washington, said that failing to refute U.S. claims about … Read more
A former Canadian intelligence official is warning recent cuts by the new U.S. administration to its intelligence agencies could position the country for “another 9/11.” Dan Stanton, a former executive manager for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), said in an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson that cuts are “degrading the efficiency” of the U.S. … Read more
Donald Trump has warned of reciprocal tariff under which US will impose the same tariff rate as each country imposes on US exports. Harley-Davidson currently collaborates with Hero MotoCorp in India with the X 440 being the first jointly-developed model. US President Donald Trump has called for reciprocal tariff on countries at a rate at … Read more
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Canada should be the 51st U.S. state as he proposes to erase the 5,525-mile-long border that separates the two countries. The very notion is ludicrous to Canadians and the hurdles to transforming it into a state are sky high. But in Trump’s thinking, the traditional Lower 48 states would … Read more