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LISTEN | Full interview with Leslie Klein of Alice magazine: As It Happens6:08Student magazines are getting axed under Trump’s anti-diversity measures Leslie Klein says she was shocked when the student magazine she works for was shut down suddenly this week just because it caters to women readers. The University of …
Read More »As Trump’s lethal strikes on alleged drug boats draw scrutiny, U.S. Congress steps up
The U.S. Congress is poised to give the Trump administration’s military strikes against alleged drug trafficking boats more scrutiny than at any point since the start of the operation off the South American coast. Both the U.S. House and Senate committees on armed services have announced they’ll look into allegations …
Read More »3 ways Canada and China can reset their relations in Trump’s new trade world
Prime Minister Mark Carney is in South Africa for the G20 summit this weekend, a meeting that’s tellingly being boycotted by the world’s largest economy. It’s the latest in a series of moves by U.S. President Donald Trump indicating the world order is rapidly shifting. But as Canada starts …
Read More »Trump’s threat of a billion-dollar lawsuit adds to the BBC’s existential crisis
U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to sue the BBC for an eye-popping $1 billion US has upped the ante in what was already shaping up as an existential crisis for Britain’s public broadcaster. In a letter to British MPs on Monday and later in a media interview, BBC chair Samir …
Read More »Why Trump’s battle with U.S. mayors might hurt everyone, even him
If the fiery victory speech delivered by New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday is any indication, a smooth working relationship with the president of the United States may not be in the cards any time soon. Mamdani warned Donald Trump to “turn the volume up” as he laid out …
Read More »U.S. Supreme Court weighs Trump’s tariffs in test of presidential power
‘Simply implausible’ to believe Congress gave Trump this power: Katyal Neal Katyal, who was acting solicitor general during the Obama administration, laid out the thrust of his argument on behalf of small businesses. “Tariffs are taxes. They take dollars from Americans’ pockets and deposit them in the U.S. Treasury,” Katyal …
Read More »North Korea says it test-fired cruise-missiles hours ahead of Trump’s arrival in South Korea
North Korea said Wednesday it fired sea-to-surface cruise missiles into its western waters, in another display of its growing military capabilities as U.S. President Donald Trump travels to South Korea for a regional summit. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) described Tuesday’s tests as a success, saying the …
Read More »From Amazon to Lockheed Martin, these companies are helping build Trump’s contentious White House ballroom
The Democrats are promising to investigate how President Donald Trump and his administration moved ahead with a White House demolition that has proceeded at a rapid pace, as Americans have posted “RIP East Wing 1902-2025” on social media platforms. The East Wing was essentially fully gone by Thursday, after construction …
Read More »U.S. sending aircraft carrier to South America amid Trump’s anti-cartel campaign
The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, the Pentagon announced Friday, in the latest escalation of military firepower in a region where the Trump administration has unleashed more rapid strikes in recent days against boats it accuses of carrying drugs. Defence Secretary Pete …
Read More »Trump’s latest outburst is another reminder of how much has changed
As Donald Trump explained it, he was primarily worried about the accurate and honourable reporting of Ronald Reagan’s views on trade policy — and concerned that a misrepresentation of the former U.S. president’s views might somehow influence the justices of the United States Supreme Court. And his belief in this regard …
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