Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement last week of a massive military escalation in Gaza dominated all attention in Israel.
But while politicians and the media picked over his plan to wreak final destruction on Hamas, he had only the vaguest notion that his closest ally, Donald Trump, was in the final stages of a deal with the terrorist group.
Mr Trump’s envoys had gone behind Mr Netanyahu’s back to negotiate the release of Edan Alexander, the 21-year-old hostage.
A South American gang with many illegal alien members that cropped up to rival the infamous Tren de Aragua is victimizing vulnerable rural Americans, warns crime expert Robert Charles.
“I’ve read some of the public accounts that suggest that this offshoot group is trying to distinguish itself by being more violent,” Charles, who was formerly an assistant secretary of state at the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, said of Anti-Tren. With the recent charges against almost 20 accused members of the gang by the Trump Justice Department, the new threat has garnered more attention, Western Journal explained.
Carney says Canadians ‘weren’t impressed’ by U.K.’s offer of second state visit to Trump
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canadians “weren’t impressed” when the U.K. decided to offer U.S. President Donald Trump an unprecedented second state visit while he was threatening Canada’s sovereignty.
“To be frank, they weren’t impressed by that gesture, quite simply, given the circumstance,” Carney told British news channel Sky News in an interview posted online Wednesday.
“It was at a time when we were being quite clear, some of us were being quite clear, about the issues around sovereignty.”
That was a stupid move by Carney.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called a group of 59 white South Africans who have moved to the US to resettle “cowards”, saying “they’ll be back soon”.
The group of Afrikaners arrived in the US on Monday after President Donald Trump granted them refugee status, saying they faced racial discrimination.
But Ramaphosa said those who wanted to leave were not happy with efforts to address the inequities of the apartheid past, terming their relocation a “sad moment for them”.
TikTok influencer issues direct threat to the 59 white refugees, says that black people will be hunting them down pic.twitter.com/YWWCAapQov
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 13, 2025
The United States will remove all sanctions from Syria, Donald Trump announced on Tuesday.
“I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness,” Trump said to applause at the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh.
”It’s their time to shine. We’re taking them all off,” Trump said, “Good luck Syria, show us something very special.”
#BREAKING: President Trump just announced he will be LIFTING US sanctions on Syria "to give them a chance at greatness."
The Syrian leader is set to travel to Riyadh to meet with Trump tomorrow.
Globalists and neocons are going to be BIG mad! pic.twitter.com/mYuBYtSvWD
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 13, 2025
What’s ‘free market’ about Americans paying the tab for the rest of the world’s prescription drugs?
Monday saw a seismic economic shift courtesy of an executive order by President Trump cramming down the prices Americans pay for prescription drugs.
HOLY SMOKES! RFK Jr. just called out Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and others for claiming Trump is backing the oligarchs as he is now standing up to BIG PHARMA.
"He can't be bought, unlike most of the politicians in this country. And he is standing here for the American… pic.twitter.com/Uy7NBYiGUp
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 12, 2025
I had no idea that Big Pharma made 2/3 of its profits from the US who are only 4% of the world’s population.
The president’s migrant crackdown has fueled an increasingly angry atmosphere – and some border agents are praising ‘Daddy Trump’
Osvaldo Ruiz and a friend were hiking through an isolated stretch of mountains, just a few miles from the sprawling US-Mexico border wall that fringes San Diego, when the federal agent stopped them in their tracks.
It was late March, mid-morning, and Ruiz, who works for a local non-profit called Border Angels, was busy. That day he was scouting a new route where his group could leave life-saving water and food for the sporadic waves of migrants who still cross through these desolate borderlands. Ruiz and his friend, a fellow Border Angels member, already knew they were being watched. A helicopter had been buzzing overhead for the past several hours, tracking them.
Shortly after the duo sat down for a mid-hike coffee break, the border patrol agent appeared on the trail. Four or five other officers lagged behind him in the distance.
Several dozen white South African refugees were recently welcomed to Washington, D.C., most proudly waving American flags.
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar welcomed the refugees, who are fleeing racial discrimination, persecution, violence, and murder in their home country.
From secure borders to functioning cities, America is shedding the hard-won pillars of civilization—by choice, not chance—in a sweeping, top-down descent into disorder.
Secure borders and stationary populations were considered the mark of emerging civilization by classical historians. In contrast to nomadism and constant strife over disputed territory, peoples who had clearly defined and protected borders ascended to statehood, maintained a distinct culture, and achieved greater prosperity and security.
The southern border breakdown was permitted. Will we allow the same forces to break through from the north?
Borders are not abstractions. They are security infrastructure. They are economic lifelines. And when left unguarded, they become the entry points for chaos. While America’s political establishment clings to the southern border narrative, a quieter, more calculated breach is advancing from the north. The U.S.–Canada line — long mythologized as polite and uneventful — is now a preferred corridor for the same criminal cartels that have turned Mexico into a narco-state.
President Trump wants China’s automakers to build cars in the U.S., but modern vehicle technology makes that a national security risk.
President Donald Trump marked the first 100 days of his second term with a speech touting the accomplishments of his administration. Delivering the address from Michigan, the heart of the American auto industry, the president drew special attention to the challenge of foreign competition and its place in his trade agenda.
Implicitly invoking Ronald Reagan’s successful efforts to induce Japanese automakers to build cars in the U.S., Trump told the crowd at Macomb Community College that he wants foreign automakers to invest in U.S. production again. While the friendly audience mostly applauded this message, one line surely left them confused: Trump’s statement that not only Japanese but Chinese automakers should build cars here.
Seven months after federal RCMP officers raided Canada’s biggest and most sophisticated meth and fentanyl lab, only one person has been charged: a 32-year-old whose only previous conviction was for lower-level drug dealing near Vancouver.
The bust of the so-called “superlab” occurred last October, just weeks before U.S. President Donald Trump was re-elected and started making false claims about Canadian fentanyl “pouring” into his country, part of his pretext for the tariffs that have ignited a trade war. The discovery of the lab in British Columbia’s rural Shuswap region made headlines in major U.S. media.
The Pentagon is halting gender-affirming healthcare for transgender troops as it takes steps to remove them from the US armed forces.
“I am directing you to take the necessary steps to immediately implement this guidance,” Stephen Ferrara, the acting assistant secretary of defence for health affairs, said in a memo.
The Defence Health Agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
President Trump said American businesses would “walk away with a lot of cheques” as he visited Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as part of a tour of the Middle East.
Among the deals already signed is “the largest defence sales agreement in history” worth $142 billion, the White House said. It includes providing Saudi Arabia with “state-of-the-art warfighting equipment and services from over a dozen US defence firms”.
In the face of U.S. tariffs, Honda said on Monday that it would shift production of one of its popular vehicles from Ontario to a U.S. factory and postpone an $11 billion plan to make electric vehicles and batteries in Canada.
The announcement came less than a month after Honda denied a report in the Japanese media that President Trump’s tariffs would force it to pull back in Canada.
