Donald Trump can enforce a ban on transgender people serving in the military, the Supreme Court has ruled.
The high court on Tuesday approved an emergency petition from the administration to stop an injunction that blocked the ban from taking effect while a challenge to the order plays out in the courts.
It means the US can begin implementing the executive order signed by the president in January, which discharges service members who identify as transgender.
A foreign aid official who refused the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to his agency’s financial records may have had a reason to keep auditors out: he steered illicit contracts to a friend who sent him secret payments, according to a law enforcement affidavit obtained by The Daily Wire.
All of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s big talk about standing up to Donald Trump was exposed Tuesday as a bombastic sham.
At a meeting in the White House with the president, Carney smiled happily when Trump talked about winning the election for him. When the topic of Canada becoming the 51st state was raised, Carney declared that would never happen (would any prime minister of Canada have said any less?)
But when the president talked about shutting down the Canadian car industry and refusing to buy our steel and aluminum, the prime minister was silent. No push back. No standing up for Canadian interests.
This was down right embarrassing.
Anyone who elected Carney because he was the person to deal with Trump should be hanging their heads in shame about now.
Elbows up
pic.twitter.com/NtbFoymmN9— Kevin Pacitti (@kpac_15) May 6, 2025
The White House press conference between President Trump and newly-elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shows that every generation gets the summit it deserves. World War Two had Yalta, the 1970s the Camp David Accords. Barack Obama had a beer with the cop who arrested Henry Louis Gates, Jr. And Trump bragged about the new 24-karat White House gold décor and said, about Canada, “I think we have a lot of things in common.”
There are many reasons why Mark Carney became the prime minister of Canada — and one of the biggest is Mark Carney himself.
While perhaps initially more a consequence of luck than talent, Donald Trump’s threats towards Canada changed the terms of the election.
Canadians were looking for a leader who could chart the waters of international turmoil and uncertainty. Carney’s skills at managing global crisis, his proven track record of running large organizations and a calm and calculating demeanour could not have been a better fit for the time and circumstances.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Donald Trump opened their first in‑person meeting Tuesday with a brisk handshake outside the Oval Office, then shifted to a lively joint press conference that set the tone for a new chapter in Canada-US relations.
Moments earlier, Trump had used Truth Social to accuse Ottawa of taking “$200 billion” a year in US subsidies and enjoying “FREE Military Protection,” adding that America needs “NONE” of Canada’s cars, energy, or lumber.
If @realDonaldTrump were to say, Canada you’re on your own, what cards does Canada have militarily and economically? And this is the crux of the matter. pic.twitter.com/quUNi4G0BP
— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) May 6, 2025
President Donald Trump says that nothing PM Mark Carney said today could change his mind about lifting tariffs on Canada
“No, it’s just the way it is”
pic.twitter.com/8z6XSWXNcG— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) May 6, 2025
We’re Watching The Art of the Deal Play Out in Real Time
Trump pitched annexing Canada. Carney campaigned against him.
But when the cameras roll inside the Oval Office… something changed.
Trump played the long game.
And Carney? He might have unknowingly walked straight into… pic.twitter.com/qQumAkgjqg
— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) May 6, 2025
H/T XC
The Trump Administration resumed collection efforts on defaulted student loans Monday after a roughly five-year hiatus — and affected borrowers could begin feeling the financial consequences sooner than experts expected.
The U.S. Department of Education released new details on what actions it plans to take, when.
h/t DS
The Canadian film industry is calling for domestic support after President Donald Trump said he wants to impose 100-per-cent tariffs on all films produced outside of the United States.
The announcement included no details about how or when levies would be implemented, but Canadian groups warn that any tariffs could bring economic devastation to a sector deeply tied to Hollywood.
“The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday. “Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States.”
I can’t wait – Axel of Green Gables – a transgender love story. Only shit like this gets funding in Canada’s toxic “arts” environment.
I ran from the White House briefing room, past the portico entrance of the West Wing to our camera position on the lawn, and flung on an ear piece connecting me to the studio.
A moment later the presenter asked me about the comments we had just heard live from US President Donald Trump.
I said we were seeing a fundamental shift in a United States’ policy position after decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It was February this year, and Trump had just held talks with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – the first foreign leader since Trump’s inauguration to be invited to the White House. The US president vowed that his country would take control of the Gaza Strip, having earlier pledged the territory would also be “cleaned out” and emptied of its Palestinian population.
Update: Carney tells Trump Canada will ‘never’ be for sale at White House meeting
h/t patthedog & DS
Prime Minister Mark Carney will kick off talks with Donald Trump Tuesday in a bid for a comprehensive deal on trade and security, but top business and diplomatic voices are warning that linking the two issues in a single pact will only make it easier for the U.S. President to punish Canada with tariffs if he’s unhappy with its military or border spending.
Mr. Carney flew to Washington Monday ahead of a working lunch Tuesday with Mr. Trump at the White House – what could be the most important meeting between a U.S. president and Canadian prime minister in decades.
Protests from furious factory workers in China demanding back pay are spreading across the country after President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports began impacting the communist nation’s economy.
Unrest has been reported across the country as workers have taken to the streets protesting unpaid wages and challenging unfair dismissals following the closures of factories squeezed by US tariffs, according to Radio Free Asia.
h/t Mauser
As Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, the federal government has its work cut out for it following a tumultuous few months in domestic politics — not just on the tariff front with the U.S., but also with the world’s second-largest economy.
In the fall, Canada followed in the footsteps of then-U.S. president Joe Biden in implementing an additional 100 per cent surtax on Chinese-made electric vehicles — a move critics say makes less sense now considering the fractured relationship with our southern neighbours, our climate goals and China’s counter-tariffs on Canadian canola farmers.
China is Happy, Carney is Happy, Carney’s Cronies are Happy, Canada’s China Class is Happy, Net Zero Loons are Happy and Danielle Smith is Canola Happy!
Orange Man Bad.
The American government is also in talks with Rwanda about a deal to take in migrants deported from the US
The Trump administration has announced plans to pay immigrants living illegally in the United States to leave the country.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that it would pay $1,000 to those that left voluntarily. They would also receive travel assistance and those who used an app to tell officials that they planned to return home would be “deprioritised” for detention and removal by immigration enforcement agents.
Mark Carney is new to politics, but in a matter of months, he is learning that each fight gets tougher.
He handily won the Liberal leadership in March. His election victory a week ago was tighter. This week, he’s up against Donald Trump, and the newly elected prime minister has to be aware that the stakes in this contest are higher and more daunting than the first two.
