TEXAS – A landmark U.S. fentanyl-trafficking prosecution that investigators say reaches from Texas and Mexico into China’s chemical supply chains has taken a new turn, with defense lawyers for accused broker Minsu “Fernando” Fang asking a federal judge to authorize the deposition of a witness in Shenzhen, China, whom they claim can provide exculpatory evidence.
Forty years ago this spring, Kihachiro Aratake was diving in the warm seas off southwest Japan when he started trembling. He was a diving instructor looking for promising new sites to take tourists, and there in the waters off the southern coast of Yonaguni, a small and remote island close to Taiwan, he came upon something awe inspiring.
“Back in those days the sea was so very clear,” he says, “and looking down I felt I was looking down on Machu Picchu.” On the seabed he found a vast rock edifice of drastically straight lines and sharp angles, like the wall and terraces of the ancient Inca city. “I was so amazed — I had never seen anything like that before.”
A church in Britain is facing criminal charges for preaching Christianity in public. The United Kingdom has made a habit in recent years of criminalizing Christian preaching and prayer on public streets (including silent prayer near abortion clinics), but this might be the first time the authorities have targeted an entire church and not just an individual.
They’re laughing at us. That’s what I thought when I saw that rictus, gap-toothed smirk on the face of one of the illegal immigrants who’d just been found guilty in a most abominable case of rape. There he was leaving court, having been convicted of assisting in the savage sexual assault of a woman on a public beach, and he was grinning. If I had to translate his leer, I’d say he was saying that our women, our courts and our country don’t count for shit. ‘You’re worthless’ was the subtext of his diabolical sneer.
An Ontario judge whittled 13 months off a 14-year sentence for a man who shot two people due to the Muslim shooter’s youth, racial discrimination he experienced growing up in Toronto, and harsh pretrial jail conditions.
A jury in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice convicted Yousaf Bilal Sheikh, 24, on two counts of attempted murder for shooting Mallory Walia and Ameen Jazei inside a white Porsche while he was in the front passenger seat on the evening of Nov. 29, 2022.
The number of immigrants residing in the European Union rose to a record high of 64.2 million in 2025, according to a recently published report by the Centre for Research and Analysis on Migration at RFBerlin.
The data indicate that, since 2010, more than 24 million immigrants have moved to the EU, representing an increase of 2.1 million compared to 2024. According to the report, Germany remained the bloc’s largest host of a foreign-born population, at nearly 18 million, while Spain recorded the fastest recent growth, adding about 700,000 to reach 9.5 million.
It’s one thing to see a graph saying, “12 million illegal migrants entered Europe since 2008.”
It’s another thing to actually see it.
Every blip in this animation represents 100 people. pic.twitter.com/WfD7SR7XF1
— Neoptolemus (@NeoptolemusX) April 22, 2026
OTTAWA — Jason Stanley moved from the United States to Canada last September, leaving behind a high-profile position at Yale to take a job at the Munk School of Global Affairs in Toronto.
The fascism researcher said he made the move for one reason: academic freedom.
“That’s the only reason. Nobody’s coming to Canada for higher wages because you’re not getting higher wages. You’re getting lower retirement, lower salaries, sometimes more teaching. So it’s academic freedom,” Stanley said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
Léa was 15 years old and known among her peers for her dedication to sport and school. Maya, the same age, was, in her mother’s words, “a teenager like any other.” Both lived in Angoulême, a mid-sized city in France’s Charente region. Neither came from a broken home.
Today, their cases illustrate a crisis French authorities can no longer look away from: the organised prostitution of minors, driven by grooming networks operating with systematic methods and growing impunity.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that a “shooter has been apprehended” after he was rushed away from the White House correspondents’ dinner by Secret Service agents.
Footage showed Secret Service and other authorities swarming the banquet hall at the Washington Hilton.
“Out of the way, sir!” someone yelled. Others yelled to duck.
🚨 President Donald Trump posted this video of gunman running and sh00ting the Secret Service agent at the White House Correspondents Dinner. pic.twitter.com/Se673nY4h5
— Elizabeth (@ElizabethForNV) April 26, 2026
In the financial world, most frauds are short-lived. Ponzi schemes such as Bernie Madoff’s eventually run out of new suckers to provide enough funds to pay the phony “returns” promised to earlier investors. When the cash flow dries up, the scam collapses.
The con artists at the non-profit Southern Poverty Law Center have a different racket, and a different problem. Instead of swindling the public with promises of unrealistic, too-good-to-be-true investment returns, the fear-mongering SPLC sold “paranoia porn” to credulous donors, convincing them – falsely – that the country is full of dangerous right-wing extremists who need to be identified and brought to heel.
If U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration hoped to strengthen Canada’s hand in trade talks, it could hardly have done a better job.
This week, the U.S. deputy trade representative Rick Switzer told the Council of Foreign Relations that Prime Minister Mark Carney is guilty of “political malpractice” for pitting himself politically against the president, that he’s driven by his “ego,” and is an unserious leader who’s failed to acknowledge the United States’ force over Canada.
I don’t speak Elbow, maybe this nonsense sounds better in the original.
I love finding new music that’s bound to leave a skid mark on pop culture. pic.twitter.com/FLXe6u3cI1
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 20, 2026
The war in Iran has revealed plenty about America’s ability to inflict damage on its enemies, Tehran’s capacity to resist pressure and Washington’s broader tendency to get itself stuck in the Middle East – a region several US presidents planned to extricate from. The conflict has been paused since 7 April due to a ceasefire that Trump extended earlier in the week. But it is nonetheless revealing a gradual systemic shift in the so-called international order that has been bubbling beneath the surface for years.
The movable object is none other than the transatlantic alliance which, through Nato, has bound the United States and most of Europe into a single security construct. That perennial institution, which security elites on both sides of the Atlantic have for decades held up as the pinnacle of what an alliance should be, is beginning to lose its lustre. This is thanks to the weight of diverging geopolitical priorities, divisions within Europe itself and President Trump’s propensity to treat European states as the equivalent of a lazy 25 year old who refuses to leave the house and get a job.
Every actress I Hollywood when asked if she’s had work done: pic.twitter.com/sYno30Bywp
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 24, 2026
… Amir Epstein, CEO of Jewish advocacy group Tafsik, said that while the report properly acknowledges the rise in antisemitism, it shows a dangerous disconnect by ignoring the key factors driving Canada’s surge of anti-Jewish hatred.
“By ignoring the rise of antisemitism and anti-Zionism alongside the rise in immigration from countries that breed religious and cultural hate towards Jews, the government is refusing to acknowledge a problem obvious to anyone with a scintilla of intellectual honesty,” he said.
When your so-called government pushes blatant lies they demonstrate they simply do not care about the consent to govern.
Canada is not a free country.
