Secret Service: William DeFoor arrested, accused of breaking windows at JD Vance’s home

William DeFoor aged 26- Tranny?

CINCINNATI — A man has been taken into custody by Cincinnati police after officers and Secret Service agents responded to the Cincinnati home of Vice President JD Vance overnight.

According to an arrest report obtained by WLWT, William DeFoor, 26, has been arrested in connection to the damage done at the home.

h/t Patti Jo

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Canada faces possibility of ‘poisonous’ concessions to Trump as CUSMA negotiations begin this year

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In 2020, then U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer described the Canada-U.S.-Mexico free-trade agreement (CUSMA) as the “new gold standard against which all future trade agreements will be judged,” after the deal he helped put together was passed in the Senate. Six years later, in 2026, CUSMA will be facing scrutiny on its real-world results as the three countries begin renegotiating its terms.

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Sewage in drinking water blamed for at least 10 deaths in India’s ‘cleanest city’

Sewage-contaminated drinking water is being blamed for killing at least 10 people, including a baby boy, and sending more than 270 others to hospital in Indore, ranked India’s “cleanest city” for the last eight years.

Residents of a congested, lower-income neighbourhood in Indore, Madhya Pradesh’s commercial capital, had been warning authorities for months about foul-smelling tap water. Their complaints went unheeded, despite the city’s much-lauded ranking for waste segregation and other cleanliness measures.

“I have received information about 10 deaths due to a diarrhoea outbreak caused by contaminated water in the Bhagirathpura area,” said Indore’s mayor, Pushyamitra Bhargava. Sewage was mixing “in the main line leading from the water tank”, he added.

No doubt Canada’s Liberal party is looking to attract these geniuses.

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‘Our minerals could be used to annex us’: why Canada doesn’t want US mining

The Outaouais region on the western edge of Quebec is home to thousands of lakes, vast forests and extensive wetlands. It is also the setting of a swathe of wooded land known as La Petite-Nation, which, although not far from the cities of Montreal and Ottawa, remains relatively untouched.

That, however, is to change with the arrival of a controversial graphite mine with financing from the Pentagon.

Lomiko Metals, a company based in British Columbia, is planning to build an open-air graphite mine in La Petite-Nation. Once operational, the mine will produce 100,000 tonnes of graphite for 15 years.


Warning Guardian ahead.

My neck of the woods.

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Tim Walz, Democrats’ 2024 VP candidate, won’t run for a third term as Minnesota governor

ST PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democrats’ 2024 candidate for vice president, is ending his bid for a third term as governor less than four months after launching a reelection campaign.

Walz said in a statement Monday that he believes he would have won another term but decided “that I can’t give a political campaign my all” after what he described as an “extraordinarily difficult year for our state.”

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Drug addict International student who stole $800 in butter gets conditional discharge

An international student from India who stole about $800 in butter from a Kitchener grocery store was not a “prolific baker,” a judge clarified in court, but more likely part of an organized theft ring.

In a Kitchener court last week, Justice John Lynch granted the man a conditional discharge while wondering aloud if the student was perhaps not the cream of the crop.

Why wasn’t he air dropped over India?

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Thirty-two Cubans killed during US attack on Venezuela

The Cuban government has said 32 of its nationals were killed during the US operation to seize Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.

It said the dead were members of its armed forces and intelligence agencies, with two days of national mourning declared.

A short statement did not elaborate on the role of the Cubans in Venezuela, but the two governments are long-standing allies, with Cuba providing security support in exchange for oil.

Justin Trudeau was unavailable for comment.

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Freeland added to Zelensky Payroll

Freeland added to Zelensky Payroll

Chrystia Freeland named as economic adviser by Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

OTTAWA — A former Trudeau cabinet minister and federal Liberal leadership hopeful has a new job.

On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced he’d appointed Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s former deputy prime minister — and catalyst for the downfall of former prime minister Justin Trudeau, as an economic advisor.

Hey Z I’ll swing a few billion your way for a “Job”

h/t Mauser

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Can Maduro’s trusted lieutenant now work for Trump?

Many of those who tuned in to US President Donald Trump’s news conference on Saturday were probably hoping to hear dramatic details of how US forces seized Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, in a pre-dawn raid.

But arguably a more surprising moment came when Trump announced that now that Maduro was in custody, the US would “run” Venezuela “until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition”.

In another unexpected development, he added that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been speaking to Maduro’s Vice-President, Delcy Rodríguez, who he said was “essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again”.

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After US Venezuela Operation, Poilievre Says Canada in ‘Weakened’ Position Without More Oil Pipelines to Tidewater

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the Liberal government’s oil tanker ban, which led to the cancellation of a pipeline that would have transported Alberta oil to British Columbia for international markets, has put Canada in a “weakened and dependent” position.

Poilievre’s remarks came shortly after the United States announced on Jan. 3 that it had captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States will run Venezuela until a peaceful transition of power is completed, adding that it will be heavily involved in the nation’s oil industry.


Bonus Gilmore h/t all who sent this in

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Where is María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader?

María Corina Machado, the international figurehead of the Venezuelan opposition who collected the Nobel peace prize last month, has so far been reduced to a peripheral role after the US intervention in her country on Saturday.

President Trump appeared to dismiss the prospect of involving her in the political transition, describing her as a “very nice woman” but saying it would be “tough” for her to lead the nation because she did not have the “respect within or the support within the country”.

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