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"Rare Event": Canada Reports First Case Of Bird Flu In A Person
11/10/24 9:36 AM
The teenager likely caught the virus from a bird or animal and was receiving care at a children's hospital.
'Oof': MSNBC host shocked as CIA veteran says Trump plan could result in 'lost lives'
11/09/24 10:16 PM
Donald Trump's reported plan to staff intelligence agencies with loyalists could actually cost lives, according to a former CIA officer.Former CIA official John Sipher, who headed up Russian counterintelligence, appeared on MSNBC on Saturday to discuss national security in a second term of Trump. Asked about Kash Patel, which MSNBC has described as "a hard-line MAGA loyalist," being considered for CIA director, Sipher explained how it could harm America.ALSO READ: Ecstatic J6 offenders look forward to pardons from 'Daddy Trump' — and retributionSipher responded, "We work with foreign partners around the world, places you would not even think of to help us on a day-to-day basis. We are there every day working with them, developing relationships, developing trust and sharing information.""Countries share information that could be very damaging to them if it came out, that is very beneficial to the United States and has saved lives. If they see the U.S. intelligence immunity and the CIA being unprofessional or being staffed by people who are not serious or are only looking to benefit the President of the United States' political or personal issues, they are going to stop sharing with us," he added. "The thing is, we won't even know it. They will smile, they will continue to go out and have drinks and do those things, but they are not going to share their most important secrets and it will end up hurting us, national security wise, and probably even losing lives because of it.""Oof," the host replied. Watch below or click the link.
'People are going to try to do the impossible': Canada prepping for folks fleeing Trump
11/08/24 1:14 PM
With Donald Trump headed back to the White House in January after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris on election day, authorities in Canada are expecting a wave of asylum-seekers.According to a report from Reuters, officials in Canada have been prepping for the possibility the former president could end up back in the Oval Office and what that would mean for border crossings.With the former president running his campaign on a central premise of rounding up undocumented immigrants and their extended families and forcefully shipping them out of the country, it is expected many will try and find a friendlier place to live.ALSO READ: Ecstatic J6 offenders look forward to pardons from 'Daddy Trump' — and retributionAccording to the report, "Canadian police and migrant aid groups are bracing for an influx of asylum-seekers fleeing President-elect Donald Trump's United States at the same time Canada deals with record numbers of refugee claimants and is trying to bring in fewer immigrants."Noting that "people crossing from the U.S. to file claims must sneak across undetected and hide out for two weeks before seeking asylum – a potentially dangerous prospect," Abdulla Daoud, director of The Refugee Centre in Montreal, explained, "When you don't create legitimate pathways, or when you only create pathways where people have to do the impossible to receive safety, you know, unfortunately, people are going to try to do the impossible."Loly Rico of Toronto's FCJ Refugee Centre agreed, claiming Trump will be responsible for what is expected to be a flood of people running from his administration."It's going to be a challenge for any refugee in the United States to feel that they belong, and that's why they will start looking what other countries can start giving them protection."You can read more here.
'Well, this is awkward!' World leaders rush to backtrack on past comments trashing Trump
11/07/24 8:46 PM
Some international leaders are facing an "awkward" situation after comments made in the past four years criticizing Donald Trump, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.After he won the 2024 election, officials in Britain and Australia are backtracking from comments made in the past that trashed Trump. And many other leaders who have not publicly been fans are now sending diplomatic congratulatory messages, the report stated.One even deleted his previous critical remarks.Also Read: Video: Trump praises China’s president at Mar-a-Lago galaThe Post recalled a 2018 op-ed by Labour Party politician David Lammy wrote of Trump that he is “a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath” and a “profound threat to the international order.” In 2019, Lammy went further, calling Trump “deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic." Trump, he said said he was “no friend of Britain.”Lammy, who is now Britain's foreign secretary, tweeted his congratulations after Tuesday's election.British tabloids noticed. “Well, this is awkward!” said the front page of The Daily Star.He's just one of several leaders, particularly in Europe, who have had complicated relationships with Trump.ALSO READ: Ecstatic J6 offenders look forward to pardons from 'Daddy Trump' — and retributionIn Australia, previous prime minister and current ambassador to the United States, Kevin Rudd, deleted comments made in 2020 that called Trump the “most destructive president in history” and a “traitor to the West,” according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp.On Thursday, Rudd issued a statement in which he said those comments did not reflect the view of the Australian government, and that they had been deleted.“Out of respect for the office of President of the United States, and following the election of President Trump, Ambassador Rudd has now removed these past commentaries from his personal website and social media channels,” the statement said,.The statement said it intended to “eliminate the possibility of such comments being misconstrued.”Read the full repot here.
'Zero chance': Ex-ICE leader says Trump can't get 'anywhere close to where he wants to go'
11/08/24 11:51 AM
An immigration law expert warned that Donald Trump cannot carry out his sweeping plans to deport millions of people without breaking the law.The president-elect has pledged to strengthen border security and carry out mass deportations, which would present massive logistical and financial challenges, and John Sandweg, former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Barack Obama, said the campaign promise would also pose legal obstacles."Even setting aside his resource issues – not only do you need the officers, detention beds, removal flights, those kind of issues – the biggest problem, the biggest impediment of carrying this out is the immigration courts," said Sandweg, now a partner of Nixon Peabody leading the Cross-Border Risks team. "The Supreme Court has long said that before individuals are deported, they're entitled to a full and fair hearing. That means a hearing before an immigration judge where they can support defenses to deportation. Sometimes those defenses are, 'I am a U.S. citizen,' other times there are certain benefits under immigration law that allow some migrants to stay in this country, of course, asylum being one of the biggest ones. The problem is, those courts are tremendously backlogged. Congress has never really funded the courts to keep up with the volume."ALSO READ: Ecstatic J6 offenders look forward to pardons from 'Daddy Trump' — and retribution"So now Stephen Miller and others are looking at the situation," Sandweg continued. "They know that is the problem. Really quickly, during the last administration, there was no lack of political will to deport as many people as possible, it's not like this is an entirely new concept, yet the Trump administration's numbers were below those of the Obama administration when it came to deportations. The reason why was backlogs in the immigration court.""So the president-elect will need to push the envelope, in terms of, he is going to try through executive orders and other regulations and things like that to strip migrants of these rights to due process," Sandweg added. "We saw before at the border, and now I'm confident we will see it in the interior of the U.S. There will, of course be lawsuits, and it's a different court today, but ultimately testing the limits on how far he can go. But really, look, there is just zero chance he can get anywhere close to where he wants to go, unless he pushes the envelope on due process to its absolute bare minimum."Watch below or click the link. - YouTube youtu.be
10 Dead, 7 Injured As Gunmen Open Fire At Mexico Bar
11/10/24 12:34 PM
The attackers arrived in a pickup truck and opened fire inside the bar in the central Mexican city of Queretaro.
100-year-old Royal Air Force veteran to join U.K. memorial service for the first time
11/09/24 12:13 AM
Michael Woods has visited his wife, Mary, every day since she moved into a nursing home two years ago.
11 bodies found in Mexico truck were of missing group: prosecutors
11/08/24 5:16 PM
The 11 people, including four minors, found dead in a pickup truck in southern Mexico were part of a group reported missing last month, authorities in Guerrero state said Friday.The victims, aged between 13 and 53, were part of a group of 17 people reported missing days ago in the town of Chilapa.They were reported to be traveling merchants.Their bodies were found on Wednesday night in a pickup truck on an avenue in Guerrero's capital Chilpancingo, whose mayor was beheaded last month less than a week after taking office.Two women, four minors and five adult men from the community of Chautipan, an hour's drive west of Chilpancingo, "who were being sought by this office, have been identified," the state's prosecutors said in a statement.General Pedro Nieto, head of the armed forces in the region, said they were believed to have been kidnapped by the Los Ardillos drug cartel.The military had been deployed to search for them.The vehicle was found on a highway to Acapulco, the former beachside playground of the rich and famous now blighted by criminal violence.The bodies had been dismembered, complicating efforts to identify them.On October 22, ten of the victims disappeared, with the remaining seven going missing four days later when they went looking for their loved ones.Guerrero has endured years of bloodshed linked to turf wars between drug cartels, with residents often getting caught in the middle.Criminal gangs in Mexico often use so-called "hawks" who identify and pursue strangers in the territory they control.Last week, three other dismembered bodies were found in a vehicle in Chilpancingo.Spiraling violence, much of it linked to drug trafficking and gangs, has seen more than 450,000 people murdered in Mexico since 2006.The victims include Chilpancingo mayor Alejandro Arcos, whose gruesome killing in early October caused shock and anger.Last year, 1,890 murders were recorded in Guerrero, which is home to drug production and trafficking routes, including through Pacific seaports.On October 24, armed clashes between alleged criminals and security forces left 19 people dead, including two police officers, in the southern state.And this Monday, gunmen killed five members of the same family in a suburb of Acapulco.The northwestern cartel stronghold of Sinaloa has also seen a spike in violence since the July arrest of drug lord Ismael Zambada in the United States unleashed a wave of gang infighting.Tackling the criminal violence that makes murder and kidnapping a daily occurrence in Mexico is among the major challenges facing President Claudia Sheinbaum.The former Mexico City mayor, who became the country's first woman president on October 1, has ruled out declaring "war" on drug cartels.Instead she has pledged to continue her predecessor's strategy of using social policy to tackle crime at its roots, while also making better use of intelligence.
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