U.S. President Donald Trump is responding to Ontario’s decision to slap a 25 per cent surcharge on all electricity exports to the United States, threatening to “get it all back” with reciprocal tariffs on April 2. “Despite the fact that Canada is charging the USA from 250% to 390% on Tariffs on many of our farm products, Ontario just announced a 25% surcharge on ‘electricity,’ of all things, and your not even allowed to do that,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Because our Tariffs are reciprocal, we’ll just get it all back on April 2.” He repeated previous claims that Canada is a “Tariff abuser” and suggested that the U.S. will “not be subsidizing Canada anymore.” “We don’t need your Cars, we don’t need your Lumber, we don’t your Energy, and very soon you will find that out,” he wrote.

But actions such as this pale in comparison with the scale of those taken by climate activists abroad. In Germany, activists last year staged attacks against gas pipelines, while others escalated a campaign against concrete with two arson attacks on a Cemex plant in Berlin.

Two ‘heroes’ have appeared before Cork District Court and been given four months to comply with the city's new busking bylaws. “I am not a rebel but I am prepared to go to jail over this,” a defiant Gerry Barry said.

Mahmoud Khalil says he is a legal resident; the administration is holding him in an ICE detention facility, claiming he engaged in "pro-terrorist, anti-American" activity during 2024 protests.

The GENIUS Act is the first pro-crypto bill Republicans want to rush through this Congress. Thanks to industry money, several Democrats are ignoring the bill’s major problems.

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A US immigration enforcement agent said Khalil’s permanent residency [green card] was also being revoked, according to a lawyer.

“Teleworking employees must return to the office on or before March 31, 2025,” reads a Wednesday email Texas Workforce Commission Executive Director Ed Serna sent to the agency’s 4,700 or so employees. There will be “very limited” exceptions to the policy, and the parameters of those exceptions are still being finalized, Serna wrote.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has eliminated two committees that advise it on food safety, the agency said on Friday, raising concerns about government oversight of the food supply as the Trump administration seeks to downsize the federal bureaucracy and slash costs.

Kyle Kapitanski is set to be arraigned next week on a felony charge stemming from the crash that killed Sean Hayes, a cyclist, in South Burlington.

According to two administration officials, Trump told top members of his administration that Musk was empowered to make recommendations to the departments but not to issue unilateral decisions on staffing and policy. Musk was also in the room.

Photographers Hawaii captured what scientists say is the first documentation of humpback whale sex.

A hipbone from Paranthropus robustus, a species of hominin thought to have lived alongside our direct ancestors, has revealed they also walked upright. Besides confirming their similarity to us, the discovery also reveals how small Paranthropus was and how vulnerable it would have been given the fearsome predators of its environment, and also complicates the story we have told about their sex lives.

The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.

‘We are ready to step up’ says Ursula von der Leyen after US suspends military aid to Ukraine

The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk on sports, and agreed on prisons and youth care.

In the anonymous paperwork of LLC registrations, scam victims are desperate to find a real person to help them. Sometimes all they have is Lovette.

The vote was 224-198, with 10 Democrats joining all Republicans in approving the resolution.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government have caused a record-breaking surge in layoffs. U.S. workers are being laid off at levels not seen since the Great Recession in 2009, all thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. A new report from Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, an international firm that helps laid-off workers find new jobs, said that job losses spiked a whopping 245 percent to 172,017 last month, higher than any month since the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic in July 2020, and the highest in any February since 2009.