Day: January 12, 2025

Top Foreign Affairs Republican predicts US won’t leave NATO but will strengthen it

2:30 pm January 12, 2025

Top Foreign Affairs Republican Sen. Jim Risch predicted the U.S. would not abandon NATO under the Trump administration – and promised to work with the new president to strengthen it instead.  Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, who leads the powerful Foreign Relations Committee under the new Republican majority, said his number one priority is “getting Trump’s […]

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Influential leader of Canada’s Ontario province seeks Trump, Musk meeting: US ‘needs us like we need them’

2:30 pm January 12, 2025

OTTAWA-After President-elect Trump mused about using “economic force” to acquire Canada as the 51st state during his Mar-a-Lago news conference on Tuesday, outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded on social media that “there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.” However, as Trudeau announced on Monday his plan […]

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New York Democrats’ new tax forces middle-class workers into lawless subway tunnels

2:30 pm January 12, 2025

As more workers return to offices after the coronavirus pandemic, New York Democrats are pushing them into the Big Apple’s subway system with policies like the new congestion fee on cars and trucks that enter busy parts of Manhattan. The new fee, criticized as a driving tax on the middle class and businesses, is meant […]

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Californians ‘angry’ amid devastating wildfires, asking where high tax dollars went: local researcher

2:30 pm January 12, 2025

Kristian Fors, a Los Angeles County resident and research fellow at the California-based Independent Institute, says locals are wondering what their tax dollars are going toward as officials struggle to contain devastating wildfires fanned by strong winds.  The wildfires have destroyed more than 12,300 homes around LA over five consecutive days, leaving at least 11 […]

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Tennessee man arrested after shooting at family sledding in the snow, deputies say

1:09 pm January 12, 2025

A Tennessee man is facing charges after he allegedly opened fire on a family that was sledding in the snow, purporting that the family was on his property. Benjamin Cook is facing six counts of aggravated assault in connection with the shooting, according to the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office. Additional charges could be filed pending […]

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