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FBI agents raid Trump Tower unit owned by Russians

A squad of FBI special agents descended on Trump Tower III, which is owned by a shell company controlled by two Russian businessmen, Oleg Sergeyevich Patsulya and Agunda Konstantinovna Makeeva.

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Floridians facing divided loyalty in Republican race

It’s an anxious political moment that has the two leading conservative candidates, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump, fighting over which of them hews most closely to the extreme right flank of the party.

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RCMP’s most famous outpost at Roxham Road to be demolished

On Monday, demolition work will start on the last RCMP building on Roxham Road, which gained prominence — and notoriety — with the surge of irregular migration to Canada, spurred by U.S. President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration agenda in 2017.

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Judge rules Trump defrauded banks, insurers

A judge ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House.

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Why Toronto’s new grads are fleeing the city

The affordability crisis is starting to trump job prospects for new graduates, experts say, which could hinder Toronto’s economic development.

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Trump Jr. takes stand in NY trial of fraud suit vs. father

Donald Trump Jr. testified Wednesday that he never worked on his father's financial statements, the documents at the heart of the civil fraud trial that threatens former president Donald Trump’s real estate empire.

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Poilievre is crushing Trudeau. Can it last?

To get a sense of what could happen to Pierre Poilievre it might help to look at Joe Biden and Donald Trump, Susan Delacourt writes.

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Giuliani must pay $148 million for smearing poll workers

Donald Trump’s former top campaign lawyer Rudy Giuliani must pay $148 million to two 2020 Georgia election workers after promoting conspiracy theories about them, a federal jury in Washington determined.

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Republicans cower under Donald Trump's shadow

Sure as heck Trump isn’t hiding his malice, his evils intents and his vow to weaponize institutions of law and order as commander-in-chief, without the buffer of any naysayers in the White House — not this time, only bootlickers need apply — to curtail his lunacy, writes Rosie DiManno.

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Florida may be waking up from anti-woke

There are still reasonable Republicans in the U.S. who don’t worship at the altar of DeSantis or, even more alarmingly and unfathomably, Trump, writes Rosie DiManno.

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Donald Trump’s conviction restored a little faith

”The fact that Thursday’s verdict could be rendered a footnote in this year’s U.S. presidential election campaign is a testament to the power of Trump to normalize the abhorrent,” the

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Biden may have given U.S. a fighting chance against Trump

I suspect history will judge his presidency more kindly than Americans do today, especially in economic terms. But that judgment, of course, depends in large part on what happens next in this bizarre election, writes Ed Keenan.

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Trump repeats claim that Trudeau ‘could be’ Castro’s son

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has pumped hot air into an old and baseless conspiracy theory about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, telling a controversial internet personality that the Canadian leader

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Foo Fighters call out Trump for unauthorized use of song

The band joins a long list of performers who’ve objected to Trump using their songs. Ahead of the 2020 election, that included Bruce Springsteen, Rihanna, Phil Collins, Pharrell, John Fogerty, Neil Young, Eddy Grant, Panic! at the Disco, R.E.M. and Guns N’ Roses.

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FACT FOCUS: A look at false claims made by Trump in California

In a press conference from his Los Angeles-area golf club, former President Donald Trump revisited several topics from Tuesday night's debate, repeating several false and misleading claims on issues including

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Harris to sit down with Black journalists for a rare interview

Trump's interview with the National Association of Black Journalists featured the Republican candidate repeatedly questioning Harris’ racial identity, baselessly claiming that she had “turned Black” at some point in her

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Trump insults Detroit while campaigning in the city

DETROIT (AP) — Former President Donald Trump criticized Detroit while delivering remarks to an economic group there on Thursday, saying the whole country would end up like the city if

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Trump says China's leader will bully Harris 'like a baby'

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump said Thursday that China's leader would handle Vice President Kamala Harris “like a baby” if she's elected to the White House, as the former president

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Why Kamala Harris should worry that Trump will take Michigan

Before President Joe Biden withdrew his candidacy, he was polling at 44 per cent among the working class in Michigan, above Trump’s 36 per cent. Harris, according to October’s polls, hasn’t been able to hang onto them.

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Drop out of race, May urges U.S. Green Party leader

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May is urging U.S. counterpart Jill Stein to end her presidential campaign and endorse Kamala Harris to help prevent a Donald Trump victory.

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Fox News joy over looming Donald Trump win

Vinay Menon writes: The Fox News studio started tense, toggled to cautiously optimistic and then quickly went to “this is done.” Welcome back, Donald!

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A guide to key figures in Donald Trump's orbit

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump will return to the White House accompanied by a crew of longtime friends and aides as well as newfound, splashy allies.

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Trudeau says no question Trump is serious on tariff threat

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says incoming U.S. president Donald Trump’s threats on tariffs should be taken seriously. He adds that Canada can take the same approach to working with Trump as it did during his first term as president.

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Neighbourly Trudeau sends Trump pointed message

The Los Angeles wildfires have presented Canada with an opportunity to do what the nation has always done when its southerly neighbour is in need.

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Trudeau’s response to L.A. wildfires is a message to Trump

Fuelled by Trump’s inflammatory comments suggesting Canada is an economic freeloader and a national security vulnerability, Canada is putting its all-of-country effort on full display, writes Allan Woods.

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Danielle Smith meets with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Smith said she had a "friendly and constructive conversation" with the U.S. president-elect and emphasized the importance of energy ties between the two countries.

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New Donald Trump era soon begins with big stakes for Canada

Our country is vulnerable to an “America First” president who has an attraction to tariffs and a conviction that the U.S. is getting a raw deal from even some of its closest and friendliest partners.

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DOGE reversal: Firings of US nuclear weapons workers halted

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation's nuclear weapons programs, in an about-face that

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Donald Trump has spurred Canadians to avoid U.S.

In a down ‘n’ dirty trade war that has galvanized Canadians — elbows up, Gordie Howe style — it is certainly prudent to stay on our side of the 49th parallel, writes Rosie DiManno.

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Mark Carney hits back at Donald Trump’s tariffs

Prime Minister Mark Carney said the Trump tariffs "will rupture the global economy and adversely affect global economic growth" likely causing a recession in the U.S. which could bleed into

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What to know about the air traffic controller shortage

The Trump administration is promising to fix the nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers after recent control tower mishaps and a string of crashes earlier this year.

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