Canada's opposition leader Poilievre loses his seat in federal election, Conservatives lose sure thing election

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Promit Mukherjee
Tue, April 29, 2025 

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Canada holds a snap election

By Promit Mukherjee

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's main opposition leader Pierre Poilievre lost his seat in Monday's general election, results from Elections Canada showed, as the Conservatives were beaten by the incumbent Liberal Party.

Poilievre, 45, failed to retain his seat in the Ontario district of Carleton, losing it to Liberal Bruce Fanjoy.

The Liberal Party's victory means Prime Minister Mark Carney, former head of the central Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, will lead a minority government.

The Liberals secured 168 seats, short of the 172 required to form a majority government.


The opposition Conservatives, led by Poilievre, won 144 seats.

That was an improvement on their performance in the 2021 election, but marked an upset as the Liberals, who were trailing in the polls, staged a comeback in the last three months.

"To my fellow Conservatives, we have much to celebrate tonight. We've gained well over 20 seats," Poilievre said, while conceding defeat to the Liberal Party.

"We are cognizant of the fact that we didn't quite get over the finish line. Yet we know that change is needed, but change is hard to come by. It takes time."

Poilievre, a career politician, looked set to become Canada's next prime minister at the start of the year as he pitched himself as a change from former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who had led the Liberals since 2015.


Poilievre rode an anti-Trudeau wave and his sharp one-liners resonated with the public.

But as U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canada and often mused about making it his country's 51st state, opinions shifted in favor of Carney over Poilievre.

Young voters, especially men, continued to support Poilievre and throng to his rallies in the run-up to the election.

"It will be an honor to continue to fight for you and to be a champion of your cause," Poilievre said in his speech.

It was not immediately known whether he would resign as the leader of the party or continue. An email sent to the Conservative Party was not immediately answered.

(Reporting by Promit Mukherjee; editing by Jason Neely)

Trump Brags About How He Screwed Over MAGA’s Canadian Ally in Election

Sarah Ewall-Wice
Mon, April 28, 2025

DAILY BEAST


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Donald Trump has touted tanking Canada’s right-of-center party’s chances of winning Monday’s election—even though it will put the left-of-center liberals in power north of the border.

The president bragged about his power in an interview with The Atlantic published Monday, just as Canadian voters headed to the polls in an election that had been a lay-up for the country’s opposition Conservative Party.

The election was called because Trump foil Justin Trudeau, leader of the ruling Liberal party, resigned. His replacement Mark Carney—a former head of both the Bank of Canada and Bank of England—then became prime minister and appeared set for a crushing defeat.

But Trump’s attacks on Canada and push to make it the 51st state turned the race on its head.

The president bragged about his personal impact on the election during a White House interview while discussing his push to make Canada a state.

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, pictured casting his ballot with his wife Anaida Poilievre on April 28, was the MAGA-aligned politician whose party was leading in the Canadian election before President Trump's attack's on the country. / Adrian Wyld/AFP via Getty ImagesMore

“You know, until I came along, remember that the conservative was leading by 25 points,” Trump said.

“Then I was disliked by enough of the Canadians that I’ve thrown the election into a close call, right? I don’t even know if it’s a close call,” he added.

In Canada, voters do not directly cast ballots for prime minister but for candidates in a political party to join parliament. The leader of the party with the most seats then becomes prime minister.

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre was considered the frontrunner consistent with the rise in anti-incumbent party sentiment at the start of the year. Trudeau and his Liberal Party had been in power for nearly a decade. Poilievre had run on a MAGA-style platform, promising tax cuts, complaining about immigration and dipping his toe into culture war issues.

Canadian Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader Mark Carney gives a thumbs up after casting his ballot in Ottawa, Canada on April 28. His party appears on track to win the election amid attacks by President Trump on Canada. / Sean Kilpatrick/AFP via Getty ImagesMore

But since Trump took office in January, the Conservative Party’s 25-point lead has been wiped out. Canadian pollster Frank Graves credited Trump as the biggest factor in the election.

The president brought up the election in his interview while talking about making Canada the 51st state.

“I say it would make a great 51st state. I love other nations. I love Canada,” Trump said.

He argued if Canada was a state, it would not face tariffs.


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That’s when The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg cut in and asked the president if he was serious about wanting Canada to become a state.

“I think it would be great,” Trump responded.

When Goldberg pointed out that Canada would amount to a very large Democratic-leaning state, Trump argued out that it had been previously been leaning toward the country’s Conservative Party.

He said that conservatives did not like Trudeau, referring to him as “governor.”

“I would call him Governor Trudeau, but he wasn’t fond of that,” the president said.

Most polls in Canada close at 9:30pm ET. Election results were expected late Monday night.

Carney was expected to secure a majority in the Ottawa parliament on an anti-Trump ticket which would put his party in power in Canada until after the 2028 elections.

Canada will deal with Trump 'on our terms', Carney tells BBC

Faisal Islam - Economics editor, BBC News

 and Michael Race - Business reporter, BBC News
Tue, April 29, 2025 




Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said his country deserves respect from the US and will only enter trade and security talks with President Donald Trump "on our terms".

Speaking exclusively to the BBC as the polls were closing, Carney said he would only visit Washington when there was a "serious discussion to be had" that respected Canada's sovereignty.

Carney and Trump have since spoken and agreed to meet in the near future, according to the Canadian prime minister's office.

"The leaders agreed on the importance of Canada and the US working together – as independent, sovereign nations – for their mutual betterment," the statement reads.

Trump was also said to congratulate Carney on the election.

Since Trump's re-election to the White House, the US president has repeatedly mentioned making Canada the "51st state" of America, and earlier on Tuesday this was reiterated by the White House on Tuesday.

"The election does not affect President Trump's plan to make Canada America's cherished 51st state," White House deputy spokesperson Anna Kelly said.

Carney, who secured a historic victory for his Liberal Party in a snap election on Monday, said such a scenario was "never, ever going to happen".

"Frankly, I don't think it's ever going to happen with respect to any other [country]... whether it's Panama or Greenland or elsewhere," he added.

However, he said there was a "win-win possibility" for his country if it could secure a deal with the US and also build on trading relationships with the European Union and the UK.

Strained US relations

The US is a big market for Canadian businesses with roughly 75% of Canada's exports heading south.

Canada accounts for a much smaller 17% of US exports.

Canada is also America's largest foreign supplier of crude oil. America's trade deficit with Canada - expected to be $45bn in 2024 - was mostly driven by US energy demands.

Canada and US relations have been strained in recent months, driven by Trump's talk of a "51st state" and referring to previous Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as "governor" - the title for leaders of individual American states.

The US president has also sparked a global trade war in which Canada was one of the first countries targeted with tariffs.

Trump has partially imposed a blanket 25% tariff on various Canadian goods, along with 25% import taxes on all aluminium and steel imports, but has exempted products covered by a US, Canada and Mexico trade deal known as USMCA.

Canada has retaliated with some C$60bn ($42bn; £32bn) worth of tariffs on US goods.

Carney said talks with Trump would be "on our terms, not on their terms".

"There is a partnership to be had, an economic and security partnership," he said.

"It's going to be a very different one than we've had in the past."

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Carney has touted his experience handling global economic crises as a way to deal with Trump on tariffs.

Before becoming PM in early March, Carney had never held political office.

He is a banker by trade, leading the Bank of Canada during the 2008 global financial crisis before becoming the first non-British person to take on the top job at the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020.

The PM said Canada was the "biggest client for more than 40 states" in the US.

"Remember that we supply them [the US] with vital energy. Remember that we supply their farmers with basically all their fertiliser," Carney told the BBC.

"We deserve respect. We expect respect and I'm sure we'll get it in due course again, and then we can have these discussions."

Canada and the US, along with Mexico, have deeply integrated economies, with billions of pounds worth of manufactured goods crossing the borders on a daily basis, for example, car parts.

The introduction of tariffs, which are taxes levied on goods as they enter a country and paid for by the importer, threatens decades of collaborations between the nations.

Trump has argued tariffs will encourage more Americans to buy domestically-made goods, which will ultimately boost US manufacturing and jobs.
Trade with allies being 'put to the test'

While America's main opponent in the global trade conflict is China, the introduction of Trump's blanket, so-called "reciprocal tariffs" on the likes of the UK and other European countries has led to allies seeking fresh agreements in response to barriers to trading with the world's largest economy.

Carney, who endorsed UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves during the British general election, said "one would think" that Canada and the UK could sign a stalled free trade agreement as part of diversifying trade, but highlighted about 95% of trade between the countries is effectively tariff-free already.

"We could expand the level of integration between our countries, like-minded countries. You think about defence partnerships, and those conversations have just just begun, so there's a lot that we can do," he added.

In a statement congratulating Carney, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said: "I know we will continue to work closely on defence, security, trade and investment."

Carney said the G7 summit hosted by Canada in June would be "very important" in deciding the future path of the global trade war, adding it would "put to the test" whether the group of the world's seven most advanced economies - which includes the US - was still the most "like-minded of like-minded countries".

The summit will occur just before the 90-day pause on some of Trump's higher tariffs is set to expire.

FEDERAL ELECTION 2025

LEFT WING NDP ROUTED NATIONALLY,  

NDP LEADER LOSES SEAT, STEPS DOWN AS LEADER

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh leaves after a sign waving campaign event with Port Moody-Coquitlam NDP candidate Bonita Zarrillo and volunteers on election day, in Port Moody, B.C., on Monday, April 28, 2025.

OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh said he was stepping down as NDP leader on Monday night after suffering a resounding defeat on election night, losing his own seat and seeing his party reduced to what would likely be a single-digit seat count.

When an emotional Singh took the stage to speak to a crowd of supporters in Burnaby, B.C. he was in third place in his riding with less than 20 per cent of the vote, trailing both the Conservative and Liberal candidate.

The NDP also looked likely to lose its party status on Monday after leading in only seven seats across the country by the time Singh took the stage at 9:30 p.m. local time.

“Obviously, I’m disappointed we could not win more seats. But I’m not disappointed in our movement. I’m hopeful for our party, I know we will always choose hope over fear and optimism over despair and unity over hate,” he said.

Among the smattering of NDP candidates who had secured victory on Monday night were Alexandre Boulerice in Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, Leah Gazan in Winnipeg Centre and Jenny Kwan in Vancouver East. As Singh spoke, longtime NDP MP Don Davies was locked in a battle in the Vancouver Kingsway riding with his Liberal opponent.

More than a dozen NDP incumbents are likely to lose their seats by the time all the votes have been counted.

Related video: Liberals win 4th mandate as NDP vote collapses and Singh announces he will resign (The Canadian Press)

'Hockey and nostalgia' won't keep us together: SOME Albertans say they're serious about separation after Liberal win

THE MAJORITY OF ALBERTANS OPPOSE THE SMITH/MANNING SEPARATISTS

Polls show as many as three in 10 Albertans would vote to leave the federation if the Liberals continue to hold power in Ottawa.


Alberta Premier Danielle Smith takes part in a panel on Canada-U.S. relations at a Calgary Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Thursday April 3, 2025.

'BETTER TOETHER' IS NOT NATIONAL UNITY 

BUT AS THE 51ST STATE, SMITHS WET DREAM

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith didn’t immediately issue a statement when the networks called the federal election for Mark Carney’s Liberals at 10:15 PM EST, but it’s safe to say that not all is calm on the western front.

The Liberals’ fourth straight federal election win keeps Alberta and Ottawa on a collision course, raising the once unthinkable prospect of a referendum on the Prairie province’s separation from Canada

At the time of the election call, the Liberals were leading in just two of Alberta’s 37 ridings .

Cameron Davies, an ex-UCP organizer who supports Alberta independence, said he was disgusted by the Liberal campaign’s use of tired national cliches, which he said made light of the serious issues facing the federation.

“Hockey and nostalgia doesn’t pay the bills… that hockey and nostalgia, it’s not going to keep Canada together,” said Davies.

“Without a reimagined confederation, there will be a strong separatist movement in Alberta,” said Davies.

Davies, who tendered his resignation to the UCP on Thursday, says he plans to spend the next few weeks having “honest, difficult conversations” with likeminded Albertans.


Related video: Premier Danielle Smith reacts to federal election results (cbc.ca)


Smith had warned heading into the election that a Liberal win could lead to an “unprecedented national unity crisis,” if Carney didn’t, within his first six months, undo a handful of Liberal policies that she said unfairly hampered Alberta’s oil and gas sector.

“ Albertans will no longer tolerate the way we’ve been treated by the federal Liberals over the past 10 years,” Smith said in a social media post.

Reform Party founder Preston Manning soon upped the ante, calling Carney himself a “ threat to national unity ” in a widely circulated op-ed.

Manning wrote that “large numbers of Westerners simply will not stand for another four years of Liberal government, no matter who leads it.”

He predicted that, if Carney were to emerge victorious from Monday’s election, he “would then be identified in the history books, tragically and needlessly, as the last prime minister of a united Canada.”

Smith has already announced she’ll launch a post-mortem election panel to give Albertans the chance to weigh in on issues they might want put to a referendum.

Polls show as many as three in 10 Albertans would vote to leave the federation if the Liberals continue to hold power in Ottawa.

Carney needs to seize the chance to reset relations with Alberta, said Martha Hall Findlay, the director of the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy.

“I think the opportunity to move forward is absolutely there… I have every confidence that the prime minister of Canada and premier of Alberta will realize they can accomplish a lot more working together than by being at each other’s throats,” said Findlay.

Hall Findlay said that Carney could build immediate goodwill by dropping the existing targets for the federal emissions cap, set by Trudeau-era environment minister Steven Guilbeault.

“My hope is that (Carney) shows a pragmatism with respect to the West. Perfect example: he stops being coy about an emissions cap, even if he says we still believe in a cap on emissions but the time frames need to be revisited,” said Hall Findlay.

Hall Findlay was a Liberal MP from 2008 to 2011, holding a Toronto-area seat, before moving to Alberta to work in the oil and gas sector.

Rachel Parker, an independent journalist who travels in independentist circles, said she wasn’t as sanguine about the election’s outcome.

“You know, frustrations in Western Canada have grown quite high. They’ve always sort of been there bubbling underneath the surface, this put things into overdrive,” said Parker.


Parker said that Alberta’s independence movement had been organizing in the weeks leading up to Monday’s federal election and she expected to see this activity pick up in the weeks to come.

She added she doesn’t think much will come out of Smith’s post-election panel.

“Panels are really a government’s way of saying ‘we’re doing something, we’re doing something,’ when it’s really just kicking an issue down the road.”

Smith’s predecessor Jason Kenney launched the Alberta Fair Deal Panel shortly after becoming premier in 2019, citing the province’s growing frustration with Ottawa.

The panel generated 25 recommendations, paving the way for a fall 2021 referendum on Alberta’s participation in the federal equalization program .

Kenney’s panel came with a steep price tag of $650,000

Jack Jedwab, the head of the Association for Canadian Studies, says that Alberta sovereigntism differs from the more well-known Quebec variant in several important ways.

“I’d describe it as a form of economic nationalism which is driven by a sense of grievance wherein many Albertans feel they give more than they receive from the federal government,” said Jedwab.

“Albertans strongly identify as Canadian and do not feel emotionally detached from Canada which is something that more likely characterizes Quebec’s expression of nationalism,” he said.

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George Clooney's Wife, Amal, Could Be Denied Entry to United States: Report

Stacy Carey
Tue, April 29, 2025 
 

Movie star George Clooney and his attorney and human rights activist wife, Amal Clooney, own homes all over the world. A new report, however, indicates that she may soon have issues entering the United States to visit the family's homes in California and New York.

On April 25, the Financial Times reported that a handful of senior attorneys from the United Kingdom, including Clooney, had been "warned" that they may soon face sanctions that would impact their access to the U.S.

The issue, according to the Financial Times, is the involvement and advice provided by Clooney and others to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Specifically, insight related to the ICC's investigation into the situation involving Israel and Gaza.

The warnings originated from Britain's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, sources told the media outlet.

In addition to Clooney, several other British attorneys who have done similar work also received warnings.

Earlier, ICC prosecutor and British resident Karim Khan was sanctioned and had assets and property blocked. In addition, Khan is unable to enter the U.S. Sanctions for Clooney and others could bring similar restrictions.

According to People, Clooney was born in Lebanon and emigrated with her family to the United Kingdom when she was 2 years old. She studied at both Oxford and New York 

George and Amal Clooney wed in September 2014 and have twins, Alexander and Ella, who are 7.

House Beautiful indicates that in addition to the family's main home in Lake Como, Italy, the family owns properties in New York, California, France, and England.

AMERIKAN FASCISM

“60 Minutes” Rattles Viewers with Stunning Closing Segment, Implies That Trump Administration Is Pressuring Their Coverage

The show's executive producer, Bill Owens, resigned suddenly on April 22, citing an inability to make ‘independent decisions’ about programming amid Paramount's battle with Trump

Meredith Kile
Mon, April 28, 2025 

PEOPLE


60 Minutes/Youtube; Andrew Harnik/Getty'60 Minutes' host Scott Pelley (L); President Donald Trump (R)


60 Minutes surprised viewers on Sunday night by ending with a segment about their executive producer, Bill Owens, who resigned last week.


Correspondent Scott Pelley spoke out on Owens’ departure, implying that CBS News' parent company, Paramount Global, had been influencing the show's coverage in order to appease President Donald Trump.

Paramount is currently trying to complete a multi-million dollar merger with Skydance, which would require regulatory approval from the Trump-appointed FCC.

Following the surprise resignation of 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens, the news magazine's Sunday night broadcast ended with a segment implying that President Donald Trump and his administration have had an inappropriate influence on the show.


Correspondent Scott Pelley, in a segment of “The Last Minute,” insinuated that the show’s parent company, Paramount Global, had started to push back on some of their more hard-hitting segments — especially those about the current administration.


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The company is currently in the process of completing a major merger with Skydance, and needs the Trump administration’s regulatory approval.

“Stories we pursued for 57 years are often controversial — lately the Israel-Gaza war and the Trump administration,” Pelley, 67, told viewers. “Bill made sure they were accurate and fair. He was tough that way, but our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it.”

“Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways,” he continued. “None of our stories has been blocked, but Bill felt he had lost the independence that honest journalism requires.”

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Bill Owens, the former executive producer of "60 Minutes," speaks at a 2022 event

In his resignation memo obtained by multiple outlets on April 22, Owens claimed that he had lost the ability to “make independent decisions” regarding the show and “what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience.”

“Over the past months, it has also become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it,” he continued. “Having defended this show — and what we stand for — from every angle, over time with everything I could, I am stepping aside so the show can move forward.”

In his segment, Pelley said that “no one here is happy” about Owens leaving 60 Minutes.

“But in resigning, Bill proved one thing: he was the right person to lead 60 Minutes all along,” the former CBS Evening News anchor continued. “It was hard on him and hard on us, but he did it for us and you.”

Related: Why Does Trump Hate the White House Correspondents' Dinner? His Sour History with the Event Goes Way Back

Trump’s ongoing vendetta against 60 Minutes is a major roadblock for the Paramount-Skydance merger. The president is currently in the midst of a lawsuit with the show, over an interview they conducted with former Vice President Kamala Harris in the midst of her 2024 presidential campaign.

Trump filed the lawsuit in October 2024, claiming that CBS News edited one of Harris’ answers in order to improve her chances of winning the White House. While the network initially refused his legal team’s demand for an unedited transcript of the interview, they did eventually make it public January, following a request from the Federal Communications Commission.

Paramount’s legal team has argued that the suit is an “affront to the First Amendment and is without basis in law or fact,” noting that all news shows regularly edit interviews for clarity, context and airtime — not in an effort to change the facts.

However, in February, The New York Times reported that Paramount Global’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, told the board that she wanted to settle the legal battle with Trump. While the NYT said at the time that Redstone’s statement didn’t mention the Skydance deal by name, it did “underscore the fact that a pending multibillion-dollar lawsuit from the president made it difficult for Paramount to do business.”

Redstone, the only daughter of late Viacom founder and CBS chairman Sumner Redstone. stands to make a significant amount of money if the merger is completed.


Related: CBS Airs 60 Minutes Interview with Trump — Including When He 'Walked Out' After Complaining About Tone

Chip Somodevilla/GettyPresident Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Jan. 30, 2025

Trump has made no secret about his desire to bring the law down on 60 Minutes, CBS News and Paramount.


In an April 13 post on Truth Social, he called for his appointed FCC Chairman, Brendan Carr, to impose fines and strip the network of its license over 60 Minutes segments on Greenland and Ukraine.

“They are not a ‘News Show,’ but a dishonest Political Operative simply disguised as ‘News,’ and must be responsible for what they have done, and are doing,” Trump wrote. “Hopefully, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as headed by its Highly Respected Chairman, Brendan Carr, will impose the maximum fines and punishment, which is substantial, for their unlawful and illegal behavior. CBS is out of control, at levels never seen before, and they should pay a big price for this.”

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When 60 Minutes launched its 55th season in 2022, Owens told PEOPLE that he and his team had "no interest in changing the content" of the historic news magazine, even as the media landscape evolves.

"60 Minutes is a place where you're not going to get a partisan take on anything," Owens said at the time. "I like to tell the staff we broadcast to the entire country. We're not aiming at anybody. We're aiming at the entire country, San Francisco to Kansas City to Sarasota to Hartford, Connecticut."

ICE Invades Wrong Home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves

Opinion
Hafiz Rashid
Tue, April 29, 2025 

The New Republic

In Oklahoma City Thursday, about 20 federal immigration agents raided the wrong home, forcing a woman out of the house with her three daughters, not even leaving them enough time to get dressed, and then seized their phones, laptops, and life savings.

The woman had only moved into the house two weeks earlier, after relocating to Oklahoma from Maryland. The armed agents told the woman, identified by local TV station KFOR as “Marisa,” that they had a search warrant, but the named suspects on the warrant didn’t live in the house and weren’t connected to anyone in the family.

“We just moved here from Maryland,” Marisa said. “We’re citizens. That’s what I kept saying. We’re citizens.”


The agents, who identified themselves as U.S. marshals, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and FBI agents, didn’t seem to care, waking the family up, forcing them outside in their underwear, ransacking the house, and taking the family’s belongings as “evidence.”

“I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” said Marisa. “I have to feed my children. I’m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.”

“They were very dismissive, very rough, very careless,” the woman added. “I kept pleading. I kept telling them we weren’t criminals. They were treating us like criminals. We were here by ourselves. We didn’t do anything.”

One agent told the family, “I know it was a little rough this morning.”

“It was so denigrating. That you do all of this to a family, to women, your fellow citizens. And it was ‘a little rough’? You literally traumatized me and my daughters for life. We’re going to have to go get help or get over this somehow,” Marisa said. The agents told her that it could take days or months for the family’s stuff to be returned, and wouldn’t even give her a business card.

It all fits a pattern of cruelty from the Trump administration in its efforts to deport as many people as it can. The White House doesn’t believe in due process or following the law, or even standards of basic decency. The violent raid in Oklahoma City would be wrong even against a family of undocumented immigrants, let alone U.S. citizens like Marisa and her daughters. Hopefully, she and other victims of the administration’s wanton behavior can get restitution.

AMERIKA POLICE STATE

Bondi and Hegseth ordered to look at how military can be used in domestic operations

Story by Joe Sommerlad

 • Independent UK

Donald Trump has ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to look at how the United States military might be used to prevent crime.

The executive order - “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Civilians” - was signed by Trump at the White House on Monday ahead of his 100th day in office Tuesday. It instructs Bondi and Hegseth to “determine how military and national security assets, training, non-lethal capabilities, and personnel” can be used to support domestic law enforcement.

The order also establishes a legal defense mechanism for law enforcement officers accused of misconduct and threatens a crackdown on officials who prevent law enforcement officers from carrying out their duties.

However, experts have already warned the latest order risks violating the Posse Comitatus Act 1878, introduced to keep the Armed Forces out of police matters.

“Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both,” the act states.

It was subsequently extended to apply the same restrictions to the U.S. Navy and the Marine Corps.

Earlier this month, Trump attracted the same complaint after authorizing the U.S. military to take control of land at the country’s southern border with Mexico as part of his administration’s efforts to crack down on undocumented immigration from Central America.

A memorandum was sent to Hegseth, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other members of the cabinet entitled “Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions” that outlined the president’s plan to allows American forces to “take a more direct role” in policing the border.

“Our southern border is under attack from a variety of threats,” the memo read. “The complexity of the current situation requires that our military take a more direct role in securing our southern border than in the recent past.”

It gave the Department of Defense jurisdiction over federal lands in the region, including the Roosevelt Reservation that crosses California, Arizona and New Mexico, and would empower soldiers stationed there to detain immigrants accused of trespassing.

Among the other orders signed by the president on Monday was one seeking to punish sanctuary cities for failing to cooperate with immigration enforcement and another ordering truck drivers to prove they can speak English before hitting America’s roads.

UPS cutting 20,000 jobs amid reduction in Amazon shipments

Mary Cunningham
Tue, April 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM MDT 4 min read





UPS on Tuesday announced it is planning to cut 20,000 jobs this year, part of a cost-cutting effort that's linked to the delivery giant's decision to deliver fewer packages from Amazon, its biggest customer.

The shipping company, which operates in over 200 countries, currently has around 490,000 employees. The layoffs will impact slightly over 4% of its workforce. This follows an announcement from UPS last year that it would cut 12,000 positions.


The move is part of the company's plan to consolidate UPS's facilities and workforce. Along with the job cuts, the company announced it will also close 73 of its buildings by the end of June 2025 and said that it may target additional buildings for closure.

"These actions will enable us to expand our U.S. Domestic operating margin and increase profitability," Brian Dykes, the chief financial officer of UPS said during an earnings call on Tuesday morning.

In a Tuesday regulatory filing, UPS said the cuts are in "connection with our anticipation of lower volumes from our largest customer." The company, which announced $21.5 billion in revenue for this past quarter, expects to save $3.5 billion this year as a result of its consolidation plan.

According to Sean M. O'Brien, the Teamsters general president, UPS is contractually obligated to create 30,000 Teamsters jobs under their current national master agreement.

"If UPS wants to continue to downsize corporate management, the Teamsters won't stand in its way," O'Brien said. "But if the company intends to violate our contract or makes any attempt to go after hard-fought, good-paying Teamsters jobs, UPS will be in for a hell of a fight."


"Strong" relationship with Amazon

The company in January said it had reached an agreement with Amazon to decrease its delivery volume by more than 50% in the second half of 2026.

"The reduction of package volume from Amazon is something UPS chose to do as we focus on revenue quality, and increase domestic operating margin and profitability," a UPS spokesperson told CBS MoneyWatch in an email.

Amazon said in an email to CBS MoneyWatch that the company has a "strong working relationship" with UPS and that it had actually offered to increase UPS' volumes before the delivery company made the decision to reduce its Amazon shipments.

"Due to their operational needs, UPS requested a reduction in volume and we certainly respect their decision," said Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson. "We'll continue to partner with them and many other carriers to serve our customers."


UPS delivers millions of packages worldwide each year. Last year, the company delivered an average of 22.4 million parcels per day, or 5.7 billion for the entire year.

UPS shares slipped 55 cents, or 0.6%, to $96.61 in afternoon trading.

Trade risks rising

In its quarterly earnings statement, the company also mentioned the risk that shifts in global trade policy could have on business. The Trump administration has introduced sweeping new tariffs in recent months that have already began to impact the flow of goods in and out of the country, and around the world.


UPS handles roughly 400,000 imported parcels each day, or roughly 2% of the packages they move on a daily basis. Still, the company could be impacted if the trade war between China and the U.S. continues.

"From a revenue perspective, last year, revenue on our China to U.S. trade lanes represented 11% of our total international revenue," said CEO Carol Tomé said during Tuesday's earning call. "Our China to U.S. trade lines are our most profitable trade lines."

UPS is keeping customers abreast of tariff developments on its website. It has also introduced a tool called UPS Global Checkout that shows online shoppers the upfront costs they will have to pay in duties, fees and taxes.

Amazon is also coming under pressure over tariffs. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday accused the retailer of engaging in "a hostile and political act" after political news site Punchbowl reported that Amazon plans to display tariff costs next to product prices.


"Why didn't Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years?" Leavitt said during a press briefing.

Amazon pushed back on the report, saying in a Tuesday statement to CBS News that its Amazon Haul store "considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products." Amazon Haul was introduced late last year by the e-commerce giant to sell low-cost goods to compete with Temu and Shein.

"This was never approved and is not going to happen," said Tim Doyle, an Amazon spokesperson.