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The New York Times reports: Mr. Modore has tuberculosis. He is 40, a tall man whose weight has dropped to 110 pounds. He has a wracking cough and sometimes vomits blood. He fears the disease will kill him and has been desperate to be on medication to treat it. Mr. Modore is one of thousands of Kenyans, and hundreds of …

The CBC reports: Amid the patriotic chest-thumping and sincere efforts of Canadians to do right by their country in the face of the on-again, off-again U.S. tariffs, the humble little Maple Leaf has been working overtime. Perhaps nowhere more so than at the grocery store, where shelves are emblazoned with red maple leaves to indicate that certain products are, to …

The Washington Post reports: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he had ordered a doubling of the tariff on Canadian steel and aluminum in response to Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s imposition of a new tax on electricity supplied to three U.S. states. Ford’s action was itself a response to Trump’s earlier tariff move. Trump also said without providing details that …

“Despite the fact that Canada is charging the USA from 250% to 390% 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. Because our Tariffs are reciprocal, we’ll just get it all back on April 2. Canada is a Tariff abuser, and always …

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: Recession fears are roiling markets, as tech stocks and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell sharply again on Monday. Stock prices have been richly valued for some time, and this may be merely a market correction. But there are also signs of a slowing economy that should have the Trump Administration on alert. …

“To Republicans, Conservatives, and all great Americans, Elon Musk is ‘putting it on the line’ in order to help our Nation, and he is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! “But the Radical Left Lunatics, as they often do, are trying to illegally and collusively boycott Tesla, one of the World’s great automakers, and Elon’s ‘baby,’ in order to attack and do …

“The only people that should be losing sleep right now are the Democrat Party. It’s the Nancy Pelosi’s who we’re looking at. It’s the Liz Cheney’s, you know, Pocahontas. We’re looking at all that stuff, and we’re gonna find out why you’re so rich on government money. There’s just so much to go into. I can’t even, I don’t even …

CNN reports: A federal judge in New York has blocked any efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia university graduate and Palestinian activist who was arrested Saturday night until a hearing Wednesday, according to court documents. He is expected to appear in court on Wednesday morning, according to the documents. Khalil, a prominent Palestinian activist …

Forbes reports: The stock market selloff stretched into a new week, with the latest losses again tied to comments from President Donald Trump, whose wide-sweeping and oft-changing tariff policies have rattled Wall Street confidence, as early fears of a recession emerge. All three major U.S. stock indexes fell significantly Monday, erasing Friday afternoon’s comeback. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped …

The Meidas Touch reports: Trump posted an article to his Truth Social account this weekend featuring a deeply troubling image: a pink triangle—the Nazi-era symbol used to identify and persecute gay men in concentration camps—covered with a red prohibited sign. Historically, the LGBTQ+ rights movement reclaimed the pink triangle as a symbol of resistance, pride, and remembrance. The article itself …

ABC News reports: Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, called Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly a “traitor” in a post on X after Kelly posted that he had visited Ukraine over the weekend. Kelly, in a thread on X Sunday night, posted photos of his visit to Ukraine and wrote that “Everyone wants this …

CBS News reports: Facing President Trump’s repeated assertions that Greenland should be brought under U.S. control, the island’s Prime Minister Mute Egede said that Mr. Trump was, “very unpredictable, in such a way that people feel insecure” as global power dynamics shift. Egede’s interview with Denmark’s public broadcaster, DR, was published Monday, one day before voters on the vast but …

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk said Monday’s international X outage was the work of either a “large group” of people or a state-sanctioned cyber attack. The announcement from the platform’s owner came amid hours of rolling outages from the US to the UK – and elsewhere. X users who reported issues were using both the platform’s mobile app and web browsers. …

“As I made clear during my Joint Address to Congress, the United States strongly supports the people of Greenland’s right to determine their own future. We will continue to KEEP YOU SAFE, as we have since World War II. We are ready to INVEST BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to create new jobs and MAKE YOU RICH — And, if you so …

“Anybody who bets against Donald Trump – it’s like the same people who thought Donald Trump wasn’t a winner a year ago – Donald Trump is a winner. He’s going to win for the American people. That’s just the way it’s going to be. There’s going to be no recession in America. “We’ll unleash America out to the world. Grow …

Business Insider reports: Wealthy Chinese investors secretly funnel millions of dollars into private companies owned by Elon Musk, using complex financial structures that hide their identities. According to a report from the Financial Times, these investments are flowing into Musk’s private ventures, including SpaceX, Neuralink, and xAI. To evade scrutiny, the funds are funneled through special-purpose vehicles (SPVs). While these …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump is nominating his close allies to serve on the board of visitors for the U.S. Naval Academy, a month after firing the previous board. On the list is Walt Nauta, a Navy veteran who has served as Trump’s body man and was federally indicted alongside the now-president in the classified documents case. Trump also nominated …

Forbes reports: Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, blamed fellow billionaires George Soros, Reid Hoffman and the ActBlue fundraising organization over recent protests targeting his firm Tesla, citing an “investigation”—though it’s unclear what investigation he’s referencing.  Musk also misleadingly called these groups “ActBlue-funded,” though ActBlue does not fund groups, but instead is a platform through which donors can give money …

The Washington Post reports: A Trump administration freeze on purchase cards that agencies use to cover everything from dumpster pickups at national parks to liquid nitrogen for lifesaving military research is upending work across the government, according to more than two dozen affected employees and records obtained by The Washington Post. As a result of the move, government scientists who …

From Charlie Kirk’s Daily Caller op-ed: Democrats are positively giddy about the price of eggs. A dozen currently costs around $7, up from just $2 in October. For liberals who resent President Trump’s overwhelming electoral mandate, that’s sufficient proof that these backward, “extreme” MAGA Republicans didn’t know what they were voting for. First, the high price of eggs is in …