A crazed gunman who belived he was Jesus Christ pulled out a revolver and opened fire outside the White House Saturday night, before he was quckly taken down by a barrage shots from the Secret Service, sources said.
Nasire Best, 21, fired at a checkpoint at about 6:10 p.m. after being seen pacing in a strange manner up and down 17th St. Northwest, sources told The Post. He only got off a few shots before he was shot and killed in a hail of bullets from federal officers.
WASHINGTON – A high-ranking U.S. defence official says the Pentagon gave Ottawa a classified paper laying out priorities for a collective North American defence pact with Canada, but that Ottawa did not deliver a “credible” response.
That lack of response is just one of several irritants the senior Pentagon official said is creating a rift in North American defence co-operation. Canada’s delayed decision around the procurement of F-35 fighter jets was also cited as a source of frustration.
The official from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration briefed a small group of mostly Canadian journalists this week on background in order to speak more candidly about Canada-U.S. relations.
Carney’s negotiating strategy seems to be about making Canada a pariah state to all but China and perhaps North Korea.
“Just outside this window, here’s the US base that they’re targeting,” says Ben Proud, the 31-year-old British swimmer and Olympian . He turns his video camera around to show me the night sky above Abu Dhabi, where he’s been watching Emirati defenses intercept Iranian missiles.
His phone dings each time one is incoming—an alert to stay inside. “This building used to be an air force base, so it’s very sturdy,” he says of the Erth hotel, where the athletes competing in the Enhanced Games are currently training. “If you’re inside, you’re away from the danger. Pretty much.”
TORONTO — Toronto politicians love to sell the city as a world-class destination ready to welcome the globe for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The ads are polished, the slogans are optimistic, and the promises are endless. But outside the carefully crafted marketing campaigns lies a city already struggling to handle its own daily pressures.
The reality is uncomfortable: Toronto is not in shape to host an event of this scale.
Meanwhile, crack on the TTC 9:45 pm Queen Streetcar Toronto May 20 2026 pic.twitter.com/gFq8kffjyG
— Josh Ryan 🍁 (@joshryanjames) May 21, 2026
President Donald Trump has once again floated his controversial Greenland land-grab plans with a dramatic social media post showing himself looming over the Arctic island.
The AI-generated image, shared on Friday evening, featured Trump peering over the Danish territory’s mountains and colorful villages beneath the words: ‘Hello, Greenland!’
Why do Canadians cherish privacy in the first place? If a person has nothing to hide, why should they care if the authorities can read their emails, texts, or AI conversations? Why does Section 8 of the Charter expressly protect Canadians against unreasonable search and seizure?
Even completely innocent people who have nothing to hide rightfully cherish their ability to think, speak, explore ideas, and meet with others, without the state silently observing their every move. If we are not comfortable with a nosy neighbour (or even a close friend!) knowing everything about us, why should we accept the state knowing all kinds of things about our personal lives?
Small skulls hover on screens inside boardrooms in Kyiv. What looks like the scoreboard of a video game represents the number of Russians killed on the front line in Ukraine.
Kills translate into points and the more virtual points a Ukrainian unit scores, the better the weapons it can buy on the Brave1 online marketplace.
This gamification of the war does not suit everyone. Western leaders have apparently left the meetings grim-faced, perhaps because the cold reality of modern warfare is difficult to square with the Call of Duty-style icons.
The Trump administration’s decision this week to “suspend” the 86-year-old Permanent Joint Board on Defence sent some of us scurrying back to our well-thumbed copies of “The Good Allies,” the late Tim Cook’s study of the wartime alliance between Canada and the United States.
The joint board on defence, which the Americans clearly no longer regard as “permanent,” has (or had) its origins in that alliance. It was a forum for Canadians and Americans, mostly senior military leaders, to hash out common defence issues a couple of times a year.
Wait till the CUSMA review.
This video never stops being funny 😹 pic.twitter.com/dd62NzPeKd
— Hazel Appleyard (@HazelAppleyard) May 23, 2026
🚨🍿 Trump invites Tim Cook to explain basic economics to Mark Carney after Canada demands 15% of revenue from Apple, Netflix, Amazon, and Disney.
Have Canadians had enough of this economically illiterate Liberal government yet?🤡 pic.twitter.com/NkJkrbNrHz
— THE OFFICIAL RECORD (@SatireSquadHQ) May 23, 2026
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — In a case kept largely under seal to protect an active investigation and the safety of witnesses, two alleged senior figures in Chinese transnational criminal networks — each carrying the “Big Brother” honorific that signals high-ranking leadership — have been charged in a United States federal court with laundering fentanyl proceeds for the Sinaloa Cartel and the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, according to court documents obtained by The Bureau.
Reparations, its proponents insist, are payments white Americans owe black Americans for enslaving them, a practice that ended 163 years ago. These advocates would have us believe that seven or eight generations after the fact, the limitations and inequalities of slavery still hold slavery’s descendants back and deny them their chance at the American dream. And somebody has to pay.
Setting aside the logic of that claim for the moment — while noting its similarity to the familiar liberal mantra: “Vote for us, and we’ll give you stuff!” — let us consider the practical question: Who exactly should pay whom?
For the public health sceptic, monkeypox is the gift that keeps on giving. Hot off the press is a case that has rocked the worlds of virology and epidemiology, with the monkeypox virus facing accusations of plagiarism.
Plagiarism, the deliberate use of the words or ideas of others without attribution while passing them off as your own is considered one of the most serious violations of scientific ethics. The outcome for the monkeypox virus could be severe including removal from the prestigious BSV (Big Scary Viruses) list.
CULTURAL conservatism is doomed. ‘Doomed, I tell you!’ as Dad’s Army’s Private Frazer was wont to say. Meaning that all its worthwhile integral components will wither and perish along with it. Including such ways-of-living-your-life as patriotism, the family, small government, self-restraint and stoicism. Why? Not because of their intrinsic worth. And still less because they lack foundation in invincible reality. But simply because cultural conservatives (note the imperative small ‘c’, given the Conservative Party’s awful example) have conceded the battlefield of language.
Gore Vidal remarked during the George W. Bush years that comedians such as Jon Stewart had become leading political figures because the Left lacked powerful “alternative voices”. The idea that late-night clowns could represent American liberalism struck the great author as an absurdity. “What do they have to do with it?” he asked, before answering his own question: “Bad jokes.”
