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WASHINGTON — An explosive collection of newly declassified FBI records reveals that federal agents opened a full public-corruption investigation into then-Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell over allegations that suspected Beijing intelligence operative Christine Fang facilitated a scheme to place interns in his congressional office in exchange for campaign contributions—including money investigators said she routed through American intermediaries to conceal herself as the prohibited foreign source.

There’s one American industry we’ve, so far, been unwilling to defy. That needs to change

Since the beginning of the second Trump administration and the turn of the United States from ally to threat, a grand disentanglement has been underway. The systems that once connected the liberal world order — in defence, in trade, in our alliance networks — are being torn up and rebuilt. And as painful as those changes are, they are obviously necessary to preserving Canadian sovereignty, and the changes are, to a greater or lesser extent, underway. But the biggest challenge, the hardest change, is in technology. Canada has woken up, after thirty years of integration, to find ourselves a digital colony.

Yes Canada has made many tech contributions that have improved the world but decolonization would bring us back to a virtual stone age.

"Freeland and Trudeau deserve to be shunned, and shareholders who care about fiscal competence and accountability should punish any board that engages them. We can expect the media to praise Freeland’s desperate gesture to salvage her political reputation—our journalists have… https://t.co/9cZkQ7dxeI

— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) August 7, 2026

Read the whole takedown.

The Democratic Party continues in its quest to find the least likeable women in the US to foist on the voting public. This election cycle, it’s Francesca Hong, a Wisconsin state assembly member who is running to be the Democratic candidate for the governorship of this largely rural swing state.

Francesca Hong describes having a half white son as "being in proximity to whiteness." pic.twitter.com/Ix0j0nisnF

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 3, 2026

Certifiable.

Wages are stagnating and young people are struggling to find that essential first work experience because the British economy is addicted to illegal migrant labour, says Reform UK as it promises a major change that would see illegal-employing executives jailed and the public rewarded for reporting “dodgy” businesses to the immigration authorities.

Canada has been caving to U.S. President Donald Trump.

That’s not what Ottawa is saying, of course. Canadians are being told that our negotiators are playing hardball – that everything’s on the table. But then we see the results: capitulation on the digital services tax (though it was a silly regulation in the first place, to be sure), the dropping of a collection of retaliatory tariffs, the scrapping of the so-called “Netflix tax,” and free money for the U.S. from tolls from the Gordie Howe bridge. The hardball Canada has been bringing to negotiations is more of a fluffy pom-pom, tickling trade adviser Peter Navarro’s nose.

President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that Spain “came back all the way” and agreed to boost NATO payments after he ordered a U.S. trade embargo with the European country over its reluctance to contribute more to the organization.

LOS ANGELES – Law enforcement in the United States, Canada, and Europe have arrested 24 defendants – 11 of them in California – connected to three India-based transnational organized crime groups charged with a litany of criminal acts, including the assassination in Canada in 2023 of a prominent Indian political and religious figure, the Justice Department announced today.

Today’s law enforcement action – “Operation Hard Ball” – is the result of a years-long federal investigation into Indian crime syndicates that engage in racketeering, targeted killings, shootings, extortion, the trafficking of bulk quantities of narcotics across international borders, and other crimes around the world whose impact is especially felt in the Indian diaspora.

In total, 37 defendants – including two defendants who ran their global criminal syndicates while imprisoned in India – are charged across three indictments unsealed today. Those arrested in the United States – 11 in California, one in Indiana, and one in Georgia – are expected to make their initial appearances today in federal court.

A Pakistani grooming gang ringleader convicted of 30 child rape offences cannot be deported despite being stripped of his British citizenship.

Shabir Ahmed, 73, a key figure in the Rochdale grooming gang scandal, is due to be released from prison on Thursday but cannot be thrown out of Britain because of a loophole in the Immigration Act 1971.

Even though he has been stripped of his citizenship while serving prison sentences totalling more than 40 years, Ahmed is protected from deportation by a provision in the act that exempts Commonwealth citizens who arrived in the UK before 1973 from removal.

A 19-year-old Afghan man, Massoud S., was tried Monday at the Aix-en-Provence court for sexual assault against six goats, one of which died, and a 6-month-old lamb at an educational farm. He has been convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison and a ban from French territory.

The FBI thwarted a plot targeting Sunday’s UFC event at the White House and has arrested five men, the US justice department said on Tuesday.

Part of the plan involved striking nearby buildings with explosive-laden drones and firing on “high value targets”, prosecutors alleged.

One suspect was arrested in Ohio last week, where investigators reviewed encrypted messages involving other alleged conspirators. Prosecutors said in charging documents they had allegedly “expressed ultra-religious and antigovernment sentiments”.

Sounds like a revolt!