Ron Wyden wants the Trump administration to treat one of America’s allies as a counterintelligence threat.
The Oregon senator wrote to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is doubling as acting national security adviser, on July 16.
His warning centers on an invasive surveillance bill moving through Canada’s Parliament that could turn American technology companies into tools for spying on Americans.
July 16 (UPI) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled a new policy to impose visa restrictions on alleged far-left terrorists, as the Trump administration promotes far-left political violence as a growing threat not only to the United States but also to the world.
The visa-restriction policy, announced Thursday, targets members of far-left terrorist groups and other aligned organizations who have supported or incited acts of terrorism or violence, participated in economic sabotage or supported violent and other criminal actions.
After President Donald Trump released a trove of declassified documents exposing how domestic and foreign actors undermined the credibility and results of our election system, mainstream media went into full denial mode.
As part of his primetime speech on Thursday, Trump accused some media figures of taking Chinese bribes for negative coverage on him. Well, he did not list names, but the media outlets quickly confirmed suspicions themselves by rushing to deny any and all evidence. Trust them, not the stacks of declassified documents, was the lefty media message.
AND THERE IT IS…
China used CCP assets in the US media and social media to incite 2020's BLM uprising: pic.twitter.com/LIlMzw4WeR
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 17, 2026
When Cuba’s national grid collapses, as it did for the third time in 10 days on Tuesday, a collective groan spreads across its cities and people wonder, again, whether the island’s antiquated electricity system may soon become unrecoverable.
The 777-mile Caribbean island of 9.5 million people has been sweltering under a six-month-long oil blockade imposed by the US, part of a pressure campaign to bring down its communist government. But the parlous state of Cuba’s infrastructure goes far further back.
“The backbone of the system is still the big power plants,’ said Jorge Piñon, a senior energy researcher at the University of Texas. “And they’re old, broken and tired.”
A dozen Somali gangs with hundreds of members, mainly teenagers, are wreaking havoc in Minnesota, committing public shootings and murders out in the open, according to local officials.
Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher, whose office patrols the metropolitan region surrounding Minneapolis and St. Paul, told the Washington Examiner that as many as 300 Somali youth are engaged in gang activity around the Twin Cities area.
The most essential duty of the state, the first responsibility, frankly, of any government of any kind, is the protection of its people. It’s the protection of its country. This is a sacred obligation that should transcend all political and all ideological divisions. It is why, for example, we have militaries. It’s why we have intelligence agencies. It’s why counter-terrorism bureaus exist, why police forces exist. Keeping our people safe is the reason why every country represented here has all of these things.
U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says President Donald Trump‘s threat to impose new tariffs over smoke from Canadian wildfires should be taken seriously, arguing the ongoing haze is causing economic damage in the United States.
Smoke from Canadian wildfires has blanketed several major American cities, including Detroit, Washington and Chicago, prompting Trump to lash out at Canada on social media Friday.
Canada and the US agreed to split the profit from a new bridge between Ontario and Michigan for 15 years — with no provision to cover Canada’s debt-service costs on the project, according to a copy of the pact seen by Bloomberg News.
The agreement in principle covering the Gordie Howe International Bridge appears to contradict earlier public remarks from Prime Minister Mark Carney. And it shows what Canada conceded to get the President Donald Trump’s administration to stop blocking the 1.5-mile bridge over the Detroit River.
Carney lies always.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a powerful public declaration against domestic political terrorism in front of an international audience Thursday in Washington, D.C.
His concept of terrorism got at the heart of what fuels it: radical progressive leftism.
As he put it, radical leftism is “a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice.”
It’s never easy to uproot your life, but after a year of watching U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration crack down on 2SLGBTQ+ rights, especially for transgender Americans, Grace Mahoney and her partner, Kayden Burns, decided it was time to leave the United States.
“I’m queer, my spouse is also queer and non-binary, and it started becoming a very unsafe place for us, as it is for a lot of queer humans existing in the U.S.,” she said in an interview from her new home in Dartmouth, N.S., earlier this month.
The CBC never tires of these Drama Queens.
U.S. President Donald Trump is adding his voice to the chorus of Republican politicians who are blaming Canada for wildfire smoke drifting across the border.
Hundreds of active wildfires, most in northwestern Ontario, have triggered air quality warnings for states close to the Great Lakes, stretching from Minnesota to Maryland.
Trump threatened to top up the import tariffs he’s already levied on Canadian goods in response to the smoke that has drifted south of the border.
h/t Mauser
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) is taking action to impose U.S. sanctions on Canada in light of the wildfire smoke that has enveloped the Midwest and East Coast this week.
“I’ll be introducing a bill next week to sanction Canada and the responsible Canadian government officials for this atrocity,” Moreno posted on X.
I’ll be introducing a bill next week to sanction Canada and the responsible Canadian government officials for this atrocity. https://t.co/wFCVwrPdGr
— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) July 16, 2026
Earplugs may come in Handy…
This week, the world marks International Justice Day and the 28th anniversary of the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court. All these years later, it remains among the most consequential efforts ever made to hold war criminals accountable. Now Washington has announced its intention to “dismantle the ICC brick by brick, if necessary.”
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has launched a campaign explicitly designed — as he put it in a Wall Street Journal op-ed — to “systematically disable” the court, pressuring nations to withdraw their support, cut off funding and abandon an institution the United States never joined. Countries that rely on American security guarantees, Rubio has made clear, should take the hint and fall in line.
Whatever the founding intention the ICC is now just a an extreme left bully pulpit.
Border czar Tom Homan rejected the disgusting claim that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is to blame for deadly violence surrounding enforcement operations. Rather, illegal alien criminals, along with the Democrat rioters and politicians who support them, are the problem.
STOKING THE FLAMES OF VIOLENCE
Anti-ICE politicians have provoked a 1300% increase in assaults against @ICEgov law enforcement officers. STOP THE DANGEROUS RHETORIC.
Despite these smears, ICE will continue to get criminals off our streets. pic.twitter.com/amnLe8LsSx
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 16, 2026
It turns out that the “conspiracy theorists” weren’t so crazy after all. President Donald Trump says that foreign governments and corrupt domestic bureaucrats have so compromised our election system across the country that it is worse than a Third World banana republic.
Trump Says “Deep State” Covered Up Chinese Interference in 2020 Election
President Trump used newly declassified intelligence and government files to accuse China, U.S. intelligence officials, the Biden Justice Department and election administrators of concealing foreign interference, fraud and systemic vulnerabilities, while calling for investigations, voter-roll purges and passage of the SAVE America Act.
He says the documents prove China engaged in a massive cyber attack to steal voter data, influence the 2020 election, and sabotage his first term in office — and the U.S. “deep state” either cooperated or covered it up.
President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation, Jul. 16, 2026 https://t.co/GHD5LO2HIa
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 17, 2026
CBC has gone DefCon 5 in defense of Carney’s ally Communist China.
