A US judge has blocked Michigan from enforcing a 2020 order that would have shut down Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline, which runs beneath the Straits of Mackinac, the channel connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
Reuters reported that on Wednesday US District Judge Robert Jonker ruled that oversight of pipeline safety and the protection of the Straits is a federal responsibility, effectively preventing Michigan from shutting down the pipeline.
The murder of a young West Virginia National Guard member on Thanksgiving in Washington, D.C. last month shocked the nation’s conscience. But those expecting a swift application of the death penalty for the alleged killer are in for a jolt.
The average elapsed time from death sentence to execution is now over 23 years, the longest span in U.S. history. A federal judge once called death “the ultimate run-on sentence.” That was in the mid-1990s, when the delay was only 11 years. In the 1980s, it was six years.
This month, an elderly Hindu couple in Bangladesh were murdered in their home, their throats slit. This week, an Islamist group targeted offices of India’s High Commission in Bangladesh, causing India to suspend visa services there.
Bangladesh is standing at the edge of a historic transformation, and, sadly, Washington is taking a perilous gamble.
The head of the U.S. agency for enforcing workplace civil rights posted a social media call-out urging white men to come forward if they have experienced race or sex discrimination at work.
“Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex? You may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws,” U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas, a vocal critic of DEI, wrote on X Wednesday evening. The post urged eligible workers to reach out to the agency “as soon as possible” and referred users to the agency’s fact sheet on “DEI-related discrimination” for more information.
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I’m just so disgusted that the painfully obvious truth, has to be said out loud. @fancypants_s https://t.co/Q9pKks2iHt
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) December 18, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump wants the relationship with Canada to be one of “dependence” on the United States, and is not talking about ripping up the trilateral free trade pact but renegotiating it, says Prime Minister Mark Carney.
In a pair of French-language interviews marking the year’s end, Carney revealed for the first time details of his private conversation earlier this month with Trump and Mexican President Claudia
Sheinbaum on the sidelines of the World Cup soccer draw in Washington — which came following a stormy six-week hiatus after Trump cut off bilateral trade talks on sectoral tariffs.
The Trump administration’s statement of the strategic goals of the United States, published last week in accordance with recent custom, is much more original than the general press response would indicate. It declares the objective of maintaining America as the “strongest, richest, most powerful, and successful” country in the world.
This is a reasonable ambition that does not imply hostility or disrespect to any other country. The statement replaces what is represented as having been the “laundry lists of wishes or desired end-states and vague platitudes about what we should want,” of previous administrations.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s point-person on trade laid out a series of conditions Wednesday that Canada must meet in order to extend the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement (CUSMA) when it comes up for a review next year — revealing publicly for the first time what the administration expects Prime Minister Mark Carney to do to keep the pact for the long term.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told the U.S. Congress that CUSMA has been “successful to a certain degree” but there need to be changes before Trump agrees to extend it for another 16 years or revert to yearly reviews, something Canada is eager to avoid given the resulting annual uncertainty.
“I don’t think we can say that USMCA is an unqualified success,” Greer said in his remarks, which were shared publicly after his closed-door meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss former President Joe Biden’s failure to make sure our adversaries in Syria paid a cost for attacking Americans, and the failure of so many immigrants to say “thank you” for all we do.
Four far-left extremists face a myriad of conspiracy and other felony charges for allegedly plotting a series of New Year’s Eve bombings followed by a similar ambush on Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Los Angeles.
The alleged attacks, hatched by the so-called pro-Palestine Turtle Island Liberation Front, were discovered by law enforcement after four of its members were allegedly caught testing out the pipe bombs they planned to plant at five LA businesses.
The Turtle Island Liberation Front – the group the FBI found plotting to bomb major cities – is NOT a “pro-Palestine” group.
They are an Antifa group.
Turtle Island refers to North America, the name the land had before it was colonized.
The right does not understand the enemy. https://t.co/GdVMnpxow8 pic.twitter.com/e4HXx8UoZ0
— Karlyn Borysenko, anti-communist cult leader (@DrKarlynB) December 15, 2025
The “weak” elites he attacks are the real enemies of European democracy.
There has been much weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent scathing criticisms of Europe’s “weak” leaders and the danger of “civilisational erasure” on the continent.
Trump has been branded anti-European. But if that was true, then surely millions of European citizens must also be considered “anti-European.” Because they are voting for political parties and supporting protest movements which make strikingly similar criticisms of the EU regime.
If there’s one conclusion we can draw from the recently released National Security Strategy put out by the Trump administration, it’s that the current crop of Americans in power really do feel like victims of the world that America created.
In that strategy, the White House outlined the Trump administration’s priorities, outlooks and hoped for direction. While it’s common for U.S. presidencies to release high-level documents of this kind, this year’s version is, to put it mildly, a serious vibe check. Taken in toto, the strategy is a rationale for America to withdraw its support for the world order as we know it, and instead take a role that is overtly transactional and self interested. This is an America that sees global leadership not as being a chief among equals, but rather one in which the top dog barks while the rest of us are expected to roll over. One in which American strength and wealth are not built by mutual alliances, but rather through zero-sum infighting.
This is stated quite explicitly in the document, which I implore every Canadian to read fully and understand.
The Star has a surplus of hysterical types.
The shock that after 80 years America isn’t going to pay everyone’s way is just too much to handle.
Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino is reportedly mulling his future at the bureau and could make his decision within the next few weeks, according to two people familiar with his thinking. Sources say reports that his office at FBI headquarters is empty are inaccurate, but his departure remains very much on the table.
A growing number of Canadians, including several young children, have been arrested or detained by U.S. immigration authorities over the past two years, according to newly released government data obtained through a U.S. federal court case.
The figures, analyzed by CTVNews.ca using data tools developed by the Deportation Data Project, were released as part of a lawsuit the project filed against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The data show that more than 200 Canadians have spent time in ICE custody at some point since January, compared with 137 detained in 2024. While the increase accelerated this year, the records show Canadian detentions dating back to before U.S. President Donald Trump began his second term.
Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar has built her political brand on a familiar story: the refugee girl who fled war, embraced America and rose to the halls of power championing universal healthcare, immigrant rights and progressive causes.
But new photos, archival material and historical accounts from her native Somalia obtained by the Daily Mail paint a far more complicated – and troubling – portrait of the Minnesota lawmaker’s backstory.
The material includes images linking Omar and her relatives to some of the most feared figures in Somalia’s modern history, including Major General Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan — the man known as the ‘Butcher of Hargeisa’ for atrocities committed in the late 1980s.
— Politi_Rican (@TheRicanMemes) December 15, 2025
If the just-published “National Security Strategy of the United States of America” was intended to infuriate the old line globalist elites in Europe and the United States, then it has succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of its authors. Take, for example, the essay this morning by Jacob Heilbrunn over at that “other” Spectator. Heilbrunn manages the not inconsiderable feat of dismissing the document as “incomprehensible” and “negligible,” while at the same time suggesting that it’s important enough to cause our key allies consternation and dismay.
