Three byelection wins, five floor crossings, and an unprecedented parliamentary maneuver have handed Mark Carney something that narrowly eluded him at the ballot box: a majority government built to resist Donald Trump. When Mark Carney stepped in front of cameras Monday night to claim victory in three federal byelections, he was not just celebrating a…
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With the ceasefire expiring April 21, Trump told the New York Post talks could restart “over the next two days” — even as his blockade leaks, sticking points remain, and the Mossad warns the mission isn’t over. The signal came not from a formal White House statement or a CENTCOM briefing. It came from a…
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The White House released a record-breaking $1.5 trillion defense budget request — how Trump is using the Iran war to reshape all federal spending while gutting domestic programs. There is a line in the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal that functions as the clearest statement of national priorities in modern American history. President…
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With the ceasefire expiring in days, three nations are racing to narrow the gaps on uranium enrichment and Hormuz tolls — who has leverage and what a last-minute deal would require. Seven days. That is what separates the world from the expiration of the only thing currently standing between the United States and a resumed…
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Europe & Geopolitics | April 14, 2026 For 16 years, Viktor Orbán ran Hungary like a personal fiefdom — blocking EU decisions, embracing Putin, and serving as Trump’s most reliable European ally. On election night 2026, Peter Magyar’s Tisza Party ended all of it. The consequences stretch from Brussels to Kyiv to Washington. BUDAPEST /…
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WASHINGTON / VATICAN CITY — It began with a white robe, a glowing hand, and a sick man in a hospital bed. On the night of Sunday, April 12, President Trump posted an AI-generated image to Truth Social depicting himself in white robes with a red sash, his right hand placed on the forehead of…
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They arrived in Islamabad carrying the weight of a six-week war, a fragile ceasefire, and the highest diplomatic stakes either country had faced in a generation. Twenty-one hours later, the American delegation boarded Air Force Two without a deal. Within 24 hours, the USS Abraham Lincoln was in position off the Iranian coast. This is…
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As of April 14, 15 US warships — including a carrier strike group and multiple destroyers — have formed a naval blockade around all Iranian ports. The ceasefire expires in 7 days. The Strait of Hormuz, oil markets, and the fragile Islamabad talks now hang on what happens next. PERSIAN GULF — The guns never…
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The President spent years attacking the JCPOA as the “worst deal ever made.” Now, with Vice President Vance in Islamabad and Iran at the table, the question haunting Republican hawks is whether Trump is about to sign something worse. For eight years, Donald Trump made the Obama Iran nuclear deal a centerpiece of his political…
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In an unannounced White House appearance that blindsided her own staff, the First Lady delivered a point-by-point rebuttal of Epstein claims — and ended up reigniting the very story she sought to bury. She rarely speaks. She rarely holds press conferences. And she almost never addresses scandal directly. Which is why when First Lady Melania…