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Nov 12, 2025 - World

Canadians are still boycotting travel to the United States and say there's "no way we're going back" while Donald Trump is in power. 10 months on from the start of Trump's second term and it seems Canadians are still being cautious about holidaying in the US. Both last-minute holidaymakers and planned breaks abroad see members of the public avoiding the States, as they instead head further afield for their trips. The number of Canadians returning from the US by car and plane in September dropped by a third compared to the same month last year, according to The Economic Times. Canadian holidaymakers have since shed some light on why they are avoiding the US, with some fearing ICE Agents and rising travel costs. Nathalie Morisseau says the US is currently "not attractive" as a place to holiday in, and she even considers it "scary." She added, "With my father being Haitian, there’s a certain fear around being able to go to the United States."Americans are trying to appeal to Canadians with little success. Governor Gavin Newsom launched the "California loves Canada" drive, but Senior VP of Visit California Ryan Becker says it hasn't worked. Figures show a drop of $700 million on the expected spend from Canadian visitors to California. Becker said, "That's a gut punch to the industry." Canadian services are suffering too as a result of the travel downturn. Will McAleer, executive director of the Travel Health Insurance Association of Canada, said, "Canadians are really choosing destinations other than the US to travel." The group found that just 10% of baby boomers have plans to head to the US this winter, a drop of two-thirds compared to last year. Not all Canadians are avoiding the US though, with younger residents heading to the States but not publicly profiling their trip as they once would have. Travel blogger Barry Choi explained this quieter change is because travelling to the US is still "cheaper" than holidays to other continents. Choi said, "Going to Orlando Disney is probably cheaper than going to Tokyo Disney." Weather could play a part in bringing Canadians down to the US, with Jill Wykes, editor of Snowbird Advisor, suggesting the first snowstorm of the year will be a major factor in changing Canadian travel plans. She said, "We haven't even had the first snowstorm yet. That normally makes people want to go."

Nov 11, 2025 - World

MAGA insider Laura Loomer suggested President Donald Trump was not to blame after he chose to meet with a former terrorist the day before Veterans Day.On Monday, Trump welcomed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to the White House despite his past ties to terrorism. The Syrian leader had links to Al-Qaeda under the nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Golani, and he battled U.S. forces in Iraq before entering the war in Syria. At one point, al-Sharaa had a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head and was eventually imprisoned by U.S. forces in Syria for several years.Loomer blamed the meeting between him and Trump on "the people who work for President Trump.""Sometimes I feel like some of the people who work for President Trump deliberately go out of their way to sabotage him," the Trump insider wrote Tuesday on X. "Who said: let's invite the ISIS terrorist to the White House for a photo op in the Oval the day before Veterans Day? How many US soldiers did Julani kill?"Several of Loomer's followers accused her of holding Trump blameless. "I think it's high time that people stop making excuses for Trump by blaming the people around him like he has no control whatsoever," one person replied to Loomer. "Just remember the guy sitting in Florida who everybody MAGA thought was not qualified to be president is doing far more conservative things than Trump ever thought of doing.""I am a huge Trump supporter and voted for him 3 times. I hate feeling betrayed by what he's doing but I am," another commenter said. "He's imploding from within his own administration. It's his fault tho... He's his own worst enemy because his ego blinds his common sense."

Nov 10, 2025 - World

A UK politician has warned Donald Trump could "destroy" the BBC. The British Broadcasting Company director general, Tim Davie, as well as head of news Deborah Turness, resigned Monday following criticism of a documentary aired about Trump. An internal memo at the BBC suggested two parts of Trump's speech in the Panorama show had been edited together to make it look as though he explicitly encouraged the Capitol Hill riot of January 2021. Trump has since responded to the documentary and the resignations of Davie and Turness in a post to Truth Social. He wrote: "The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught 'doctoring' my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th."Thank you to The Telegraph for exposing these Corrupt 'Journalists.' These are very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential Election. On top of everything else, they are from a Foreign Country, one that many consider our Number One Ally. What a terrible thing for Democracy!"But Ed Davey, a member of the UK parliament and leader of the Liberal Democrats party, warned that Trump has the power to "destroy" the BBC following the Panorama documentary. Responding to Trump's Truth Social post, Davey wrote: "It's easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world's number one news source. We can't let him."The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK. The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it." Outraged members of the public agreed with Davey, with one person calling on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to "make it abundantly clear to the fool Trump" that the president's opinion of the BBC was of no interest.Davey also called the former director general a "decent man doing a difficult job" and warned the White House and Trump's statements on the BBC are worrying. He wrote: "I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job. To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all."In Trump's speech in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021, he said: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women."However, in the Panorama edit he was shown saying, "We're going to walk down to the Capitol... and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell." Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has since described the BBC as "100% fake news."

Nov 9, 2025 - World

A fierce ally of Donald Trump Sunday sounded the alarm about what she sees as a detrimental alliance the president has made.Trump has previously enraged some parts of his Make America Great Again (MAGA) base with his embrace of Qatar, a Middle Eastern nation that played a role in Israel-Hamas negotiations. Far-right Trump fans condemn Qatar for its links to nations that sponsor terrorism.Laura Loomer, a MAGA influencer who has been dubbed "The Trump Whisperer" due to her close ties to the president, is one such individual who doesn't like how close Trump has become with the Middle Eastern country.Early Sunday morning, she dropped a lengthy screed on the subject of Qatar."I really wish President Trump would come to terms with the fact that Qatar is not our ally," she wrote on X. "I would also really like to see the Emiratis and the Saudis pledge to triple their investment commitments into the US to wedge out Qatar under the condition that President Trump designates the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization when Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (MBS) visits the White House and meets with President Trump this month."She continued:"Obviously I don’t speak for President Trump, but why would we want or need to be handcuffed by Qatar, a global sponsor of Muslim Brotherhood and Iranian proxy terrorism? Why would we want Qatar to have any leverage or influence over the US simply because of money and a $400 million plane?"The influencer then added, "I’m sure there’s plenty of Money to replace the Qatari commitments.""The reality is, until the United States tells Qatar to go pound sand, we are not going to see an enforceable Trump admin initiated designation of the Muslim Brotherhood, because a designation of the Muslim Brotherhood would mean having to cut ties with Qatar since Qatar funds the Muslim Brotherhood and HAMAS," she wrote. "This would also mean that we would have to shut down the Qatari embassy in Washington DC that likely wishes they could bribe every single politician in DC to support Qatar and oppose designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Nov 7, 2025 - World

The Associated Press investigated the identities of those killed in President Donald Trump’s military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and found that many were not the hardened criminals Trump claimed."One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver," the report said. Senators were given a classified briefing on Thursday, where Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) expressed confidence that the intelligence being used to justify the bombings was legitimate. Nonetheless, the Pentagon’s secrecy has fueled concern and skepticism among the public, CNN reported. AP conducted dozens of interviews in Venezuelan coastal towns, finding families who dispute Trump’s portrayal of their loved ones as “narco-terrorists.” Most were “low-level” laborers taking dangerous jobs for $500 per trip. “They were laborers, a fisherman, a motorcycle taxi driver. Two were small-time criminals,” the report said. Only one was linked to a crime boss providing smuggling services.The boats weren’t carrying fentanyl or heading to Florida; they shipped cocaine to nearby Trinidad and other islands, and then to Europe. The bulk of Colombian cocaine for the U.S. typically leaves Colombia via the Pacific. The boats appeared to be carrying cocaine instead of the deadlier opioids, which kill tens of thousands in America each year.The families complain that their relatives should have been given "due process" rather than what Venezuela's ambassador to the U.N. called “extrajudicial executions.”As the AP explained, "In the past, their boats would have been interdicted by the U.S. authorities and the crewmen charged with federal crimes, affording them a day in court."Since September, at least 69 people have been killed by the strikes. Read the complete profiles of the men here.