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Carney’s Liberal party wins Canadian election and completes a stunning turnaround fueled by Trump

By ROB GILLIES
Updated 11:43 PM CDT, April 28, 2025

TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party won Canada’s federal election on Monday, capping a stunning turnaround in fortunes fueled by U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threats and trade war.

After polls closed, the Liberals were projected to win more of Parliament’s 343 seats than the Conservatives, though it wasn’t immediately clear if they would win an outright majority — at least 172 — or would need to rely on one of the smaller parties to form a government and pass legislation.

The Liberals looked headed for a crushing defeat until the American president started attacking Canada’s economy and threatening its sovereignty, suggesting it should become the 51st state. Trump’s actions infuriated Canadians and stoked a surge in nationalism that helped the Liberals flip the election narrative and win a fourth-straight term in power.

“We were dead and buried in December. Now we are going to form a government,” David Lametti, a former Liberal Justice Minister, told broadcaster CTV.

“We have turned this around thanks to Mark,” he said.

The Conservative Party’s leader, Pierre Poilievre, hoped to make the election a referendum on former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose popularity declined toward the end of his decade in power as food and housing prices rose. ...

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Trump to mark first 100 days in office with speech in the Detroit area

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump is marking the first 100 days in office of his second term on Tuesday evening with a speech in Macomb County, Michigan, outside Detroit.

He's expected to hit the highlights of his second term so far, including mass deportation operations, efforts to shrink the size and scope of government and the changes he's making to the global trade landscape. Those endeavors have not gone unopposed, prompting scores of lawsuits filed by ousted government employees, migrants fighting their deportation and business owners who argue the president's...
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Iran blames 'negligence' for port blast as death toll rises to 70

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The interior minister said "some individuals deemed responsible" for Saturday's blast at Shahid Rajaee are being questioned.
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Dozens of African migrants killed in US strike on Yemen, Houthis say

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Houthi-run media report the bodies of 68 people have been recovered from a migrant detention centre in Saada.
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Gov. Hochul, New York lawmakers agree on criminal charge for wearing mask while committing crime

  • News source: FOX News
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, announced a $254 billion budget deal on Monday that includes an agreement with state lawmakers to add an extra charge for people who wear masks while committing crimes.

The additional charge could only be applied if a suspect is charged with a class A misdemeanor or more serious charges, Hochul said. Lawmakers agreed to reduce the mask penalty to a class B misdemeanor when prosecutors charge separate crimes, Politico reported.

The governor initially wanted stricter legislation to combat mask-wearing suspects...
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Conclave to elect new pope to begin on 7 May, Vatican says

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The closed-door meeting will begin in the Sistine Chapel and will involve some 135 cardinals from across the world.
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Trump said he could stop the Ukraine war in 24 hours. After 100 days, a deal still eludes him

  • News source: Holly Ellyatt, CNBC
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U.S. officials say the coming week will be "very critical" for determining whether it remains involved in talks.
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How Donald Trump tried to court the Atlantic – and why the liberal magazine landed an interview

  • News source: FOX News
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Hell hath frozen over: At the White House the other day, Donald Trump "was launching a charm offensive, directed mainly at Goldberg," as in Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief. "There was none of the name-calling or hostility he regularly levels at our magazine."

That’s according to Atlantic reporters Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, who wrote the magazine’s cover story, which was posted yesterday.

For all the insights gleaned from the interview, nothing is more fascinating than how it came about.

They called the president on his...
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Trump made Carney's turnaround victory possible

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Mark Carney's party pull off an election win that once looked near-impossible, until the US president targeted Canada.
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‘It's unlike anything we have seen before:' European Union left reeling after Trump's first 100 days

  • News source: Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC
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European leaders have been left reeling after the first 100 days of U.S. President Donald Trump's second term saw increasing geopolitical and trade turmoil.

"It's unlike anything else we've seen before from the U.S. administration," European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told CNBC's "Europe Early Edition" when asked what Trump's first 100 days have meant for the bloc so far.

Kallas told CNBC's Silvia Amaro it had been a "very intense" and "disruptive" time, adding that there was "a lot of unpredictability."

"So this is how we have been...
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Author of California child sex trafficking bill forced to exclude felony charge for buyers of teen victims

  • News source: FOX News
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A California human trafficking bill to combat child sex trafficking is being gutted with the reluctant agreement of the bill’s author to remove a provision that targets consumers in an effort to get the legislation passed.

State Assemblywoman Maggy Krell, a Democrat, agreed to remove a clause from Assembly Bill 379 that states buyers of 16 and 17-year-olds for sex would face felony charges, leaving the solicitation of those minors by adults to be treated as a misdemeanor.

"In order to get a hearing on the bill, we were forced to remove the piece...
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Canadians keep Liberal Party and Prime Minister Mark Carney in power

  • News source: Phil Helsel | NBC News
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Canadian voters backed Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party on Monday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. projects, in a national election strongly influenced by President Donald Trump.
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Deal struck between US and Mexico to ensure Texas farmers get much-needed water

  • News source: FOX News
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The Trump administration and Mexican officials reached a deal to ensure Texas farmers get much-needed water from the Rio Grande, less than a month after President Donald Trump accused the neighbor to the south of robbing the farmers of water promised under a decades-old treaty.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced on Monday that the deal had been reached with Mexico to meet the current water needs of Texas farmers and ranchers as agreed under the 1944 Water Treaty.

Under the latest agreement, Mexico committed to send water from...
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An inside look at the El Salvador prison where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was moved

  • News source: David Noriega | NBC News
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The sprawling penitentiary where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was last known to be held offers a sharp contrast to the supermax mega-prison to which he was first deported.

Rather than tattooed gang members in brightly lit, crowded cells, the inmates at the Centro Industrial prison in Santa Ana wear yellow t-shirts and move more or less freely. Some spend much of their time outdoors raising dairy cows and growing vegetables. Others work in factories making uniforms for the armed forces or desks for public schools.

The government calls these “trusted...
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New York lawmakers agree on plan for ‘bell-to-bell' school cellphone ban

  • News source: The Associated Press
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New York state would ban cellphones in public schools “bell to bell” beginning with the next school year under an agreement announced late Monday by Gov. Kathy Hochul.

“We've protected our kids before from cigarettes, alcohol, and drunk driving, and now we're protecting them from addictive technology designed to hijack their attention,” Hochul said in announcing the plan as part of a tentative budget agreement with state lawmakers.

Hochul, a Democrat, did not immediately detail plans for the ban. Her office has previously said that schools would...
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California Dem lawmakers proposes bill to decriminalize welfare fraud below $25K over administrative errors

  • News source: FOX News
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A bill that would decriminalize welfare fraud under $25,000 in California for simple administrative errors is being pushed by a Democratic lawmaker.

State Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas introduced Senate Bill 560, which would delete criminal penalties for welfare fraud below $25,000, and delete a provision for criminal penalties for any attempt at welfare fraud below $950, according to the legislation, which was introduced in February.

"California’s safety net should lift families up, not trap them in poverty," Smallwood-Cuevas told Fox News Digital...
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