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09/25/2026

A street in Canada's Capital called Trump Avenue has hit a dead end.

The US president stirred up "bigly" bad feelings over the summer after the 80-year-old said he was renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America as part of a wider economic and diplomatic spat with Canada over Trump's trade violations.

Reprisals from folks north of the border have since followed, the latest of which is taking place in Canada’s own capital, Ottawa.

Its city council unanimously voted on Wednesday to rename Trump Avenue, as Canadians remain in lockstep behind Prime Minister Mark Carney.

“I don’t like the idea of anything that’s named for Donald Trump, who has demonstrated hostility towards Canada,” Ottawa’s mayor Mark Sutcliffe told the press following the vote.

Ottawa named the street after Trump in the late 1990s to highlight his success as a real estate developer.

Ordering deliveries can be tough for folks on the street, which has 65 houses. “It’s embarrassing, like they just chuckle and laugh,” 65-year-old retiree John Germano told The New York Times. “It gets worse and worse every day.”

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Trump Avenue has hit a dead end. The 80-year-old president stirred up big feelings over the summer after he said he was renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America as part of a wider economic and diplomatic spat with Canada. Reprisals from folks north of the border have since followed, the latest of which...

09/25/2026

The fake nation of Israel continues its evil work against God's message

09/25/2026

A Justice Department prosecutor abruptly retired this week after being warned she could be fired for defending herself as a judge weighs a criminal probe tied to President Donald Trump's Chicago immigration crackdown.

Sheri Mecklenburg, the former lead prosecutor in the "Broadview Six" protest case, disclosed the warning Thursday in a motion asking U.S. District Judge April Perry to let her argue on her own behalf.

Perry will hear arguments Oct. 1 on whether to name an independent special counsel to investigate U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros and others over the case, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

"[W]hen notified (through counsel) that she intended to file a motion to intervene, the U.S. Attorney's Office advised that, as a Department of Justice employee, Ms. Mecklenburg was not permitted to file anything on her behalf and could be disciplined or terminated if she did so," her attorneys wrote.

"Ms. Mecklenburg then notified the U.S. Attorney's Office that she was retiring, effective on September 24, in part so that she can address these issues on her own behalf," the motion continued. Her retirement took effect the same day she filed, according to court records.

The former defendants are seeking a hearing on sanctions and "the appointment of a prosecutor to investigate her conduct and possibly to prosecute her," along with others, for criminal contempt, the motion says. That charge punishes people who disobey or obstruct a court.

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A Justice Department prosecutor abruptly retired this week after being warned she could be fired for defending herself as a judge weighs a criminal probe tied to President Donald Trump's Chicago immigration crackdown. Sheri Mecklenburg, the former lead prosecutor in the "Broadview Six" protest case,...

09/25/2026

Amnesty International is calling for the federal government to abolish ICE.

Why it matters: Amnesty goes beyond calls to reform immigration enforcement, arguing the abuses it documented show the agency should be dismantled.

Driving the news: The declaration accompanies Amnesty's new report, "We Had Whistles, They Had Guns: Human Rights Violations in U.S. Immigration Enforcement Operations and the Case to Abolish ICE."

The report outlines ICE, CBP and other federal immigration operations in Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New Orleans and Washington, D.C., over the last year.
The latest: Witnesses captured immigration officers detaining a U.S. citizen this week in Evanston, mistaking him for someone who had an arrest warrant. A witness told the New York Times that agents left the man "bloodied on the ground."

DHS told the Times the man had refused to cooperate and that agents offered to help him, but he declined.
The other side: ICE didn't respond to Axios' request for comment about the Amnesty report.

The fine print: Amnesty International interviewed 154 people directly impacted by immigration enforcement operations in the four cities between March and June 2026.

State of play: The organization examined actions during Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago from September to December of 2025, a period which included agents killing Silverio Villegas-González in Franklin Park.

The report also documents federal agents killing Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis in January.
Zoom in: Amnesty details what they say were instances of racial profiling and arbitrary detention based on people's skin color, ethnicity, language and neighborhood.

They also point to unlawful use of force, saying agents approached people with guns drawn, smashed vehicles and threw people to the ground.
A federal judge issued an injunction last November with stricter guidelines on use of force, a month after she ordered officers to turn on body cams during arrests.
Amnesty accuses agents of using excessive force against protesters, as well, including at the Broadview immigration facility in suburban Chicago.
Broadview is cited extensively in the report, accusing the government of "inhumane" conditions and long-term stays despite Broadview not officially being designated a detention facility.

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Amnesty International is calling for the federal government to abolish ICE. Why it matters: Amnesty goes beyond calls to reform immigration enforcement, arguing the abuses it documented show the agency should be dismantled. Driving the news: The declaration accompanies Amnesty's new report, "We Had....

09/25/2026

Current and former FBI agents are asking the judge who barred former special counsel Jack Smith from speaking about his Mar-a-Lago report on President Donald Trump to clarify whether they can safely testify as part of the DOJ's "grand conspiracy" probe in Florida.

The motion to intervene, first reported by Politico, said that federal agents and analysts "participated in the investigation and prosecution of" Trump and the 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago, which led to his indictment in the classified documents and conspiracy case.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon famously tossed out the indictment by finding that Smith was unlawfully appointed as special counsel, deeming him little more than a "private citizen."
The Trump-appointed jurist went on to bury Volume II of Smith's report as a consequence of the dismissal, criticizing Smith for his "brazen" move to create the document in the first place.

After Cannon permanently blocked the DOJ and then-Attorney General Pam Bondi "or her successor(s)" from "releasing, sharing, or transmitting Volume II of the Final Report or any drafts of Volume II outside the Department of Justice" or "otherwise releasing, distributing, conveying, or sharing with anyone outside the Department of Justice any information or conclusions in Volume II or in drafts thereof," Smith was severely restricted in what he could say publicly about the classified documents case.

The intervenors, not wanting to be on the receiving end of a Cannon scolding for violating her injunction, asked for clarification on how the order applies to them in a grand jury subpoena context.

"Absent clarification, Clients cannot testify before the grand jury without risking violating terms of the Order. DOJ has reportedly taken the position that any disclosure of nonpublic information that may be contained in Volume Two would violate the Order, even if such disclosure was made in response to congressional inquiry, in response to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act, or during privileged communications with counsel," the filing said.

"When counsel requested clarification of DOJ's interpretation of how its investigation interacts with the Order, the government responded that its 'work does not disturb [the] Order,'" the motion continued. "However, it did not elaborate nor provide any factual or legal basis from which it came to that conclusion."

In general, the FBI agents — "most" of whom "were unlawfully fired and are no longer federal employees" — expressed a willingness to "voluntarily testify before the grand jury," but not when "possible punitive consequences" loom.

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The FBI agents, "most" of whom "were unlawfully fired and are no longer federal employees," believe "possible punitive consequences" loom. The post 'Unlawfully fired' Mar-a-Lago FBI agents fear 'possible punitive consequences' unless Judge Cannon clears up her order first appeared on Law & Crime.

09/25/2026

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on CNN:

"If you look at his social media accounts just in the last few hours, he's unrepentant. He's in denial. Somebody in the White House needs to get through to him. I think he's his comeuppance will happen on election day and the day after. I think there's going to be a reckoning and and what we need to see is what he does after the day after this election, does he send a message like George Bush did, firing his Secretary of Defense the day after the 2006 midterms, where Republicans took a shellacking? We'll see if he does something like that and and other measures to show that he got the message."

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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on CNN: "If you look at his social media accounts just in the last few hours, he's unrepentant. He's in denial. Somebody in the White House needs to get through to him. I think he's his comeuppance will happen on election day and the day after. I think there's going to be a...

09/25/2026

Tucker Carlson is still shocked by the comment President Donald Trump allegedly made after the conservative pundit suggested the real reason why the U.S. is at war with Iran.
In an interview with NPR posted Thursday, Carlson insisted Trump didn’t start the war with Iran on his own.

“He was pushed by a foreign country to do this,” Carlson said. “It is the most profoundly destructive thing any single decision a president has made in our history. I feel sorry for him. I’m not angry at him personally. I don’t think that he had the latitude to make this decision on his own.”

Carlson claimed to have made that very point to Trump – and was shocked by the president’s response.

“I had flown back from Tel Aviv from Ben Gurion Airport after seeing the ambassador, and two days later, I was in the Oval with Trump alone,” said Carlson. “...I said, ‘This war is not about Iran’s nuclear program, which you told me – and the world – that you eliminated last summer in June.’”

When Carlson suggested that Israel was pushing the war on Iran, Trump agreed.
“And he looked at me and said, yes, you’re right,” Carlson said. “But in the end, we all die anyway. So it doesn’t matter. That’s exactly what he said.”

HuffPost reached out to the White House for comment on the reported conversation, but no one immediately responded. When NPR made the same effort, the White House responded with a social media post from the president calling Carlson and others “stupid people.”

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In an NPR interview, Carlson also claimed Trump should have been removed from office.