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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is resigning after more than nine years in office, citing low popularity ratings and a revolt within his political party.  Trudeau, 53, the longest-serving leader of any Group of Seven country, announced Monday that he will stand aside as leader of the governing Liberal Party. He will stay prime minister until a new leader is chosen, at which time parliament will be halted until March 24.  Trudeau , 53 , who has been the leader of the governing Liberal Party for the longest , announced on Monday that he intends to resign. Kamara Morozuk/Bloomberg via Getty Images The winner of the Liberal leadership contest will become Canada's 24th prime minister and will have to immediately prepare for an election, which the Conservative Party is widely expected to win, according to public opinion surveys.  A nationwide vote is due in October, but it is likely to happen sooner. The three largest opposition parties in parliament have said tha...

Donald Trump made tariffs a centerpiece of his successful presidential campaign, and the Congressional Budget Office has calculated that they might reduce the budget deficit and the GDP in the process. On Thursday, the president-elect remarked on a tweet by venture entrepreneur Marc Andreessen on tariffs as a share of federal revenue from the late 1700s to the present. President-elect ' Donald Trump. ' Getty Images "The Tariffs, and Tariffs alone, created this vast wealth for our Country," Trump wrote. "Then we turned to income tax. We had never been as affluent as we were at this time period. Tariffs will repay our debt and "MAKE AMERICA WEALTHY AGAIN!" The federal government relied on tariff money when its position in society was much smaller than it is now. But this has altered over hundreds of years. The first federal income tax was enacted during the Civil War, when the Union organized a massive army. During the first half of the twent...

President-elect Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that a deadly attack on New Year's Eve revelers in New Orleans, Louisiana, exemplified his grim assessment of crime in America, promising to "fully support the City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!" U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images "When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true," Trump said on his Twitter account. "Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones." According to President Joe Biden's statement, the FBI is leading the federal investigation and is looking at the event as a terrorist act. "I have directed my team to ensure every resource is available as federal, state and local law enforcement work assiduously to get to the...

Tesla's global sales increased 2.3% in the fourth quarter, following a slow start to the year that resulted in the electric vehicle company's first year-over-year sales loss since 2015. The Austin, Texas-based company's yearly drop occurred despite offerings like as 0% financing, free charging, and low-cost leasing. Tesla CEO ' Elon Musk. ' Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Tesla delivered 495,570 vehicles from October to December, bringing total deliveries to 1.79 million for the year. However, this was 1.1% lower than projected sales of 1.81 million in 2023, since general demand for electric vehicles in the United States and worldwide fell. The fourth-quarter surge comes at a cost. Analysts surveyed by FactSet predicted Tesla's average sales price to decrease to just over $41,000 in the quarter, the lowest in four years. That does not bode well for Tesla's fourth-quarter profits, which the company announced it will report on January 29. Tesla expecte...

The man who rammed a truck into a crowd in New Orleans, killing at least 15 people and injuring scores more, was carrying an ISIS flag, according to the FBI. The FBI has identified the suspect who was shot and killed by police as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42. New Orleans car rammed into huge crowd killing 15. The Associated Press The incident occurred at 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday on Bourbon Street, in the early hours of New Year's Day, when Jabbar reportedly drove into a crowd after evading police barricades around the French Quarter. The suspect engaged in "very intentional behavior," according to authorities. Two cops were shot in a gunfight with the suspect and are currently in stable condition. The FBI is investigating the incident as a potential "act of terrorism." According to New Orleans police, the driver intended to "run over as many people as he possibly could." Officials do not believe Jabbar acted alone and are probing if he had accompl...

A Tesla cybertruck exploded outside of President-elect Donald Trump's hotel in Las Vegas, killing one person and injuring seven others. The explosion occurred at 8:40 a.m. on Wednesday in the valet area outside the lobby of the Trump International Hotel, located at Las Vegas Boulevard and Sammy Davis Jr. Drive. Cybertruck explosion outside Vegas ' Trump hotel ' leaves one dead and seven injured. Jeffrey Miller/Reuters At a press conference, Las Vegas County Sheriff Kevin McMahill said that one individual died inside the car and that efforts were underway to recover the corpse. "There is one deceased individual in the Cybertruck, and I don't know whether it's a male or female," McMahill said. "At this point, we are examining a number of leads, and I am not ready to share any of that information with you just now. We can. I can tell you that seven people are currently injured as a result of the explosion. He added that the injuries were a...

A man drove into a huge gathering in New Orleans in the early hours of New Year's Day, killing ten people and injuring at least 35, officials have said. Emergency services survey the scene after a vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans ' Canal and Bourbon Street on New Year 's Day. Gerald Herbert/AP This is all we know so far. When did the incident happen? On New Year's Day, around 0315, a man drove a pickup truck at great speed into a huge crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans' French Quarter. Police described the incident as "very intentional," and stated that the perpetrator was "hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did." "This man was attempting to run over as many people as possible," said New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick. The driver opened fire on cops from his car, wounding two. Authorities said they are in stable condition. In a subsequent update, the FBI verified the driver'...

A driver wreaked havoc in New Orleans' historic French Quarter early on New Year's Day, slamming a pickup truck into a crowd and killing ten people before being shot dead by police, according to officials. Police cordon off the intersection of Canal and Bourbon Streets in New Orleans ' French Quarter on January 1 , 2025. Matthew Hinton/AFP via Getty Images The attack injured over 30 individuals and is being investigated by the FBI as a terrorist crime. The driver was killed in a shootout with police after the attack around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday on Bourbon Street near Canal Street, in an area crowded with New Year's revelers, according to the FBI. According to an Associated Press report, investigators were scanning the French Quarter for probable explosive devices. The official was not allowed to discuss the probe publicly and talked with the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. Alethea Duncan, FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge, said that in...

Two crew members may have survived the Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea by sitting backwards with a harness on in the safest part of the cabin, according to aviation experts. On Sunday, a Boeing 737-800 belly-landed and slid down the runway at Muan International Airport before colliding with a building beyond the Tarmac and erupting into flames. Of the 181 people on board, 179 were dead. A police forensics department examines parts of the wreckage of the crash at Muan International Airport. Yonhap/AFP The two surviving flight attendants, who were apparently seated in the rear portion of the aircraft that separated in the crash, were recovered from the plane's tail, which was upside down as shown in images. The chief of the Muan fire department, Lee Jung-hyun, said that "only the tail part retains a little bit of shape, and the rest of [the plane] looks almost impossible to recognise." It documents the survival of two crew members in the tail of an aircr...

The US Treasury Department informed legislators on Monday that a Chinese state-sponsored actor infiltrated Treasury workstations in what authorities are calling a "major incident." The Treasury Department says China-backed hackers breached its computer systems. Michael A. McCoy/The Washington Post In a letter acquired by CNN, a Treasury official said that on December 8, a third-party software service provider told them that a threat actor had utilized a stolen key to remotely access some Treasury workstations and unclassified data. "Based on available indicators, the incident has been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor," Aditi Hardikar, assistant secretary for management at the US Treasury, wrote in the letter. A Treasury spokeswoman told CNN that the hacked service has been taken offline, and authorities are collaborating with law enforcement and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). ...

Jimmy Carter, the former president of the United States, has died at the age of 100, the institute he founded confirmed. The former peanut farmer lived longer than any president in history, reaching his 100th birthday in October. Jimmy Carter died on Sunday at his home in the small town of Plains , Georgia. Carolyn Kaster/AP The Carter Center, which promotes democracy and human rights across the world, said he died on Sunday afternoon at his home in Plains, Georgia. The Democrat was president from 1977 to 1981, a period marked by economic and diplomatic issues. After departing the White House with dismal popularity ratings, he rehabilitated his name via humanitarian efforts that garnered him the Nobel Peace Prize. "My father was a hero, not only to me, but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights, and selfless love," his son, Chip Carter, said in a statement. "The world is our family because of the way he brought people together, and we thank you ...

A Jeju Air Co. jet arriving in South Korea crashed on an airport runway and caught fire, killing or leaving more than 170 people missing.  Flight 2216 was carrying 175 passengers and 6 crew members from Bangkok when it crashed at Muan International Airport in the country's south, according to officials. While two persons were rescued, 85 were slain, and the rest were missing, according to authorities. People watch the news regarding Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 , which crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea after skidding off the runway and colliding with a wall. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images The catastrophe occurred on Sunday at approximately 9 a.m. local time. According to Yonhap, the landing gear of the Boeing Co. 737-800 airplane malfunctioned, leading it to land on its belly with no wheels deployed. It then collided with a wall at the end of the runway. The tragedy is expected to be the deadliest passenger aircraft disaster in South Korea in decades, and...

Donald Trump has urged the United States Supreme Court to postpone the enforcement of a statute that would expose TikTok to a nationwide ban on January 19 if its parent firm does not sell the platform. ' Donald Trump. ' Rebecca Noble/Getty Images The President-elect, in a friend-of-the-court brief filed on Friday, claims he can strike an agreement to balance the national security and First Amendment concerns raised by the disputed statute. Although he points out that he "takes no positions on the merits of the dispute," he asserts that he "alone possesses the consummate dealmaking expertise, the electoral mandate, and the political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing the national security concerns expressed by the Government." ByteDance has 22 days left to sell its platform. If it fails not fulfill the deadline, web-hosting providers and mobile app shops will be prohibited from carrying the app, resulting in an ef...

Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt, Fox News anchors, are planning to marry. The couple spent the holidays in Hannity's home state of Florida, where they got engaged over Christmas. "We are overjoyed and so thankful to our families for all of their love and support during this wonderful time in our lives," Hannity and Earhardt told Fox News. Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt. Theo Wargo/Getty Images The couple bonded over their deep religion, so Hannity chose the church as the "perfect place" to propose to Earhardt. Soon after the engagement, they met with their minister. Hannity and Earhardt have supposedly been in a relationship since 2020. A source told People at the time that the couple had "been seeing each other very secretively for years," despite the pair's denial. "It's been an open secret that they have been seeing each other," the source added. "They're together all the time, but in private … for years,...

The United States is experiencing an increase in outbreaks of the extremely contagious norovirus. The seasonal disease, sometimes referred to as the "winter vomiting bug" or "stomach flu," is at its highest level in over ten years during this time of year. Norovirus is the leading cause of vomiting and diarrhea , and foodborne illness in the United States. Getty Images Officials recorded 91 suspected or confirmed norovirus outbreaks in the first week of December. This is the highest level recorded at this time of year since at least 2012, and one of the highest case loads documented at any time of year in the previous 12 years. Because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data only covers 15 states, it does not provide a complete picture of norovirus throughout the country. As more states join the program over time, the number of instances may increase. Nonetheless, it represents peaks and patterns in the virus's propagation, which typi...

There is no doubt that MrBeast makes a lot of money. The YouTuber, actual name Jimmy Donaldson, earns hundreds of millions of dollars with his YouTube channel and Feastables food line. But, despite earning between $600 million and $700 million every year, Donaldson says he is not wealthy. Jimmy ' MrBeast ' Donaldson. Michael Tran/AFP/Getty Images His enormous channel has 239 million subscribers, and his videos consistently receive more than 100 million views. "Each video does a couple million in ad revenue, a couple million in brand deals," he told Time Magazine, adding that businesses spend between $2.5 million and $3 million for a mention in a video. However, that money is not deposited into his bank account. And even if it did, the 26-year-old asserts he does not have access to it. "I don't have access to any of my bank accounts," he said. "I have a CFO and everything, but [my mom is] the one who has access to the master bank account...

President-elect Donald Trump will meet with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at his Florida residence on Monday to announce that the Japanese corporation plans to spend $100 billion in US projects over the next four years. Trump has previously launched accords with much hoopla, but they have not always delivered on promised investments. President-elect Donald Trump. Evan Vucci/AP Foxconn Technology Group, a Taiwan-based corporation best known for producing Apple iPhones, earned Trump's plaudits in 2017 when it announced plans to build a $10 billion complex in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, employing 13,000 people. However, Foxconn's investment has been reduced to a fraction of that amount as the tech industry struggled following the COVID-19 outbreak, which briefly increased demand for work-from-home technologies. However, Monday's news about the SoftBank technology company is a victory for Trump, who has spent the weeks since the election promoting his views, negot...

President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he would appoint one of his defense attorneys in the New York hush money case as his counselor. Alina Habba, 40, defended Trump earlier this year and also served as his legal spokesman. Since the election, Habba has spent time with the president-elect at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago. Trump 's lawyer Alina Habba. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images "She has been unwavering in her loyalty and unmatched in her resolve - standing with me through numerous 'trials', battles, and countless days in court," Trump said on his social media platform, Truth Social. "Few understand the weaponization of the 'injustice' system better than Alina." Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes in May, when a New York jury found him guilty of all 34 counts in a plan to illegally influence the 2016 election by paying a hush-money to a porn star who claimed the two had sex...

A woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Sean "Diddy" Combs has updated her complaint to include allegations of assault by Jay-Z at the same party. The woman first sued Combs in October, but on Sunday she added Shawn Carter, the musician and businessman known as Jay-Z, as a defendant in the civil action. Jay Z attends the Los Angeles premiere of ' The Harder They Fall ' at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on October 13 , 2021 in Los Angeles , California. Rich Fury/GI Carter is the first celebrity to be accused of sexual assault related to Combs. In a statement to CNN, Carter described the charges as "so terrible in nature that I beg you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one!! Whoever who conduct such a crime against a minor should be imprisoned, do you not agree?" Combs faces allegations of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and prostitution-related offenses. Combs pled not guilty to the charges and has denied any wrong...