Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to eliminate Canada’s tariffs on billions of dollars in American imports.

President Donald Trump announced that the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on December 5.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Friday that the country was suspending many of its retaliatory tariffs on the United States after the Trump administration “reaffirmed” its commitment to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA). Canada is removing tariffs on most products from the United States, but will keep in place a 25% levy on U.S. steel, aluminum, and vehicles, since those products are not directly covered under the USMCA. In March, Canada placed a 25% tariff on many U.S. products after the Trump administration imposed a 25% duty on Canadian steel and aluminum. Bloomberg was first to report on Carney’s announcement, saying that the move appears to be the Canadian government extending an “olive branch” to President Donald Trump. “As in previous trade disputes, Canada has implemented a series of retaliatory tariffs. Their objectives have been to protect Canadian workers and businesses and to incentivize a negotiated settlement with the United States. A few other countries followed suit,” Carney said. “In a positive and very important development earlier this month, just a few weeks ago, the United States reaffirmed a core commitment to our free trade agreement by reinforcing that those Canadian exports to the United States that are compliant with that agreement … will not be subject to … tariffs.” “As a result of that decision by the United States, the actual U.S. tariff rate on Canadian goods is 5.6%,” Carney added. “Compare that to the 16% global average. That remains the lowest amongst all of the United States’ trading partners, and more than 85% of Canada-U.S. trade is now tariff-free.” End of Summer Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships While Trump signed an order in late July imposing a 35% tariff on Canadian goods, the White House clarified that most products are exempt under the USMCA, putting the actual average tariff rate on Canada at 5.6%. The prime minister said that Canada “has the best trade deal with the United States” as the numbers stand right now. A White House official told CNBC that Canada’s move was “long overdue,” adding, “We look forward to continuing our discussions with Canada on the Administration’s trade and national security concerns.” A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, reportedly told Bloomberg that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently warned Canada about the retaliatory tariffs and encouraged them to drop the tariffs to set up a clear path to negotiations. Canada backed down on its retaliatory tariffs after Carney spoke with Trump over the phone, a conversation that Carney called “productive and wide-ranging.” The USMCA, a deal that Trump negotiated during his first term in the White House, is set to be reviewed later this year, according to CNBC. Carney added during his press conference on Friday that Canada will continue to discuss “a new form of trade and security partnership with the United States.”

Washington, D.C. isn’t just any city, it’s our nation’s capital — where Americans go to conduct the business of our nation and to celebrate our history. More than that, it’s a place many call home. Unfortunately, thanks to the work of local elected officials and their radical progressive policies, the District of Columbia is now incredibly unsafe. A quick listen to reporters in the White House Press Briefing Room reacting to President Trump’s D.C. crime crackdown shows just how bad things have gotten. Many have personally been victimized in D.C., or at least have friends or family members who have. And it’s no wonder. For years, local D.C. Council members have proudly proclaimed their plans to decriminalize entire swaths of problematic conduct and to only allow relatively lenient sentences even for those convicted of very violent crimes. On top of that, council members have touted their plans to defund the Metropolitan Police Department (MPDC) and to impose onerous restrictions on officers while performing their duties. The result? MPDC is facing a historic staffing crisis, with some saying it will take a decade or more for the force to recover and be fully staffed. But, fortunately, President Trump and his administration have stepped in to take action to protect our nation’s capital — something the Framers of our Constitution always intended. Federal officials have the final say — and responsibility — for what happens in Washington, D.C. As provided by the Home Rule Act, the president has directly taken control of the local police force. He has deployed D.C.’s national guard to help patrol and make up for the police department’s manpower shortage, and he has surged federal law enforcement resources — FBI, DEA, ATF, etc. — to help patrol too. The initial results have been staggering. D.C.’s police union highlighted that in the first seven days of Trump’s law enforcement surge, carjackings dropped 83% compared to the same period a week earlier. Robberies dropped by 46%. Car thefts dropped by 21%. And violent crime overall dropped by 22%. Even more shocking and welcome news is that for the first time in a long time, the District went an entire week without a murder committed within its borders. That’s even more impressive considering that murder rates tend to spike during the hot and humid summer months. While President Trump has joined law enforcement to see firsthand what they experience while patrolling the streets and Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other senior administration officials visit and listen to deployed national guard troops around the capital, some local officials seek to frustrate these effective crime fighting tactics. For example, D.C.’s Attorney General Brian Schwalb sued the president, claiming that the Home Rule Act — and the Constitution — don’t really mean what they say. Schwalb claims that the President can’t really control D.C.’s local police and that any actions must run through local officials — who generally oppose his efforts. There’s no discretion there for the mayor or the D.C. AG to second guess the president. It would be an odd situation for an inferior official to tell the president how to discharge his duties. And yet, that’s exactly what local D.C. officials are trying to do. End of Summer Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships But more to the point, it’s unfortunate that local D.C. officials and others on the Left are denying that there’s even a crime crisis in D.C. After all, denying a problem exists doesn’t make it go away. Thankfully, President Trump and his administration are taking long-overdue and much-needed actions to transform our nation’s capital from a cautionary tale of the harmful results of progressive policies to a shining example of America’s greatness. * * * Zack Smith is a legal fellow in the Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

President Donald Trump said Friday that he would fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook if she doesn’t resign over mortgage fraud allegations.  Cook, appointed to the Federal Reserve by former President Joe Biden, has faced pressure from the Trump administration to step down after Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte — an ally of Trump — urged the Justice Department to investigate alleged mortgage-residence misrepresentations by Cook.  “I’ll fire her if she doesn’t resign,” Trump told reporters on Friday morning. “What she did was bad so I’ll fire her if she doesn’t resign.” Trump first called for Cook to step down on Wednesday, shortly after Pulte publicized an August 15 letter he sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi alleging that Cook falsified documents to get better loans and interest rates.  Pulte alleged that Cook simultaneously claimed primary residency for two homes—one in Michigan and one in Georgia — in order to secure more favorable mortgage rates. He wrote in his letter that Cook “falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, potentially committing mortgage fraud under the criminal statute.” In a statement, Cook said that she learned of the criminal referral through the media and that she had no plans to leave her position at the Fed.  “I have no intention of being bullied to step down from my position because of some questions raised in a tweet,” she said. “I do intend to take any questions about my financial history seriously as a member of the Federal Reserve and so I am gathering the accurate information to answer any legitimate questions and provide the facts.” End of Summer Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships Trump has repeatedly clashed with the Fed over its reluctance to lower interest rates and has previously floated firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Cook, who is slated to stay at the Fed until 2038, has backed Powell’s decision to hold interest rates steady. Last year, The Daily Wire and City Journal conducted an investigation into Cook’s academic record and found that, in several papers, she had lifted language from other scholars without proper quotations, and repeatedly republished text from her own prior work — or that of coauthors — across multiple academic journals without adequate attribution. For example, in a 2021 paper titled “The Antebellum Roots of Distinctively Black Names,” Cook copied and pasted verbatim language from Charles Calomiris and Jonathan Pritchett, without using quotation marks when describing their findings, as required. Much of Cook’s academic work also focused on race activism rather than quantitative economics.

The Left-wing cable news network MSNBC will soon be changing its name. It will also soon be wearing a false beard and a putty nose in an attempt to disguise the fact it’s still the same old crap geyser of socialist lunacy. The name change comes as MSNBC prepares to break away from NBC News, and become part of a group of more obscure networks that will include the Golf Channel, Oxygen, the Sicilian Mafia, and several Mexican Drug Cartels. From then on, MSNBC will be known as MS-NOW with the letters standing for My Source News Opinion World, signaling that this will be the go-to network for people who can’t form complete sentences.  To come up with the name change, MSNBC Executives consulted branding experts at the marketing agency of Blundering, Wakoff and Shmoe, who have launched such famous brands as New Coke and McPizza as well as running the ad campaign: “Blockbuster Video, The Unspooling Face of Tomorrow.” Agency leader Prodigious Wakoff recently spoke of the MS-NOW name change to a gathering of former CEO’s at the San Diego Former CEO Home and Soup Kitchen. Wakoff told the gathering, “We wanted to come up with a new name that sounded like a cross between a 1980’s PC operating system and a fire alarm in a clinic treating progressive diseases. That way, we could communicate MS-NOW’s exciting mission of transforming outmoded ideas into a future of crippling decline. MS-NOW preserves the network’s core identity while allowing NBC News to quietly scuttle off into the darkness, pretending they never had anything to do with this horrific crap fest.”  WATCH: The Andrew Klavan Show Not everyone is happy with the changes coming to the leftist network. For instance, Joy Reid’s show has been canceled, leaving Reid to continue her unique brand of commentary at more welcoming venues like homeless encampments and padded cells. In a recent rant on an imaginary podcast that was really just her standing alone and screaming into the bathroom mirror, Ms. Reid said, “Canceling my show was an obvious attempt by the white establishment to silence strong black women who stand up fearlessly for psychopathic distortion in the service of complete ignorance. The fact is, the white man stole all his ideas from advanced black civilizations of the past like the nation of Wakanda, because the white man has never invented anything himself, except advanced black civilizations of the past like the nation of Wakanda, which, okay, was totally the figment of some white guy’s imagination. But other than that, everything was invented by the black people in Wakanda.” But while MSNBC will be losing its status as the sister station of a major broadcast news network, it will otherwise not be sinking any lower because that would violate the laws of physics. So, for example, after the network changes its name, it will still feature Rachel Maddow, though she will also be changing her name and will now call herself Bret Baier in the hope someone will take her seriously. Ms. Baier-nee-Maddow recently commented on the changes at MS-NBC on a media podcast called “Former News Networks and Whatever Happened to Them.” Ms. Baier-Maddow said, “MS-NBC is needed MS-NOW more than MS-EVER. Donald Trump represents a fundamental threat to Democracy not to mention a threat to South American gangsters, Islamic terrorists, teacher union pedophiles, dead voters and incarcerated minority males who are presumed innocent and should therefore be set free to kill again. And when I say not to mention all that, it’s because I plan not to mention any of it when I talk about the threat to Democracy Donald Trump represents in my imagination, a beautiful fairyland where John Brennan and Adam Schiff eternally walk hand in hand through a dreamlike field of wildflowers and lies. We commentators on the Left are running out of time, as well as evidence and ideas, and we need to make sure our voices are heard by our audience above the noise of their irrational gibbering and howling.” Network Executives say the new MS-NOW name should be in place sometime between the end of this year and the moment shortly thereafter when the network disappears completely from our TV screens as well as our collective memories. * * * This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “The Andrew Klavan Show.” Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. Klavan is the bestselling author of numerous books, including the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The fifth installment, After That, The Dark, is now available for Pre-Order. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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