Hockey fans in Ottawa – Canada’s capital – expressed their apparent discontent at Trump’s decision by booing as “The Star-Spangled Banner” played ahead of the Ottawa Senators game against the Minnesota Wild on Saturday night.

In footage captured by a local sports journalist Bruce Garrioch, loud booing can be heard as Ottawa musician Mandia sang the final bars of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa. The jeering became louder as she finished

https://thehill.com/homenews/5121556-watch-fans-boo-us-national-anthem-nhl-game-canada/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ce_bOFmds&pp=ygUzQ2FuYWRpYW4gRmFucyBib28gVVMgYW50aGVtIGF0IE5ITCBnYW1lIG92ZXIgdHJhZGUg

Canada announces a $1.3bn spending package to stop fentanyl flowing over their borders in return for trump putting a pause on tariffs. Trudeau announced Canada will be purchasing new choppers, technology and personnel to crack down on the fentanyl drug trade.
Libshits have been continually imploding nonstop for like 15 straight days now.
https://apnews.com/live/trump-presidency-updates-day-15
JUST IN: Canada’s Trudeau says Trump tariffs will be postponed by at least 30 days after he promises more cooperation on border

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-franciscos-republican-party-swell-of-registrations-from-asian-community/

>Along with a new year comes a new political direction for the country and a warning to the city's Democratic old guard that "the times, they are changin'."
>Toy has lived in San Francisco's Chinatown for 45 years and she was happy to see so many people visiting her neighborhood. But she was also happy to see so many of her neighbors coming out to vote in the November presidential election.
>"They were in their 80's, 90's–old ladies, old men–they all came out to vote," she said. "Because the way it is happening in America, it is going downhill. For example, with the crime rate going up."
>Toy is a proud supporter of President Trump and it looks like she has a lot of company in the Asian community. The city's Republican Party is reporting a huge swell in GOP registrations of people from Asian countries since the pandemic.
>"What I see is that regular citizens, such as I, we are all fed up with the corruption here in San Francisco and also in California. We are all fed up," she said. "I'm not surprised that they're doing that," said Nancy Yu Law, about the voting shift. "All my friends have changed this year, so I'm not surprised."
>As progressives, Democrats like to see themselves as the party of change. This is one change they may not have seen coming.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/04/ukraine-war-briefing-trump-demands-rare-earths-from-kyiv-in-exchange-for-aid

kinda surprised no ones made a thread about this one yet.

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/plane-crash-dca-potomac-washington-dc-01-29-25

Dozens of people are feared dead after a passenger plane traveling from Kansas collided with a military helicopter near Reagan Airport in Arlington, Virginia, and plunged into the Potomac River.

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser confirmed early Thursday that “both aircraft are in the water,” and that 64 people were aboard the American Airlines plane and three were in the military helicopter.

President Donald Trump said early Thursday morning that the midair collision between a US Army helicopter and American Airlines passenger plane was a “bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented.”

heres the FAA statement on their website about the incident.

A PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet collided in midair with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while on approach to Runway 33 at Reagan Washington National Airport around 9 p.m. local time. PSA was operating as Flight 5342 for American Airlines. It departed from Wichita, Kansas. The FAA and NTSB will investigate. The NTSB will lead the investigation.

sources say its 18 fatalities so far as of this post. any thoughts?

BRUSSELS, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Belgian police were hunting two suspects on Wednesday after a shooting near the Brussels South international railway station, the city's prosecutor's office said.
Nobody was injured in the shooting, which happened around 6.00 am (0500 GMT), at the Clemenceau metro station in central Brussels, prosecutors said, adding there were no indications of a terrorist motive in the incident.
Police initially launched a manhunt in the tunnels of the metro system, which was partially closed after two men carrying machine guns were seen fleeing into the Clemenceau station.
Broadcaster VRT said the shooting was probably drug-related and said the shooters had aimed at one person but had missed.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/several-brussels-metro-stations-closed-after-shooting-2025-02-05/

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/33203672/belgian-train-station-gunmen-tunnel-manhunt/

https://x.com/elonmusk/?mx=2

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-mount-rushmore-bill-anna-paulina-luna-2022609
A bill to add a carving of President Donald Trump to Mount Rushmore has been introduced by a MAGA politician.

Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna announced the bill Tuesday calling for Trump to be added to the South Dakota monument with the message: "Let's get carving."

Newsweek has contacted the White House and Luna for comment via email outside of regular working hours.

The proposal is the latest attempt to commemorate the Republican following his return to the White House, signaling that Trump's staunch supporters continue to show strong support for the president in his second term.

Luna, who represents Florida's 13th Congressional District, introduced a bill calling for a carving of Trump to be included on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial alongside former Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

The bill is unlikely to receive the bipartisan support needed to pass Congress.

North Carolina Representative Addison McDowell introduced a bill last week to rename Washington Dulles International Airport after Trump.

Tennessee Representative Andy Ogles also introduced a long-shot bill to amend the Constitution to allow Trump to run for a third term.

Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor who carved the Mount Rushmore memorial, selected the four presidents because they represented the "most important events" in U.S. history, according to the National Park Service.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-presidential-power-executive-congress-grants-freeze-60fa3a9fabf6328f9aa3c45ed34e2cc3

Just a little over a week into his second term, President Donald Trump took steps to maximize his power, sparking chaos and what critics contend is a constitutional crisis as he challenges the separation of powers that have defined American government for more than 200 years.

The new administration’s most provocative move came this week, as it announced it would temporarily halt federal payments to ensure they complied with Trump’s orders barring diversity programs. The technical-sounding directive had enormous immediate impact before it was blocked by a federal judge, potentially pulling trillions of dollars from police departments, domestic violence shelters, nutrition services and disaster relief programs that rely on federal grants. The administration on Wednesday rescinded the order.

Though the Republican administration denied Medicaid was affected, it acknowledged the online portal allowing states to file for reimbursement from the program was shut down for part of Tuesday in what it insisted was an error.

Legal experts noted the president is explicitly forbidden from cutting off spending for programs that Congress has approved. The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to appropriate money and requires the executive to pay it out. A 50-year-old law known as the Impoundment Control Act makes that explicit by prohibiting the president from halting payments on grants or other programs approved by Congress.

“The thing that prevents the president from being an absolute monarch is Congress controls the power of the purse strings,” said Josh Chafetz, a law professor at Georgetown University, adding that even a temporary freeze violates the law. “It’s what guarantees there’s a check on the presidency.”

Democrats and other critics said the move was blatantly unconstitutional.