TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

Here I am again, 5:45 a.m., and it's still dark out. Although it appears to be mostly clear out, it is much cooler than it has been, as the forecast had predicted, as I had explained in my news a couple of days ago. The hurricane in the east would bring a colder air flow from the northwest, with the jet stream dropping, and then you would experience the usual spells of rain, clouds, and colder temperatures. However, other than a couple of days in the 60s, it will hover in the low to mid-70s until the end of September.

I thought I would have an early start at the news this morning because I have a dumb, dumb doctor's appointment at 9:00 a.m., and you know how that is, it will eat up at least two hours of my day, three with the drive there and back, so I will be late again this morning delivering the news. But at least I'll get in what I can now. On Wednesday, I would like to take advantage of a lovely sunny summer day to simply go for a walk in the park and maybe play around with my drone while we're out.

By the way, my sister loved the walk we took in the park when she was here, especially the spot where I took her to see Grandfather Weeping Willow. It's been a couple of years myself since I've been well enough to walk that far, but that tree, I swear, has grown even bigger; it would take at least five grown men to put their arms around it. I used to be able to see it from my green space, but the walnut trees have grown too tall to see it anymore. In just eight years, significant changes can occur.

Not just the trees, I wish that was all that changed, even more recent, NAZI-USA???? Only a half dozen years ago, I would have said pigs can't fly; the laws of aerodynamics would not support a pig without enormous wings, and I would hate to be the one to design the flaps for the wings on that pig.🤯😲😵‍💫 Well, that's it from the Newsroom. Perhaps that's what we can discuss today.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION

AERODYNAMICS OF A PIG:

Is it Possible to teach a pig to fly?

Well, ladies and gentlemen, it appears that our American neighbors have chosen to do precisely that. PUT WINGS ON A PIG!

If they did successfully put wings on the ORANGE PIG and he could fly, the bees would take up walking from flower to flower, and We, the People, would be doing the Tennessee Bird Walk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-OrVQaqkg0

Just like he's trying to do to us Canucks. A narcissistic, psychopathic, genocidal, lunatic, maniac, nutcase, Nazi lover that keeps changing the rules to his liking. And he wouldn't need drones; If pigs could fly, he could use his 💩 diapers instead of drones. ALL OF CONGRESS is nothing more than Morons and their DUNCE BRIGADE Gestapo.

This is beginning to look too much like a THREE STOOGES MOVIE, except this time the Three Stooges have real ammunition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A37-vyfUbCU

I suppose every day I feel more like that radio broadcaster who was broadcasting, anonymously, in Vietnam, 'Good Morning Vietnam' right here from my own tower. For some reason, that movie has stuck in my mind all these years. Now here I am, living it. Just one more weird occurrence out of many that remain a mystery in my lifetime. Precognition? Like the saying goes, it feels like someone stepped on my grave.

BREAKING NEWS:

Trump says he has fired Fed governor Lisa Cook. She says he has no ‘authority’ to fire her

President Donald Trump on Monday said he has fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, according to a letter addressed to her posted on his social media — the first instance of a president firing a central bank governor in the central bank’s 111-year history.

The unprecedented move represents a significant escalation of the president’s battle against the Fed, which he has blamed for taking too long to lower interest rates. But Cook said the president doesn’t have the “authority” to fire her and that she plans to continue in her post. Cook has recently come under fire by Trump and members of his administration for allegedly committing mortgage fraud. The Justice Department has said it plans to investigate those allegations first raised by Federal Housing Finance Director Bill Pulte.

Cook has not been charged with any wrongdoing...

• Fed independence at risk:

Contributed to DocumentCloud by Matt Stiles (CNN)

Updated Aug 26, 2025, 7:02 AM ET - 53 min ago

- CNN -

Hostage families protest in Israel as global outrage deepens over Gaza hospital attack

• What We're Covering:

• Protests in Israel:

Israelis have begun a nationwide day of protest, blocking highways and burning tires as they call for a Gaza ceasefire deal that would secure the release of hostages.

• “Double-tap” strike:

• Media under attack:

Read More:

45 min ago

Israel faces global outrage over “double-tap” strike on Gaza hospital

Israel is facing a global outcry after it launched a deadly strike on a hospital in southern Gaza.

Yesterday’s attack was a “double-tap” strike. After the initial blast at the Nasser Hospital, people gathered around the site to tend to the casualties, while journalists arrived to report. Then, Israel fired again.

At least 20 people were killed in the attacks, including five journalists. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the incident was a “tragic mishap.”

• Here’s how the world has reacted:

• United Nations:

The UN human rights office called for “justice and accountability” after the strike. At least 247 Palestinian journalists have been killed since October 7, 2023, spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan said Tuesday at a press briefing, a figure he said should “shock the world.”

• European Union:

• United Kingdom:

• United States:

• Germany:

• Spain:

• France:

• Canada:

Read More:

1 hr 16 min ago

Qatar says Israel has yet to respond to Gaza ceasefire proposal

Demonstrators on the streets of Israel today are demanding a negotiated end to the war in Gaza and the release of all hostages.

Israel itself has yet to provide a response to the ceasefire proposal currently on offer, Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said earlier...

Read More:

Updated 10:03 AM EDT, Tue August 26, 2025

- CNN -

Protests halt Tel Aviv traffic amid nationwide day of action

00:23

CANADIAN NEWS:

Canada narrows choices for new submarines to German and South Korean bidders

PM Carney meeting chancellor, attending business roundtable in Berlin

As he delivered the hard sell pitch last spring for Canada to buy his submarines, Oliver Burkhard, the CEO of Germany's ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), used the phrase "strategic partnership" half a dozen times.

Canada would be part of "a family," he said.

We will — perhaps — soon get a better sense whether that approach is music to the ears of Prime Minister Mark Carney and key members of his cabinet. It was announced Tuesday that Canada had narrowed the list of contenders to build the navy's new submarines to two bidders — TKMS and South Korea's Hanwha Ocean Ltd.

WATCH | Carney asked how government intends to proceed with submarine procurement:

• Poland's Donald Tusk won't send peacekeepers to Ukraine but will provide logistical support
• German, Norwegian officials urge Canada to join 'familiar family' in buying new submarines
• Ottawa asks defence contractors to make pitches for new submarine fleet

Read More:

Posted: Aug 25, 2025 7:55 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

- CBC -

Air quality drops as smoke spreads from Annapolis County wildfire

Environment Canada says air quality reduced in Halifax, Lunenburg, Hants and Kings counties

Smoke from an out-of-control wildfire in western Nova Scotia is drifting into parts of the province more than 100 kilometres away, with Environment Canada cautioning it could lead to poor air quality and reduced visibility in some areas.

The Long Lake fire in Annapolis County more than doubled in size over the weekend, destroying and damaging a number of homes and leading to further evacuations in the area. On Tuesday morning, Environment Canada said in a statement that air quality is reduced in Halifax and Lunenburg counties, while plumes of smoke are expected to settle in Kings and Hants counties in the afternoon as the wind shifts. There is an air quality warning for Annapolis County...

Read More Top Stories:

Posted: Aug 26, 2025 9:47 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

- CBC -

Have a wonderful afternoon everyone, and thank you for reading the news.

📰🏡~ FROM THE TREE HOUSE NEWS ~🏡📰

 

TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

Well, folks, here I am, Live from the Tree House, finally, and back in the Newsroom. It's a beautiful, bright, sunny day, in the low 70s. I am sitting here next to the open glass doors that lead out to my green space, the balcony. It's the closest I can be to sitting outside in nature with my laptop. I could, but it's too bright to see what's on the monitor, so I do the next best. I never really had the time to play around with computers when I was working as a social worker; it was the physical, hands-on stuff, not the in-the-office work.

I went to night school and worked in soup kitchens and food banks, and I worked with the homeless, recovering alcoholics, and addicts. My best tutor was my own psychiatrist; he was my tutor in psychology when I went to see him for appointments, which was my opportunity to ask questions. And every month, I get a new update from Psychology Today Magazine. He was a wonderful man.

You know, I learned more on my own through reading a great deal more books. I've gained more knowledge than I did from all the learning I did when I graduated from Cambrian College in Sudbury. Eh! ya know! Sundbury on a Saturday night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl751CDdRZI

I was attending college in Sudbury when I saw Stompin' Tom live when he sang that song for the first time at the Frontenac Hotel.

If there ever were a Heartbreak Hotel north of the border, that one would have made a good substitute! Back then, the miners and the lumberjacks shared the same watering holes. I leave the rest for your imagination. Anyway, that story would take a couple of pages to describe.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

DO WHAT'S RIGHT

There is irony in the repetition of humanity's deeds and their results. We are victims of our own Karma, damned to repeat the same frame of the video over and over again. Groundhog Day. How far back does the force of Karma go, you may ask, as far as the force projected. But you will ultimately fall back to the force of your own Karma, which you created from your own conception, like using Mount Rushmore to squash a fly in the ointment. So the Karma goes as deep as the amount of hate, the venom that was in that viper.

But there is always hope; that hope is what lies within your heart. Your heart is incapable of lying to you unless you allow outside stimuli to deceive it. Then the brain is disconnected from the heart. DON'T DISCONNECT - YOU DO WHAT'S RIGHT, "DO!" what is in the ❤️

The gift of knowing who you are within, in the heart, ❤️ the truth, will change the entire course of the natural forces and human evolution.

Number ONE! The value of human life must be at the top of the pyramid, above those who prioritize monetary value over human lives. GREED! Those who think they are gods living in palaces are no more than parasites. They are only greedy crabs wallowing in the mud below, fighting and hoarding from other crabs for earthly morsels, at the foot of the temple of evolution.

BE WARNED!

WHEREVER ALL IS CHAOS, THEN WILL COME THE FALL OF EMPIRES

I pray that we are more intelligent, not only wiser but spiritually mature enough to see the writing on the wall. Nobody knows where to hang their hats anymore. The Orange Pus Bag has stolen all the coat hooks.

COME ON! Wake the F up, all of you, quit kissing the orange arseholes' diaper, grow a backbone and stand up to him and DO WHAT'S RIGHT! "GEEZ!"

BREAKING NEWS:

Kilmar Abrego Garcia sues to fight deportation to Uganda after being detained by ICE

Minutes after Kilmar Abrego Garcia was taken into custody by immigration officials in Baltimore on Monday, his attorneys filed a new lawsuit urging a federal judge to order his release and slow down his removal process so he can have a chance to challenge his potential deportation to Uganda.

Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was unlawfully deported to El Salvador earlier this year, was taken into custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement after turning himself in to a facility in Baltimore.

“Regardless of what happens today in my ICE check-in, promise me this,” Abrego Garcia said at a rally with members of his family, immigration activists and community leaders before reporting to the ICE facility on Monday. “Promise me that you will continue to pray, continue to fight, resist and love, not just for me, but for everybody.”

His comments came as the Trump administration warned it could send Abrego Garcia to Uganda as soon as this week. Abrego Garcia returned home at the end of last week from Tennessee, where he was being held pending trial in a federal human smuggling case...

Read More:

33 min ago

Updated Aug 25, 2025, 11:44 AM ET - 33 min ago

- CNN -

I solemnly pray on my eighty-year-old knees that all of the perpetrators of the law, genocidal maniacs, persecutors, executioners, and traitors of We, The people, that the Judge of all judges, send them to their appropriate place in Hell, which part of Hell is up to the Judge of judges. I can only pray that it is expedited.🙏

Gorsuch and Kavanaugh warn lower court judges in Trump cases

In Donald Trump’s long-running feud with federal judges, the president has found some support in an unlikely place: the nation’s highest court.

A growing sense of frustration with some lower courts — articulated in terms that at times sound similar to Trump’s own rhetoric — has crept into a series of opinions this summer from the Supreme Court’s conservative justices as they juggle a flood of emergency cases dealing with Trump’s second term.

“Lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this court’s decisions, but they are never free to defy them,” Justice Neil Gorsuch admonished in an opinion last week tied to the court’s decision to allow Trump to cancel nearly $800 million in research grants.

The rebuke, which was joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, flipped the narrative that it is Trump who has pushed legal boundaries with his flurry of executive orders and support for impeaching judges who rule against him. A wave of legal conservatives took to social media to tout Gorsuch’s warning...

• Rewarding lawlessness?:
• Kavanaugh: Judges are not ‘policymakers’:

Read More:

Updated Aug 25, 2025, 10:19 AM ET - 2 hr ago

- CNN -

I feel sad for America, and miss it very much. It was my second home, and I solemnly pray that it returns to the America I knew my entire life. I realise the system certainly needed some readjustment, but at least they had a life, and you could advance as far as you wished with those American dreams. Maybe not what you aspired to, but certainly something you feel was worthwhile accomplishing. If you worked hard enough, you would have found the treasure you sought. Sometimes the replacement is sufficient; it was for me. So I got a vintage 1960s Volkswagen Minibus instead of the Cadillac Escalade.

Trump says imports of wood products may pose national security threat to U.S. — raising fears in B.C.

Section 232 investigation could mean more tariffs for softwood sector, already dealing with 35% duty rate

B.C.'s forestry sector is awaiting the results of a U.S. Commerce Department investigation into the imports of wood products, which could impose further tariffs on the beleaguered industry.

It comes months after U.S. President Donald Trump launched a Section 232 investigation into whether importing timber, lumber and derivative products could pose a national security threat to the U.S.

The prospect of further tariffs on B.C.'s softwood lumber industry in particular — which is already dealing with a high 35 per cent duty imposed by the U.S. — could mean even more mill closures and job losses, experts say...

Value of B.C. commodity exports to the U.S. in 2024

• WATCH | Separating fact from fiction in the lumber dispute:

Results could arrive in the fall: minister

• U.S. increases duties on Canadian softwood lumber, bringing total to more than 35%
• Cautious optimism in B.C. after PM announces $1.2B in softwood lumber support

- CNN -

HATEFUL - PUTIN PHELLATOR -

🌄~ LAND OF THE RISING SUN ~🌄

 

TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

Well, folks, here I am, Live from the Tree House, finally, and back in the Newsroom. It's a beautiful, bright, sunny day, in the low 70s. I am sitting here next to the open glass doors that lead out to my green space, the balcony. It's the closest I can be to sitting outside in nature with my laptop. I could, but it's too bright to see what's on the monitor, so I do the next best. I never really had the time to play around with computers when I was working as a social worker; it was the physical, hands-on stuff, not the in-the-office work.

I went to night school and worked in soup kitchens and food banks, and I worked with the homeless, recovering alcoholics, and addicts. My best tutor was my own psychiatrist; he was my tutor in psychology when I went to see him for appointments, which was my opportunity to ask questions. And every month, I get a new update from Psychology Today Magazine. He was a wonderful man.

You know, I learned more on my own through reading a great deal more books. I've gained more knowledge than I did from all the learning I did when I graduated from Cambrian College in Sudbury. Eh! ya know! Sundbury on a Saturday night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl751CDdRZI

I was attending college in Sudbury when I saw Stompin' Tom live when he sang that song for the first time at the Frontenac Hotel.

If there ever were a Heartbreak Hotel north of the border, that one would have made a good substitute! Back then, the miners and the lumberjacks shared the same watering holes. I leave the rest for your imagination. Anyway, that story would take a couple of pages to describe.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

DO WHAT'S RIGHT

There is irony in the repetition of humanity's deeds and their results. We are victims of our own Karma, damned to repeat the same frame of the video over and over again. Groundhog Day. How far back does the force of Karma go, you may ask, as far as the force projected. But you will ultimately fall back to the force of your own Karma, which you created from your own conception, like using Mount Rushmore to squash a fly in the ointment. So the Karma goes as deep as the amount of hate, the venom that was in that viper.

But there is always hope; that hope is what lies within your heart. Your heart is incapable of lying to you unless you allow outside stimuli to deceive it. Then the brain is disconnected from the heart. DON'T DISCONNECT - YOU DO WHAT'S RIGHT, "DO!" what is in the ❤️

The gift of knowing who you are within, in the heart, ❤️ the truth, will change the entire course of the natural forces and human evolution.

Number ONE! The value of human life must be at the top of the pyramid, above those who prioritize monetary value over human lives. GREED! Those who think they are gods living in palaces are no more than parasites. They are only greedy crabs wallowing in the mud below, fighting and hoarding from other crabs for earthly morsels, at the foot of the temple of evolution.

BE WARNED!

WHEREVER ALL IS CHAOS, THEN WILL COME THE FALL OF EMPIRES

I pray that we are more intelligent, not only wiser but spiritually mature enough to see the writing on the wall. Nobody knows where to hang their hats anymore. The Orange Pus Bag has stolen all the coat hooks.

COME ON! Wake the F up, all of you, quit kissing the orange arseholes' diaper, grow a backbone and stand up to him and DO WHAT'S RIGHT! "GEEZ!"

BREAKING NEWS:

Kilmar Abrego Garcia sues to fight deportation to Uganda after being detained by ICE

Minutes after Kilmar Abrego Garcia was taken into custody by immigration officials in Baltimore on Monday, his attorneys filed a new lawsuit urging a federal judge to order his release and slow down his removal process so he can have a chance to challenge his potential deportation to Uganda.

Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was unlawfully deported to El Salvador earlier this year, was taken into custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement after turning himself in to a facility in Baltimore.

“Regardless of what happens today in my ICE check-in, promise me this,” Abrego Garcia said at a rally with members of his family, immigration activists and community leaders before reporting to the ICE facility on Monday. “Promise me that you will continue to pray, continue to fight, resist and love, not just for me, but for everybody.”

His comments came as the Trump administration warned it could send Abrego Garcia to Uganda as soon as this week. Abrego Garcia returned home at the end of last week from Tennessee, where he was being held pending trial in a federal human smuggling case...

Read More:

33 min ago

Updated Aug 25, 2025, 11:44 AM ET - 33 min ago

- CNN -

I solemnly pray on my eighty-year-old knees that all of the perpetrators of the law, genocidal maniacs, persecutors, executioners, and traitors of We, The people, that the Judge of all judges, send them to their appropriate place in Hell, which part of Hell is up to the Judge of judges. I can only pray that it is expedited.🙏

Gorsuch and Kavanaugh warn lower court judges in Trump cases

In Donald Trump’s long-running feud with federal judges, the president has found some support in an unlikely place: the nation’s highest court.

A growing sense of frustration with some lower courts — articulated in terms that at times sound similar to Trump’s own rhetoric — has crept into a series of opinions this summer from the Supreme Court’s conservative justices as they juggle a flood of emergency cases dealing with Trump’s second term.

“Lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this court’s decisions, but they are never free to defy them,” Justice Neil Gorsuch admonished in an opinion last week tied to the court’s decision to allow Trump to cancel nearly $800 million in research grants.

The rebuke, which was joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, flipped the narrative that it is Trump who has pushed legal boundaries with his flurry of executive orders and support for impeaching judges who rule against him. A wave of legal conservatives took to social media to tout Gorsuch’s warning...

• Rewarding lawlessness?:
• Kavanaugh: Judges are not ‘policymakers’:

Read More:

Updated Aug 25, 2025, 10:19 AM ET - 2 hr ago

- CNN -

I feel sad for America, and miss it very much. It was my second home, and I solemnly pray that it returns to the America I knew my entire life. I realise the system certainly needed some readjustment, but at least they had a life, and you could advance as far as you wished with those American dreams. Maybe not what you aspired to, but certainly something you feel was worthwhile accomplishing. If you worked hard enough, you would have found the treasure you sought. Sometimes the replacement is sufficient; it was for me. So I got a vintage 1960s Volkswagen Minibus instead of the Cadillac Escalade.

Trump says imports of wood products may pose national security threat to U.S. — raising fears in B.C.

Section 232 investigation could mean more tariffs for softwood sector, already dealing with 35% duty rate

B.C.'s forestry sector is awaiting the results of a U.S. Commerce Department investigation into the imports of wood products, which could impose further tariffs on the beleaguered industry.

It comes months after U.S. President Donald Trump launched a Section 232 investigation into whether importing timber, lumber and derivative products could pose a national security threat to the U.S.

The prospect of further tariffs on B.C.'s softwood lumber industry in particular — which is already dealing with a high 35 per cent duty imposed by the U.S. — could mean even more mill closures and job losses, experts say...

Value of B.C. commodity exports to the U.S. in 2024

• WATCH | Separating fact from fiction in the lumber dispute:

Results could arrive in the fall: minister

• U.S. increases duties on Canadian softwood lumber, bringing total to more than 35%
• Cautious optimism in B.C. after PM announces $1.2B in softwood lumber support

- CNN -

HATEFUL - PUTIN PHELLATOR -

🌄~ LAND OF THE RISING SUN ~🌄

 

TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

At least the sun has returned, and it's much milder out this morning. A picture-perfect August morning, the lazy, hazy days of summer are nearly over. By next week, it will drop to the high 60s to a maximum. 75°F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OZrNDtRltg

The first day of school, which some children dread and others look forward to, is a chance to meet up with their schoolmates once more after the summer holidays, meet their new teacher, and learning a new curriculum. What a pity that one ignorant educational hater, the ORANGE PUS BAG, is trying to turn OUR schools into work camp training schools. Don't You Know? Don't forget. DON'T FORGET you elected this Orange Beast, and now you owe your soul to the company store.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTCen9-RELM

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

A REPUBLICK:

The corporations are taking over, for now, for how long? Even corporations need a legal and controlled trade market; if not, it's chaos time, and Trump, for some insane reason, loves his bizarre idea of being king of what will eventually fall apart into a third-world country. Welcome to 18 and 64 folks! The Orange Pus Bag, or, rather, his adviser, whom I also think is a nutcase, but has more brains than "F'n" Orange Face, doesn't even have an inclination on how to begin setting up a Nazi regime. Even Putin's regime and his oligarchs are organised, trained, and follow instructions, working for the state, the state being Putin. Yes, working for the state, not the people. I'm a Canuck and I have known that since public school. A REPUBLIC...

*- Google Search -

• Republic:

A republic is a form of government where supreme power rests with the citizens, who typically exercise this power through elected representatives. Unlike a monarchy, a republic does not have a monarch or hereditary ruler; instead, its chief of state is usually a president or similar figure elected by the people. The term "republic" comes from the Latin phrase res publica, meaning "public thing" or "public affair," highlighting that the government serves the common good of the people.

It's the Same For Canadians.

Except that Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition.

All of our laws were" much the same judicial system. Our cross-border trade was like the border was an invisible line that no one really paid much attention to, except for the waiting time to cross it.

If you have a NEXUS, you could go through almost casually, like I loved exchanging jokes with the Border Security personnel on the way through.

Now, being a Canadian, they may send me to Guantanamo. You know that Pesky old witch from the TREE HOUSE NEWS. He loves witch hunts. I got a curse or two for him, and if that's not enough, I could always say "mas" in French.

Now, for a short look at what insanity has been unleashed since yesterday.*_

BREAKING NEWS:

FBI conducts search at John Bolton’s home as part of resumed national security investigation

The FBI conducted a court-authorized search at John Bolton’s home as part of a national security investigation into whether he disclosed classified information in his 2020 book, according to two people familiar with the matter.

CNN observed FBI personnel at President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser-turned-critic’s house in the Washington, DC, area. They were seen speaking to a person on the porch of the house, and at least four to six agents were seen going inside.

Some of the agents took bags out of the vehicles to bring inside, but nothing was seen coming out of the residence. The FBI had also planned to search Bolton’s office on Friday morning, according to a source familiar with the investigation, though it was unclear when that search would be conducted. CNN saw several unmarked federal vehicles outside Bolton’s office building in downtown Washington on Friday morning...

• Trump’s fraught history with Bolton:
• Public nature of FBI search:

Updated Aug 22, 2025, 9:56 AM ET - 26 min ago

- CNN -

GOP governors are sending troops to DC. Their states have 10 cities with higher crime rates

At least ten cities in states whose Republican governors are deploying National Guard troops to Washington, DC, had higher rates of violent crime or homicide than DC last year, according to a CNN review of FBI data.

Governors from Ohio, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and West Virginia announced this week that they’re sending troops to assist President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital. Violent crime was already falling in DC, though it still ranks 17th among major cities.

In the past week, Trump federalized DC’s police force, surged federal law enforcement agents into the city, and deployed the DC National Guard.

Military officials said there were nearly 2,000 soldiers and airmen mobilized in DC as of Thursday afternoon. Governors from the six states previously said they’re contributing about 1,000 troops. And yet, their home states have cities with worse crime rates than DC – like Cleveland, Nashville, and Jackson, Mississippi, which was No. 1 in homicides per capita last year...

• How DC’s violent crime rate compares to other cities':
• Ohio:
• Tennessee:
• Louisiana:
• Mississippi:
• West Virginia:

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PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2025, 6:00 AM ET - 4 hr ago

- CNN -

Gaza City suffering a ‘man-made’ famine that’s likely to spread, UN-backed initiative says

Parts of Gaza are officially experiencing a “man-made” famine, according to a Friday report by a United Nations-backed initiative, which added that the situation is expected to worsen after months of relentless conflict.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) found that famine has been confirmed in the Gaza Governorate, which includes Gaza City, now also the site of a major new Israeli offensive.

“As this Famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed,” the report said. “The time for debate and hesitation has passed, starvation is present and is rapidly spreading. There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that an immediate, at-scale response is needed.”...

Read More:

- CNN -

• Related Article:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to members of the media following a meeting with US House Speaker Mike Johnson at the US Capitol on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.

Netanyahu orders ‘immediate negotiations’ to release hostages as Israel advances Gaza City operation

Read More:

Updated Aug 22, 2025, 9:52 AM ET - 55 min ago

- CNN -

CANADIAN NEWS:

3 provinces, 1 territory made pharmacare deals. Ottawa won't say if others are coming

Provinces with national program in place seeing savings, expanded coverage

Two provinces have implemented pharmacare this year, two more jurisdictions are preparing to roll it out and the rest of the country doesn't know if Ottawa still intends to subsidize some prescription drugs for them, too.

National pharmacare may become a regional privilege afforded to only four of Canada's 13 provinces and territories. Health Minister Marjorie Michel raised suspicions Ottawa would abandon future pharmacare deals when she said in July that Canada has "a new government" and the country is "in a new context."...

• More eligible drugs:
• Some insurers dropping coverage:

Liberal, NDP bill to cover diabetes and birth control medication receives royal assent

N.S. wants to go 'back to the table' on federal pharmacare deal

• Implementation of Yukon deal delayed:

The national pharmacare plan is meant to cover certain medications, including prescription birth control. A reproductive health advocate in Ontario wants her province to sign on to the federal deal...

Read More:

Posted: Aug 22, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

- CBC -

Fed up Canadians say no one at CRA is taking their call. The union says it's set to get worse

+Job losses mean fewer than 5% of callers are getting to speak to an agent, union says

Many Canadians are complaining they can't reach anyone at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) by phone to address important tax matters, and the union representing agency workers has joined affected taxpayers in pleading with the federal government to fix the problem.

"It's just so frustrating and disappointing," said Krista Tucker Petrick of North Bay, Ont., one of several affected taxpayers interviewed by CBC News. She said she has been calling the CRA at least twice daily for weeks to deal with her late stepmother's estate...

• Sweeping job cuts:
• Callers on hold:

Posted: Aug 22, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

- CBC -

☀️ ~ Land of the Rising Sun ~ ☀️

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TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

Well, the weather forecast was supposed to be sunny.

My observation is that if it remains cool and cloudy, I fear that the short summer spell we had is coming to an end sooner than it should; the past few cool, overcast days are a good indication of that. Feels more like early fall, like October—about a month and a half sooner than usual. Other than that, there is not much more to report from the Newsroom this morning, except for a minor conflict, which was not intentional, but just happened, and I thought I would share it with you all this morning as a topic for discussion. It hurts when people don't understand.

With fall just around the corner, the trend will be more cloudy than sunny. If that's the case, we are going to have a bugger of a winter, longer than usual. The rebound effect is one that few, even environmentalists, would think about. An instinct, if you may. I am beginning to believe that La Niña and El Niño are fighting each other for the last throne in the environmental kingdom of Nature. I wish more people in this world could simply feel things, you know, just know something by feeling what they are observing. Reading a book and feeling the emotions of the character as if you were experiencing the story through their eyes. Or not only observe the flower but feel what it feels.

I'm just like anyone else; I have a short fuse, and I get angry. I feel all the emotions that others feel, and then some. However, not many people in the general population understand me too well. When I'm upset, I have no intention of dumping it on anyone else; my only purpose is to vent. Then, most people get upset or nonplussed because they don't get the drift.

I sometimes entertain the idea of carrying a boxing glove with a brick in it, but I would not hurt a fly, literally. 🪰 I am nonviolent and nonconfrontational.

I have a short-term memory for the mundane, but for the building blocks that got me to where I am, nothing is forgotten. Some of the data that is stored in my memory can be recalled vividly in detail. However, I have a slightly heightened awareness of details, the energy emitted by every living thing, and I sense the emotions and feelings in that environment as if they were my own.

The entire reason for this small inventory of my own experiences with emotions and feelings of an Empath is to share my belief that THIS COULD BE A WAY TO END ALL WARS. And it's not that hard to learn to be in harmony.

Consider this and strive to live a little more harmoniously each day.

Take a Moment for Prayer And Meditation 🙏🙇‍♀️

✊~ VIVE LA RESISTANCE ~✊

BREAKING NEWS:

Russia carries out its biggest attack in more than a month while accusing Ukraine of not being interested in peace

Russia launched its largest drone and missile salvo on Ukraine in more than a month, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday, as Moscow accused Kyiv of not being interested in a “sustainable, fair and long-term settlement.”

Nine civilians were killed in the strikes as well as in shelling in eastern Ukraine, officials said. The attacks come just days after US President Donald Trump held a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska, followed by a White House summit with Zelensky and European leaders, in pursuit of an end to the conflict.

But since then, there have been few signs of tangible progress. Russia’s foreign minister poured cold water on the idea of a leaders’ summit and security guarantees for Kyiv, saying that the Kremlin won’t accept the placement of any foreign troops in Ukraine. In its overnight attack, Russia launched a total of 574 strike drones and 40 missiles on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday, hitting as far west as the city of Lviv...

Kremlin pours cold water on bilateral meeting

Moscow’s comments, meanwhile, have openly contradicted the White House narrative that plans for a bilateral meeting between Putin and Zelensky are “underway.”...

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Updated Aug 21, 2025, 10:15 AM ET - 12 min ago

- CNN -

Hurricane Erin pounds the North Carolina coast as it moves away

What We Know:

• Storm intensity: Hurricane Erin is tracking north just off the East Coast as a Category 2 storm.

• Sprawling storm:

• Evacuations ordered:

• Water rescues:

21 min ago

Rip currents are still a risk for the East Coast today. Here's what to watch for

Rip currents are strong channels of water that flow away from the shore, often forming at breaks in sandbars and close to structures like piers. Tropical systems also cause them as they stir up the ocean. There’s a high risk of rip currents along much of the East Coast today and tomorrow thanks to Erin. Here’s what to watch for, according to the United States Lifesaving Association:

• a narrow gap of darker, seemingly calmer water between areas of breaking waves and whitewater:
• a difference in water color:
• a line of foam, seaweed or debris moving seaward:
• a channel of churning, choppy water:

40 min ago

What the East Coast should expect from Erin today

1 hr 48 min ago

Buoy in Erin's path measures 40 foot waves, 85 mph gust

A buoy in the Atlantic around 150 miles from North Carolina’s Outer Banks proved just how lucky the East Coast is that Hurricane Erin didn’t make landfall.

2 hr 7 min ago

Main Outer Banks road remains closed with portions covered in sand and water

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Updated 10:12 AM EDT, Thu August 21, 2025

- CNN -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Yes, self-defence is allowed in Canada. 'Misinformation' abounds as man charged in assault of intruder: lawyer

Police in Lindsay, Ont., have faced criticism for charging man after alleged home intruder injured

After a decision to charge a man for allegedly assaulting an intruder in his home in Lindsay, Ont., sparked widespread reaction this week, one criminal lawyer has a reminder for the public: self-defence is legal in Canada, but within reason.

The Kawartha Lakes Police Service has faced criticism for charging a 44-year-old man after an altercation that left the alleged intruder with life-threatening injuries Monday morning in the small town northeast of Toronto. Police have provided few details but say the resident is facing charges for aggravated assault and assault with a weapon, and the intruder, who is also facing charges, was airlifted to hospital afterward...

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• Right to self-defence comes with limits:
• Police defend charges:

Posted: Aug 20, 2025 8:16 PM EDT | Last Updated: August 20

- CBC -

No Mi'kmaw ownership in gas plant yet, despite company claims

Indigenous investment stake in project will depend on outcome of rights-impact assessment, group says

Mi'kmaw communities have not made a financial investment in a proposed natural gas plant and may never own a stake in the project, despite company claims to the contrary. ProEnergy, the U.S. company hired by N.B. Power to build the plant in Tantramar, has promoted an Indigenous ownership stake in the project, a claim repeated by Premier Susan Holt.

"North Shore Mi'kmaq Tribal Council is a minority equity holder in the project," Landon Tessner, ProEnergy's vice-president commercial, said during a public meeting in July organized by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada...

N.B. Power, U.S. company pick Tantramar site for natural gas plant

Tantramar residents near proposed natural gas plant share health concerns

Opponents of new gas plant accuse N.B. Power of trying to evade regulatory scrutiny Big emissions estimate a worst-case scenario, gas plant builder says

♪♫NATURE'S SOUNDS AND MUSIC TO SOOTH THE SOUL♪♫

💝🦜🌿~ Empathy &, love, the harmony of life & nature ~🌿🦜💝

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