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Trump signs executive orders to boost nuclear power, speed up approvals

Matthew Daly And Jennifer Mcdermott, The Associated Press 6 minute read Preview

Trump signs executive orders to boost nuclear power, speed up approvals

Matthew Daly And Jennifer Mcdermott, The Associated Press 6 minute read Monday, Sep. 22, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed executive orders Friday intended to quadruple domestic production of nuclear power within the next 25 years, a goal experts say the United States is highly unlikely to reach.

To speed up the development of nuclear power, the orders grant the U.S. energy secretary authority to approve some advanced reactor designs and projects, taking authority away from the independent safety agency that has regulated the U.S. nuclear industry for five decades.

The order comes as demand for electricity surges amid a boom in energy-hungry data centers and artificial intelligence. Tech companies, venture capitalists, states and others are competing for electricity and straining the nation's electric grid.

“We’ve got enough electricity to win the AI arms race with China,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said. “What we do in the next five years related to electricity is going to determine the next 50" years in the industry.

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Monday, Sep. 22, 2025

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listen as Interior Secretary Doug Burgum speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listen as Interior Secretary Doug Burgum speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

South Africa police minister says Trump ‘twisted’ facts to push baseless genocide claims

Gerald Imray And Michelle Gumede, The Associated Press 5 minute read Preview

South Africa police minister says Trump ‘twisted’ facts to push baseless genocide claims

Gerald Imray And Michelle Gumede, The Associated Press 5 minute read Monday, Sep. 22, 2025

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s top law enforcement official said Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump wrongly claimed that a video he showed in the Oval Office was of burial sites for more than 1,000 white farmers and he “twisted” the facts to push a false narrative about mass killings of white people in his country.

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu was talking about a video clip that was played during the meeting between Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House on Wednesday that showed an aerial view of a rural road with lines of white crosses erected on either side.

“Now this is very bad,” Trump said as he referred to the clip that was part of a longer video that was played in the meeting. “These are burial sites, right here. Burial sites, over a thousand, of white farmers, and those cars are lined up to pay love on a Sunday morning."

Mchunu said the crosses did not mark graves or burial sites, but were a temporary memorial put up in 2020 to protest the killings of all farmers across South Africa. They were put up during a funeral procession for a white couple who were killed in a robbery on their farm, Mchunu said.

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Monday, Sep. 22, 2025

South African businessman Johann Rupert, standing right, watches a video during a meeting between President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

South African businessman Johann Rupert, standing right, watches a video during a meeting between President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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‘A political football’: Canadian says his citizenship TV pitch was misrepresented

Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Preview
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‘A political football’: Canadian says his citizenship TV pitch was misrepresented

Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Saturday, Sep. 20, 2025

WASHINGTON - When Rob Worsoff recently dusted off an old idea he had for a reality television show about people on the path to United States citizenship, he had no idea of what he was letting himself in for.

The Canadian-born freelance television producer said he brought his pitch to build a show around aspiring immigrants learning about the culture of their new country to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under both the Obama and Biden administrations. He even brought a version of it to the CBC.

Worsoff then put his idea forward to the new Trump administration — but this time the 49-year-old got caught up in a global media and political backlash.

"The spirit of my pitch was completely misrepresented and it's been used as a political football," the Los Angeles-based producer said.

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Saturday, Sep. 20, 2025

Rob Worsoff, a Canadian-born producer based in Los Angeles, seen in this handout photo, pitched a reality TV show to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Donald Meyerson **MANDATORY CREDIT**

Rob Worsoff, a Canadian-born producer based in Los Angeles, seen in this handout photo, pitched a reality TV show to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Donald Meyerson **MANDATORY CREDIT**

Little pictures, big ears, and bad examples

Jordan Laidlaw 5 minute read Preview

Little pictures, big ears, and bad examples

Jordan Laidlaw 5 minute read Monday, Apr. 28, 2025

One of the pillars of a thriving democratic society is exemplified through the civil conduct of our elected political leaders. The ethos of honesty, humility, and empathy are becoming increasingly relinquished in lieu of posturing public vitriol and moral indifference.

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Monday, Apr. 28, 2025

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on April 17, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listens.

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                                U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on April 17, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listens.

Increasingly sophisticated deepfake AI-generated political ads threaten to unravel Canada’s social order

Jen Zoratti 12 minute read Preview

Increasingly sophisticated deepfake AI-generated political ads threaten to unravel Canada’s social order

Jen Zoratti 12 minute read Friday, Apr. 25, 2025

Increasingly sophisticated deepfake AI-generated internet political ads threaten to unravel Canada’s social order, experts warn, pointing to the successful war on truth U.S. President Donald Trump is waging south of the border.

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Friday, Apr. 25, 2025

An AI deepfake video purporting to show Liberal leader Mark Carney (Facebook)

An AI deepfake video (Facebook)

Truth, lies and videotape

Judy Waytiuk 5 minute read Preview

Truth, lies and videotape

Judy Waytiuk 5 minute read Friday, Apr. 11, 2025

As an old warhorse journalist whose biases have always skewed toward rabid dislike of anyone who tries to control the media, my biases are working overtime right now.

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Friday, Apr. 11, 2025

(Terje Sollie / Pexels)

(Terje Sollie / Pexels)

Global extremism, as close as your keyboard

Editorial 4 minute read Preview

Global extremism, as close as your keyboard

Editorial 4 minute read Monday, Mar. 31, 2025

An arrest in Winnipeg has provided yet another reminder of just how much extremist attitudes have spread across the world.

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Monday, Mar. 31, 2025

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The internet is bringing hate into homes.

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                                The internet is bringing hate into homes.
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Paleontologist makes strides toward understanding the way mosasaurs behaved

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Paleontologist makes strides toward understanding the way mosasaurs behaved

AV Kitching 6 minute read Monday, Jan. 20, 2025

Maximilian Scott is a vertebrate paleontologist who focuses on extinct animal behaviour and behavioural evolution. Scott, 27, from Ovid, Mich., is in the last year of his master’s degree at the University of Manitoba studying mosasaurs, an ancient marine lizard that lived in Manitoba during the late-Cretaceous period.

He also offers tutoring in geology, biology, animal behaviour and conservation to people of all ages. You can find him on Instagram.

Our story doesn’t start with the first book that was written, our story starts a long time before that, a long time before the first humans. It’s all one long story.

Humans have only existed for 200,000 years. The Earth has been around for 4.5 billion years. Life has been around for three billion years, and complex life has been around for 542 million years.

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Monday, Jan. 20, 2025

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Vertebrate paleontologist Maximilian Scott handles the fossilized jaw of a tylosaurus (a type of mosasaur) jaw in the University of Manitoba paleontology lab.

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                                Vertebrate paleontologist Maximilian Scott handles the fossilized jaw of a tylosaurus (a type of mosasaur) jaw in the University of Manitoba paleontology lab.

YouTube election fraud conspiracy theories fuel impeached South Korean president and his supporters

Kim Tong-hyung, The Associated Press 7 minute read Preview

YouTube election fraud conspiracy theories fuel impeached South Korean president and his supporters

Kim Tong-hyung, The Associated Press 7 minute read Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thousands have braved the frigid January weather in Seoul protests, waving South Korean and American flags and shouting vows to protect their embattled conservative hero, the impeached South Korean president facing imprisonment over potential rebellion charges.

The swelling crowds in South Korea’s capital are inspired by President Yoon Suk Yeol's defiance, but also by the growing power of right-wing YouTubers who portray Yoon as a victim of a leftist, North Korea-sympathizing opposition that has rigged elections to gain a legislative majority and is now plotting to remove a patriotic leader.

“Out with fraudulent elections and a fake National Assembly!” read one sign, brandished by an angry man in a fur hat during a recent protest near Yoon’s presidential residence, the site of a massive law enforcement operation Wednesday that made Yoon the country’s first sitting president to be detained in a criminal investigation.

Many at the pro-Yoon rallies, which are separated by police from anti-Yoon counter-protests, are significantly influenced by fictional narratives about election fraud that dominate conservative YouTube channels — claims that Yoon has repeatedly referenced in his attacks on election officials.

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Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025

FILE - Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attend a rally to oppose his impeachment near the presidential residence in Seoul, South Korea, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

FILE - Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attend a rally to oppose his impeachment near the presidential residence in Seoul, South Korea, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Fighting conspiracy theories with comedy? That’s what the Onion hopes after its purchase of Infowars

David Bauder, The Associated Press 5 minute read Preview

Fighting conspiracy theories with comedy? That’s what the Onion hopes after its purchase of Infowars

David Bauder, The Associated Press 5 minute read Friday, Sep. 12, 2025

Headlines from the satirical website the Onion on Thursday: “New Dating Site Suggests People You Already Know But Thought You Were Too Good For.” “Trump Boys Have Slap Fight Over Who Gets to Run Foreign Policy Meetings.” “Here's Why I Decided to Buy Infowars.”

Only one has the ring of truth. Sort of.

The bylined author of the Infowars article, Bryce P. Tetraeder, doesn't actually exist. And the Onion doesn't plan to invest in business school scholarships for promising cult leaders.

But the Onion's purchase of Alex Jones' conspiracy-theory-saturated media empire at a bankruptcy auction tied to lawsuits by the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims is very real — an effort to fight falsehoods with funny and a who'd-have-thunk-it development in an already somewhat unbelievable year. An element of doubt was added late Thursday when the judge in Jones' bankruptcy case ordered a hearing for next week on how the auction was conducted.

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Friday, Sep. 12, 2025

FILE - Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge, Friday, June 14, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

FILE - Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge, Friday, June 14, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)