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Toronto Sun
3 days ago
- Automotive
- Toronto Sun
Vance says he hopes Musk returns to fold after public feud with Trump
Published Jun 07, 2025 • 1 minute read WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 03: U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks during the American Compass New World Gala at the National Building Museum on June 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. The gala is being held to commemorate the fifth anniversary of conservative think tank American Compass and to show support for conservative economic populism. Photo by Kayla Bartkowski / Photographer: Kayla Bartkowski/G (Bloomberg) — Vice President JD Vance said Elon Musk is making a 'huge mistake' in going after Donald Trump and expressed hopes the billionaire will come back into the fold following the public feud that unfolded. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account 'I'm always going to be loyal to the president and I hope that eventually Elon kind of comes back into the fold,' Vance said in an interview on the podcast 'This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von' released on Saturday. 'Maybe that's not possible now because he's gone so nuclear, but I hope it is.' Musk helped elect Trump and Vance in 2024 and assumed a role heading the Department of Government Efficiency, a cost-cutting effort that has so far fallen well short of the Tesla Inc. chief's initial promises. Trump and Musk's political alliance imploded on Thursday after Musk criticized the tax and spending policy bill backed by the president. The two men traded jabs that grew personal on social media, stunning watchers in Washington and on Wall Street. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. While Vance posted on X in support of Trump, saying that the president he was 'proud to stand beside him' and praising him as having 'done more than anyone in my lifetime to earn the trust of the movement he leads,' the interview with Von marked his first direct comments on Musk since the spat erupted. The president had encouraged Vance to speak diplomatically about Musk before his appearance on the podcast, according to a person familiar with the situation who shared details on condition of anonymity. 'The president doesn't think that he needs to be in a blood feud with Elon Musk, and I actually think if Elon chilled out a little bit, everything would be fine,' Vance said. —With assistance from Sam Kim. Olympics Sunshine Girls NHL Ontario Sunshine Girls
Japan Today
5 days ago
- Politics
- Japan Today
U.S. hits International Criminal Court judges with sanctions over investigation into Israel
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at the American Compass's The New World Gala in Washington, Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) By MATTHEW LEE and MOLLY QUELL The Trump administration is slapping sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court over the tribunal's investigation into alleged war crimes by Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza and in the West Bank. The State Department said Thursday that it would freeze any assets that the ICC judges, who come from Benin, Peru, Slovenia and Uganda, have in U.S. jurisdictions. The move is just the latest step that the administration has taken to punish the ICC and its officials for investigations undertaken against Israel and the United States. 'As ICC judges, these four individuals have actively engaged in the ICC's illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America or our close ally, Israel,' Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement. 'The ICC is politicized and falsely claims unfettered discretion to investigate, charge, and prosecute nationals of the United States and our allies,' Rubio said. 'This dangerous assertion and abuse of power infringes upon the sovereignty and national security of the United States and our allies, including Israel.' In February, The Hague-based court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, was placed on Washington's list of 'Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons,' barring him from doing business with Americans and placing restrictions on his entry into the U.S. Khan stepped aside last month pending an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct. Within minutes of the administration's announcement, the court condemned its actions. 'These measures are a clear attempt to undermine the independence of an international judicial institution,' ICC spokesperson Fadi El Abdallah said in a statement. The new sanctions target ICC Judge Reine Alapini-Gansou, who is from the West African country of Benin and was part of the pre-trial chamber of judges who issued the arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year. She also served on the bench that originally greenlit the investigation into alleged Israeli crimes in the Palestinian territories in 2021. The 69-year-old was also part of the panel of judges who issued the arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2023. Last year, a court in Moscow issued a warrant for her arrest. From Slovenia, Beti Hohler was elected as a judge in 2023. She previously worked in the prosecutor's office at the court, leading Israel to object to her participation in the proceedings involving Israeli officials. Hohler said in a statement last year that she had never worked on the Palestinian territories investigation during her eight years as a prosecutor. Bouth Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza, from Peru, and Solomy Balungi Bossa, from Uganda, are appeals judges at the ICC. Each woman has worked on cases involving Israel. Neither the U.S. nor Israel is a member of and neither recognizes the legitimacy of the court, which has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for alleged war crimes over his military response in Gaza after the Hamas attack against Israel in October 2023. Israel strongly denies the allegations. During his first term in office, Trump targeted the ICC with sanctions, voicing displeasure with probes into Israel and complaints about alleged war crimes said to have been committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Those sanctions were rescinded by President Joe Biden's administration in early 2021. Rubio said the U.S. would continue to take action to protect its and Israel's interests at the court. 'The United States will take whatever actions we deem necessary to protect our sovereignty, that of Israel, and any other U.S. ally from illegitimate actions by the ICC,' he said. Liz Evenson, international justice director at Human Rights Watch, said the Trump administration's sanctions 'aim to deter the ICC from seeking accountability amid grave crimes committed in Israel and Palestine, and as Israeli atrocities mount in Gaza, including with U.S. complicity.' 'U.S. sanctions on ICC judges are a flagrant attack on the rule of law at the same time as President Trump is working to undercut it at home,' Evenson said in a statement. 'Sanctions are meant to put a stop to human rights violations, not to punish those seeking justice for the worst crimes.' © Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
Time of India
6 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
The other JD Vance: Meet Josh Hawley, the man who wants be Trump's MAGA heir
As JD Vance settles into his role as Vice-President of the United States—and presumptive heir to Donald Trump's populist throne—another Republican senator is quietly but audaciously laying claim to the same inheritance. Enter Josh Hawley: the fist-raising, union-hugging, populist-posturing Senator from Missouri who has managed to rebrand himself from January 6 pariah to blue-collar crusader. While Vance enjoys the institutional weight of the vice-presidency and Trump's personal endorsement, Hawley is playing the long game. With a series of legislative proposals and bipartisan alliances, he's betting on a new kind of Republican appeal: pro-labor, anti-corporate, and unmistakably MAGA. From Fists to Families Once best known for saluting protesters on January 6 before running from them on camera, Hawley has undergone a political transformation few would have predicted. This year, he shocked conservatives and delighted labour organisers by releasing a union-friendly proposal: A Pro-Worker Framework for the 119th US Congress. Among other things, it seeks to ban captive-audience meetings and impose civil penalties for labour violations—ideas more at home in Bernie Sanders' toolkit than Paul Ryan's. On Tax Day, Hawley published an op-ed in The Washington Post calling for expanded tax relief for low-income families. He followed up with another in The New York Times, blasting 'corporatist Republicans' for demanding Medicaid cuts in Trump's 'big, beautiful' spending bill. He even teamed up with Democrat Peter Welch to cap prescription drug prices and with Cory Booker to speed up union contract negotiations. For a senator once known for fighting Obamacare and opposing minimum wage hikes, the pivot is seismic. Labor Love or Opportunism? Is Hawley for real? Skeptics abound. Labour leaders who once begged for his support and were turned away now watch him appear on picket lines with cameras in tow. Jim Kabell, a retired Teamsters organiser, called it 'the most shameful political theatre I've ever seen.' But others see a shift in the GOP base—and in Hawley himself. A former Democratic staffer suggests Hawley's disdain for Big Tech monopolies may have genuinely pushed him left on labour issues. This isn't ideological evolution in isolation—it's strategic adaptation. A YouGov-American Compass poll in March showed Republican favourability toward unions at a net positive 8 points, jumping to 38 among Republicans born after 1980. In that generational chasm, Hawley sees his future. The Post-Trump Primary Begins Vice President JD Vance waves after speaking with American Compass founder Oren Cass at the American Compass's The New World Gala in Washington, Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) With the GOP base changing and the Trump dynasty facing questions of succession, the 2028 Republican primary is shaping up as a clash between two brands of right-wing populism. On one side, JD Vance, the vice-president and former venture capitalist who fuses nationalism with traditional conservatism. On the other, Josh Hawley, the banker's son turned culture warrior turned union ally, who's betting on policy populism as his path to the White House. They're not alone. But they're the front-runners in what is shaping up to be the GOP's most ideological internal battle in a generation. Vance, with Trump's direct blessing, recently fist-bumped a Democratic Congresswoman on a UAW picket line. Hawley, not to be outdone, co-sponsored legislation with Bernie-adjacent Democrats and wrote a scathing anti-corporate screed worthy of Elizabeth Warren—if Warren had ever raised a fist for the Capitol mob. But where Vance remains cautiously loyal to Trump's more oligarchic instincts, Hawley is positioning himself as the Republican who can take on Amazon, Meta, and Musk—all while draping himself in a union jacket. The Elephant in the White House Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) Of course, all this populist cosplay comes with contradictions. While Hawley talks about defending workers, the Trump Administration has actively attacked them. In March, Trump signed an executive order stripping nearly a million federal workers of their union rights. His new Department of Government Efficiency—run by Elon Musk—has gutted protections for unionised employees. And the so-called 'One Big Beautiful Bill' has, according to the Congressional Budget Office, favoured the rich while cutting real income for the poorest Americans. And here's the kicker: Hawley hasn't said a word in protest. Labor historians call it 'the biggest union-busting action in US history.' Hawley calls it Tuesday. Why Democrats Should Be Worried Despite the performative silence on Trump's union purge, the right's labour flirtation is making inroads. Teamsters president Sean O'Brien may have upset Democratic colleagues by addressing the Republican National Convention, but he says Trump's administration has 'consulted him more than any Democrat ever did.' After decades of assuming unions belonged to the left, the Democratic Party is facing a slow erosion from the right. And it's not just rhetoric. When 34 senators wrote to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy last year demanding action on driver mistreatment, three Republicans signed it. JD Vance. Roger Marshall. And Josh Hawley. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was nowhere to be found. The Showdown Ahead In a post-Trump America, the battle for the soul of the Republican Party may come down to who can love labour louder—Hawley or Vance. Both are betting that working-class voters will forget old allegiances if offered a new kind of conservative who talks unions, wages, and dignity—but still scapegoats immigrants and rails against the 'woke.' And if that sounds cynical, that's because it is. But it might also work.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Vance compares Harvard to North Korea as he takes aim at school's ‘ideological diversity'
Vice President JD Vance accused Harvard University of having a lack of "ideological diversity," comparing the academic institution to North Korea amid the Trump administration's continuing battle against the school. Vance said Tuesday that he estimated, without evidence, that "probably" 95% of Harvard's faculty voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, and said that universities have become these "almost quasi-theocratic, or quasi-totalitarian societies." "Right. Very brilliant. Kamala Harris, of course," Vance said at the American Compass anniversary gala in Washington. "But if you ask yourself a foreign election, a foreign country's election, you say 80% of the people voted for one candidate, you would say, 'Oh, that's kind of weird, right? That's like, not a super healthy democracy.' If you said, 'Oh, 95% of people voted for one party's candidate,' you would say, 'That's North Korea, right… That is impossible in a true place of free exchange for that to happen.'" Harvard did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. Trump Admin Asking Federal Agencies To Cancel Remaining Harvard Contracts The Trump administration has been at odds with Harvard as it's pushed for the academic institution to install changes to its governance and admissions process in response to incidents of bias on campus targeting Jewish students since October 2023. Read On The Fox News App But Harvard University President Alan M. Garber said in April that the Trump administration included additional requests for reform that go beyond addressing antisemitism on campus, and the institution would not comply because the demands were unconstitutional. White House Slams Ivy League Institutions For 'Egregious Illegal Behavior' Amid Trump Feud With Harvard Specifically, Garber said the new requests "direct governmental regulation of the 'intellectual conditions' at Harvard," including auditing viewpoints of students, faculty and staff members on campus, and eliminating all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, offices and initiatives at Harvard. "It makes clear that the intention is not to work with us to address antisemitism in a cooperative and constructive manner," Garber wrote in an April letter. "We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement." Since then, the Trump administration has warned it will pull all federal funding from the school, amounting to a total of $100 million in contracts. That's on top of the $3.2 billion in grants and contracts the administration has previously frozen. Trump Admin Slashes Over $2.2B In Funding To Harvard After School Defies DemandsOriginal article source: Vance compares Harvard to North Korea as he takes aim at school's 'ideological diversity'
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Vance jokes after being called ‘intellectual'
Published: Updated: Vice President JD Vance joked that he was offended after being described as an 'intellectual' who previously wrote for the anti-Trump conservative magazine National Review. The vice president made his remarks during a black-tie gala sponsored by the conservative think tank American Compass as he sat down with founder Oren Cass. 'I am thrilled to have this opportunity to talk with you and so grateful that the work you're doing and, in a sense, so in awe of it because there are politicians out there who are, they've just been politicians,' Cass began. 'But you are someone who was an intellectual first. Some people don't like the word "intellectual." But I mean it in the good sense of the term. You were writing for National Review. You were at the bar late at night arguing about and helping shape these ideas that you are now.' 'I come here for free and you insult me,' Vance joked. 'And you call me an intellectual, remind me that I wrote for National Review. What an [expletive] this guy is!' The audience laughed and applauded as Cass replied, 'That's fair. I will admit that I, too, wrote for National Review.' The National Review was a widely respected conservative magazine that vociferously opposed Trump in the 2016 election. The vice president previously took shots at National Review during an interview with CBS' Face the Nation where host Margaret Brennan cited an article critical of one of the president's nominees for his cabinet. 'These are publications that attacked Donald J. Trump obsessively, but those publications don't determine who the president is, the American people do and Donald J. Trump is the person who determines who his cabinet is, not these publications that I think, frankly, have lost relevance,' Vance said. Vance was involved in the founding discussions of the American Compass group, an attempt to put an intellectual and policy framework behind some of Trump's 'America First' agenda. During the gala, Vance said that when he got to the White House, he asked for analysis on supply chains in America, eager to identify key industries to bring back to the United States. 'What is so crazy about the hyper globalized era is that you had these basic questions about the brittleness of our supply chains that were completely un-investigated by the very people who supported globalizing those supply chains,' he said to applause from the audience. 'We were actually governed by complete morons and we didn't even realize it until the Trump administration started getting under the hood of our government.' The organization, founded in 2020, is working for Republicans to think differently on policy questions, including by grabbing the third rail of sacrosanct political principles that have traditionally been the core ideals of the conservative movement. The organization credits Vance and his policies for lifting up their status in Washington. 'No figure in American politics has more effectively advocated for American families and workers than Vice President JD Vance,' American Compass communications director Theresa Braid said to the Daily Mail. She cited Vance's work in the Senate and the White House as well as his book Hillbilly Elegy, which chronicles the struggles that working class voters in America face. 'Vice President Vance has led the charge to speak for the Americans that our elites have forgotten,' she continued. 'It is an honor to have him join our celebration of the movement that he has helped build.' Other prominent Republicans on the right who are connected with the group include Secretary of State Marco Rubio who spoke at the event, and Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Todd Young and Jim Banks from Indiana, and Bernie Moreno from Ohio.
