Donald Trump ramped up his campaign of mockery against Canada on Wednesday with a trolling Truth Social post in the early hours. “No one can answer why we subsidize Canada to the tune of over $100,000,000 a year? Makes no sense!” the president-elect wrote. “Many Canadians want Canada to become the 51st State. They would save massively on taxes and military protection. I think it is a great idea. 51st State!!!” Trump has threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on goods from Canada if it fails to stem the flow of migrants and drugs over the border into the United States. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago—where he reportedly warned Trump that such tariffs would kill the Canadian economy, leading Trump to suggest Canada could become the 51st state. The Republican has since publicly referred to Trudeau the “governor” of “the Great State of Canada” even as the Canadian government has been plunged into crisis, spiraling this week as the powerful Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned and accused Trudeau of being ill-prepared to deal with a “coming tariff war.”

Young adult Americans are richer than ever before but, according to the Treasury Department, they still feel “an increasing sense of economic fragility.” Research released by the department Wednesday showed that real median wealth for Americans between 25 and 39 climbed to $80,500 in 2022—an increase from $23,750 in 2010, as measured in 2023 dollars. While young American adults have enjoyed a surge in net wealth during the recovery from the pandemic, today’s under-40s are also being hit by a wide array of economic headwinds. The Treasury research points to real non-housing debt almost doubling between 1989 and 2022—fueled by student loan debt—while the costs of housing, healthcare, and childcare have all risen faster than young adults’ incomes. The report also gave a “special mention” to the aging U.S. population which has meant that the young face increasing competition for jobs and housing from “older, wealthier, and more experienced counterparts.” It’s perhaps small wonder that a recent poll found Gen Zers think they need to earn almost $600,000 to consider themselves “financially successful.”

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Iraqi police intercepted and killed at least two would-be suicide bombers who had planned to assassinate Pope Francis during a papal visit in 2021, the pontiff revealed in his upcoming autobiography. His advisors had warned him against making the three-day trip, which required intense security after years of rising sectarian violence. The country was also in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, heightening the risks. But Pope Francis felt he had to go, he wrote in a book except published by the Italian daily Corriere della Sera. As soon as he landed in Baghdad, he was told, “A woman packed with explosives, a young suicide bomber, was heading to Mosul to blow herself up during the papal visit. And a van had also sped off with the same intent,” he wrote in his book Spera, which means “Hope.” The next day, he asked his Swiss Guards what they knew about the attackers. “The commander told me laconically, ‘They are no more.’ The Iraqi police had intercepted them and blown them up,” the pontiff wrote. “This too was the poisonous fruit of war.” The except also describes the pope’s interfaith meetings in Iraq and his attempts to bridge religious divides. Despite previous attempts, his visit marked the first time a pope traveled to the country believed to have been the birth place of Abraham. Spera is set to be released on Jan. 14.

A photograph has emerged of Prince Andrew appearing to stare down the top of a young woman at an official engagement about 20 years ago. The woman in the photo has now come forward and told U.K. tabloid The Sun that she was 24 at the time. She told the paper: “He wouldn’t leave me alone. As soon as he saw me he darted over for a chat. I was young, blonde, slim and attractive. He seemed a lot more inclined to speak to me than the middle-aged female MD… He was more interested in looking at my boobs than learning about our business. It was a bit creepy.” The woman said that when the Jeffrey Epstein sex allegations against Andrew emerged years later, “It made my tummy turn.” Andrew has been excluded from royal Christmas celebrations over his links to alleged Chinese spy Yang Tengbo.

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Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson are reportedly on vacation in Venice, Italy, according to Page Six. The socialite has been posting vacation photos on her Instagram Stories, with one post picturing her on a gondola ride and another showing a throwback image of her mom, Inger, on a gondola years ago. She also posted a picture of Fretter slippers, an item available at luxury hotels. While Don. Jr was not pictured in any of Anderson’s Venice pictures, the pair were photographed holding hands in Palm Beach in photos published by the Daily Mail last week. President-elect Donald Trump also announced the appointment of Kimberly Guilfoyle, Don. Jr’s onetime fiancée, as ambassador to Greece on the same day The Daily Mail published photos of Don. Jr’s new squeeze. “Kimberly and I will never stop caring for each other and will always keep a special bond,” Don Jr. told Page Six in a statement. “I could not be more proud of her and the important role she’ll continue to play in my father‘s administration,” though he didn’t address rumors on the couple’s apparent split.

Anchors at a local news station based in Tucson, Arizona, tearfully announced the death of their 28-year-old colleague in a Monday broadcast that seemed to stir the anchors on air. “Sad news to share with you, our beloved friend and co-anchor Ana Orsini passed away unexpectedly last week,” said anchor Tyler Butler of the CBS affiliate KOLD-TV. Co-anchor Carsyn Currier added, “Ana has been here at 13 News since June of 2023, and we are devastated by this loss.” Reaching out to hold Currier’s hand, Butler added, “We had the opportunity to work with her every day, and we do want you to know that what you saw with her on air, the funny, crazy person she was, she was just like that off-camera and more so.” Orsini is believed to have died from a brain aneurysm, Butler announced on Facebook Tuesday. A Colorado native, Orsini landed her first job at a Lubbock, Texas, news station and spent three years as a morning/midday anchor in Medford, Oregon, before arriving at KOLD, reported People. “She was truly one of a kind,” Butler wrote in his Facebook post.

Donald Trump’s lawyers are claiming to have received evidence of “grave juror misconduct” in his New York hush money case, part of yet another bid to have the case dismissed. Now the president-elect, Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts earlier this year—but his election last month raised questions about whether he would ever be sentenced for the crimes. Trump’s lawyers did not disclose what the misconduct in question was in a Dec. 3 letter unsealed by the court Tuesday, according to NBC News—but that didn’t stop Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Emile Bove from asking that the case be dismissed. “This behavior is completely unacceptable and it demonstrates without question that the verdicts in this case are as unreliable as DA Bragg’s promise to protect Manhattanites from violent crime,” the pair wrote, according to NBC News. In a reply to the letter, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office described the misconduct allegations as “vague” and said that their summary of the situation, which was not made public, “contains inaccuracies.” Judge Juan Merchan, for his part, said it contained “unsworn and contested statements” that could threaten jurors’ safety. The news comes just one day after Judge Merchan ruled that the case should not be dismissed because of the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity.

A Virginia man died in a bizarre hunting accident when the bear his partner shot careened out of a tree and fell onto his head, state officials announced this week. The hunting group was following the bear when it ran up the tree, the state’s Department of Wildlife Resources said in a statement. One hunter shot the bear while the group retreated away—causing it to fall off its perch and crush another hunter, Lester C Harvey. THe 58-year-old was at least 10 feet away from the tree when the incident occurred, the department said. A member of the group administered first aid on Harvey before he was transported to the hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries last Friday. The hunting excursion took place 70 miles south of Richmond. Harvey was a contractor, as well as a married father of five with eight grandchildren. His online obituary said he was a “friend to all” and an “avid outdoorsman.”

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Former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera said Tuesday that he believes his former “hang-out buddy” Donald Trump will try for an unprecedented third presidential term by seeking to alter the 22nd Amendment during his upcoming stint in the White House. “For future reference: President Trump & Co. will soon start chattering about revoking/amending the 22nd Amendment, which limits presidents to two four year terms,” Rivera wrote on X this week. “He just needs 38 of 50 state governments to agree to convene. (3/4ths) Trump won 30 in 2024. Trump in 2028?” Ratified in 1951, the 22nd Amendment says that no person elected into office can be president more than twice. It can be amended if two-thirds of the states—38 in total—petition for a convention. Trump notably won 30 of the 50 states in last month’s election. Rivera isn’t the first to suggest that Trump seek a third term—former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon also floated the idea during a New York Young Republican Club Gala on Sunday, telling the crowd: “I don’t know, maybe we do it again in ’28 ... Are you guys up for that? Trump ’28, come on, man!”

Rapper Megan Thee Stallion asked for a restraining order to be issued against singer Tory Lanez on Tuesday, claiming that he is harassing her from prison through surrogates. In 2022, Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, was convicted of three felonies for shooting Megan in the foot—including assault with a semiautomatic firearm, illegal possession of a firearm, and discharging a firearm with negligence. In 2023, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the crime. Filed by Megan, whose legal name is Megan Pete, in the Los Angeles Superior Court, the petition asked the judge to prevent Lanez from using third parties to invigorate online harassment against her. “Even now, while behind bars, Mr. Peterson shows no signs of stopping,” the petition read. “Despite being sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Ms. Pete, Mr. Peterson continues to subject her to repeated trauma and revictimization.” The petition claims that call logs from the correctional facility Lanez is being held in show that he’s coordinating attacks on the Traumazine artist. A court hearing on the restraining order has been scheduled for Jan. 9.