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Prior to Bill C-3, An Act to Amend the Citizenship Act (2025), citizenship by descent for those born abroad was limited to the first generation.

But now, Canadian citizenship is being retroactively granted to people born before the new law came into effect on Dec. 15, 2025, who would have been citizens if not for the first-generation limit. Different criteria, however, apply to those born on or after that date.

Members of Congress demand investigations after complaint alleges unprecedented breach of Americans’ data

A former employee with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency allegedly claimed he tapped into two sensitive Social Security Administration databases and intended to share the information with his private employer, according to an anonymous whistleblower complaint.

The complaint — filed with Social Security’s internal watchdog and first reported by The Washington Post — alleges that the U.S. DOGE Service staffer accessed two protected databases containing personal information, including Social Security numbers, for more than 500 million living and dead Americans.

The employee allegedly told the whistleblower who filed the complaint that he intended to move the data from a thumb drive to his personal computer “so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data” before taking it to his private employer.

Long security lines snaked into baggage claim areas and parking garages at some U.S. airports this weekend, a possible indicator of more widespread travel problems as the latest government shutdown drags on.

That kind of disruption, while not yet widespread, is not a concern that typically surfaces at San Francisco International Airport, the largest of nearly two dozen U.S. airports where screening checkpoints are staffed by private contractors under a little-used federal program that allows airports to outsource security screenings while maintaining TSA oversight.

Because contractors’ pay comes from a federal contract, it often continues even when the government shuts down.

Andy Ogles said Muslims do not belong in the US and Randy Fine made a comparison of Muslims to dogs

Mike Johnson, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, on Tuesday declined to condemn Republican lawmakers who recently made Islamophobic comments, saying only that he had spoken to them about their “tone”.

Democrats and groups advocating religious tolerance have decried the statements from congressmen Andy Ogles of Tennessee and Randy Fine of Florida, with the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, calling on Johnson to discipline the latter.

But the Republican speaker showed little interest in doing so when he was asked about the issue at a press conference during the House GOP’s retreat in Doral, Florida.

Donald Trump referred to Prime Minister Mark Carney as the “future Governor of Canada” in a Truth Social post on Tuesday.

Trump’s post was in reference to working with U.S. governors to “save The Great Lakes from the rather violent and destructive Asian Carp.”

This is not the first time Trump called the prime minister “governor.” In January, he posted on Truth Social in reference to China making a deal with Canada.

“If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a ‘Drop Off Port’ for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken,” Trump wrote.

In response to the jab, Carney said he won’t “comment on every ‘tweet,’ or ‘truth,’ or comment from whoever,” and that he “can handle it.”

While federal investigators had searched other properties of the late sex offender, there's no record they checked the 7,600-acre property where some women say he preyed on them.

State investigators in New Mexico on Monday searched a 7,600-acre property that once belonged to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The search came after documents released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act showed no record of federal investigators ever searching the property, known as Zorro Ranch, despite a number of years-old civil suits that accused Epstein of sexually assaulting girls there — allegations over which he was never charged.

"This search is part of the criminal investigation announced by the New Mexico Department of Justice on February 19th into allegations of illegal activity at Epstein’s ranch prior to Epstein’s 2019 death," the state agency said in a statement.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has moved into military housing after facing growing threats from cartels and irate Americans, according to a new report.

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Bondi moved out of her Washington, D.C. apartment and moved into a military base in the area. The report noted that Bondi has been facing numerous threats since the Trump administration's decision to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in January. At the same time, a growing number of Americans are increasingly frustrated with Bondi's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to the report.

"Ms. Bondi is the latest administration official to move into heavily guarded quarters at military facilities in or near the nation’s capital after citing danger from criminals, adversaries overseas and protesters," the report reads in part.

The FBI said it also conducted a controlled detonation of material found in the Pennsylvania storage unit because of safety concerns.

The FBI said Tuesday that it found "explosive residue" in a Pennsylvania storage unit believed to be connected to an "ISIS-inspired terrorism" incident near New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's residence over the weekend.

The FBI said on X that it found the explosives and that authorities "conducted a controlled detonation." The explosives are "believed to be connected" to Saturday’s incident, in which improvised explosive devices were thrown outside Gracie Mansion during protests.

Two Pennsylvania teenagers — Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, and Emir Balat, 18 — face federal charges in connection with the incident. Federal prosecutors said the pair hoped to inflict more carnage than the Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people and injured more than 260 others in 2013.

An adjunct professor at a university in the eastern U.S. who studies online harms to children has left the country because they are not an American citizen and fear being denied a visa or deported.

At another university in the Northeast, a content moderation expert who has permanent resident status has shifted their focus to more "politically neutral" topics and stopped traveling internationally.

A professor in the South who studies the role of media in American politics has ceased publishing op-eds on their research and decided not to hold public events to promote a new book they wrote on disinformation, because they're worried they will lose their H-1B visa.

These accounts from people who would only speak anonymously are detailed in a new lawsuit filed against the Trump administration in Washington, D.C., federal court on Monday.

The German chancellor expressed concern that there’s no “common plan for bringing this war to a swift and convincing conclusion.”

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Tuesday that he is increasingly worried about the apparent lack of a strategy by the U.S. and Israel for winding down their war on Iran.

“With each day of war, more questions arise. What concerns us most is that there is clearly no common plan for bringing this war to a swift and convincing conclusion,” Merz said, speaking alongside Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš in Berlin. “We have no interest in an endless war,” the chancellor added.

Merz’s comments come as the U.S. and Israel continue to strike Iran, while Tehran has responded by striking Arab Gulf countries. The spiraling regional conflict is roiling global energy markets, raising concerns across Europe of the kind of inflationary spiral seen after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Paraguay’s Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday approved a defense agreement allowing the temporary presence of U.S. military and civilian personnel inside its borders, widely seen as a victory for the Trump administration, which has sought to strengthen its presence in Latin America.

The Status of Forces Agreement, or SOFA, was approved by a large majority of lawmakers and now awaits the signature of President Santiago Peña to take effect. Peña, one of Trump’s closest allies in the region, is expected to sign the deal in the coming days.

Signed by both countries in Washington in December, the agreement establishes a legal framework for the presence of U.S. security forces in Paraguay for training, joint exercises, and humanitarian assistance. It also authorizes the United States to have criminal jurisdiction over its personnel while in the country.

The deportation and forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia constitutes a crime against humanity and a war crime, the UN has said.

A new report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine says Russian authorities "at the highest level" have deported "thousands" of children from the occupied areas of Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin's "direct involvement" has been "visibile form the outset," it adds.

Ukraine says almost 20,000 children have been illegally sent to Russia and Belarus.