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Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images A Canadian politician stepped down from his post on Wednesday after it was discovered he purchased a signed copy of Adolf Hitler’s memoir. Niagara Region Chair Bob Gale had come under scrutiny in recent days as a result of the allegation. It began when Saleh Waziruddin, a member of the Niagara Anti-Racism Association, received documents involving Gale’s alleged purchase of Mein Kampf. As noted in a report from The Standard, Gale responded to Waziruddin’s claim by asserting that he’s a member of a “communist party who circulated a dated document that listed my name as the owner of a historical book found in many libraries.” According to the documents, Gale paid more than $6,000 for a copy of Mein Kampf signed by the former Nazi dictator himself. The report continued: Gale served as the regional chair for 84 days after Robert Flack, Ontario’s minister of municipal affairs and housing, appointed him to the position in December following the death of Jim Bradley. Documents confirmed by Niagara historian Jon K. Jouppien show Gale purchased the signed edition of Hitler’s book at an auction in 2010. Although the purchase has been confirmed as legitimate, both Gale and Jouppien maintained it was merely an addition to Gale’s collection of historical artifacts and not an endorsement of the Führer. In a report from CBC, Jouppien added: “It’s not to be taken as an insult to any anti-racist group,” Jouppien told CBC News. “It was collected in the sincere interest of history.” Jouppien added that “not many people have the resources [Gale has]” to preserve rare items and that his collection is a contribution to history. Jouppien also claimed that Gale’s historical collection was worth millions of dollars.The post Canadian Politician Steps Down After It’s Revealed He Bought a Signed Copy of Mein Kampf first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.39 mins ago - War Propaganda Is Now Made for the Algorithm. Journalism Can’t Keep Up.
Screenshot The video landed in my feed the way most things do now — shared by someone I follow, with a note that made it feel urgent. Brian Krassenstein, one of the more prominent anti-Trump voices on X, posted it with the header: “BREAKING: The Iran Embassy in The Hague just posted this video. Pay close attention.” What followed was an animated satire rendered in the visual language of Pixar’s “Inside Out,” produced by Iranian state media, in which Donald Trump launches a missile at a girls’ school while eyeing a folder marked “Epstein.” The message was blunt: the war is a distraction from domestic scandal. It was also, undeniably, foreign government propaganda. BREAKING: The Iran Embassy in The Hague just posted this video. Pay close attention to the end. pic.twitter.com/Var6iqC3gT — Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) March 12, 2026 (The irony of embedding this tweet in a column about the ethics of sharing propaganda is not lost on me. But Krassenstein’s post is the story — the video is context, his decision to amplify it is the news. That distinction is the entire argument of what follows.) Krassenstein shared it because he agrees with the message. That’s the whole story, and it cuts in every direction. My college friends back in Kansas share Pentagon-produced war footage with the same uncritical enthusiasm — slick edits of military strikes set to cinematic music, packaged to feel patriotic and land like action movie trailers. The politics are opposite. The mechanism is identical. Both are sharing content designed to manipulate them, and both are doing it willingly because the narrative flatters their priors. That moment raised the question we face at Mediaite every time this content surfaces: is it news? And if it is, what are the ethics of covering it? The propaganda victory no longer requires convincing anyone of anything. It only requires engagement. For most of modern history, war propaganda operated on a belief model. Governments tried to persuade their own populations that the cause was just and the enemy monstrous. News organizations functioned as informal gatekeepers, deciding which messages were credible enough to pass along. That entire system has collapsed under the weight of cheap editing software, AI animation tools, and frictionless global distribution. Once a clip exists, the gatekeeping function is over. The content spreads regardless of whether journalists cover it — and it spreads fastest when people… [TheTopNews] Read More.56 mins ago - JUST IN: Active Shooter Reported at Michigan Synagogue After Car Crashes Into Bu...
An active shooter situation has been reported at a Michigan synagogue after a suspect crashed a car into the building and “was engaged in gunfire” with security. Police have responded to the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield following the crash. The facility includes a school and early childhood center. Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told reporters at the scene that security at the synagogue exchanged gunfire with the suspect shortly after he entered. “At least one individual came to the temple. Security saw him, engaged him in gunfire at the scene,” Bouchard said. “We’re not getting any active stimulus at the moment. We have everything here that we need including, you know medics and tactical gear. We’re looking to see if there’s more than one person. We’re still trying to figure that out.” Bouchard added all children and school staffers have been moved away from the scene. When asked if the suspect had been “neutralized,” the sheriff replied it “was a work in progress.” Live news footage from the scene shows smoke billowing from the building as authorities surround it. Scores of police cars have also been seen in the area. This is a developing story and has been updated.The post JUST IN: Active Shooter Reported at Michigan Synagogue After Car Crashes Into Building first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Mortgage Rates Increase Due to Trump’s Iran War And Inflation Concerns
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) The war with Iran has caused mortgage rates to balloon, placing the dream of home ownership further out of reach for many Americans, according to The New York Times. The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate in the United States rose to 6.11 percent, marking the second week in a row that rates have gone up, the report said. “The average had slipped below 6 percent for the first time in years in late February, raising confidence among buyers and sellers that the long-frozen market might finally begin to loosen,” the report said, continuing: Days later, the United States and Israel attacked Iran, setting off an energy crisis and raising new inflation concerns in financial markets. The result has been a jump in the yield on government bonds, and falling expectations for interest-rate cuts later this year. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which acts as a broad reference interest rate that underpins the U.S. mortgage market, climbed to 4.25 percent on Thursday, up from below 4 percent before the war began. The Times noted that even at 6.11, “rates are well below their recent peak of 7.8 percent in October 2023, which was the highest level in decades.” Hannah Jones, a senior economic research analyst at Realtor.com, told The Times, “This definitely feels like we’re back where we were a year ago: tariff uncertainty, economic uncertainty, geopolitical uncertainty. All of this is making the path ahead seem really unclear.” The report continued, “With borrowing costs elevated, the high prices are keeping middle- and low-income buyers on the sidelines while wealthier households and investors are playing a larger role in the market.” “Investors accounted for 30.2 percent of home purchases in 2025, nearly double their share at the start of the pandemic, according to data from Cotality. A report from Realtor.com found the change wasn’t because of a surge of investor activity, but rather a pullback from traditional buyers who could no longer afford today’s prices,” the report said.The post Mortgage Rates Increase Due to Trump’s Iran War And Inflation Concerns first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Republican Lawmaker Gets Testy as CNN’s Manu Raju Presses Him on Rising Gas Pr...
CNN’s Manu Raju pressed Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-FL) about rising gas prices during a Republican retreat attended by President Donald Trump. Giménez and others attended a policy conference in Doral, Florida, this week where Trump spoke. Raju was also there, and he spoke to a number of Republican lawmakers, which he reported on Thursday on Inside Politics with Dana Bash. Bash played a clip of a briefly tense moment between Raju and Giménez as Raju pressed about rising gas prices. “I think this is temporary, and then I think the gas prices will go down,” Giménez said. “If it doesn’t?” Raju asked. “I’m saying your premise is wrong. It will, okay? I’m saying that —” the lawmaker said as Raju pressed furhter. “You’re just hoping,” Raju said. “And so are you,” Giménez shot back. “I’m not hoping. I’m positing the question,” Raju said. “I’m not hoping. I am confident that this is not going to last a long time, okay? And I’m confident of that, and in the end, I guess let’s say about a month from now, we’ll have this conversation again and see who was right,” Giménez said. The current national average price for gas is approximately $3.60, according to AAA. A month ago, the national average was just below $3. Most of the increase in price has come amid U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. Raju said on Thursday that he heard mixed messages from Republican lawmakers on how to deal with gas prices. Some, like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), argue that an uptick in gas prices is better than Iran having a nuclear weapon, while others, like Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), told Raju Republicans are losing on their affordability messaging, and it could impact the midterms. “That’s really what the Republican plan is to deal with gas prices: hope,” Raju said. “Hope that this ends sometime soon, hope that the economy, the crude oil market will stabilize, hope gas prices will come down, and hope that this does not undercut their own affordability message come November, but you talk to other Republicans, and they say, hope is not a plan.” In a Thursday Truth Social post, Trump tried to give a positive spin to prices going up amid the global conflict. “The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Karoline Leavitt Calls on ABC News to ‘Immediately’ Retract Iran Story Warni...White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called on ABC News to “immediately” retract a story reporting that Iran was planning to retaliate for American attacks by launching drone strikes on the West Coast. An FBI alert from the end of February that was reviewed by ABC News read: We recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United State Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the US conducted strikes against Iran. We have no additional information on the timing, method, target, or perpetrators of this alleged attack. Leavitt called the ABC News story misleading because the intelligence was “unverified.” “This post and story should be immediately retracted by ABC News for providing false information to intentionally alarm the American people,” Leavitt wrote Thursday. “They wrote this based on one email that was sent to local law enforcement in California about a single, unverified tip. The email even states the tip was based on *unverified* intelligence. Yet ABC News left out this critical fact in their story! WHY?” Leavitt asked, adding, “TO BE CLEAR: No such threat from Iran to our homeland exists, and it never did.” This post and story should be immediately retracted by ABC News for providing false information to intentionally alarm the American people. They wrote this based on one email that was sent to local law enforcement in California about a single, unverified tip. The email even… https://t.co/jKey9ahsNk — Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) March 12, 2026 On CNN Thursday, Inside Politics host Dana Bash reported, “California governor Gavin Newsom says he’s been alerted about the unverified claims, but that there’s no imminent threat.” Bash continued, “This morning, a statement purportedly from Iran’s new supreme leader threatened to attack American interests on, quote, ‘other fronts if the war continues.'” “That’s pretty scary stuff,” Bash added. “I mean, never mind the politics of it. Just the sort of human response here in America. I mean, I know that this is, as we as we heard, unverified, but still hearing that, especially given what we heard from inside Iran this morning.” Assistant Director for Public Affairs at the FBI, Ben Williamson, also shared an apparent screenshot of the original bulletin, which included the term “unverified.” On… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
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