Farmers in Spain demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Agriculture building in Madrid on Wednesday to express their displeasure with some of the Spanish government’s policies—and the EU’s policies—that they say are negatively affecting their ability to make a living.
Former President Donald Trump has named several contenders for the position of running mate and for his future cabinet. President Trump is seen by many as the likely Republican nominee with back-to-back wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, where he won by double-digit margins. A vehicle convoy from Virginia to Texas concluded over the weekend. […]
The End CCP tour reached Seattle last week. The tour covered 8,000 miles, making stops in 20 states across the United States. Talking to people across the nation, participants collected petition signatures to end the Chinese Communist Party. They are working to expose an ongoing persecution in China, shining a light on the evils of communism […]
Members of The People’s Convoy trucker group that has protested against COVID-19 rules filed a lawsuit against officials in Washington, D.C., for what they said was a violation of their First Amendment rights. Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), they wrote in the suit, erected blockades to prevent them from entering the city. Sixteen members and […]
Over a hundred demonstrators showed up on the steps of California’s state Capitol building in Sacramento on Monday, April 18, to support The People’s Convoy and its fight to end vaccine mandates. Mike Landis, a lead trucker in the convoy, and other organizers told supporters that Monday’s rally was only a prelude to a larger […]
The 40-mile-long Russian military convoy heading toward Kyiv was “stalled” by Ukraine’s military this week, said Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby on Friday. Kirby told reporters that U.S. officials have obtained reports “that a bridge was blown up that we believe was in the path there,” adding, “We also have indications that the Ukrainians have struck the […]
A Ukrainian man apparently tried to block a Russian convoy of armored vehicles by stepping in front of the trucks, according to footage of the incident that has since gone viral. The 28-second video, shared by Ukraine news agency HB, shows an unarmed man running in front of several armed vehicles advancing down a road. […]
The convoy of Canadian truckers protesting COVID-19 mandates and restrictions has inspired people in other countries to follow suit with protests of their own, including Israel. Thousands of Israeli protesters have joined a Canadian-inspired “Freedom Convoy” on Monday, with vehicles flying Israeli and Canadian flags while driving along the main highway linking Tel Aviv and […]
TD Bank confirmed that it has frozen the bank accounts that had $1.1 million paid to them to support the trucker-led protests in Canada. A spokesperson for TD Bank told news outlets on Feb. 12 that the financial institution appealed to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to obtain the funds with the intention of […]
House Republicans on Feb. 10 urged Democrats to hold a hearing to examine “Big Tech silencing” after GoFundMe shut down fundraising for the Freedom Convoy campaign by Canadian truckers. In a letter (pdf), House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) accused the for-profit crowdfunding platform of “selectively discriminating against certain people by canceling their ability to organize […]
Truckers protesting the vaccine mandate are planning a convoy in the United States similar to the one we saw in Canada over the last few weeks. It could start as early as this weekend, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned it could impact the Super Bowl.
Protests over Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates forced one of the busiest crossings between Canada and the United States which serves as a key point for moving goods between the two countries to shut down. The Canada Border Services Agency listed the Ambassador Bridge as “temporarily closed” as of Wednesday. Windsor Police said Tuesday that it has increased […]
Trucks carrying goods across the U.S.–Canada border have had to shift their routes because of the protests against COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Canada, the White House said Feb. 7. While there have been zero impacts to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operations, “some shipments were rerouted by our law enforcement partners to other points […]
OTTAWA—The “Freedom Convoy” protests continued overnight and into Sunday Jan. 30 in Ottawa, with trucks and vehicles still parked in the city’s downtown core, and people gathered on Parliament Hill, with some setting off fireworks. Protest organizers say they will stay in Ottawa until their demands for lifting COVID-19 mandates are met. Truck horns continue […]
MOGADISHU—A suicide car bomb killed at least eight people in the Somali capital on Saturday at a street junction near the president’s palace, police said, and Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group Al-Shabaab said it was behind the attack which targeted a convoy going into the palace. Police spokesperson Abdifatah Aden Hassan told reporters at the scene of […]
