The six-lane bridge is set to connect Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan.

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to block the opening of a new bridge between the United States and Canada until, he said, Canada compensates and respects the U.S.

“I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve,” Trump said in a social media post on Monday.

The president did not mention the bridge by name, but appears to be referring to the Gordie Howe International Bridge. The six-lane project is set to connect Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan.

Trump said that he plans to “start negotiations, IMMEDIATELY,” seeming to refer to a deal on the bridge.

The $4.7 billion bridge has been under construction since 2018. It is expected to open early this year, with major construction complete, though an opening date has not yet been announced. Its construction is being financed and overseen by the Canadian government.

Trump on Monday also repeated his ongoing criticism of Canada since he began a trade war with America’s northern neighbor. 

“With all that we have given them, we should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset. The revenues generated because of the U.S. Market will be astronomical,” Trump said in the post.

ABC News’ Meredith Deliso contributed to this report.

Jack Grealish says he “didn’t want the season to end like this” after confirming he has had surgery on a foot stress fracture.

Grealish, who was on a season-long loan at Everton from Manchester City, suffered the injury on 18 January during a 1-0 win over former club Aston Villa.

The 30-year-old midfielder had made 22 appearances in all competitions for Everton this season, scoring twice and providing six assists.

“Didn’t want the season to end like this but that’s football, gutted,” he wrote in a post on Instagram.

“Surgery done and now all focus on getting back fit. I know for sure I will come back fitter, stronger and better than before.”

The injury ends any hopes of Grealish making England’s World Cup squad this summer.

Grealish’s recent form at Everton led to suggestions that he could earn a recall to the England squad and push for a place at the World Cup.

His most recent appearance came under caretaker manager Lee Carsley in October 2024.

Grealish won three Premier League titles, the Champions League and the FA Cup after joining City from Aston Villa for a then British record £100m in 2021.

However, he fell out of favour last season, making only seven league starts for City before being left out of the squad for the Club World Cup in the United States. He since signed for Everton on loan.

“The support I’ve had since coming to this unbelievable club has meant the world to me,” he added.

“The staff, my teammates and especially the fans have been incredible and I absolutely love representing this club. I’ll be backing the lads all the way and doing everything I can to get back as soon as possible. Thank you again for all the love, it means so much.”

On the day after TPUSA’s “All America Halftime Show,” Kid Rock has zoomed to the #1 spot on iTunes with his rendition of “‘Til You Can’t,” knocking Bad Bunny out of the top spot despite the Puerto Rican rapper’s appearance as the star of the NFL’s Super Bowl Halftime Show.

As February 9 dawned, Kid Rock’s version of “‘Til You Can’t” began rising in the iTunes chart closely followed by the original version of the song released by country singer Cody Johnson. By the afternoon, the two songs had pushed Bad Bunny’s song, “DtMF,” to third place.

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Rock sang his rendition of “‘Til You Can’t” at the Turning Point USA “All America Halftime Show” on Sunday night.

Another performer from the TPUSA show has also been climbing the iTunes chart. By the late afternoon, country singer Gabby Barrett’s “The Good Ones” had soared to number four, pushing another Bad Bunny song, “Tití Me Preguntó,” to the fifth spot.

Not only that, but at the time this story was published, Barrett’s “I Hope” had taken the sixth spot on the iTunes chart.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) pushed back against a CBS article claiming that most illegal immigrants arrested under the Trump administration have not committed any “violent criminal offenses.”

CBS’ Camilo Montoya-Galvez reported on Monday that an internal DHS document showed less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were charged or convicted of violent crimes despite President Donald Trump’s vow to go after “the worst of the worst.”

DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin insisted on X that this was an inaccurate reading of the numbers, pointing out that the article downplayed several serious crimes by categorizing them as “non-violent.”

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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin pushed back against a CBS report on Monday. (Fox News)

“Drug trafficking, Distribution of child pornography, burglary, fraud, DUI, embezzlement, solicitation of a minor, human smuggling are all categorized as ‘non violent crimes.’ Like we said, ~70% of those illegal aliens arrested under @POTUS Trump and @Sec_Noem have pending criminal charges or prior convictions,” McLaughlin wrote.

In another post, she wrote, “By @cbs’s standard, Edward Hernandez, who @ICEgov arrested last week in Virginia is a ‘non criminal’ because he hasn’t been convicted in the United States. Never mind that he is an MS-13 member & confessed to murdering 5 people in El Salvador through shooting, torturing, stabbing, and dismemberment (including one victim who was alive.)”

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The official ICE X account also responded to the CBS report in a post criticizing the categorization of “non-violent” criminals.

The CBS article acknowledged approximately 60% of illegal immigrants arrested by ICE had criminal charges or convictions. (AP Photo)

“Here’s a more accurate headline, CBS. Nearly 70% of criminal aliens detained by ICE have pending charges or prior convictions. So-called ‘non-violent’ offenders include individuals charged with drug trafficking, distribution of child pornography, burglary, fraud, DUI, embezzlement, solicitation of a minor, human smuggling, and more. Labeling these offenses as ‘non-violent’ does not mean they aren’t threats to public safety,” the post read.

Homeland Security’s official X account also listed examples of illegal immigrants arrested by ICE who would qualify as “non-violent” under the CBS report because they were charged and convicted of violent crimes outside the United States.

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Despite the headline claiming “less than 14%” of arrested illegal immigrants have “violent criminal records,” the article itself acknowledged that “nearly 60% of ICE arrestees over the past year had criminal charges or convictions” including for DUI, kidnapping and arson. The other 40%, according to the document, were “accused of civil immigration offenses.”

Homeland Security shared examples of arrested illegal immigrants who would not qualify as ‘violent’ criminals under the CBS report. (DHS/Jim Watson – Pool/Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached out to DHS and CBS for comment.

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The numbers in the CBS document represented 393,000 arrests made between Jan. 21, 2025 and Jan. 31 of this year.

“New facts meant the need for a new response” – that is how one palace source described this latest statement and why it was issued now.

The timing was still extraordinary.

Do not underestimate how significant it is that it was released just a matter of hours after Prince William had landed in Saudi Arabia.

Usually there’s an unwritten rule that nothing should ever overshadow an important diplomatic visit like this.

But there was a sense in the palace that something had shifted over the weekend in terms of the allegations against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor – and no response wasn’t an option.

No one is trying to diminish the sexual claims that have emerged, which Andrew has denied. The Royal Family has repeatedly said we must think of Epstein’s victims.

However, the claims that he may have been sharing information with Epstein – information he gained in his official capacity as a UK trade envoy – go to the very heart of the role of the Royal Family; travelling the globe on behalf of UK plc, not for their own personal gain but as an act of service to the country.

The spectre of Epstein has loomed large over the Windsors for over 15 years. We’ve all watched closely as a family has had to decide the best public response to allegations involving one of their own.

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Andrew’s mother, Queen Elizabeth, and now his brother Charles have had to wrestle with where their priorities should lie; family or the wider institution?

This time, with the ongoing reputational risks too high, the monarchy has to come first. Buckingham Palace has even gone as far as to say it would help the police if it was called upon.

Already the King has removed Andrew’s birth right that he be known as a prince – whether that and this latest statement are enough to stop the pressure to take further action, we may just have to wait to see what else the Epstein files unearth.

The King, I’m told, can weather the heckles from individuals in crowds, as he concentrates on trying to demonstrate robust leadership in the most challenging family circumstances.

A member of a US congressional committee investigating the Epstein affair has said: “Maybe this will be the end of the monarchy.”

Congressman Ro Khanna says he thinks King Charles has questions to answer about the scandal that has embroiled his younger brother, adding: “I think this is the most vulnerable the British monarchy has ever been.”

The Democrat, was behind the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the legislation that led to their publication.

He told Sky News: “I think this is the most vulnerable the British monarchy has ever been. They ought to ask the King and Queen questions and maybe this will be the end of the monarchy.”

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He added: “If they don’t have answers, if they’re implicated in the Epstein class, it’s not a good look for the British monarchy.

“The King has to answer what he knew, what he knew about Andrew, and just stripping Andrew of a title is not enough.

“Andrew needs to come before our committee and start answering questions. I don’t think the appropriate punishment is you no longer get to be a prince. There’s got to be more than that.

“They need to answer, the King and Queen, I don’t understand the British custom (that) someone’s asking the Queen a question and the Queen is offended that she’s being asked a question? I mean, come on. She wears the same clothes, she eats the same food, she’s just a human being, she needs to answer the same questions everyone does.”

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has denied allegations of wrongdoing and there has been no suggestion the wider Royal Family was involved with Jeffrey Epstein.

But the paedophile was invited to Buckingham Palace and a visitor to the Balmoral estate. His co-conspirator and convicted sex trafficker Ghislane Maxwell was also photographed at Sandringham in the company of Andrew.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, another Democratic member of the committee, was asked if she thought there were questions for the wider Royal Family and replied: “It’s a matter of us taking a look at the evidence and trying to see who it is that is involved in this very tangled web.

“I think that we should speak to anybody, even if that means that we go that high.”

Buckingham Palace has released a statement in which a spokesperson says the King has made clear his “profound concern” at allegations surrounding Andrew and “if we are approached by Thames Valley Police, we stand ready to support them as you would expect”.

Scottish politics has a dual nature. It is significantly distinct from politics in the rest of the United Kingdom, with its own dynamics, parties and leaders. But it can still be affected by events down south. And for the Scottish sections of the UK parties – the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Labour and Reform UK – negative perceptions of their UK leaderships can have consequences for their Scottish wings.

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This is the situation Anas Sarwar, leader of the Scottish Labour party, finds himself in. In recent weeks the UK government has been engulfed in a scandal surrounding former Labour peer, MP, minister and (most recently) ambassador Peter Mandelson and his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

This has led to his resignation from the House of Lords and the Labour party, the launch of a police investigation and an intense backlash that has put Prime Minister Keir Starmer under pressure. Sarwar has entered the foray in dramatic fashion, summoning the media to a press conference in Glasgow where he called on Starmer to resign.

Why did Sarwar publicly turn on Starmer?

Sarwar’s primary motivation is that his party is struggling badly ahead of May’s crucial Scottish parliamentary elections. The most recent polling shows the governing Scottish National Party (SNP) in a reduced first place, and Labour fighting the radical right Reform UK party for second.

While historically Scotland’s dominant party, Labour lost power to the SNP in 2007 and was then reduced to third place in 2016. But it made a striking comeback in 2024 when Sarwar’s party won the UK general election in Scotland, capitalising on voters’ perception of declining public services under the SNP.

However, following the installation of a Labour government at the UK level, the party’s ratings rapidly declined. Sarwar is concerned that the fallout from the Mandleson scandal will lead to even further losses of support in the polls.

While Starmer’s cabinet has rushed to defend him, Sarwar is, so far, the most high-profile Labour figure to call for Starmer’s resignation. What is especially interesting is that Sarwar has specifically framed his call in Scottish terms, speaking of his loyalty to Scotland and alleging that Starmer’s actions have been detrimental to his party’s prospects in May. He stated that Starmer must go if Scotland is going to avoid another decade of SNP rule.

Was he right to do it?

Sarwar is right that UK Labour’s unpopularity since it took office has damaged the standing of its devolved wings. He also presumably feels very angry his chances of taking power have been ended by this. But the choice to blame Scottish Labour’s failings on Starmer obscures Sarwar’s own responsibility for Labour’s poor standing.

While Starmer is undoubtedly highly unpopular in Scotland, Sarwar has spent the time since the general election steadfastly failing to differentiate himself from the prime minister – despite suggestions during in the 2024 campaign Scottish Labour MPs would serve as an autonomous group at Westminster and pursue an independent line.

This failure is important as it means Sarwar’s Scottish party has been severely discredited by UK Labour’s failings and can no longer serve as the receptacle of anti-SNP protest voting as it did in the general election. Continuing criticism of the SNP’s record now rings much hollower when voters can look at a very similar party in Westminster they don’t perceive as doing any better or even as worse.

What’s behind this row?

Ultimately, this is linked to broader underlying issues in Scottish Labour around the party’s continuing inability to come to terms with its loss of status as the country’s dominant political force and adapt to the politics of the devolution era. The party has consistently failed to take into account how Holyrood-centric Scottish politics has become or the need for policy and messaging differentiation between Scotland and the UK. This is something that Welsh Labour realised in the 2000s.

The return of a new majority of Labour MPs in Scotland should have been viewed as the next step towards the campaign to win the 2026 elections in Scotland. Instead it seems to have renewed the party’s Westminster-centrism.

Scottish MPs in Westminster have toed the party line, including on policies which are highly unpopular north of the border. This has been exacerbated by frequent campaign misfires, such as the printing and distribution of leaflets with fake quotes endorsing Sarwar and a bizarre series of adverts centred on Sarwar’s life.

Such a personality-centred campaign makes little sense when the party is no longer running neck and neck with the SNP but struggling for second place. Arguably, setting out a strong vision of what Scottish Labour wants Scotland to look like – other than merely a place without the SNP in charge – would leave the party in a much stronger place.

Sarwar’s move will likely not harm his party’s prospects in May, but the move to a more assertive Scottish leadership is very late in the game and much more will be needed for a true turnaround in Scottish Labour’s fortunes.

The Money Saving Expert highlighted the government’s Help to Save scheme and regular saver accounts offering up to 7.1% interest during his BBC podcast

Martin Lewis has discussed a DWP scheme that savers might wish to consider. The consumer expert offered several tips on building savings during an episode of his BBC podcast.

He dedicated a significant portion of the programme to examining mortgage overpayments and whether this strategy is more advantageous than placing money into savings accounts.

One listener asked about what to do with a lump sum of £90,000 that they were about to receive. They were paying a relatively high mortgage rate of 5.6 per cent and asked for advice on how to use the money.

Mr Lewis said his general principle is that if your mortgage rate surpasses the highest after-tax savings rate available, it may be more sensible to overpay your mortgage rather than deposit cash into savings. Responding to the question, Mr Lewis initially stated that “you cannot earn 5.6 percent in savings”.

He pointed out certain savings vehicles where this rate can be exceeded. He mentioned briefly: “With the exception of a Help to Save if you’re on Universal Credit or a regular saver where you can put a couple of hundred quid a month in.”

The Help to Save scheme is worth considering if you’re receiving Universal Credit, as it offers a 50 per cent bonus on deposits. Through the scheme, you receive a 50p bonus for every £1 you deposit into the account over a four-year period, reports the Mirror.

You can contribute between £1 and £50 each month, meaning you can save up to £2,400 over four years, earning up to £1,200 in bonuses. Savers receive their bonuses across two stages, with the first payout arriving after the initial two years, calculated on the highest balance achieved during that period.

The second bonus comes at the conclusion of year four, determined by the highest balance reached in years three and four. When it comes to regular saver accounts, you can get rates of over 7 per cent, but there are restrictions on monthly deposits.

Take Nationwide Building Society’s Flex Regular Saver, for instance, which offers 6.5 per cent but caps monthly contributions at £200. By depositing the maximum amount, savers could pocket £84.50 annually in interest.

Currently, Zopa leads the market with its Regular Saver offering 7.1 per cent, allowing customers to stash away up to £300 monthly. Financial experts are forecasting further cuts to the Bank of England’s base rate this year.

The rate presently stands at 3.75 per cent. The central bank opted to maintain this level in its most recent announcement.

Keir Starmer was clinging to power this evening after the Cabinet gave him a late stay of execution.

The Prime Minister was rocked when the Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar dramatically called on him to resign for the good of the country in the wake of the Mandelson scandal.

Mr Sarwar, once an ally of Sir Keir, said there had been ‘too many mistakes’ in Downing Street.

‘I have to be honest about failure wherever I see it,’ he said. ‘The distraction has to end, the leadership has to change.’

Mr Sarwar told the PM of his move in advance, triggering panic in No 10 and sparking a major rescue operation.

One Labour source said ministers were told to voice their support for the PM by the end of the day or face the sack.

Sir Keir was already reeling from the departure of his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney on Sunday, who was followed out of the door by his communications director Tim Allan this morning.

And Cabinet Secretary Sir Chris Wormald was this evening on the brink of joining the Downing Street exodus – just a year after Sir Keir appointed him.

Keir Starmer’s Cabinet gave him a late stay of execution, finally backing him in the face of Anas Sarwar after refusing to do so for 24hours following McSweeney’s dramatic exit

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar called for Starmer’s resignation after ‘too many mistakes in Downing Street’ this morning (pictured)

Cabinet ministers had refused to publicly back the embattled Prime Minister for more than 24 hours after Mr McSweeney’s dramatic departure. Private discussions were held about the possibility of replacing him with an interim leader such as Defence Secretary John Healey.

But, with leadership rivals not ready to make their move and financial markets wobbling over the prospect of a chaotic contest, they finally bowed to No 10’s demands to issue public statements of support.

In a belated flurry of posts on social media, which began as Mr Sarwar got to his feet, every member of the Cabinet gave the Prime Minister their broad support.

And in a defiant address to Labour MPs later, Sir Keir vowed to battle on, saying: ‘Every fight I’ve ever been in, I have won.’

On another dramatic day in Westminster:

• Allies of Health Secretary Wes Streeting claimed No 10 had falsely accused him of being in league with Mr Sarwar at the very moment he was recording a TV interview backing the PM
• Mr Streeting published details of his email exchanges with Peter Mandelson in a bid to draw a line under claims by leadership rivals that his ambitions will be derailed by their past friendship
• Messages revealed that Mr Streeting moaned privately about Labour’s performance, including complaining the Government has ‘no growth strategy at all’
• Details emerged of a ‘Rayner for Leader’ website apparently launched by supporters of the former deputy PM and accidentally set live, briefly, last month
• A Find Out Now poll of 2,000 voters found the public want Sir Keir to resign by a margin of 50:22.

Wes Streeting has long been earmarked as a potential opponent for Labour leadership. He spoke during a visit to Maggie’s Cancer Centre at the Royal Free Hospital in London, February 4, 2026

John Healey during a visit to the aerospace, defence and security company, Leonardo UK, in Edinburgh, January 22, 2026

Sir Keir started the day isolated after agreeing the departure of Mr McSweeney, who is credited for masterminding Labour’s landslide election victory in 2024.

No 10 was initially unable to persuade ministers to take to the airwaves to defend the PM amid public revulsion at his decision to appoint Lord Mandelson as ambassador to the US despite knowing he had remained friends with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein following his conviction for child sex offences.

But Mr Sarwar’s intervention forced senior Labour figures to make a snap decision to either back the PM or move against him.

None of Sir Keir’s likely successors, including Angela Rayner and Mr Streeting, are confident of winning an immediate battle – and Labour sources said there was strong opposition within the party to triggering a contest before vital local elections in May.

This evening, Ms Rayner denied any links to the website, with her team dismissing it as a ‘fake’ that had neither been commissioned by her, nor with her knowledge, while one ally described it as a ‘false flag’ operation. Ms Rayner and Mr Streeting’s decision to back down gives Sir Keir some breathing space to try to regain control of the Government which has been hit with a wave of anger over the Mandelson scandal.

However, Labour MPs warned that Sir Keir could still be forced out if the party loses a looming by-election in Manchester this month or suffers a wipeout in May, when Scottish and Welsh parliamentary elections will be held alongside a major round of council elections in England.

Veteran Labour MP Graham Stringer said the PM ‘cannot survive this amount of chaos’, adding: ‘I think we have to wait and see the [election] results… that will give Labour MPs time to sort through what is the right process.’

Labour MP Peter Lamb urged the PM to name his departure date now. Writing in The House magazine, he said: ‘He can wait until May and force the country to endure the chaos of removing a sitting PM… or he can act now.’

Angela Rayner at the Greenock Arts Centre May 31, 2024

The PM insisted he wanted to take on Farage at the next election. Here, he speaks at a Reform UK rally in Birmingham, February, 2026

Ministers also warned the PM that he would have to make radical changes to survive. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall backed him to stay to ‘steady the ship’, but added: ‘We also need to change course.’

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson acknowledged that the Government had ‘made mistakes’ but insisted Sir Keir would still be Prime Minister by the summer.

In his address to the Labour Party this evening, the PM insisted he wanted to stay to take on Nigel Farage at the next election.

‘Having fought so hard for the chance to change our country, I’m not prepared to walk away from my mandate and my responsibility, or to plunge us into chaos, as others have done,’ he said.

Sir Keir went on to describe the battle with Reform UK as the ‘fight of our lives, the fight of our times’.

He added: ‘I’ll tell you this, as long as I have breath in my body, I’ll be in that fight, on behalf of the country that I love and I believe in, against those that want to tear it up.’