This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘Canadian politics post-Trudeau’ Kasia Broussalian Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Wednesday, January 8th, and this is your FT News Briefing.

The resort is the “Center of the Universe,” Trump declared on social media Friday, adding, “Bill Gates asked to come, tonight.” Representatives for Trump and Gates didn’t clarify if the Microsoft co-founder did indeed join the parade of figures making the trip to Mar-a-Lago.

O n Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media behemoth will end its third party fact-checking program in the U.S. and instead adopt a crowd-sourced “community notes” program. The inspiration for such a decision? Elon Musk’s X.

Justin Trudeau’s resignation sparked a nationwide contest to replace him as Prime Minister of Canada, with several top candidates emerging from the Liberal Party.

It’s unclear if Aileen Cannon even had the authority to make such a decision.

US billionaire Elon Musk went after Canada PM Justin Trudeau after the latter dismissed US President-elect Donald Trump's plan to annex Canada. Reacting to Trudeau's post on X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk wrote, "Girl, you’re not the governor of Canada anymore, so it doesn’t matter what you say."

In a rambling news conference yesterday, Trump refused to rule out the use of military or economic coercion to force Panama to give up control of the canal that the U.S. built more than a century ago or to compel Denmark to sell Greenland.

It's Mr. Biden's first visit to the country since he took office, and he'll be holding a news conference Friday with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss challenges both countries are facing.

On January 6th Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, announced his resignation after weeks of speculation and a mounting political crisis. The Liberal Party has won three successive elections under his leadership. But over the past year he has become ...

Trudeau cautioned that President-elect Donald Trump is “a very skillful negotiator” and fretted that his statehood push may be masking a more menacing tariff threat.

Former NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya has become increasingly political in her post-sportscasting career. For the longest time Tafoya was best known as a multi-time Emmy winner for her part in NBC's "Sunday Night Football" coverage.