Wild story: Toronto's tow-truck gangs, which move drugs, extort car-crash victims, and fake automobile accidents. They're also responsible for big rise in shooings with U.S.-made guns. wsj.com/world/americas… via The Wall Street Journal

To be clear… (because this seems complicated for some…) Good guy Bad guy

After nearly four years of falsely claiming that he won the 2020 election, Trump admits he actually lost "by a whisker." independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

Gobierno de Petro habla de expropiación de tierras, con la ministra de Agricultura explicando: "¿Cuáles tierras? No cualquiera, tierras fértiles, altamente concentradas, que podamos producir mejor..." ¿Dónde he escuchado esas palabras: "Que podamos producir mejor"?

Everyone in London knows the real power at 10 Downing St. is Larry the cat, not Keir Starmer. Larry's ruled the roost since 2011, outlasting five prime ministers—and their pets. wsj.com/world/uk/larry… via The Wall Street Journal

U.S. Steel Warns of Plant Closings if Sale Collapses. “We wouldn’t do that if the deal falls through,” the CEO said in an interview. “I don’t have the money.” wsj.com/business/u-s-s…

Haiti is facing critical delays in manpower and funding promised by countries across the world to help beat back gangs that have killed thousands of people and displaced hundreds of thousands more, Acting Prime Minister Garry Conille told The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/world/americas…

“The situation is the worst I’ve seen in my entire lifetime,” Haiti’s acting prime minister, Garry Conille, tells The Wall Street Journal in an interview. “This is really urban warfare at its worst. It’s a few thousand people holding 12 million people hostage.” wsj.com/world/americas…

Days after Maduro declared he won the election and began a crackdown, Chevron offered U.S. officials its stance: It is critical the company be allowed to continue pumping oil in Venezuela. Any chance the US will rule against Chevron? wsj.com/business/energ…

It is hard to overstate what a tendentious piece of writing this is. This not history. It is anti-history. For a recent account of the origins of World War II, as opposed to an attempt to resuscitate Nazi propaganda, try penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292991/t…

Chevron, the last U.S. oil giant in Venezuela, has shown investors it has enough oil reserves to keep growing. It's also making a case to the Biden administration to stay in Venezuela, even as the country becomes increasingly epressive. The The Wall Street Journal explains: wsj.com/business/energ…

After enduring internet dating sites and apps, young adults are trying a more traditional face-to-face approach: Run clubs. wsj.com/lifestyle/runn…

Brazilian Justice de Moraes has chosen his biggest target in Elon Musk, a self-described free-speech absolutist who the justice said had confused “freedom of expression with freedom of aggression.” So who is de Moraes and what’s behind this battle: wsj.com/world/americas…

De Moraes’s myriad critics aren’t just from the right. Leonardo Barreto, an independent political consultant, called banning X “completely arbitrary” and put Brazil on a list of countries that have banned X that includes North Korea, Iran and Russia.  wsj.com/world/americas…

Trump’s Hush-Money Sentencing Delayed Until After Election wsj.com/us-news/donald…

SÃO PAULO—Ice buildup likely played a role in the crash of an ATR turboprop plane near here last month, killing 62 people in the country’s deadliest airline crash in nearly two decades, Brazilian investigators said.  wsj.com/world/americas…

In Venezuela, Maduro’s security forces have surrounded the Argentine embassy, where aides to opposition leader Maria Corina Machado have been hiding. The fear is they’ll be arrested along with the many other political activists who have already been thrown in jail.

The Venezuelan regime’s threats against the Argentine embassy — and the Venezuelan activists who have found refuge there — came hours after Argentina’s government called on the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant against strongman Maduro and his lieutenants.