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Toronto Sun
26 minutes ago
- Toronto Sun
American Eagle shares jumps as Trump touts Sydney Sweeney jeans ad
Published Aug 04, 2025 • 2 minute read American Eagle billboard ads of actress Sydney in New York on Aug. 1, 2025. Photo by Michael M. Santiago / Bloomberg American Eagle Outfitters Inc. shares surged after U.S. President Donald Trump came out in support of a controversial ad from the company and called her a 'registered Republican.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account The spot, with the actress Sydney Sweeney, is the 'HOTTEST ad out there,' Trump said in a social media post. He added American Eagle jeans are 'flying off the shelves.' Trump deleted an earlier post, in which the actress' first name was misspelled The stock jumped as much as 18%, the biggest gain intraday since May 12. Through last week's close, the shares had declined 36% this year. The apparel retailer launched an ad blitz in July with the tagline 'Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans.' One of the campaign's videos plays on the same-sounding word 'genes' as Sweeney zips up her jeans and intones that 'genes are passed down from parents to offspring often determining traits like hair colour, personality and even eye colour.' 'My jeans are blue,' she adds, flashing her blue eyes at the camera. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. When American Eagle initially announced the ad campaign on July 23, shares rose as investors cheered the company snagging a deal with Sweeney, whose popularity has surged after appearances in TV shows such as White Lotus and Euphoria. In the following days, the gain eroded after critics said the ad's focus on the genes of a White, blond woman conjured up the racist theory of eugenics. Other social media users have said critics are reading too much into the ads. Representatives for American Eagle didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. Last week, the company said the spot 'is and always was about the jeans' and will 'continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence, their way.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It's still unclear how American Eagle's ad campaign will impact sales. Analysts will be watching the company's performance during the important back-to-school shopping season. Since mid-July, sales and web traffic at American Eagle Outfitters have been accelerating, while visits to stores has been slowing, according to data from Bloomberg Second Measure, Similarweb, and Through July 27 — the latest data available — those positive trends have continued. Visits to American Eagle's website have also accelerated, the data show. However, trends at Abercrombie & Fitch Co., an American Eagle competitor, have been similar over the same period. Trump said in his post that Sweeney is 'a registered Republican.' While the actress hasn't spoken about her political affiliation, public records show a person with her name and birthday registered to vote as a Republican in Florida in 2024. — With assistance from Matt Townsend. Columnists Opinion World Wrestling Wrestling
CTV News
26 minutes ago
- CTV News
Texas governor threatens to remove Democrats who left the state over Trump-backed redistricting
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they do not return after dozens of them left the state in an attempt to block the adoption of redrawn U.S. House maps sought by President Donald Trump. Some of the lawmakers, including those who left Sunday for Illinois or New York, clapped back, accusing Abbott of using 'smoke and mirrors' to make threats that go beyond his legal authority. The revolt by Democrats in the state House and Abbott's threat ratcheted up a widening fight over congressional maps that began in Texas but expanded to include Democratic governors who have floated the possibility of rushing to redraw their own state maps in retaliation. But their options are limited. The dispute also offers another example of Trump's aggressive view of presidential power and his grip on the Republican Party nationally, while testing the longstanding balance of powers between the federal government and individual states. 'We're not going to tolerate our democracy being stolen in a modern-day stagecoach heist by bunch of law breaking cowboys,' New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday, flanked by several of the lawmakers who fled. 'If Republicans are willing to rewrite rules to give themselves an advantage, then they're leaving us with no choice: We must do the same. You have to fight fire with fire.' At the centre of the escalating impasse is Trump's hope of adding five more GOP-leaning congressional seats in Texas before the 2026 midterm elections. That would bolster his party's chances of preserving its slim U.S. House majority. Republicans currently hold 25 of the state's 38 seats. A vote on the proposed maps was set for Monday in the Texas House, but it cannot proceed if Democratic members deny a quorum by going to another state, which puts them beyond the reach of Texas law enforcement. After one group of Democrats landed Sunday in Chicago, they were welcomed by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, but declined to say how long they were prepared to stay away from Texas. 'We will do whatever it takes. What that looks like, we don't know,' said state Rep. Gene Wu, the Texas House Democratic Caucus leader. But legislative walkouts often only delay passage of a bill, including in 2021 when many of the same Texas House Democrats left the state for 38 days to protest new voting restrictions. Once they returned, Republicans still passed that measure. Four years later, Abbott is taking a far more aggressive stance and warning Democrats that he will seek to remove them from office if they are not back when the House reconvenes Monday. He cited a nonbinding 2021 legal opinion issued by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton that suggested a court could determine that a legislator had forfeited their office. He also suggested the lawmakers may have committed felonies by raising money to help pay for fines they could face. 'This truancy ends now,' Abbott said. House Democrats issued a four-word statement: 'Come and take it.' And some lawmakers who relocated to other states taunted the governor in response. 'He has no legal mechanism,' said Texas Rep. Jolanda Jones, one of the lawmakers who was in New York. 'Subpoenas from Texas don't work in New York, so he can't come and get us. Subpoenas in Texas don't work in Chicago. ... He's putting up smoke and mirrors.' The state of the vote Lawmakers cannot pass bills in the 150-member Texas House without at least two-thirds of them present. Democrats hold 62 of the seats in the majority-Republican chamber, and at least 51 left the state, said Josh Rush Nisenson, spokesperson for the House Democratic Caucus. Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows said the chamber would still meet as planned on Monday afternoon. 'If a quorum is not present then, to borrow the recent talking points from some of my Democrat colleagues, all options will be on the table,' he posted on X. Paxton, who is running for U.S. Senate, said on X that Democrats who 'try and run away like cowards should be found, arrested, and brought back to the Capitol immediately.' Fines for not showing up A refusal by Texas lawmakers to show up is a civil violation of legislative rules. The Texas Supreme Court held in 2021 that House leaders had the authority to 'physically compel the attendance' of missing members, but no Democrats were forcibly brought back to the state after warrants were served. Two years later, Republicans pushed through new rules that allow daily fines of US$500 for lawmakers who don't show up for work as punishment. The lack of a quorum will also delay votes on disaster assistance and new warning systems in the wake of last month's catastrophic floods in Texas that killed at least 136 people. Democrats had called for votes on the flooding response before taking up redistricting and have criticized Republicans for not doing so. Illinois hosts Texas lawmakers Pritzker, a potential 2028 presidential contender who has been one of Trump's most outspoken critics during his second term, had been in quiet talks with Texas Democrats for weeks about offering support if they chose to leave the state. Last week, the governor hosted several Texas Democrats in Illinois to publicly oppose the redistricting effort, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom held a similar event in his own state. Pritzker also met privately with Texas Democratic Chair Kendall Scudder in June to begin planning for the possibility that lawmakers would depart for Illinois if they decided to deny a quorum to block the map, according to a person with direct knowledge who requested anonymity to discuss private conversations. 'This is not just rigging the system in Texas, it's about rigging the system against the rights of all Americans for years to come,' Pritzker said Sunday night. Trump is looking to avoid a repeat of his first term, when Democrats flipped the House just two years into his presidency, and he hopes the new Texas map will aid that effort. Trump officials have also looked at redrawing lines in other states. ___ Joey Cappelletti And Andrew Demillo, The Associated Press Associated Press writers Bill Barrow in Atlanta and Nadia Lathan in Austin contributed to this report.
CBC
27 minutes ago
- CBC
ICE raids are causing a spike of pets in L.A. shelters after owners detained
Social Sharing Los Angeles County has a new task: taking care of dogs and cats after their owners were detained or deported in immigration raids that picked up this summer in the U.S. under the Trump administration. From June 10, the county has taken in 28 animals, 22 of whom are dogs. Eleven dogs and two cats have been placed with homes since then. In the Downey shelter, two cats come in together in a carrier and some dogs come in boxes and plastic bins. Then they are placed in cages waiting for adoption. The barking and meowing can get loud. "The animals have become sort of a victim in this situation because, to no fault of their own, they're finding themselves in the care centres," said Christopher Valles, public information officer for the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control. Increased immigration raids have been unfolding in the U.S. for months as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's anti-immigration push. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have shown up at schools, workplaces and at immigration appointments to detain tens of thousands of people, actions which have been challenged by courts and criticized by government officials. In June, Trump called National Guard troops and U.S. Marines into Los Angeles in response to protests against the immigration raids. On Friday, a federal appeals court affirmed a lower court's decision to temporarily bar immigration-related arrests in Los Angeles without probable cause. The Trump administration had sought to appeal the lower court's order, but judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit agreed with the lower court that government agents should be blocked from detaining people based solely on discriminatory reasoning such as presumed race or ethnicity, or speaking Spanish or accented English. The city of Los Angeles is also part of a lawsuit filed in June by the American Civil Liberties Union accusing federal agents of using racial policing and other unlawful tactics to meet Trump's administration's immigration quotas. In the meantime, shelters are feeling the pressure as more animals are left with nowhere to go in the wake of their owners' abrupt detainment. While the dogs and cats wait to be placed in homes, the county will give pets a health check and have them groomed if that is needed, Valles said. "The only approach that we changed on how we operate when it comes to the deportation operations in our region is how can we better assist the community, because this is something that we have never seen before," Valles said. Valles advised that families who have an animal and are concerned that they could be impacted by these increased immigration raids put a plan in place for their pets to be taken in by a close friend or family member in the event of a detainment. "During these challenging times, with the deportation operations that are going on, we are monitoring it closely, but have a plan. Create a bio for your dog, reach out to your neighbour, your family, who can be an alternative to surrendering your pet at the care centre," Valles said.
