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Despite Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro's promise that trade negotiations would result in "90 deals in 90 days" there is a little hope that the president will be able to point more than a handful when the clock runs out.

With the president angrily pulling the plug on tariff negotiations with major trade partner Canada Friday morning with a Truth Social post announcing, "We are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately. We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period," CNN is reporting the president's purported deal-making prowess is coming up short.

Thousands of fans gathered in Seoul on Saturday to celebrate the final "Squid Game" season, ending a global Netflix hit that is seen as a symbol of South Korea's cultural clout.

The third and final season was released Friday, concluding the series that sees desperate people compete in deadly versions of traditional children's games for a massive cash prize.

Director Hwang Dong-hyuk said he had "poured everything" into the series, which launched nearly four years ago.

"So while it's sentimental to see it end," he said, "there's also a sense of relief".

Fans gathered near Seoul's Gyeongbokgung Palace, led by marchers dressed in the bright pink uniforms worn by the show's mysterious masked agents.

They were followed by others carrying oversize toys from one of the games featured in the series, along with the show's flag.

Park Sang-gyu, a fan who stayed up all night watching the final season, said the dystopian drama was "ultimately a story about people".

"As you watch, you realise it's not just about the games -- it reflects many aspects of real life."

The walls of the Seoul Metropolitan Library were lit up with key scenes, including Young-hee -- the giant motion-sensing animatronic doll featured in one of its brutal games.

Lee Byung-hun, who played the masked Front Man overseeing the competition, said the show had become "something of a cultural phenomenon".

"One that has drawn one of the boldest lines in the history of Korean content," he said.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett got a dressing down from a former U.S. attorney for comments she made in her majority opinion on birthright citizenship which handed Donald Trump a win on Friday.

In a highly-criticized response to a dissenting Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Coney Barrett dismissively wrote, "We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.”

Ahead of a vote on Republicans' budget reconciliation package expected as soon as Saturday, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee revived his effort to sell off public lands.

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has blocked multiple provisions of the GOP megabill, including several under the jurisdiction of the Utah Republican's panel. Among them is his attack on public lands.

Donald Trump is leaning heavily on his attack on Iran and his recent NATO appearance to detract from the news that his popularity is waning, his big beautiful budget bill may not be all that he hoped for and prospects don't look good for the president and his party going forward.

That is according to Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota, who claims that things are not looking good for the president on the homefront.

The day before Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett took a highly-criticized personal shot at Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, fellow conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch also sniped at his liberal colleague.

According to a report from Politico on increased tensions within the nation's highest court, as the 6-3 conservative majority continues to use the "shadow docket" to hand Donald Trump questionable wins, Politico is reporting that Brown Jackson's opinions, often in dissent, are getting under the skin of conservatives justices.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett was called out on Saturday morning for her thin-skinned and personal response to a dissent written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Writing the 6-3 conservative majority opinion that handed the Donald Trump administration a win with its birthright citizenship ruling, Coney Barrett took a dismissive shot at Brown Jackson observations by writing, "We will not dwell on Justice Jackson’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself."

She then added. “We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.”

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Slate legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern called Coney Barrett's personal attack "arrogant" and "out of bounds."

Addressing Brown Jackson's dissent, he told the hosts, "I think Jackson's blows clearly landed here, and Barrett responded with, what I do agree is a far too personal retort that accuses Justice Jackson of not really being smart enough, I think, to levy a strong criticism of her opinion. That's totally out of bounds, it's highly unusual, even when the justices disagree, they usually do so respectfully."

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"And here Barrett is going much further and I think the reason why is really obvious, right?" he continued. "Justice Jackson's dissent is one of the sharpest, fiercest, most blunt dissents we've ever seen. She is taking on the Supreme Court as an institution and the conservative super majority. It's one of several dissents she published this term where she accused the super majority on the right of bias toward the Trump administration, of surrendering the rule of law so that Trump can rule like a king."

"This is how the majority sees the country, that they really believe Trump should rule it with no limits and, you know, I think after this decision, it's kind of hard to argue with that, right?" he observed. "The majority sees a policy that is so patently unconstitutional and rather than understand that that's the emergency that courts need to address, it turns around and smacks down the lower courts and says, 'You went too far.'"

"So Jackson's criticism there was entirely appropriate and for Justice Barrett to act so wounded and respond so personally is really out of bounds, disrespectful and arrogant," he concluded.

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The US Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure logged a mild uptick Friday while spending weakened, triggering another tirade by President Donald Trump against the central bank chair for not cutting interest rates sooner.

"We have a guy that's just a stubborn mule and a stupid person," Trump told an event at the White House, referring to Fed Chair Jerome Powell. "He's making a mistake."