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The New York Times is reporting that the Canadian government is taking President Donald Trump's threats to make it America's "51st state" incredibly seriously based on a phone call Trump had last month with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

During the call, the Times' sources say, Trump "told Mr. Trudeau that he did not believe that the treaty that demarcates the border between the two countries was valid and that he wants to revise the boundary" and he also "mentioned revisiting the sharing of lakes and rivers between the two nations, which is regulated by a number of treaties."

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called criticisms of President Donald Trump's pause on Ukraine aid "all garbage" despite admitting that the policy appeared to some to be "pro-Russia."

Hegseth was asked about the pause in military aid for Ukraine Thursday during a meeting with British Defense Secretary John Healey.

Intelligence officials for U.S. allies are looking on in horror at President Donald Trump's chaos — and questioning how they can be capable of sharing their own information with his administration, reported The Atlantic on Thursday.

A major catalyst for these fears, which had already been lurking since Trump's election, came from the president's public verbal attack on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House, demanding that he make peace with the Russian invasion of his country and ultimately tossing him out of the building. Trump followed this up by pausing military aid to the country, as well as intelligence sharing.

Chinese dissidents who have long looked at the United States as a model for the democracy they want in their own country are growing alarmed at President Donald Trump's rhetoric and actions.

The New York Times reports that several Chinese journalists and activists are drawing parallels between what is happening in the United States now and the infamous "Cultural Revolution" that occurred in China under dictator Mao Zedong in the 1960s and 1970s.

The far-right think tank, the Heritage Foundation, promoted a video on Wednesday of its economist E.J. Antoni, who agreed with President Donald Trump's position that tariffs are good.

In his first term, Trump signed new trade deals with Canada and Mexico but has decided to increase tariffs on imports from those countries. As CBS News explained last month, Trump appears to believe that tariffs are passed on to the country to pay.

One of the key components of the NATO alliance is Article V, which calls on all NATO allies to unite and engage in a collective defense. The only country that has involved Article V is the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Now President Donald Trump is looking to put conditions on it.

On Thursday, NBC News reported that "three current and former senior U.S. officials and one congressional official" are saying that Trump's next goal is to impose new mandates on a key NATO component.

by Kelly MACNAMARA

The Copernicus Climate Change Service said last month was the third hottest February on record, continuing a run of persistent warming since 2023 stoked by greenhouse gas emissions.