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'No one knows' what Trump actually wants from Canada: Conservative Ontario premier

Ontario Premier Doug Ford apologized to the American people Tuesday after floating the idea of cutting off the energy supply flowing in from Canada.

Canada is considering the drastic move now that President Donald Trump's 25 percent tariffs against goods coming in from Canada have gone into effect.

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Republican tap-dances around his opposition to Trump tariffs

Senate Republican Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) struggled to admit to Fox News that he's worried about the impact President Donald Trump's tariffs will have on American farmers and ranchers.

Dancing around the issue, Thune told reporters, "I'm hoping they're a means to an end and not the end itself. I think they're hopefully temporary -- designed to achieve a specific result."

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VA employee calls BS on DOGE firing him after getting 'cash bonus' for good work

Some Democratic lawmakers plan to pack the House chamber Tuesday night with fired federal workers to hear President Donald Trump's address to Congress. One person expected to be there is an Army veteran who until recently worked at the Veterans' Administration and was laid off around the same time he received a bonus check for "outstanding performance."

Adam Mulvey told CNN's Kate Bolduan that he plans to attend the president's speech as the guest of Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL).

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'He didn't say anything like that before!' Pro-Trump Muslim voter aghast by his Gaza plan

A Muslim voter in Dearborn, Michigan who backed President Donald Trump told NPR he was horrified at the president's plan to redevelop the Gaza strip as a hotel-lined tourist destination in the Middle East.

As the question of how to rebuild when the war is over continues to linger, Trump has repeatedly insisted the U.S. will secure the territory, and that "we're going to run it very properly, and eventually, we'll have economic development at a very large scale, maybe the largest scale on that site. And we'll have lots of good things built there, including hotels and office buildings and housing and other things." He has not mentioned anything about returning displaced Gaza civilians to what's left of their communities.

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Fury in UK as JD Vance lobs new insult at America's top ally

Vice President J.D. Vance has caused a new international incident by lobbing insults at the United States' top ally.

The Murdoch-owned U.K. tabloid The Sun reports that Britons of all political stripes are denouncing Vance after he described their nation as "some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years" during an appearance on Fox News Monday night.

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Canadian official vows to hit back at Trump 'twice as hard' — 'with a smile on my face'

President Donald Trump said Monday that planned tariffs on Mexico and Canada will go into effect on Tuesday, and one Canadian leader is ready to retaliate.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is willing to shut off energy to the United States, the Toronto Sun reported Monday.

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'U.S. will walk': Mike Flynn says NATO 'a thing of the past' as he calls to embrace Putin

Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn called NATO "a thing of the past" and suggested the United States should walk away from the military alliance as President Trump pulls Russian President Vladimir Putin closer.

During a Monday interview with Real America's Voice, Flynn argued to Eric Bolling that Putin would use nuclear force against Europe "if Russia feels threatened, you know, on their sovereign territory."

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Trump demands Zelensky apologize 'in front of cameras' after Oval Office spat: report

President Donald Trump will reportedly provide no additional assistance or deals with Ukraine until the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, apologizes "in front of cameras" for last week's spat in the Oval Office.

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy reported that Trump was demanding the apology on Monday after the U.S. president lost his temper with Zelensky during a meeting the week before.

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'At least say thank you!' Trump official continues berating 'troublemaker' Zelensky

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who was in the Oval Office for last week's disastrous meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, sought to set the record straight about the motivations of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

"I've heard nonsense that this was a setup," Lutnick told CNN's Pamela Brown Monday. "We expected this to be a love fest. Really, it was just a love fest. But what happened is, President Zelensky came in and all he asked for was 'no concessions, security guarantees, reparations from Russia of $300 billion, give up no land, get them off our land,' and he kept going, 40 minutes before the cameras were in and 45 minutes once the cameras came in. Endlessly, relentlessly."

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Fired USAID official's 'alarming' unsent memo leaks

Nicholas Enrich, the acting assistant administrator for global health at USAID, was placed on administrative leave Sunday after he sent out two memos criticizing the Trump administration for putting some of the world's most vulnerable people at risk of disease, famine, and natural disasters.

According to The Bulwark's Sam Stein, one memo "noted the dramatic staff reductions that had taken place at the Bureau for Global Health, whose workforce had gone from 783 'encumbered' positions to 69 personnel 'that received Essential Personnel Designations, of which 15 received RIF letters. In the other, Enrich identified '72 activities across 31 awards' that had been approved for waivers by Secretary of State Marco Rubio but for which no payments had been released. He said the death toll from this was 'not known.'"

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'Fundamental corruption': Bill Nye unloads on Elon Musk's alleged self-dealing

Weather experts predict that Elon Musk's latest round of government firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including at the National Weather Service, will almost certainly make it more difficult to predict dangerous weather emergencies as quickly as needed.

As the Washington Post reported, "The administration let go of meteorologists, hydrologists and technicians that help inform daily weather forecasts in places including Boston and Boise, Idaho. It fired scientists who build, improve and maintain weather models that form the backbone of weather forecasting around the globe. Staff at offices responsible for warning the public about tsunamis, tornadoes and hurricanes lost their jobs, as did an entire team dedicated to communicating NOAA’s work and science to the public."

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MTG's reporter boyfriend claims '1000s of death threats' after Zelensky wardrobe question

Pro-MAGA reporter Brian Glenn, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) boyfriend, claimed he received "thousands of death threats" after asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about his wardrobe at an Oval Office meeting last week.

On Monday, Glenn reflected on the meaning behind Zelensky's decision not to wear a suit in his meeting with President Donald Trump.

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Putin and Trump 'talk about one another like an old married couple': ex-GOP insider

A conservative columnist observed that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin speak about one another "like an old married couple."

Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum appeared Monday morning on CNN to discuss his latest column for The Atlantic on last week's White House meeting between Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, which he argued represented a betrayal of American values even more treacherous than Alger Hiss.

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