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Secretary of state Marco Rubio and Elon Musk held a secret meeting late last month to hash out their differences before those spilled into view during a contentious cabinet meeting last week.

Politico Magazine reported the meeting was "cordial, some even say lighthearted" as the secretary of state and Donald Trump's billionaire adviser discussed the future of the State Department and what was left of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which Musk's team at the U.S. DOGE Service rapidly dismantled after Inauguration Day.

Demonstrators occupied Trump Tower in New York City to demand the release of pro-Palestinian organizer Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the U.S. and graduate student at Columbia University.

The Jewish Voice for Peace group was said to have flooded the lobby of Trump Tower. Videos posted to social media showed throngs of protesters in the golden-colored building.

Fiona Hill, a former National Security Council staffer who served with President Donald Trump during his first term, tells Foreign Affairs that her one-time boss is utterly clueless when he has high-stakes meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

During a lengthy interview on Foreign Affairs' official podcast, Hill recalled Trump talking with Putin one time and being absolutely enthralled with the respect he believed that he was receiving from his Russian counterpart.

National Public Radio (NPR) reporter and host Michel Martin hammered Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar on whether President Donald Trump's government intends to deport people who disagree with the U.S. and Israel.

Pro-Palestinian Mahmoud Khalil was seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the weekend and the U.S. government said it was revoking his green card. Khalil has been an outspoken anti-Israel protester but is in the U.S. legally.

CNN's Daniel Dale examined some of Donald Trump's claims about Canada and found them lacking in proof.

The president has imposed steep tariffs on Canadian imports, which has triggered retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports, and threatened to annex the nation's northern neighbor as the "51st state," which he claimed had broad support, and Dale walked through his claims justifying the sudden turn against the longtime ally.

President Donald Trump's White House has reportedly asked the United States military to draw up plans to a military operation to retake the Panama Canal.

According to NBC News' sources, "U.S. Southern Command is developing potential plans that vary from partnering more closely with the Panamanian military to the less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the Panama Canal by force."

President Donald Trump massively ramped up his trade war threats against the European Union on Thursday when he threatened to slap 200 percent tariffs on alcoholic products from the EU.

Trump then claimed that these tariffs would be a boon for the American "wine and champagne" industry despite the fact that champagne is only made in a particular region of France.

President Donald Trump on Thursday delivered a massive new threat to hit the European Union with unprecedented tariffs.

Writing on his Truth Social page, Trump lashed out at the EU for slapping tariffs on American alcohol and pledged to up the ante by four fold.