Canada鈥檚 new prime minister, Mark Carney, who won with a promise to confront U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggression, has the opportunity to do that in Tuesday’s face-to-face Oval Office meeting. The Trump administration sided with the Biden administration in asking a judge to toss out a lawsuit against telehealth access to the abortion medication mifepristone, effectively kicking the issue down the road. Another judge has ordered the Trump administration to admit some 12,000 refugees. And the White House says Harvard University will receive no new grants. The letter to Harvard鈥檚 president escalates Trump鈥檚 targeting of the Ivy League school. His administration also is pushing to strip the school of its tax-exempt status.
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Just before Canadian PM arrives at White House, Trump says US doesn鈥檛 need Canada
Just before meeting Carney, Trump posted on social media that the U.S. doesn鈥檛 need autos, energy, lumber or 鈥淎NYTHING鈥 from the United States鈥 northern neighbor.
鈥淚 very much want to work with him, but cannot understand one simple TRUTH 鈥 Why is America subsidizing Canada by $200 Billion Dollars a year, in addition to giving them FREE Military Protection, and many other things?鈥 Trump posted on Truth Social.
While Trump said he still welcomes Canada鈥檚 friendship and hopes to maintain it, he鈥檚 indicating despite economic data to the contrary that the United States would be fine without Canada.
鈥淭he Prime Minister will be arriving shortly and that will be, most likely, my only question of consequence,鈥 Trump posted.
Homeland Security secretary says 鈥榩eople will be allowed to fly鈥 even without REAL ID
told a Congressional panel Tuesday that travelers who miss Wednesday鈥檚 deadline to get the more secure ID cards should be prepared for extra scrutiny, but 鈥渨e will make sure it鈥檚 as seamless as possible.鈥
Noem said 81% of travelers already have IDs that comply, and passports and tribal identification will be accepted at checkpoints.
Travelers who aren鈥檛 鈥渕ay be diverted to a different line, have an extra step,鈥 she said.
Implementation of the REAL ID, a federally compliant state-issued license or identification card, has been repeatedly delayed since it was recommended by the 9/11 Commission and signed into law in 2005.
Treasury secretary says the United States 鈥榳ill not default鈥
Scott Bessent is testifying on the Hill this morning for the first time since his confirmation in January.
On the table for questions are tariffs, taxes, layoffs at the IRS, Department of Government Efficiency access to IRS data, national finances and more.
Bessent said the U.S. and China 鈥渉ave not engaged in negotiations鈥 but 鈥渁s early as this week鈥 the U.S. will be announcing trade deals with some of the U.S.鈥 largest trading partners.
Bessent also spoke about America鈥檚 upcoming default date 鈥 what officials are calling the 鈥淴-date.鈥
鈥淛ust as an outfielder running for a fly ball, we are on the warning track. When you鈥檙e on the warning track, it means the wall is not that far away,鈥 he said. He added, however, that the U.S. 鈥渨ill not default.鈥
Republican member of Congress praises program cut by Trump administration
A Republican member of Congress says there鈥檚 鈥渟trong bipartisan support鈥 for a communities protect against natural disasters and .
The program was eliminated by the Trump administration in April.
Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a hearing Tuesday that the BRIC program has been 鈥渆xtraordinarily helpful.鈥 He said he wants to know more about the department鈥檚 plans to 鈥渞eform those grants.鈥
US stocks sink again as more companies detail damage from Trump鈥檚 trade war
Artificial intelligence mania is losing more steam and amid .
The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq composite were down more than 1% in morning trading. Palantir Technologies, which offers an AI platform for customers, was falling 13.5%, and Nvidia was down 2.4%.
1. CEO Linda Rendle said Clorox, down 5.3%, is seeing shoppers change behavior and expects slowdowns to continue
2. fell 8.5% after reporting weaker-than-expected revenue
3. Toymaker Mattel was swinging between losses and gains after 鈥減ausing鈥 financial forecasts, saying the 鈥渆volving U.S. tariff landscape鈥 makes it too hard to predict this year鈥檚 gift-buying
4. Ford Motor is expecting to take a $1.5 billion hit and joined a
House speaker responds to Trump鈥檚 鈥榝ewer dolls鈥 statement
Reporters caught up with Mike Johnson in a Capitol hallway on Monday, and one asked about Trump saying that some kids may have fewer dolls or pencils and stroller prices may go up as a result of his tariffs policy.
鈥淚s that the message that you want to send to the American public?鈥 the Republican leader was asked.
鈥淲e had to disrupt the system and we鈥檙e gonna have the desired results,鈥 Johnson responded. 鈥淪o whatever short term of disruption there is or or discomfort, I think what he鈥檚 trying to say there, I think, is that it will well pay off in the long run and I think that will happen sooner than many people anticipate.鈥
Trump isn鈥檛 backing down against media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation
Despicable. Unpatriotic. All wrong. No credibility. Sensationalistic. Disgusting.
All labels that Trump or his loyalists have used to describe media coverage of his administration鈥檚 deportation of the asylum-seeker in Maryland to a Salvadoran prison.
With media covering Abrego Garcia鈥檚 removal as a test case about the absence of due process, the White House has attacked the man鈥檚 character and said he shouldn鈥檛 be allowed to stay, said Mark Lukasiewicz, dean of Hofstra University鈥檚 communication school.
鈥淭he song is the same,鈥 said former CNN Washington bureau chief Frank Sesno, 鈥渂ut the volume is a lot louder.
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One of Trump鈥檚 golf courses in Scotland to host a European tour event
Trump International Golf Links Scotland will stage the Scottish Championship from Aug. 7-10 after being added to the 2025 schedule by the tour on Tuesday. The course also will return as a seniors tour host.
Trump Organization vice president Eric Trump called these back-to-back events a 鈥渟ignificant milestone.鈥 The course has a panoramic view of offshore wind turbines that Trump has criticized as 鈥渦nsightly鈥 view-spoilers for his luxury guests.
The other course, Trump Turnberry, hasn鈥檛 staged a British Open since 2009, despite Trump鈥檚 lobbying.
Carney said he鈥檒l fight for Canada ahead of Trump meeting. Some said he should have stayed home
These Oval Office meetings have been challenging for world leaders. The United Kingdom鈥檚 prime minister, Keir Starmer, . Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was
鈥淲e鈥檝e seen what he does. We saw what he did with Zelenskyy,鈥 said Robert Bothwell, a professor of Canadian history and international relations at the University of Toronto. 鈥淗e would sure as hell try to do the same with Carney. It鈥檚 not in Carney鈥檚 interest. It鈥檚 not in Canada鈥檚 interest.鈥
Carney said ahead of Tuesday鈥檚 Oval Office encounter that he was elected specifically to 鈥渟tand up鈥 to the U.S. president, and that he expected they鈥檒l have 鈥渄ifficult鈥 but 鈥渃onstructive鈥 conversations at their White House lunch.
A bipartisan group of Trump critics launches the 鈥楥ost Coalition鈥
According to preliminary plans shared with The Associated Press, the coalition鈥檚 messaging will include paid advertising, social media, press interviews and on-the-ground events with small business leaders, veterans and the faith community ahead of key elections.
Republican Terry Holt and Democrat Andrew Bates, both former presidential spokespersons, will lead communications. The nonprofit with a hybrid political action committee won鈥檛 have to publicly disclose all its funding sources.
鈥淚n 100 days, Donald Trump put the best-performing economy in the world on a crash course toward recession. Trump鈥檚 tariffs 鈥 the biggest middle class tax hike in modern history 鈥 are making everyday prices skyrocket and wreaking havoc for businesses large and small,鈥 Holt and Bates said in a joint statement. 鈥淣ext up are grossly inflationary tax cuts for the wealthy that will only saddle future generations with staggering debt.鈥
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White House won鈥檛 say who paid $1.5 million a plate for Trump dinner
Trump hosted a closed-door 鈥淐rypto & AI Innovators Dinner鈥 fundraiser sponsored by his MAGA Inc. super PAC at his golf club outside Washington Monday night.
An invitation to the event that circulated online instructed invitees to pay $1.5 million per person to attend. The White House did not provide a list of attendees.
The super PAC eventually will be required to list donors in its regular public disclosures, but whether the public will ever know who bought their way into the meme coin dinner with the president is unclear. Unlike political donations that must be publicly reported, there鈥檚 no disclosure requirement for meme coin buyers.
Wall Street falls for a second day ahead of Federal Reserve meeting
Wall Street is pointing toward losses Tuesday as the Federal Reserve navigates the opposing challenges of and a . Futures for the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq all retreated in early trading.
The Fed is expected to hold its as Trump鈥檚 tariffs raise concerns that inflation could surge again. The shrank 0.3% in the first quarter, the first drop in three years.
After enormous sell-offs with the market roiling from back-and-forth tariff announcements from the White House, Wall Street had been on a nine-day winning streak, but that momentum lost steam Monday as more U.S. corporations said there鈥檚 too much uncertainty to predict future revenues.
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What鈥檚 in Trump鈥檚 big bill? Money for migrant clampdown but tax breaks and program cuts hit 鈥榖umps鈥
Congress is deep into drafting Trump鈥檚 , spending cuts and , but it鈥檚 鈥渂umpy,鈥 one Republican chairman says, with much work ahead to meet House Speaker Mike Johnson鈥檚 goal of passing the package out of his chamber by Memorial Day.
In fact, the tax cuts portion is still a work in progress. As are the reductions in Medicaid, food stamps and other mainstay government programs. Mostly, the Republicans, who have the majority in Congress, have made progress on parts that would increase spending, to the Pentagon and Homeland Security, including money for the U.S-Mexico border wall.
All told, some 11 committees in the House are compiling their bills, and about half have finished up.
Once all the committees are done, the different pieces of legislation will be rolled together at the Budget Committee into what Trump calls 鈥渙ne big, beautiful bill.鈥
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Trump administration says Harvard will receive no new grants until it meets White House demands
Harvard University will receive no new federal grants until it meets a series of from Trump鈥檚 administration, the Education Department announced Monday.
The action was laid out in a letter to Harvard鈥檚 president and amounts to a major escalation of Trump鈥檚 . The administration previously froze $2.2 billion in federal grants to Harvard, and Trump is pushing to of its tax-exempt status.
Harvard has pushed back on the administration鈥檚 demands, setting up a in Trump鈥檚 attempt to that he says have become hotbeds of liberalism and antisemitism.
In a press call, an Education Department official said Harvard will receive no new federal grants until it 鈥渄emonstrates responsible management of the university鈥 and satisfies federal demands on a range of subjects. The ban applies to federal research grants and not to federal financial aid that helps students cover college tuition and fees.
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Judge orders Trump administration to admit roughly 12,000 refugees
A judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to admit some 12,000 refugees into the United States under a court order partially blocking the president鈥檚 efforts to .
from U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead followed arguments from the Justice Department and refugee resettlement agencies over how to interpret a that significantly narrowed an earlier decision from Whitehead.
The refugee program, created by Congress in 1980, is a form of legal migration to the U.S. for people displaced by war, natural disaster or persecution 鈥 a process that often takes years and involves significant vetting. It is different from asylum, by which people newly arrived in the U.S. can seek permission to remain because they fear persecution in their home country.
Upon beginning his second term on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump issued an executive order suspending the program.
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The federal Bureau of Prisons has lots of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is now one of them
Even as the Bureau of Prisons struggles with short staffing, chronic violence and crumbling infrastructure at its current facilities, Trump is counting on the agency to fulfill his vision of rebooting the infamously inescapable prison known in movies and pop culture as 鈥淭he Rock.鈥
People tour the main cell house on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, March 15, 2021, as the historic island prison was reopened to visitors after being closed since Dec. 2020, because of the coronavirus threat. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
in a social media post Sunday that a 鈥渟ubstantially enlarged and rebuilt鈥 Alcatraz will house the nation鈥檚 鈥渕ost ruthless and violent Offenders.鈥 It will 鈥渟erve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE,鈥 he wrote on Truth Social.
Newly appointed Bureau of Prisons Director William K. Marshall III said Monday that the agency 鈥渨ill vigorously pursue all avenues to support and implement the President鈥檚 agenda鈥 and that he has ordered 鈥渁n immediate assessment to determine our needs and the next steps.鈥
鈥淯SP Alcatraz has a rich history. We look forward to restoring this powerful symbol of law, order, and justice,鈥 Marshall said in a statement, echoing Trump鈥檚 post. 鈥淲e will be actively working with our law enforcement and other federal partners to reinstate this very important mission.鈥
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Canadian Prime Minister Carney arrives in Washington for a high-stakes meeting with President Trump
Trump and Carney will meet in the Oval Office and have lunch. Carney has stressed that he was elected to specifically 鈥渟tand up鈥 to the U.S. president and that Canada is 鈥渋n a once-in-a-lifetime crisis.鈥 Carney said he expects 鈥渄ifficult鈥 but 鈥渃onstructive鈥 conversations with his U.S. counterpart.
Trump has shattered a decades-old alliance by saying he wants to make Canada the 51st U.S. state and levying steep tariffs against an essential partner in the manufacturing of autos and the supply of oil, electricity and other goods. The outrage provoked by Trump enabled Carney鈥檚 Liberal Party to score last month as the ongoing trade war and have outraged voters.
Trump told reporters on Monday that he wasn鈥檛 quite sure why Carney was visiting.
鈥淚鈥檓 not sure what he wants to see me about,鈥 Trump said. 鈥淏ut I guess he wants to make a deal.鈥
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