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With a trade war brewing, President Trump gave the Mexican president a sign of grudging respect: “You’re tough,” he told her in a phone call last month, according to four people with knowledge of the exchange.By their most recent conversation, the two leaders were trading compliments and carving out a reprieve from some tariffs in real time, the people familiar with the call said.When Claudia Sheinbaum became president on Oct. 1, the first woman to ever govern Mexico, there were doubts about how she would handle the relationship with the United States, especially if Mr. Trump won the election.A proud…

Speaking at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., on Friday, President Donald Trump comforted a mother whose son died from fentanyl poisoning, telling her, “He’s up there watching you” and “he’s so proud of mom.”Trump highlighted the profound impact of fentanyl poisoning on U.S. citizens, saying during his speech that “more Americans died from fentanyl last year than died in the Korean War, or the Iraq War or the Afghanistan War. All of them combined.”He blamed President Joe Biden’s open border policies, the cartels and countries such as Mexico, Canada and China for allowing the fentanyl problem to become…

A second person who took part in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University has been arrested by U.S. immigration agents, after overstaying a student visa, federal officials said on Friday, the latest turn in the crisis engulfing the Ivy League institution.The person, identified by the authorities as Leqaa Kordia, is Palestinian and from the West Bank. She was arrested in Newark on Thursday, officials said. Her student visa was terminated in January 2022, and she was arrested by the New York City police last April for her role in a campus demonstration, the Homeland Security Department said in a statement.The agency…

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All five parties in Greenland’s parliament have issued a joint statement rejecting US President Donald Trump’s latest effort to take control of the strategic Arctic island.The statement was issued on Friday by the leaders of all five parties that won seats in parliament in an election held earlier this week.”We — all party chairmen — cannot accept the repeated statements on annexation and control of Greenland,” the statement said.”We, as party chairmen, find this conduct unacceptable to friends and allies in a defence alliance.”Greenland is a self-governing region of Denmark, a NATO ally of the United States.The party leaders released…

Mason Rudolph and Skylar Thompson are the only two quarterbacks under contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers.While Justin Fields and Russell Wilson handled the Steelers’ starting quarterback duties at different times last season, it remains unclear who will be under center once the regular season kicks off.Fields agreed to a two-year contract with the Jets earlier this week, while Wilson reportedly visited other teams. While there are more questions than answers in Pittsburgh’s quarterback room, the storied franchise did bolster its wide receiver corps by adding DK Metcalf.The Steelers sent draft picks to Pittsburgh in exchange for Metcalf. The star wide…

UN report finds systemic sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians.A United Nations investigation concludes Israel has carried out genocidal acts by destroying Gaza’s main fertility clinic and maternity hospitals. Israel has rejected the report, which also alleges sexual violence. What are the implications? And will there be accountability? Presenter: Folly Bah Thibault Guests: Sari Bashi – programme director at Human Rights Watch Muhammad Dahleh – human rights lawyer Arwa Damon – founder of the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance

Washington — The Senate voted Friday to advance a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of a midnight deadline, following days of consternation from Senate Democrats over an uncomfortable choice — to allow the GOP bill to pass or let the government shut down.In a 62 to 38 vote, 10 Democrats joined with all but one Republican to move forward on the measure in a key step toward passage. The Friday afternoon vote ended debate, and after reaching a time agreement, the vote on final passage is expected later in the evening.The vote came after Senate Minority…

A California man who apparently cross-dresses on social media and was out on bond for an attempted murder, kidnapped and assaulted an elderly woman in South Carolina who stopped providing him with financial assistance, police said Thursday.Enver Marius Zueros, 34, was arrested Monday and is charged with first-degree burglary, kidnapping and attempted murder in the attempted extortion of an 89-year-old woman. “This man will not see the light of day. He will spend the rest of his natural life in prison,” Summerville Police Chief Doug Wright said during a news conference. CONVICTED DOUBLE MURDERER EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD IN SOUTH CAROLINA Enver…

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday his Liberal government is “immediately” ending the consumer carbon price, making the change official during his first cabinet meeting. Carney, who was sworn in as prime minister along with his new cabinet earlier in the day, said the order-in-council he signed fulfilled a promise he made while running for the Liberal leadership and will help address affordability concerns for Canadians.“This is a cabinet that’s focused on action,” he said. “It’s focused on getting more money in the pockets of Canadians, it’s focused on building this economy with all the tools that we have here.“We…