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Gretchen Whitmer ribbed online for seeming to hide face in Oval Office

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, was ribbed online for seeming to hide her face during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. 

Whitmer was seen temporarily shielding her face from cameras in the Oval Office by holding up a folder, according to a photo by the New York Times. 

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She later lowered the folder, as the president spoke to the press and encouraged Whitmer to comment as well. The Democratic governor, who clashed with Trump during his first term regarding her COVID-19 lockdown policies, met with the president to discuss recovery from an ice storm that impacted thousands of Michiganders, funding for the Selfridge Air National Guard base near Detroit, protections for the Great Lakes and the automobile industry. 

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer gestures to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in Washington.  (Pool via AP)

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Whitmer, joined by Michigan State House Speaker Matt Hall and several Cabinet secretaries, stood steps away from the Resolute Desk while Trump signed executive orders Wednesday. 

«We’re honored to have Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan, great state of Michigan. And, she’s been she’s really done an excellent job. And a very good person,» Trump said. 

Whitmer told reporters afterward that she thought she was coming into the Oval Office for a one-on-one meeting with the president and was taken by surprise by the press conference. 

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Her face-shielding was derided online. 

«Whitmer covering her face is the perfect metaphor for the Democratic Party,» one user wrote. 

Another X user said, «Gretchen Whitmer hiding behind her files in the White House is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. This is what my 2 year old does.»

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Whitmer and Michigan House speaker in the Oval Office

Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speak with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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«Was this the nail in the coffin of Gretchen Whitmer’s political aspirations?» a third user wrote.

Some users joked that Whitmer was «embarrassed» to be photographed with Trump but had no shame in placing a Dorito in the mouth of a podcaster in a 2024 social media post that critics said mocked a Christian sacrament. 

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Whitmer was in Washington to deliver a «Build, America, Build» address in which she called for bipartisan cooperation to strengthen American manufacturing. She was at the White House for her second meeting with Trump in less than a month, this time to talk about tariffs that were expected to disproportionately affect Michigan, whose economy is closely tied to an auto industry reliant on trade with Canada, Mexico and other countries.

In her speech Wednesday, which came before Trump announced he was pausing tariffs in most nations except for China, Whitmer highlighted areas of agreement with Trump on tariffs but criticized how they had been implemented.

Whitmer stands next to news cameras in the Oval Office

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer looks on as President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on April 9, 2025.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

«I understand the motivation behind the tariffs, and I can tell you, here’s where President Trump and I do agree. We do need to make more stuff in America,» said Whitmer, before adding, «I’m not against tariffs outright, but it is a blunt tool. You can’t just pull out the tariff hammer to swing at every problem without a clear defined end-goal.»

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Whitmer’s approach stands in stark contrast to that of other high-profile Democratic governors, many of whom are also seen as potential contenders for the party’s 2028 presidential nomination. But Whitmer faces a more challenging political landscape than leaders such as Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker or California Gov. Gavin Newsom as she represents a state with a divided state legislature and that went for Trump in two of the last three elections.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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‘Homeland would’ve been stolen’: AK Natives sound off on Biden energy bans as Trump officials tour tundra

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FIRST ON FOX: Alaska Natives and residents of the vast North Slope Borough communities along the Arctic Ocean got a rare chance this week to directly discuss their concerns with White House officials, typically 3,500 miles away in Washington.

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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin joined Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy and local residents in Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) as part of a multi-day visit to the oil and gas fields, workers and neighbors in the frigid but crucial region.

Charles Lampe, a Native resident of Kaktovik – the main remote community within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) a few hundred miles eastward – said until President Donald Trump and the officials assembled in Utqiagvik took office, North Slope residents and their energy development hopes felt besieged by that same far-flung federal government.

Lampe voiced similar concerns to those Fox News Digital had been told in the past by Alaska officials, in that environmental activists in the Lower 48 and federal officials who ideologically align with them have tried speaking for them in opposition to developing ANWR and other sites where none of those same activists live.

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State and federal officials visit the North Slope Borough. (US Dept of Energy & US Dept of Interior)

«There’s one thing that I want to bring up – we were under attack in Kaktovik by environmental groups,» Lampe said.

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«On Day 1, President Trump told the Fish and Wildlife Department to deny their requests. And that was such an amazing thing for us to be able to see. And we were so proud of our president then because he made sure that our ancestral homelands weren’t going to be stolen – and [instead] protected,» Lampe said, as many in the North Slope actually support the development of their Native homelands versus cordoning them off through regulation – as they bring jobs and resources.

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«So I really need to bring back this immense gratitude to President Trump for that action and being able to write something that, if the other guy (Joe Biden and Kamala Harris) would have won, there’s no doubt in my mind that our homeland would have been stolen and there’s nothing we could have done about it,» he said.

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«Trump had the heart and the wherewithal to be able to right this wrong.»

He told Burgum to invite Trump to Kaktovik to see ANWR and its «Section 1002» – the oil and gas development sector – for himself.

Burgum said he believes Trump would be open to the opportunity – and that the president has already pleasantly surprised regional corporate stakeholders with his openness to questions that the oil companies felt loath to even consider asking a president.

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«President Trump does care super deeply about this and at a deep level,» Burgum said, adding the president shocked ConocoPhillips representatives in a recent meeting when he asked what they needed to improve their North Slope operations.

When the company noted improved roads would be helpful, Trump asked rhetorically why a road couldn’t be built, according to Burgum. 

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«[They] were kind of like, ‘Wow, I didn’t know we could ask that.’»

Wright also addressed the Utqiagvik meeting, and added in separate comments that he visited the Prudhoe Bay Discovery Well – a 1960s operation that first opened Alaska to energy development and at one point represented one-quarter of U.S. oil output.

«Unfortunately, the last few decades have seen a long, slow decline of North Slope oil production – not because they’re running out of oil. In fact, there’s an amazing amount of untapped, unproduced oil up here. It’s because of federal regulation, bureaucracy. It’s made it so expensive and difficult to operate,» Wright said.

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He added that with the «Big, Beautiful, Twin Natural Gas Pipeline» ultimately constructed, Alaska could be the key to global energy security by drawing buyers in Korea and Japan away from China.

«It’s great to be part of history again here in the great North Slope oil fields of Alaska,» Wright said.

Dunleavy last week headlined a global sustainable energy conference in Anchorage, which also drew the attention of those same potential stakeholders from Asia.

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Temor entre los hinchas por posibles redadas migratorias durante el Mundial 2026

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Manny Mizael cambió Brasil por Boston hace 27 años, pero su pasión por un equipo de fútbol a casi 8000 kilómetros de distancia, en Río de Janeiro, arde con más fuerza que nunca.

Tanto es así que Mizael ayuda a dirigir un club de aficionados en Massachusetts para el equipo, el Flamengo, uno de los más populares de Brasil. Su grupo organiza regularmente proyecciones de partidos que atraen a cientos de seguidores.

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Pero este año, los grupos de WhatsApp de los aficionados empezaron a encenderse con charlas sobre la represión de la inmigración por parte del gobierno del presidente Donald Trump casi tanto como sobre las victorias más recientes del Flamengo. Los temores eran tan intensos que el grupo suspendió una fiesta para ver un partido en febrero, dijo Mizael, por temor a convertirse en el objetivo de una redada de inmigración. Muchos de los seguidores no son originarios de Estados Unidos y carecen de estatus legal.

“Están agarrando a la gente en la calle y deteniéndola”, dijo Mizael. “Decidimos no hacer el partido porque pensamos que podría arruinar la vida de mucha gente”.

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La cancelación fue un adelanto de cómo las políticas de inmigración del presidente Trump se perfilan para afectar al Mundial del próximo año, el acontecimiento deportivo más visto. Se espera que atraiga a unos 6,5 millones de personas, muchos a Estados Unidos, donde se disputarán la mayoría de los partidos. (Canadá y México son coanfitriones del torneo). Los aficionados suelen hacer todo lo posible para viajar una vez en la vida a la Copa, y gastan años de ahorros o posponen compras importantes, como vivienda, para pagar el viaje.

Donald Trump y Gianni Infantino en la Casa Blanca. Washington, D.C., 6 de mayo de 2025. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura

Para algunos, la posibilidad de ese viaje ya podría estar condenada. Los tiempos de espera para obtener una visa para varios países —entre ellos Colombia, cuyos seguidores suelen asistir en gran cantidad a los Mundiales— se extienden más allá del torneo del próximo verano. Irán, el primer equipo de Asia clasificado para el Mundial, está en la lista de 12 países a los que Trump prohibió la entrada. Hizo una excepción para los atletas y el personal de la Copa y otros acontecimientos deportivos, pero no para los hinchas.

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En los últimos torneos celebrados en Rusia y Qatar, los países anfitriones y la FIFA acordaron un programa de exención de visados para la mayoría de las personas que tuvieran entradas. No se ha establecido nada similar para el próximo verano.

Las duras políticas de inmigración del gobierno de Trump también han afectado a la contratación de personal para la Copa, según dos personas con conocimiento directo del asunto. La FIFA suele emplear a contratistas con experiencia en grandes acontecimientos complejos, como los Juegos Olímpicos, para que ayuden a organizar el torneo. Para la Copa de 2026, ese proceso ha resultado más difícil de lo habitual, incluso el gobierno ha rechazado algunas solicitudes de visado y ha preguntado por qué la FIFA no puede contratar a estadounidenses para el trabajo, según un funcionario del fútbol informado sobre la planificación.

Un portavoz de la FIFA negó que el proceso para obtener visas de trabajo hubiera sido difícil y señaló que la organización contaba con una plantilla de 800 personas en Miami y tenía previsto enviar personal de Europa para ayudar. El portavoz declinó hacer comentarios sobre la posibilidad de que se impidiera a los aficionados de determinados países asistir a la Copa Mundial o sobre los esfuerzos que estaba realizando la FIFA para garantizar que quienes tengan entradas pudieran asistir.

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La FIFA también está organizando un torneo de mil millones de dólares y un mes de duración, que comenzará la semana que viene, llamado Mundial de Clubes, que llevará a Estados Unidos a 32 equipos de clubes, entre ellos el Flamengo. El torneo, el primero de este tipo, es un precursor de la Copa Mundial del próximo verano.

Para el grupo de Mizael, los acontecimientos relacionados con la inmigración han estropeado los planes de lo que habría sido un festival de fútbol en las próximas semanas.

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Se descartaron las fiestas para ver los partidos, así como las conversaciones sobre viajar en grupo a partidos en Filadelfia y Orlando, por temor a que un autobús de migrantes se convirtiera en objetivo. “Eso es algo que no podemos tener en nuestra conciencia”, dijo Mizael.

Quedan miles de asientos sin vender para el torneo de clubes, y los funcionarios de la FIFA atribuyen al menos parte de la escasez a la preocupación de los aficionados por la situación de sus visados, según el funcionario de fútbol y otro funcionario.

Las ventas han sido tan escasas que la FIFA ha bajado los precios en repetidas ocasiones. Los precios en las plataformas de reventa están bajando para el partido inaugural, en el que juega el Inter de Miami, un equipo que agotó las entradas en los estadios de todo el país el año pasado, cuando Lionel Messi se incorporó a su plantilla. Otros factores de la aparente falta de interés son la ausencia de algunos de los equipos más importantes de Europa, los precios iniciales de las entradas y la incertidumbre sobre un nuevo torneo.

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El vocero de la FIFA negó que la venta de entradas fuera “baja” para los aficionados radicados en Estados Unidos, pero no facilitó cifras totales de ventas. Dijo que habían comprado entradas aficionados de más de 130 países.

La Casa Blanca ha mostrado un gran interés por la Copa del año que viene. Trump creó un grupo de trabajo que él mismo preside, y el presidente de la FIFA, Gianni Infantino, apareció en el Despacho Oval, donde el enorme trofeo dorado del torneo de clubes estuvo expuesto durante semanas.

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En una reunión del grupo de trabajo celebrada el mes pasado, el vicepresidente JD Vance dijo que los aficionados podían esperar una “experiencia sin contratiempos” al visitar Estados Unidos y anticipó la llegada de visitantes de unos 100 países.

Sin embargo, también les advirtió de que no se quedaran más tiempo de la cuenta. “Cuando se acabe el tiempo”, dijo, “tendrán que volver a casa”.

(*) Tariq Panja es corresponsal deportivo mundial y se centra en historias en las que el dinero, la geopolítica y el crimen se cruzan con el mundo del deporte.

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Russia launches biggest drone barrage of the Ukraine war, Kyiv says

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Nearly 500 drones and 20 missiles of various types were launched by Russia at Ukraine overnight, marking the biggest barrage of the war, Kyiv said. 

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On Monday, Ukraine’s air force said its air defenses were able to destroy 277 of the 479 drones launched in the darkness and 19 missiles mid-flight. Kyiv claims only 10 drones of missiles hit their target and just one person was injured.

The bombardment targeted mainly central and western areas of Ukraine, they said.

Russia’s aerial attacks usually start late in the evening and end in the morning, as drones are harder to spot in the dark.

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Explosion is seen after Russian air strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, June 6, 2025. (Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia has targeted civilian areas of Ukraine with Shahed drones during the war. The attacks have killed more than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians, according to the United Nations. Russia says it targets only military targets.

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Despite the attack, the Kremlin said on Monday that Russia was still ready to honor agreements with Ukraine on a new prisoner of war exchange and on the repatriation of dead soldiers, despite what it said was Kyiv’s failure to so far honor its side of the bargain.

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An apartment block in the Solomianskyi district is damaged by an overnight Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 6, 2025.

«We have seen and heard a hundred different excuses, justifications and so on, but it is difficult to view them as credible,» Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to Reuters. «The Russian side remains ready to implement the agreements reached in Istanbul.»

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The exchanges were agreed to during a second round of direct peace talks in Istanbul on June 2 and are meant to see a new prisoner of war swap of at least 1,200 people – focusing on the youngest and most severely wounded – as well as the repatriation of thousands of bodies of those killed in the war.

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A Ukrainian doctor treats a soldier injured by shrapnel from Russian explosive drones at a medical stabilisation centre of the 3rd Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, in an undisclosed location near Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, on June 7, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  (FLORENT VERGNES/AFP)

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The return of prisoners of war and the return of the bodies of the dead is one of the few things the two sides have been able to agree on, even as their broader negotiations have failed to get close to ending the war, now in its fourth year.

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