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Trump’s 16th week in office to include WH meeting with Canada, ongoing trade negotiations
President Donald Trump is fresh off his 100th day in office and says his administration has no plans to slow down in the coming weeks, months and years.
«This week, we’re celebrating the most successful first 100 days of any presidential administration in the history of our country. And we’ve been given a lot of credit for that. … But we’re going to do even better as we move along,» Trump said during his commencement address at the University of Alabama on Thursday.
Trump’s 16th week back in the Oval Office is anticipated to include a meeting with Canada’s new leader, ongoing talks to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, and trade negotiations with foreign nations that are expected to continue heating up before the 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs ends in July.
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Canadian PM to visit White House
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Friday he would visit the White House on Tuesday after Carney’s Liberal Party emerged victorious in the nation’s federal election last week to discuss a 25% tariff imposed on goods from the nation sent to the U.S. and Trump’s repeated urging that the U.S. northern neighbor become the «51st state.»
«We are meeting as heads of our government,» Carney said Friday of the upcoming meeting. «I am not pretending those discussions will be easy.»
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Trump added during his meeting with Cabinet members on Thursday that he spoke with Carney after Canada’s election and predicted they would have «a great relationship.»
«He’s going to come to the White House very shortly within the next week or less,» Trump said on Thursday.
Beijing ‘evaluating’ trade negotiation offer
Chinese President Xi Jinping (Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)
The Trump administration has leveled tariffs as high as 145% on Chinese goods as the president looks to bring parity to the nation’s chronic trade deficit with foreign countries. Trump paused his reciprocal tariff plan on dozens of nations in April as countries called on the administration to make trade deals, but he upped the ante on China as the country rebuked Trump’s trade policies with tariffs of its own, including 125% duty taxes on U.S. goods.
China’s Commerce Ministry said on Friday that officials are «evaluating» an offer from the Trump administration to hold trade talks on the 145% U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods, signaling it could be a busy week of discussions if China accepts the offer.
«The U.S. has recently taken the initiative on many occasions to convey information to China through relevant parties, saying it hopes to talk with China,» the statement said, according to Reuters.
TRUMP SAYS HE WILL NOT DROP TARIFFS TO GET CHINA TO NEGOTIATING TABLE
«Attempting to use talks as a pretext to engage in coercion and extortion would not work,» the statement added.
Trump and the administration have previously said they were willing to hold trade negotiations with China, including the president saying on April 8, «We are waiting for their call. It will happen.»
The president said on NBC’s «Meet the Press» on Sunday that he will not drop the tariffs to bring China to the negotiation table.
«They said today they want to talk. Look, China, and I don’t like this, I’m not happy about this: China’s getting killed right now,» Trump told host Kristen Welker. «They’re getting absolutely destroyed. Their factories are closing. Their unemployment is going through the roof. I’m not looking to do that to China now. At the same time, I’m not looking to have China make hundreds of billions of dollars and build more ships and more army tanks and more airplanes.»
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday the Trump administration will take into account China’s lack of compliance with a trade deal from the president’s first term when it finalizes a new trade deal.
«I think we’ll have to take into account that they didn’t adhere to the phase 1 deal, and … I note with great interest that the Biden administration liked the tariffs, but they didn’t enforce the purchase agreements,» Bessent said on Fox News last week.
Meanwhile, Bessent and other administration trade leaders are negotiating with dozens of other nations during the 90-day pause that began on April 9. The pause will sunset in July, meaning officials on U.S. soil and worldwide are working at a breakneck pace to secure such deals within that time frame.
Russia-Ukraine talks continue
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin (Fox News Digital image)
Trump said on «Meet the Press» that he believes he’s closer to ironing out a peace deal after Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned last week it was «critical» to U.S. efforts to secure a peace deal between Russia and its war with neighboring Ukraine.
War has raged between Russia and Ukraine since 2022, with Trump campaigning last year to end the war that he said never would have started if he had been in office after the 2020 election.
«I do believe we’re closer with one party,» Trump said during the interview, «and maybe not as close with the other, but we’ll have to see. I’d like to not say which one we’re closer to, but we did do a deal for the American people.»
Ukraine signed a deal with the U.S. last week allowing access to Ukraine’s rare minerals as it continues to hash out a peace agreement.
TRUMP SAYS HE COULD ‘WALK AWAY’ FROM RUSSIA-UKRAINE TALKS, CITES ‘TREMENDOUS HATRED’ ON BOTH SIDES
«We were able to get rare Earth [minerals]. You know, the Europeans are getting paid back. They have a loan. We didn’t. [Former President Joe] Biden just gave him $350 billion. He has no idea where the money is. … And remember this: This is Biden’s war. This was a war that was never going to happen if I were president. This is a horrible, horrible war,» he continued.
«How long do you give both countries before you’re going to walk away?» Welker asked.
«Well, there will be a time when I will say, ‘OK, keep going, keep being stupid,’» Trump replied.
«Maybe it’s not possible to do,» he added. «There’s tremendous hatred. Just so you understand, Kristen, we’re talking tremendous hatred between these two men, and between … some of the soldiers, frankly, between the generals, they’ve been fighting hard for three years. I think we have a very good chance of doing it.»
State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said on Thursday that Ukraine and Russia need to deliver «concrete ideas» to end the bloodshed or the U.S. will end its involvement in negotiations.
«Now is the time that they need to present and develop concrete ideas about how this conflict is going to end. It’s going to be up to them,» she told reporters last week, adding that the U.S. remains focused on helping secure a peace deal.
National Security Council shake-up
Mike Waltz and President Donald Trump (Reuters)
Trump tapped former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations after Waltz was ousted from the National Security Council office earlier Thursday. The president said Rubio would serve as interim national security advisor, which is reminiscent of former President Richard Nixon tapping Henry Kissinger to simultaneously serve as secretary of state and national security advisor in 1973.
Headlines on the shake-up are expected to continue into this week as Democrats have said they are eager to grill Waltz in a Senate confirmation hearing to serve as the U.N. ambassador, and others said they were unsure how Rubio could serve as both secretary of state and the president’s national security advisor.
TRUMP NOMINATES WALTZ FOR HIGH-LEVEL POST AFTER OUSTING HIM AS NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR
«What worries me about Marco Rubio’s role now is the secretary of state and national security adviser. Both of those jobs are too big for one person. To have both of those jobs, including a bunch of other jobs on the shoulders of Marco Rubio, these are people who actually need sleep, if we are going to stay out of wars and stuff,» Democrat Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes told «Fox News Sunday.»
Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
«I don’t know how anybody could do these two big jobs, and they’re, frankly, very different,» Democrat Virginia Sen. Mark Warner told CNN on Sunday of Rubio wearing two hats for the administration.
Democrats have signaled their eagerness to grill Waltz in his upcoming Senate hearing to serve as U.N. ambassador. The former national security advisor had been at the heart of the Signal chat leak debacle that unfolded in March, when the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine was inadvertently added to a group chat with high-profile Trump officials such as Waltz, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CIA Director John Ratcliffe discussing military strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
«I think there’s obvious questions about the treatment of classified or sensitive information, use of Signal, how the whole episode of Signal unfolded,» Democrat Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said last week, according to the Washington Post. «But I also want to talk about [the] United Nations … [and] how he understands our security, because I think a lot of the moves by the Trump administration have made our nation less secure, not more secure.»
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Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine added that Waltz «should be prepared to answer pointed questions» during the hearing.
Fox News Digital’s Danielle Wallace, Anders Hagstrom and Eric Revell contributed to this report.
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Guerra en Gaza: denuncian que 21 niños murieron de desnutrición o hambre en las últimas 72 horas
Un hospital de Gaza informó este martes que 21 niños murieron de desnutrición o hambre en las últimas 72 horas en el enclave palestino, donde Israel está expandiendo sus operaciones contra Hamas entre una creciente condena internacional.
Los 2,4 millones de habitantes de Gaza se enfrentan a una grave escasez de alimentos y artículos de primera necesidad. Además, para ahondar aún más la crisis humanitaria, los centros de distribución de ayuda humanitaria son atacados regularmente.
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“Veintiún niños han muerto debido a la desnutrición y el hambre en diferentes zonas de la Franja de Gaza (…) durante las últimas 72 horas”, declaró Mohamed Abu Salmiya, director del hospital Al Chifa.
Un importante funcionario de seguridad israelí, citado en forma anónima por The Israel Times, dijo que el ejército no había identificado hambruna en Gaza, aunque afirmó que se deben tomar medidas para “estabilizar la situación humanitaria”.
El funcionario reconoció que hubo una caída significativa en la cantidad de ayuda que llega a los palestinos en la Franja, pero culpó a los organismos de las Naciones Unidas por no recoger y distribuir los alimentos y suministros. The Jerusalen Post, en base a una fuente militar, dijo que grupos de ayuda internacional tienen 950 camiones estacionados en el lado de Gaza de la frontera que no entregaron a los palestinos.
Fuerte condena de la ONU
En tanto, el secretario general de la ONU, Antonio Guterres, condenó el “horror” en Gaza, donde se alcanzó “un nivel de muerte y destrucción sin precedentes en la historia reciente”.
Previamente, el Alto Comisionado de Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos, Volker Türk, acusó al ejército israelí de matar a 1054 personas que esperaban ayuda desde fines de mayo, 766 de ellas “cerca de las instalaciones de la Fundación Humanitaria de Gaza (GHF) y 288 cerca de los convoyes de ayuda de la ONU y otras organizaciones humanitarias”.
Palestinos tratan de obtener alimentos donados en una cocina comunitaria en Khan Yunis, en el sur de la Franja de Gaza, el lunes 2 de junio de 2025. (AP Foto/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Este martes, la Defensa Civil gazatí, en manos de Hamas, anunció que ataques atribuidos a Israel mataron a 15 personas, 13 de ellas en el campamento de Al Shati, en el norte de Gaza, que alberga a miles de desplazados.
El organismo también informó de la muerte de dos personas en Deir el Balah, en el centro del territorio, donde Israel anunció la expansión de sus operaciones y llamó a la población a evacuar.
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El ejército israelí declaró que sus soldados “identificaron disparos en su dirección, en la zona de Deir el-Balah y respondieron al fuego atacando el origen de los disparos.
Según la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Coordinación de Asuntos Humanitarios (OCHA), entre 50.000 y 80.000 personas se encontraban en la zona en ese momento. Casi el 88% de Gaza está hoy bajo orden de evacuación israelí o incluida en una zona militarizada israelí.
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El patriarca latino de Jerusalén, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, dijo que la situación humanitaria en la Franja de Gaza es “moralmente inaceptable”, tras visitar el enclave palestino.
“Vimos hombres esperar durante horas bajo el sol con la esperanza de hacerse con una simple comida”, agregó.
El lunes, 25 países pidieron poner fin a la guerra en el territorio palestino. “La guerra en Gaza debe cesar inmediatamente”, escribieron en un comunicado los ministros de Relaciones Exteriores de 25 naciones, entre ellas el Reino Unido, España, Italia, Portugal, Canadá y Francia.
Los ministros consideraron que “el sufrimiento de los civiles en Gaza ha alcanzado nuevos niveles” y denunciaron “el rechazo del gobierno israelí a proporcionar asistencia humanitaria esencial a la población civil”.
Los países firmantes son: Australia, Austria, Bélgica, Canadá, Dinamarca, Eslovenia, España, Estonia, Finlandia, Francia, Islandia, Irlanda, Italia, Japón, Letonia, Lituania, Luxemburgo, Países Bajos, Nueva Zelanda, Noruega, Polonia, Portugal, Suecia, Suiza y Reino Unido.
La declaración también fue firmada por la comisaria europea de Igualdad, Hadja Lahbib.
(Con información de EFE, AFP y AP)
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Flashback: Biden challenged to take pre-debate drug test in 2024; his son now makes Ambien claim
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Former President Joe Biden’s campaign dodged answering whether the president planned to take performance-enhancing drugs ahead of his debate against President Donald Trump just over a year ago, instead arguing that Trump and his campaign were spreading «desperate, obviously false lies» about the 46th president potentially taking drugs.
About one year after Biden’s ill-fated debate, former first son Hunter Biden claimed in a wild and expansive interview published Monday his dad’s poor debate performance was due to taking Ambien, a sedative-hypnotic typically used to treat insomnia.
«I know exactly what happened in that debate,» Hunter Biden said in the interview. «He flew around the world, basically, the mileage that he could have flown around the world, three times. He’s 81 years old. He’s tired as s—. They give him Ambien to be able to sleep.
«He gets up on the stage, and he looks like he’s a deer in the headlights,» Hunter added. «And it feeds into every f—ing story that anybody wants to tell.»
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About one year after former President Joe Biden’s ill-fated debate, former first son Hunter Biden claimed in an interview published Monday his dad’s poor debate performance was due to him taking the sleep drug Ambien. (Getty)
On June 26, 2024, the day before the debate, Fox News Digital reached out to the Biden campaign inquiring if Biden had any plans to use performance-enhancing drugs for the debate, but staffers twice avoided a direct answer to the question.
At the time, Trump was leading a rising chorus, which included lawmakers, demanding that Biden take a drug test before the showdown. Those advocating a screening suggested Biden may have been motivated by a desire to quell mounting concerns about his mental acuity.
«Donald Trump is so scared of being held accountable for his toxic agenda of attacking reproductive freedom and cutting Social Security that he and his allies are resorting to desperate, obviously false lies,» a Biden campaign spokesperson told Fox News Digital the evening ahead of that 2024 debate.
When asked in a follow-up email for a «yes» or «no» response, the spokesperson said the original statement answered the question.
«The accusation from Trump on drugs is a desperate, obviously false lie,» the response said.
Ambien is a sedative that slows brain activity to help a person fall asleep and would not act as a performance-enhancing supplement for a public debate.
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President Joe Biden speaks during the consequential debate June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Joe Biden spent days preparing for the debate at Camp David in Maryland with videos of his public gaffes and missteps haunting the campaign in the days leading up to the debate. Trump, meanwhile, led the charge in demanding Biden take a drug test to prove he was not taking performance-enhancing supplements ahead of the highly anticipated event.
«DRUG TEST FOR CROOKED JOE BIDEN??? I WOULD, ALSO, IMMEDIATELY AGREE TO ONE!!!» Trump posted to Truth Social in the lead-up to the debate.
Fox News Digital also reached out to the White House and Trump campaign asking if Biden or Trump, respectively, planned to take performance-enhancing drugs ahead of the debate. The Biden White House did not respond at the time, while the Trump campaign responded.
«Absolutely not,» then-campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital at the time.
«President Trump has naturally elite stamina and doesn’t need performance-enhancing drugs, unlike Joe Biden, who many are saying will be drugged up for the debate like he was at the State of the Union,» Leavitt said at the time. «President Trump has repeatedly asked Joe Biden to participate in drug testing. What does Team Biden have to hide?»
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Hunter Biden’s recent explosive interview on «Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan,» released on YouTube, fanned the flames of Biden’s presidency and exit from the 2024 federal election amid ongoing accusations that Biden’s mental acuity had cratered during his Oval Office tenure.
Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, and wife Melissa Cohen Biden leave the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building June 7, 2024, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Biden entered the re-election cycle already racked by claims and concerns that his mental acuity had slipped, and he was not mentally fit to continue serving as president, which was underscored by special counsel Robert Hur’s report in February 2024 that rejected criminal charges against Biden for possessing classified materials, saying he was «a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.»
Biden also brushed off accusations he was using any performance-enhancing supplements, including mocking Trump’s challenge that he take a drug test in an X post just before the debate showing him drinking a can of water.
«I don’t know what they’ve got in these performance enhancers, but I’m feeling pretty jacked up. Try it yourselves, folks. See you in a bit,» the X post said, accompanied by a photo of Biden drinking a can of water that said «Get real, Jack. It’s just water.»
The debate was an abject failure for Biden as he stumbled over his responses and appeared to lose his train of thought and slur words at times, opening the floodgates of criticism from longtime Democratic allies who called on Biden to drop out of the race and pass the torch to a younger generation to take on Trump.
A handful of former President Barack Obama’s allies and former advisors publicly helped lead the charge in calling on Biden to drop out of the 2024 race earlier in the summer, including David Axelrod, who said Biden was «not winning this race;» George Clooney, who called on the president to quit in a bombshell op-ed; and Jon Favreau, who served as former director of speech writing for Obama.
BIDEN CAMP DODGES ANSWERING IF PRESIDENT PLANS TO USE PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS BEFORE DEBATE
Hunter Biden unleashed on the Democrats who turned their backs on his dad as he attempted to recover from the debate performance in his expletive-riddled interview Monday.
«F‑‑- you. What do you have to do with f‑‑‑ing anything? Why do I have to f‑‑‑ing listen to you? What right do you have to step on a man who’s given 52 years of his f‑‑‑ing life to the service of this country,» Hunter Biden said of Clooney.
President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
«They’re all going to insert their judgment over a man who has figured out, unlike anybody else, how to get elected to the United States Senate over seven times … and how to garner more votes than any president that has ever won, and they’re going to replace their judgment for his?» he added, assailing other Biden allies who encouraged Joe Biden to drop out of the race.
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Fox News Digital reached out to the former president’s office regarding Hunter Biden’s remarks and the campaign’s previous statements when asked about whether Biden would use performance-enhancing drugs ahead of the 2024 debate, but did not immediately receive a reply.
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