Trump officials set to meet with Chinese counterparts, the first major talks amid trade war. Here’s how it unfolded.

By the Associated Press

The vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board has been abruptly removed from his position, the White House confirmed Tuesday, a rare move that comes as the agency investigates more than 1,000 cases.

The Trump administration removed ​​Alvin Brown a little more than a year after he was sworn in. The White House didn’t say why he was removed.

The decision comes as NTSB investigates nearly 1,250 active cases across the U.S., while supporting more than 160 foreign investigations, according to March testimony by NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy.

The investigations include the deadly midair collision between a passenger jet and Army helicopter in Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people in January and the medical transport plane that plummeted into a Philadelphia neighborhood in January, killing eight people.

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By the Associated Press

President Trump plans to announce while on his trip to Saudi Arabia next week that the U.S. will now refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Arab nations have pushed for a change to the geographic name of the body of water off the southern coast of Iran, while Iran has maintained its historic ties to the gulf.

The U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. The White House and National Security Council didn’t immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

The move comes several months after Trump said the U.S. would refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

By Brooke Hauser, Globe Staff

What would Harvard University be without the money the federal government has provided over decades to underwrite its vast research initiatives?

That’s the existential, $9 billion question facing the Harvard community after the Trump administration’s most recent threat in its confrontation with the university: Harvard will not receive any new federal research grants unless and until it complies with White House demands.

This is the second disruption to federally funded research work at Harvard in as many months, following a freeze of $2.2 billion in April after the university said it would not agree to a raft of White House demands on everything from hiring and admissions practices to disciplinary matters involving international students.

“Instead of working on things that had previously been funded, now it’s a question of, OK, we need to find money to fund that same research for the second time,” said Adam Sychla, a Harvard Medical School postdoctoral research fellow working on a team developing programmable treatments for everything from cancer to the common cold.

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By the New York Times

A group of immigration nonprofits have sued the Trump administration over the cancellation of a program that provides legal representation to immigrants with mental disabilities.

The National Qualified Representative Program was created under the Obama administration, and Judge Dolly M. Gee of the Central District of California ultimately ruled that mentally disabled immigrants in a class-action lawsuit were entitled to legal representation.

In the 38-page suit, nonprofits said canceling the program would be devastating, that before the program existed, “mentally incompetent individuals who were U.S. citizens were wrongly deported because they did not have access to counsel and were therefore effectively unable to prove their citizenship. Others languished in immigration detention for years on end because there was no mechanism to provide them with a meaningful hearing process.”

By the Associated Press

The gifts Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney brought for the U.S. president included a Kananaskis Country Golf Course hat and some other golf gear from the resort, where Canada is set to host a G7 meeting in June.

Carney says he looks forward to welcoming Trump at the G7 summit.

By the Associated Press

District Court Judges Alvin K. Hellerstein in New York and Charlotte N. Sweeney in Denver both ruled Tuesday that Trump improperly invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. They said he couldn’t use the provision to designate a Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, as a foreign invader.

“TdA may well be engaged in narcotics trafficking, but that is a criminal matter, not an invasion or predatory incursion,” Hellerstein wrote.

The judges barred deportations from New York and Colorado under the provision. Another federal judge in South Texas prohibited removals from that area last week in a similar ruling.

By the Associated Press

Top U.S. officials are set to meet with a high-level Chinese delegation this weekend in Switzerland, the administration announced Tuesday.

It’s the first major talks between the two nations since Trump sparked a trade war between the two powers with stiff tariffs on imports.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and trade representative Jamieson Greer will meet with their counterparts in Geneva in the most-senior known conversations between the countries in months. It comes amid growing U.S. market worry over the impact of the tariffs on the prices and supply of consumer goods.

Trump had claimed previously that the U.S. and China were holding negotiations on lowering tariffs, which Beijing has denied, saying Trump must first lower his stiff tariffs.

By the Associated Press

Vice President JD Vance appeared with Trump and other top administration officials at a White House event trumpeting the U.S. co-hosting the 2026 World Cup.

After Trump suggested foreigners traveling to the U.S. would “have a seamless experience during every part of their visit,” Vance added, “Of course everybody is welcome to come and see this incredible event.”

But then the vice president added, “I know we’ll have visitors probably from close to 100 countries. We want them to come. We want them to celebrate. We want them to watch the game. But, when the time is up, they’ll have to go home. Otherwise, they’ll have to talk to Secretary Noem.”

That was a reference to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who also attended the event and has led the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy added, “Go on a road trip, see America, don’t overstay your visa.”

By the Associated Press

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will travel to Switzerland Thursday for meetings with Swiss officials, according to a Treasury statement.

Treasury states that Bessent will also meet with China’s lead representative on economic matters. Earlier in the day he testified on Capitol Hill to a House committee that the US had not yet begun negotiations on tariffs with China.

“I look forward to productive talks as we work towards rebalancing the international economic system towards better serving the interests of the United States,” Bessent said.

By the Associated Press

Asked about reports that Trump’s team was reaching a deal that would limit the tariffs on goods from the United Kingdom, the president showed no awareness of the potential terms.

“They’re offering us concessions?” Trump told reporters. “I hope so. ... They do want to make a deal very badly.”

Trump has previously said that his leverage in talks would be U.S. consumers, but he also appeared to suggest on Tuesday that foreign countries would also start buying more American-made goods.

“I think that the United Kingdom, like every other country, they want to, they want to be, go shopping in the United States of America.”

By the Associated Press

When asked about the airstrikes India launched in Pakistani-controlled territory, Trump said he’d just heard about it an said, “It’s a shame.”

“I guess people knew something was going to happen based on a little bit of the past,” Trump said. “They’ve been fighting for a long time. They’ve been fighting for many, many decades. And centuries, actually, if you really think about it.”

He added: “I just hope it ends very quickly.”

By the Associated Press

“As of today, it’s 21, three have died,” Trump said of the hostages being held by Hamas. He added, “There’s 21 plus a lot of dead bodies” and that authorities were working to recover the remains of the deceased.

The president’s comments came as Israel approved plans on Monday to seize the Gaza Strip and to stay in the Palestinian territory for an unspecified amount of time.

If implemented, the move would vastly expand Israel’s operations there and likely draw fierce international opposition.

By the Associated Press

Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Vice President JD Vance participated in an Oval Office swearing-in ceremony for Witkoff, who is a senior adviser and special envoy for the president.

Witkoff, a lawyer and friend of Trump’s, was initially brought in to help the administration on Middle East matters. But Witkoff’s portfolio has expanded to helping end the Russia-Ukraine war as well as negotiating the release of hostages in Gaza and the return of a detained American.

By the Associated Press

Trump is noting that the G7, a group of the world’s leading industrialized democracies, used to be the G8 before Russia’s membership was revoked.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump noted that the US will be hosting an upcoming G7 summit. He referenced Russia’s previous involvement in the group, and added that then-President Barack Obama was among the world leaders that pushed to remove the country.

Trump said he thought that decision was a “very foolish” because “it’s a group of people sitting around a table. I‘ve done it many times with them and you get to know it.”

He even suggested that excluding Russia helped sparked its invasion of Ukraine, saying, “because of that, maybe, millions of people are dying.”

But when asked if the US would push to invite Russia when it hots the G7, Trump responded, “No, it’s not good timing.”

By the Associated Press

Trump says he has yet to give Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney the same “governor” nickname that he placed on Justin Trudeau, Carney’s predecessor. The nickname was a slight meant to imply that Canada’s leader would eventually be just one of many US governors.

“As far as calling him Gov. Carney, no, I haven’t done that yet, and maybe I won’t,” Trump said. “I did have a lot of fun with Trudeau. But I think this is, this is a big step. It’s a good step up for Canada.”

Trump added that the Tuesday meeting with Carney had been “great” and that he thought the ongoing relationship would be “strong.”

By the Associated Press

In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the bipartisan trio of Sens. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, expressed “deep concerns” over “federal actions that diminish the quality of and access to health care” at the Indian Health Service.

The senators said that while the IHS was itself exempt from a federal hiring freeze, it has impacted other positions that help the service provide health care and “continues to exacerbate existing clinical staffing issues.” Last month, President Trump extended the hiring freeze to July.

The group also said it seems HHS was not taking substantial input from tribes on its actions, including the shifting of staff and services.

The three lawmakers called on Kennedy to “reevaluate all actions that jeopardize delivery of any health care services for American Indians and Alaska Natives.”

Kennedy met with tribal leaders last month and called the service “a top priority.”

By the Associated Press

Trump says fans traveling from abroad for the World Cup will have a “seamless experience,” despite skepticism from some around the globe that they may not be welcome in the US.

The president said his government will ensure that “those traveling to America to watch the competition have a seamless experience during every part of their visit.” Some overseas travelers have scrapped plans to come to the US given the Trump administration’s aggressive policies toward its allies and other nations.

But Trump insisted during a White House event celebrating the 2026 World Cup — which will be played in the US, Canada and Mexico — that officials were working “to make the World Cup an unprecedented success.”

He added that the 2026 World Cup will be “the best-run soccer tournament the world has ever seen.”

By the Associated Press

The US-China Business Council wrote to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to express its deep concern over the White House’s plan to review whether to suspend or end a tax treaty with China that has prevented double taxation on US companies.

Should the tax treaty be terminated, US companies doing business in China could face potentially higher tax rates and greater compliance burden in China, lessening or eliminating profits, the council wrote in the letter dated May 1. Ending the tax treaty also would disadvantage US companies competing with others in the Chinese market, the council wrote.

A Feb. 21 White House memo said the US would “use all necessary legal instruments to further deter United States persons from investing in” China’s military-industrial sector.

By the Associated Press

A newly declassified US intelligence assessment finds no evidence of coordination between the Tren de Aragua gang and senior Venezuelan officials.

The redacted memo contradicts statements that the Trump administration has used to justify invoking the Alien Enemies Act and deporting Venezuelan immigrants it has labeled gang members.

“While Venezuela’s permissive environment enables TDA to operate, the Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States,” the memo says.

A spokesperson for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard rejected suggestions that the assessment contradicted Trump and noted the assessment did find links between the gang and mid- to lower-level Venezuelan officials.

By the Associated Press

Carney says he feels better about his country’s relations with the United States after meeting with Trump, but he didn’t see one meeting resolving the issues set off by Trump’s tariff hikes.

“I wouldn’t have expected white smoke coming out of this meeting,” Carney told reporters after the Tuesday meeting, referencing the signal that a new pope has been selected.

Asked whether Carney had asked Trump to stop calling Canada the 51st US state, Carney replied, “Yes, today.” As to whether Trump would stop the rhetoric, Carney said, “I don’t know. He’s the president. He’s his own person.”

By the Associated Press

President Trump created the task force to prepare for the 2026 World Cup, which will bring the globe’s premier soccer tournament to North America at a time when his on-again, off-again tariffs have ratcheted up tensions across the continent.

The task force, which Trump will chair, will coordinate the federal government’s security and planning for the tournament, which is expected to draw millions of tourists to the United States, Canada and Mexico.

The 48-team tournament will pose challenges to the federal government when it comes to awarding visas to the players, officials and more than a million fans expected to visit.

By the Associated Press

Asked about his at-times-uncomfortable body language during his meeting with Trump, Carney said: “I’m glad that you couldn’t tell what was going through my mind.”

Carney at times appeared to be looking at the floor and occasionally struggled to get a word in during his Oval Office meeting with Trump — even sometimes raising his hand.

Asked about that by reporters afterward, the prime minister said, “I’ve been careful always to distinguish between wish and reality.”

Carney noted that Trump again referenced the idea that Canada could somehow become the 51st US state. Carney said afterward he personally made it clear Canada wasn’t for sale and said it was “never going to happen.”

“I look forward and not back, and I think we established a good basis today,” Carney said.

By Alexa Gagosz and Steph Machado, Globe Staff

Brown University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and 10 other universities filed a lawsuit this week against the National Science Foundation seeking to stop hundreds of millions in indirect cuts for research funded by the federal government.

In the 2024 fiscal year, MIT received $97 million in funding from NSF for “performing sponsored research under grants and cooperative agreements,” according to the complaint filed in US District Court in Massachusetts on Monday. During that same time period, Brown expended $34.4 million in grants from NSF to support nearly 250 projects.

These indirect costs help pay for administrative functions, according to the plaintiffs.

The suit was also filed alongside the Association of American Universities, the American Council on Education, and the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities.

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By the Associated Press

In comments to reporters at the Canadian embassy in Washington after the closed-door meetings, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday’s talks “marked the end of the beginning of the US and Canada redefining” their joint cooperative relationship.

The prime minister said “now is the time to build” both at home and overseas, including with the US.

By the Associated Press

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the administration from dramatically shrinking the agencies, which fund libraries across the US, settle labor disputes with public sector workers and support state business contracting programs.

US District Judge John McConnell Jr. in Rhode Island said Trump cannot unilaterally end the funding and programs for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Minority Business Development Agency and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. All three agencies were established by Congress.

Trump’s March 14 executive order directing them to cut as many staffers and programs as legally possible was “arbitrary and capricious,” McConnell wrote in Tuesday’s order.

“It also disregards the fundamental constitutional role of each of the branches of our federal government; specifically, it ignores the unshakable principles that Congress makes the law and appropriates funds, and the Executive implements the law Congress enacted and spends the funds Congress appropriated.”

Twenty-one states sued over the executive order.

By the Associated Press

A retired US brigadier general who failed to get through the confirmation process in the first Trump administration got renewed scrutiny for his political and anti-Islamic social media posts during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday.

Anthony Tata, a staunch supporter of the president, has been nominated to become the defense undersecretary for personnel. He was criticized for tweets in 2018 calling Islam the “most oppressive violent religion I know of,” and calling former President Barack Obama a “terrorist leader” and referring to him as Muslim. The tweets were later taken down.

By the Associated Press

The president’s feud with America’s elite universities is lending momentum to Republicans on Capitol Hill who want to increase a tax on wealthy college endowments by tenfold or more.

House Republicans already were considering a hike in the tax on college endowments’ earnings from 1.4 percent to 14 percent as part of Trump’s tax bill. As the president raises the stakes in his fight with Harvard, Columbia and other Ivy League schools, lawmakers are floating raising the rate as high as 21 percent in line with the corporate tax rate. It appears no decisions have been made.

By the Associated Press

The White House confirmed in a statement that a review of Smithsonian properties is underway after an executive order calling for the removal of “improper ideology.”

“We are undertaking a comprehensive review of the Smithsonian museums to assess alignment with the directives outlined in the executive order,” Lindsey Halligan, a special assistant to the president, said in a statement. “We are committed to transparency and will share updates as the review progresses.”

Officials did not elaborate on the details of how the review is being carried out.

A pastor and veteran of the Civil Rights movement who loaned books to the museum told The Associated Press that his items would be reviewed by a panel to determine whether they will remain at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

By the Associated Press

Dr. Vinay Prasad, a prominent critic of the pharmaceutical industry and the Food and Drug Administration, has been named to oversee the health agency’s program for vaccines and biotech drugs.

FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary announced the appointment Tuesday in a message to agency staff, praising Prasad’s “long and distinguished history in medicine.”

Prasad is the latest in a series of medical contrarians and critics of COVID-19 measures to join the federal government under President Trump.

Unlike political roles such as FDA commissioner, the job Prasad is stepping into has traditionally been held by an FDA career scientist. His appointment raises new questions about whether vaccines and other new therapies will face additional scrutiny from regulators.

Prasad replaces Dr. Peter Marks, FDA’s longtime vaccine chief who resigned in March after clashing with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over concerns about the safety of vaccinations.

By the Associated Press

The Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a ban on transgender people in the military, while legal challenges proceed.

The court acted in the dispute over a policy that presumptively disqualifies transgender people from military service.

The court’s three liberal justices said they would have kept the policy on hold.

Just after beginning his second term in January, Trump moved aggressively to roll back the rights of transgender people. Among the Republican president’s actions was an executive order that claims the sexual identity of transgender service members “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life,” and is harmful to military readiness.

By the Associated Press

Rwanda drew international attention, and some outrage, by agreeing to take in Britain’s rejected asylum-seekers in a plan that collapsed last year. Now Rwanda says it is talking with the Trump administration about a similar idea — and it might find more success.

The negotiations mark an expansion in US efforts to deport people to countries other than their own. It has sent hundreds of Venezuelans and others to Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Panama but has yet to announce any major deals with governments in Africa, Asia, or Europe.

Rwanda has argued that despite being one of Africa’s most densely populated countries, it has space to help alleviate what many countries in Europe — and the United States — consider to be a growing problem with unwanted migrants.

By the Associated Press

The US trade deficit soared to a record $140.5 billion in March as consumers and businesses alike tried to get ahead of the president’s latest and most sweeping tariffs, with federal data showing an enormous stockpiling of pharmaceutical products.

The deficit — which measures the gap between the value of goods and services the US sells abroad against what it buys — has roughly doubled over the last year. In March 2024, Commerce Department records show, that gap was just under $68.6 billion.

According to federal data released today, exports for goods and services totaled about $278.5 billion in March, while imports climbed to nearly $419 billion. That’s up $0.5 billion and $17.8 billion, respectively, from February trade.

Consumer goods led the imports surge — increasing by $22.5 billion in March. And pharma products in particular climbed $20.9 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis noted, signaling fears about future levies.

By the Associated Press

Republican Senator Thom Tillis says he has told the White House he will not support Ed Martin, Trump’s pick for top federal prosecutor in Washington, stalling the nomination in the Senate weeks before the temporary appointment expires.

The North Carolina Republican told reporters Tuesday that he met with Martin and opposes the nomination because of his defense of rioters who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Martin, a leading figure in Trump’s campaign to overturn the 2020 election, spoke at a rally on the eve of the violent riot and represented defendants who were prosecuted for the attack.

“We have to be very, very clear that what happened on Jan. 6th was wrong,” Tillis said. “It was not prompted. It was not prompted or created by other people to put those people in trouble. They made a stupid decision, and they disgraced the United States by absolutely destroying the Capitol.”

By Jim Puzzanghera, Globe Staff

Defending his tariffs, Trump boasted about “trillions of dollars” in private investment pouring into the United States since his second term began.

“The biggest investment ever made in the United States is being made right now, trillions of dollars,” he said Tuesday during his Oval Office meeting with new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Trump was highlighting a White House talking points about his first 100 days in office: a list of more than 50 announcements by private companies pledging to invest more than $5 trillion in the United States. Without any evidence, Trump on Tuesday estimated the total could be as much as $9 trillion so far.

But it’s not as impressive as it seems, and not all Trump’s doing.

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By the Associated Press

Trump used the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 for only the fourth time in history, declaring that a Venezuelan gang had invaded the United States and its alleged members could be deported without regular legal process.

A Trump-appointed judge in Texas last week ruled the act can’t be used against a gang. On Tuesday, District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein in New York came to the same conclusion.

The gang, Hellerstein wrote, “may well be engaged in narcotics trafficking, but that is a criminal matter, not an invasion or predatory incursion.”

By the Associated Press

The appearance with Carney grew increasingly uncomfortable as it continued, with Trump repeatedly asserting that the United States has been “subsidizing Canada.”

But the meeting never devolved like an earlier encounter with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“We had another little blow up with someone else,” Trump said. This is a very friendly conversation.”

By the Associated Press

As Trump went on a long aside about former President Barack Obama’s presidential library and California water issues before veering back to trade, Carney kept trying to get a word in, raising his hand about half a dozen times to try to interject.

Trump kept talking as reporters fired questions, holding forth with extended answers.

When the Canadian leader finally got to speak, he addressed Trump’s repeated needling about making Canada a 51st U.S. state and said, “Respectfully, Canadians’ view on this is not going to change.”

By the Associated Press

Trump continued his tough talk on tariffs, saying other countries need to deal with the United States.

“They want a piece of our market,” he said. “We don’t care about their market.”

He also said that other nations “think of us as a super luxury store, a store that has the goods.”

By the Associated Press

The president didn’t offer details but asserted that the Chinese are not doing business and that ships full of goods from China are turning around the Pacific Ocean.

By the Associated Press

Trump had a lot of praise for Carney, despite the president’s desire to make Canada the 51st state in the US.

He complimented Carney on winning election and said Carney had helped himself with the debate.

“I think Canada chose a very talented person, a very good person,” Trump said.

At another point, when asked concessions he wants from Canada, Trump replied, “friendship.”

And at still another point in the Oval Office meeting, Trump said: “I love Canada.”

Carney opened by saying, “Mr. President, I’m on the edge of my seat.”

By the Associated Press

Trump said he was still interested in making Canada the 51st state, although he admitted “it takes two to tango.”

“It would really be a wonderful marriage,” the president said.

Carney responded by telling Trump that “as you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale.”

The White House and Buckingham Palace aren’t, he said, and Canada is “not for sale, it won’t be for sale, ever.”

“Never say never,” Trump said. Carney smiled and mouthed “never, never, never.”

By the Associated Press

The president told reporters that he will make his mystery announcement Thursday or Friday before his trip to the Middle East next week, though it wasn’t clear if the announcement was related to the trip.

Trump wouldn’t say what the announcement was about but said it will be “one of the most important announcements” that have been made in many years “about a certain subject.”

By the Associated Press

Trump says he’s calling off any more air strikes against Yemen’s Houthis, saying the rebel faction has ‘capitulated’ and doesn’t want to fight anymore.

In March, Trump’s administration launched strikes against Houthis rebels. But he told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, “We will stop the bombings. They have capitulated but more importantly, we will take their word.”

The president added, “I think that’s very positive. They were knocking out a lot of ships.”

By John R. Element, Globe Staff

Judge Barrington D. Parker pushed Drew Ensign, deputy assistant attorney general, to declare whether the administration believes Öztürk and Mahdawi are right when they claim they are being punished for speaking out about the Gaza war on their respective campuses last year.

“Does the government contest that the speech in both cases was protected speech?” Parker asked Ensign.

“We have not taken a position on that,’’ he replied.

“Help my thinking along, take a position,” the judge asked.

“Your honor, I don’t have authority to take a position on that right now,” he said.

The administration argues federal law stripped federal court judges from having a substantive role in removal and deportation hearings.

By the Associated Press

Trump graciously welcomed Carney to the Oval Office, praising him as “a very talented person, a very good person.”

The US leader said Carney’s comeback victory in Canada’s recent election was “maybe even greater than mine.”

Trump also gestured to the upgrades that he’s made to the Oval Office, saying it was renovated with “great love and 24 karat gold — that always helps too.”

By the Associated Press

Carney received a handshake and a couple of shoulder pats from the US president.

Trump then turned toward the news media and did a fist pump, which Carney then emulated with a fist pump of his own.

The two leaders then entered the White House without exchanging any words for the gathered reporters.

Before Carney’s arrival, Trump expressed doubts on social media about the benefits of an economic relationship with Canada.

It’s a position that defies the underlying economic data as the United States depends on oil produced in Canada, in addition to an array of other goods that cross border trade makes more affordable in ways that benefit growth.

By the Associated Press

Just before meeting Carney, Trump posted on social media that the US doesn’t need autos, energy, lumber or “ANYTHING” from the United States’ northern neighbor.

“I very much want to work with him, but cannot understand one simple TRUTH — Why is America subsidizing Canada by $200 Billion Dollars a year, in addition to giving them FREE Military Protection, and many other things?” Trump posted on Truth Social.

While Trump said he still welcomes Canada’s friendship and hopes to maintain it, he’s indicating despite economic data to the contrary that the United States would be fine without Canada.

“The Prime Minister will be arriving shortly and that will be, most likely, my only question of consequence,” Trump posted.

By the Associated Press

Kristi Noem told a Congressional panel that travelers who miss Wednesday’s deadline to get the more secure ID cards should be prepared for extra scrutiny, but “we will make sure it’s as seamless as possible.”

Noem said 81% of travelers already have IDs that comply, and passports and tribal identification will be accepted at checkpoints.

Travelers who aren’t REAL ID compliant “may be diverted to a different line, have an extra step,” 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.

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By John R. Element, Globe Staff

The hearings before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ended after about 90 minutes of oral arguments from the government and defense lawyers for Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi.

The judges did not rule from the bench but said they were taking the cases under advisement.

By the Associated Press

A Republican member of Congress says there’s “strong bipartisan support” for a program designed to help communities protect against natural disasters and climate change.

The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program was eliminated by the Trump administration in April.

Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a hearing Tuesday that the BRIC program has been “extraordinarily helpful.” He said he wants to know more about the department’s plans to “reform those grants.”

By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff

The Trump administration says it doesn’t have the equipment at its facility in St. Albans, Vermont, that would allow Öztürk and Mahdawi to appear by Zoom for immigration court hearings held in Louisiana.

“We’ve identified some operational harms that would come from that, and those would also create irrecoverable costs,” Ensign said without saying what the “operational harms” he was speaking about.

One judge was not impressed.

“It seems certainly possible in the ordinary world that [Mahdawi] would be able to participate in the actual removal proceedings remotely from Vermont,” the judge said. “What more is there than just setting up a Zoom computer in St. Albans, Vermont? Is that the operational cost the government’s concerned about?”

Ensign cited “operational challenges” in reply.

By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff

Öztürk’s attorney Esha Bhandari told the judges that District Court Judge William K. Sessions III concluded he needed Öztürk to be in Vermont so the case can be properly resolved.

“What the [Sessions] order does is says she has raised a claim of unlawful detention,” she said. “Obviously, the government has no discretion to detain someone unlawfully, and it follows [the administration] doesn’t have any discretion to detain her unlawfully in a location of its choice.”

Instead, she said, the administration must defend its stand in court.

Due to a reporting error, the name of Rümeysa Öztürk’s attorney in today’s hearing was misstated. The attorney’s name is Esha Bhandari of the American Civil Liberties Union.

By the Associated Press

Artificial intelligence mania is losing more steam and more companies are scrubbing forecasts amid Trump’s tariffs uncertainty.

The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq composite were down more than 1 percent in morning trading. Palantir Technologies, which offers an AI platform for customers, was falling 13.5 percent, and Nvidia was down 2.4 percent.

• CEO Linda Rendle said Clorox, down 5.3 percent, is seeing shoppers change behavior and expects slowdowns to continue
• DoorDash fell 8.5 percent after reporting weaker-than-expected revenue
• Toymaker Mattel was swinging between losses and gains after “pausing” financial forecasts, saying the “evolving US tariff landscape” makes it too hard to predict this year’s gift-buying
• Ford Motor is expecting to take a $1.5 billion hit and joined a lengthening list of companies cancelling forecasts.

By The New York Times

Boatloads of tourists traipsed around Alcatraz Island on Monday morning and peered into tiny prison cells, learning about the most notorious inmates who stayed there -- and the ones who tried to escape.

The tour was standard at the revered San Francisco attraction, save for one topic that simply could not be avoided in the conversations echoing off the old cellblock walls.

Can you believe that President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison?

The morning tour groups were full of international travelers, and many of them had received phone alerts about Trump’s plan or read news reports over breakfast. Some wondered if they might actually be among the last visitors allowed to wander the island. But nobody seemed to think the idea was nearly as brilliant as Trump thought it was.

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By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff

Rümeysa Öztürk’s attorney, Esha Bhandar, said the Tufts doctoral candidate has spent six weeks in ICE custody and she must be released to be in Vermont this week when a bail hearing is set for Friday.

“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking,’’ Khanbabai told the court. “She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed…Neither the law nor the equities favor the government here.’’

She said Öztürk’s goals are to have her case handled in Vermont and that she be released on bail so she can resume her studies at Tufts University while the case makes its was through the courts.

Due to a reporting error, the name of Rümeysa Öztürk’s attorney in today’s hearing was misstated. The attorney’s name is Esha Bhandari of the American Civil Liberties Union.

By the Associated Press

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.

“Is that the message that you want to send to the American public?” the Republican leader was asked.

“We had to disrupt the system and we’re gonna have the desired results,” Johnson responded. “So whatever short term of disruption there is or or discomfort, I think what he’s 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.”

By John Ellement, Globe Staff

One judge discussed the circumstances of how Ozturk was taken into custody in Somerville on March 25 and could not be located by federal prosecutors in Massachusetts or by her lawyers for 24 hours.

She was “seized by people who are not in uniform, and who were masked and hooded - and to all outward appearance they could have been private actors,’’ the judge said. “You’re saying she has no remedy until the government decides to make her whereabouts known?”

Ensign responded by saying the government does not have GPS tracking information available, and that Ozturk’s location was unknown only for a “ short period of time…. The government does not necessarily provide real time GPS data of every single person within its custody. And there are operational security concerns about providing such real time data.”

By the Associated Press

Despicable. Unpatriotic. All wrong. No credibility. Sensationalistic. Disgusting.

All labels that Trump or his loyalists have used to describe media coverage of his administration’s deportation of the asylum-seeker in Maryland to a Salvadoran prison.

With media covering Abrego Garcia’s removal as a test case about the absence of due process, the White House has attacked the man’s character and said he shouldn’t be allowed to stay, said Mark Lukasiewicz, dean of Hofstra University’s communication school.

“The song is the same,” said former CNN Washington bureau chief Frank Sesno, “but the volume is a lot louder.

By the Associated Press

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 “significant milestone.” The course has a panoramic view of offshore wind turbines that Trump has criticized as “unsightly” view-spoilers for his luxury guests.

The other course, Trump Turnberry, hasn’t staged a British Open since 2009, despite Trump’s lobbying.

By John Ellement, Globe Staff

Drew Ensign, deputy assistant attorney general, told the appeals court judges at the start of the Ozturk hearing that there are “actually multiple jurisdictional bars” to federal courts having jurisdiction over any aspect of immigration detention and deportations.

By John Ellement, Globe Staff

A key legal issue facing the appeals court judges in Ozturk and Mahdawi cases is this: Does the ruling known as Mapp vs. Reno - issued by the Second Circuit in 2001 - still give federal judges authority to over habeas petitions in immigration cases? Or has the “jurisdiction stripping” language of federal immigration law eliminated the court’s role, especially when it comes to deciding the validity of the deportation claim?

“By its plain terms, [federal immigration law] eliminates district court jurisdiction over challenges to commencing removal proceedings,” the Trump administration wrote in court papers.

Lawyers for Ozturk and Mahdawi disagree. Judges can step in, they argue, in instances like these where the Trump administration is targeting international students solely for their public statements on the Gaza war.

Ozturk and Mahdawi were both in the US legally and both have never been charged with a crime that could serve as the basis for their deportation, according to judicial rulings and court records.

By John Ellement, Globe Staff

The cases of Tufts University doctoral candidate Rümeysa Öztürk and Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi are being heard Tuesday by a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

The judges assigned to hear both cases, according to court records, are: Judge Alison J. Nathan, appointed by President Biden; Susan L. Carney, appointed by President Obama; and Barrington D. Parker, who was nominated by President George W. Bush.

By the Associated Press

“We’ve seen what he does. We saw what he did with Zelenskyy,” said Robert Bothwell, a professor of Canadian history and international relations at the University of Toronto. “He would sure as hell try to do the same with Carney. It’s not in Carney’s interest. It’s not in Canada’s interest.”

Carney said ahead of Tuesday’s Oval Office encounter that he was elected specifically to “stand up” to the U.S. president, and that he expected they’ll have “difficult” but “constructive” conversations at their White House lunch.

By the Associated Press

According to preliminary plans shared with The Associated Press, the coalition’s 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’t have to publicly disclose all its funding sources.

“In 100 days, Donald Trump put the best-performing economy in the world on a crash course toward recession. Trump’s tariffs — the biggest middle class tax hike in modern history — are making everyday prices skyrocket and wreaking havoc for businesses large and small,” Holt and Bates said in a joint statement. “Next up are grossly inflationary tax cuts for the wealthy that will only saddle future generations with staggering debt.”

By the Associated Press

Trump hosted a closed-door “Crypto & AI Innovators Dinner” 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’s no disclosure requirement for meme coin buyers.

By the Associated Press

Wall Street is pointing toward losses Tuesday as the Federal Reserve navigates the opposing challenges of potential inflation and a softening employment landscape. Futures for the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq all retreated in early trading.

The Fed is expected to hold its benchmark interest rate steady as Trump’s tariffs raise concerns that inflation could surge again. The U.S. economy 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’s too much uncertainty to predict future revenues.

By the Associated Press

Congress is deep into drafting Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up funding to halt migrants, but it’s “bumpy,” one Republican chairman says, with much work ahead to meet House Speaker Mike Johnson’s 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, adding some $350 billion 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 “one big, beautiful bill.”

By Jim Puzzanghera, Globe Staff

Six weeks into his second term, President Trump stood with the chief executive of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to announce another example of what his administration calls “the Trump effect” — trillions of private investment dollars pouring into the United States since his inauguration.

TSMC, the world‘s largest computer chip maker, pledged that day in the White House to spend $100 billion to expand its factory complex in Arizona to a total of six fabrication facilities. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the huge financial commitment was because of Trump’s leadership and tariffs.

“This continues the most incredible path you’ve ever seen of incredible manufacturing coming to America,” Lutnick said at the March 3 event.

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By Emily Spatz, Globe Correspondent

Gianna Hitsos and Patrick Trainor have a lot in common: both are young people with big plans for the future and a passion for music.

And, both have autism.

But while one wants scientists to find a cause and eventually a cure for autism, the other says that’s not only impossible, but unnecessary.

Their opposing perspectives reflect a rift within the community as the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in April launched an undertaking to find a “cause” for autism, which he described as “an individual tragedy.” Some said his remarks were dangerous and offensive, while others felt heard.

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By the Associated Press

Congress is deep into drafting President Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up funding to halt migrants, but it’s “bumpy,” one Republican chairman says, with much work ahead to meet House Speaker Mike Johnson’s 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, adding some $350 billion to the Pentagon and Homeland Security, including money for the U.S-Mexico border wall.

“There are some bumps in the road,” Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri, the Republican chairman of the powerful Ways and Means tax-writing committee, acknowledged on “Fox News Sunday.”

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