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President Trump said Friday it was “fine” that Canada excluded the U.S. from its ceremony marking the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge after the Trump administration threatened a 50 percent tariff on certain Canadian imports.

“Canada disinvited the United States of America to the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge, which is fine, considering they are paying substantial TARIFFS to the United States,” he wrote on Truth Social.

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House Republicans are urging the Senate to move aggressively on the reconciliation framework they passed Wednesday, which tees up the party’s likely last chance to advance several key priorities before Congress becomes consumed by a September government funding fight and the 2026 midterm elections.

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Republican defense hawks are urging President Trump to unleash major combat operations as the commander in chief weighs a “massive attack” on Iran. 

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U.S. forces have launched strikes against Iran for nearly two weeks straight, and Republican defense hawks are urging President Trump to unleash major combat operations. He and his national security team met at the White House on Friday afternoon about the conflict with Iran, a source told The Hill.

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Federal health officials have linked cyclospora outbreaks in four additional states to the same iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico that has sickened thousands of people in the Midwest. 

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South Carolina is expected to be the first state in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary contest after the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) rules and bylaws committee voted Friday to approve it as the initial battleground.

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Tech mogul Elon Musk reflected on his brief venture into politics in a new interview released Thursday, suggesting he “got carried away.”

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Washington and the technology industry are on high alert this week after OpenAI revealed that some of its AI agents went rogue and hacked into the systems of technology startup Hugging Face. 

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