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Trump threatens to acquire Canada, Greenland while next to NATO chief - National

Send this page to someone via email. U.S. President Donald Trump repeated his frequently-voiced desire to acquire Canada and Greenland on Thursday — this time with the leader of NATO sitting next to him.

“I think it will happen,” Trump said when asked by a reporter about the U.S. taking over Greenland during an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

Asked about tariffs on Canada, Trump spoke of his grievances with Canadian trade and returned to his call to make Canada the 51st U.S. state.

“If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it, between Canada and the U.S., just a straight artificial line.

Rutte said nothing about the possibility of the U.S. threatening the border of a founding NATO member.

Greenland is a part of Denmark, another NATO ally, but is an autonomous territory with its own government.

Trump has said he wants the NATO defence spending target increased to five per cent of GDP, a level no member — including the U.S. — currently meets. »

Baby wombat-snatching US influencer at risk of losing Australian visa

Authored by theguardian.com

A US hunting influencer who shared video of herself snatching a baby wombat away from its mother is being investigated for a potential breach of her Australian visa.

Burke said the home affairs department was “working through the conditions” on Jones’ visa to determine “whether immigration law has been breached”.

“I caught a baby wombat,” Jones says to the camera as the joey hisses and screeches. »

Walz: ‘We wouldn’t be in this mess if we had won the election’

Authored by thehill.com

We wouldn’t be in this mess if we had won the election, and we didn’t,” Walz said in an interview Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In” with Chris Hayes.

He encouraged fellow Democrats to capitalize on Trump’s unpopular policies and make clear that Democrats offer a better solution.

I believe that systems work for a long time, that you don’t have to break them,” Walz said. »

Oregon Senate passes bill to raise minimum marriage age to 18

Authored by katu.com

The Oregon Senate has passed Senate Bill 548, a bipartisan effort to raise the minimum marriage age to 18, in a move aimed at protecting young Oregonians.

Sen. Sollman urged her colleagues to support the bill, saying, "Senate Bill 548 is a bipartisan and bicameral solution to help protect children of Oregon, and I urge an aye vote.".

The bill passed with a constitutional majority, reflecting a significant step towards aligning Oregon's marriage laws with international human rights standards. »

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to end birthright citizenship

Authored by cnn.com

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court in a series of emergency appeals Thursday to allow him to move forward with plans to end birthright citizenship, elevating a fringe legal theory that several lower courts have resoundingly rejected.

A landmark Supreme Court precedent from 1898 affirmed that reading of the law, and the modern court hasn’t signaled any desire to revisit that holding.

The Supreme Court is likely to set a briefing schedule that will require those who challenged the Trump administration to respond quickly, potentially within several days. »