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- United States President Donald Trump has addressed a joint session of Congress for the first time during his second term, taking a victory lap after 43 days back in office.
- But Democrats greeted his speech with heckling from the audience, with Representative Al Green escorted from the chamber at Speaker Mike Johnson’s order.
- Trump’s speech comes on the first day of sweeping 25-percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, prompting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to accuse Trump of launching a “trade war that will first and foremost harm American families”.
- Trump read aloud a conciliatory letter from Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after he paused all military aid for Ukraine on Monday, following an Oval Office spat last week.