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New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has requested his protection minister to evaluation the acquisition of America’s F-35 fighter jet to see if there are different choices “given the changing environment,” a spokesman for the minister said Saturday.

Laurent de Casanove, Defense Minister Bill Blair’s press secretary, said the contract to purchase U.S. military contractor Lockheed Martin’s F-35 currently remains in place and Canada has made a legal commitment of funds for the first 16 aircraft.

But Canada agreed to buy 88 F-35’s two years ago. Carney, who was sworn in on Friday, has asked Blair to work with the military “to determine if the F-35 contract, as it stands, is the best investment for Canada, and if there are other options that could better meet Canada’s needs,” he said.

In Steege’s case she used the money to fund her seminary training.

To make matters worse, Steege was battling advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She was given just six months to live and now lives in hospice care.

“We’re caught in the backwash of what Trump is trying to do with the CFPB… [he] wants to reduce waste fraud and abuse, but there’s no waste fraud and abuse here,” Steege, 83, and her husband, Ted, instructed The Independent.

JD Vance Usha Vance had been booed by a crowd as they attended a live performance on the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C, on Thursday, 13 March.

The US vp and second girl had been jeered as they sat down to observe the National Symphony Orchestra.

The venue has been in upheaval since Donald Trump pressured out its management and took over as chair of the board of trustees. His resolution to take action is a part of his broad marketing campaign in opposition to “woke” tradition.

The Kennedy Center, supported by authorities cash and personal donations, attracts tens of millions of tourists yearly.

Tesla, whose CEO Elon Musk is a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, has wrote a letter to the the U.S. Trade Representative voicing issues over retaliatory tariffs.

In latest weeks, Trump has fueled a commerce battle with Canada, Mexico and China by imposing tariffs on the U.S.’s largest buying and selling companions. These nations have imposed retaliatory tariffs in response.

It’s not instantly clear if Musk, who because the Department of Government Efficiency boss has been finishing up mass layoffs and slashing authorities contracts, was concerned within the letter. The Independent has reached out to Tesla for remark.

In the unsigned letter on Tesla letterhead, dated March 11, the electrical car producer wrote to Ambassador Jamieson Greer about its issues that it might be “exposed” to retaliatory tariffs.

Donald Trump stared down a reporter whose microphone hit him within the face as he spoke to journalists earlier than departing for Mar-a-Lago on Friday, 14 March.

The president was talking about Gaza to a bunch of press at Joint Base Andrews when a increase microphone made contact along with his face.

Mr Trump regarded in the direction of the group of journalists earlier than elevating his eyebrows on the incident.

The Republican remarked, “She just became a big story tonight,” seemingly referring to the reporter.

Donald Trump’s Oval Office assault on Ukraine’s president final month appeared to mark a really public realignment of America’s sympathies – away from Europe and in the direction of Russia in a way that few may have imagined in the course of the Cold War years.

The Republican Party, now dominated by Trump’s “America First” MAGA motion, as soon as thought-about the previous Soviet Union “the evil empire” below Ronald Reagan and relished its collapse.

Today, the GOP stands accused of parroting Vladimir Putin’s rhetoric and a few even refuse to confess the plain indisputable fact that Moscow started the battle by invading its neighbor.

Jimmy Carr has mirrored on the time Elon Musk attended one in all his comedy exhibits with a bunch of closely armed males.

Although he seems to be at odds with some individuals within the comedy world the identical can’t be stated for Carr. Shortly after Musk’s “Nazi salute” controversy at Donald Trump’s inauguration celebration, Carr defended the Tesla CEO throughout a stand-up gig in Washington DC.

“For the record, Elon Musk is not a f**king Nazi. It’s just the internet goes ‘he’s a Nazi’ almost immediately. He’s a f**king genius. And Neal Brennan, my friend pointed this out brilliantly, if you’re a genius…there’s a little Salt Bae of f**king crazy that comes with it. He’s maybe a little bit crazy but he’s not a f**king Nazi. He’s alright. I’ve met him. He’s a very nice fella. Great sense of humour.”

Speaking to The TelegraphCarr recalled an encounter with Musk when the billionaire attended a tv efficiency of his in Los Angeles in 2016.

Demonstrators gathered outdoors the Tesla centre in Park Royal, west London, on Saturday (15 March), holding up banners that learn “Honk if you hate Elon.”

It adopted a Just Stop Oil protest on Wednesday. Two protesters had been arrested after pouring orange powdered paint over a robotic at a store in Shepherd’s Bush, the Metropolitan Police stated.

Organisers are encouraging Tesla house owners to promote their vehicles and for individuals to dump inventory amid requires a boycott over Musk’s shut ties with US president Donald Trump.

Tesla has been a goal of protests and vandalism in America in latest weeks.

Alexander Butler has the story: