The Latest: Trump attends G7 summit amid his trade war with US allies
Jun 16, 2025, 5:53 AM
President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Calgary International Airport, Sunday, June 15, 2025, in Calgary, Canada, ahead of the G7 Summit. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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President Donald Trump has arrived for the G7, or Group of Seven, summit in Canada, a country he’s suggested should be annexed, as he wages a trade war with America’s longstanding allies.
If there’s a shared mission at this year’s G7 summit, which begins Monday in the Rocky Mountains, it’s a desire to minimize any fireworks at a moment of combustible tensions.
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Leavenworth, Kansas, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evoking a short hand for serving hard time. The federal penitentiary housed gangsters Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly — in a building so storied that it inspired the term “the big house.”
Now Kansas’ oldest city could soon be detaining far less famous people, migrants swept up in President Trump’s promise of mass deportations of those living in the U.S. illegally.
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Trump is expected to have a busy schedule on the first day of the G7 conference.
9 a.m. — Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney
10 a.m. — Trump will attend the event’s official welcome
10:30 a.m. — Session one
12:30 p.m. — Session two
2:45 p.m. — Session three
5:45 p.m. — Time for a group photo
6:15 p.m. — Session four
9 p.m. — Trump will attend a “cultural event”
