Trump to leave the G7 early because of intensifying Iran-Israel conflict

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has decided to stay at the G7 summit in Canada despite her meeting with Trump being canceled.

Mexico’s Foreign Relations office said on X that Sheinbaum will have “an important” conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The post said Sheinbaum will also meet with the leaders from Germany, India and the European Union.

The Foreign Relations Office added that Mexico hopes the situation in Middle East “doesn’t worsen.”

The meeting with Trump would have been her first face-to-face discussion since Sheinbaum took power last year.

In 2018, Trump also left the G7 summit in Quebec early, departing mid-afternoon on the second day following a gender equality advisory lunch and after arguing with other leaders on the wording of the final joint statement. He left so he could arrive early in Singapore for a meeting with Kim Jong Un.

Trump missed the energy and environment discussion that day and the next morning outreach session with a dozen additional leaders on the ocean plastic pollution issue.

Without going into detail about his decision, Trump said he wishes he could stay in Canada.

He spoke to reporters during a group photo session with the other G7 leaders.

“I have to be back, very important,” Trump said. “You probably see what I see, and I have to be back as soon as I can.”

Trump said he’s heading back to the White House after the leaders have dinner and that “they understand” why he’s leaving.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the summit host, said he was “grateful” for Trump’s presence and “I fully understand” his decision.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is headed to the White House Situation Room to meet with Trump and his national security team amid tensions in the Middle East.

It comes as the U.S. has repositioned both warships and military aircraft in the region to respond if the conflict between Israel and Iran further escalates.

Hegseth didn’t provide details on what prompted the meeting but said on the Fox News channel late Monday that the movements were to “ensure that our people are safe.”

Hegseth’s chief spokesperson, Sean Parnell, tweeted that “American Forces are maintaining their defensive posture.”

Israel conducted massive, sophisticated strikes against key Iranian military leaders and nuclear sites, prompting Tehran to launch hundreds of ballistic missiles over the weekend in return.

The U.S. has helped Israel shoot down Iranian missiles

Among the security threats world leaders are being protected from at the G7 summit, one has four legs and a ferocious set of teeth.

Black bears and grizzly bears both live in the Kananaskis Country area of the Rocky Mountains that is playing host to the annual summit of wealthy nations, along with moose, elk and cougars.

Bears have been spotted in and around the Kananaskis golf course in recent days, and a section of trail in the wider region has been closed since Saturday after a grizzly was seen feeding on a carcass.

Electric fences and police drones to monitor wildlife are among the measures taken to keep bears away from the summit site.

Signs reminding journalists “Stay alert, don’t feed the wildlife” are displayed in the Kananaskis media center. British officials even included a warning about bears in their pre-summit briefing to traveling reporters.

President Trump is departing the G7 summit in Canada on Monday night, leaving a day early due to the intensifying conflict between Israel and Iran.

“President Trump had a great day at the G7, even signing a major trade deal with the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Keir Starmer,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on social media. “Much was accomplished, but because of what’s going on in the Middle East, President Trump will be leaving tonight after dinner with Heads of State.”

The summit is scheduled to continue on Tuesday, when Trump had scheduled his first one-on-one meeting with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.

Trump was also supposed to meet Tuesday in Canada with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

This time, Trump used his social media site to go after the former Fox News Channel host.

“Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that,’ IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!’” the president wrote.

Mike Lindell, one of the most prominent election conspiracy theorists in the U.S., had called Dominion Voting Systems employee Eric Coomer a traitor. Lindell’s online media platform also streamed an event where a conservative podcaster accused Coomer of helping rig the 2020 election.

During the trial in Denver, Lindell denied making any statements he knew to be false about Coomer.

Coomer said his career and life have been destroyed as a result of Lindell’s statements. Coomer’s lawyers said Lindell either knew the statements were lies, or conveyed them recklessly without knowing if they were true.

Coomer had been the security and product strategy director at Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, whose voting machines became the target of elaborate conspiracy theories among allies of President Trump, who continues to falsely claim that his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 was due to widespread fraud.

Trump posted an ominous message calling for the immediate evacuation of Tehran on his social media platform while he’s in Canada attending the G7 summit.

Trump had said more than once during the day that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. He emphasized that again in his social media post, writing “IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.” He said Iran should have signed the “deal” he told them to sign.

“What a shame, and waste of human life,” he said in what appeared to be a reference to Israel’s attack last week on Iran.

Trump ended the post with, “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!”

Tehran is home to around 9.5 million people.

Longtime U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, a Democrat representing the Ann Arbor area of Michigan, said she was notified Sunday that her name was listed in the writings of a man accused of fatally shooting a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another.

While addressing a crowd Monday night in a high school auditorium in Dexter, Michigan, Dingell said “some people” wanted her to cancel the scheduled town hall and that she consulted with a number of state lawmakers who appeared with Dingell on stage.

“We cannot let terror terrorize us,” she said, and was met with applause.

At least eight law enforcement vehicles were outside the high school before the town hall.

Dingell said she is concerned about “normalizing violence” and “hostile political rhetoric.”

“It is quite frankly unacceptable,” she said. “We cannot tolerate it.”

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office says he and Trump discussed “immediate trade pressures” and priorities for their workers and businesses.

They shared updates on top issues raised in negotiations on a new economic and security relationship between their countries.

And they agreed to pursue negotiations with the goal of reaching a deal within 30 days.

U.S. District Judge William Young has ruled that several hundred cuts to research grants issued by the National Institutes of Health were illegal.

Young said the Trump administration did not follow long-held government rules and standards when it abruptly canceled grants deemed to focus on gender identity or diversity, equity and inclusion.

In a hearing Monday, the judge pushed government lawyers to offer a formal definition of DEI, questioning how grants could be canceled for that reason when some were designed to study health disparities as Congress had directed.

Young, an appointee of Republican President Ronald Reagan, went on to address what he called “a darker aspect” to the cases, calling it “palpably clear” that what was behind the government actions was “racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community.”

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European Council President António Costa presented Trump with the gift on the sidelines of the G7 summit, according to a post on X by Trump aide Margo Martin.

The jersey included an inscription from Ronaldo: “To President Donald J. Trump, Playing for Peace.”

Britain and other G7 nations are imposing new sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine — but the U.S. is not joining them.

The U.K. says it is acting “in coordination with allies at the G7” to target Russia’s military industry and energy revenues with new measures.

But President Trump said he wanted to see Europe impose sanctions before deciding whether to act.

“Europe is saying that but they haven’t done it yet. Let’s see them do it first,” he told reporters at the G7 summit.

Trump and Starmer say they are still talking about how the agreement will affect steel, a major import.

Trump told reporters at the G7 that the deal is “a fair deal for both” and would “produce a lot of jobs, a lot of income.”

Starmer said the agreement meant “a very good day for both our countries.” He said the deal covered cars and aerospace.

After the two leaders spoke, the White House released a statement saying that with respect to steel and aluminum, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will “determine a quota of products that can enter the United States without being subject” to previous tariffs.

The former Fox News host pundit last week called Trump “complicit in the act of war” in his subscriber newsletter.

“I don’t know what Tucker Carlson is saying,” Trump told reporters with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer by his side. “Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen.”

Carlson, who for years hosted a popular prime-time show for Fox News, was ousted in 2023 amid a cascade of bad legal news for the network.

There has been some debate among Trump’s supporters about how far the president should go in backing Israel.

Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and other prominent Trump allies have argued voters backed Trump because he would not entangle the nation in foreign clashes and should be wary of expanding U.S. involvement in the conflict.

President Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer say the deal will slash tariffs on goods from both countries.

The deal does not include tariffs on steel, an especially important piece of bilateral trade. Instead, talks are still going on about whether steel tariffs will be cut to zero as planned in the provisional agreement.

Trump and Starmer announced in May they’d struck an agreement that would slash U.S. import taxes on British cars, steel and aluminum in return for greater access to the British market for U.S. products including beef and ethanol.

But it did not immediately take effect, leaving British businesses uncertain about whether the U.K. could be exposed to any surprise hikes from Trump.

▶ Read more about the trade deal

Defending his decision to wait, Trump said “sanctions are not that easy. It’s not just a one-way street.”

Answering questions after meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on the margins of the G7 summit in Canada, Trump said sanctions cost the U.S. “a lot of money.”

He said he’d like to see the European Union impose sanctions on Russia before the United States does.

President Trump is having an impromptu sit down at the Group of Seven with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

The meeting occurred at von der Leyen’s request, according to the White House.

Trump threatened tariffs of as much as 50% on European goods, unless the 27-member block engaged more to the Trump administration’s liking in trade talks. The U.S. president held off on his threat and kept the import taxes at a baseline 10% for a negotiating period currently slated to end before July 9.

The meeting has delayed a separate meeting that Trump was scheduled to have with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a strong statement Monday urging Americans to speak out against hurtful aspects of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

“No one can turn a deaf ear to the palpable cries of anxiety and fear heard in communities throughout the country in the wake of a surge in immigration enforcement actions,” Archbishop Thomas Broglio said.

“Law enforcement actions aimed at preserving order and ensuring community security are necessary for the common good. However, the current efforts go well beyond those with criminal histories.

“In the context of a gravely deficient immigration system, the mass arrest and removal of our neighbors, friends and family members on the basis of immigration status alone, particularly in ways that are arbitrary or without due process, represent a profound social crisis before which no person of good will can remain silent.”

Trump has fired a Democratic commissioner for the federal agency that oversees nuclear safety.

Christopher Hanson, a former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said in a statement Monday that Trump terminated his position as NRC commissioner without cause, “contrary to existing law and longstanding precedent regarding removal of independent agency appointees.”

The firing comes as Trump seeks to assert more control over independent regulatory agencies and take authority away from the independent safety agency that has regulated the U.S. nuclear industry for five decades.

White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said in an emailed statement that “all organizations are more effective when leaders are rowing in the same direction” and that the Republican president reserves the right to “remove employees within his own executive branch.”

Democratic members of Congress say Trump overstepped his authority.

Ambassador Kirsten Hillman says they are dealing with a president who is very convinced of the policy that he has around tariffs in order to achieve his policy goals.

Hillman says it is actually detrimental to his overall goals and they are trying to get Trump and his team to understand Canada’s perspective. She says it takes time, data and time and says Canada’s goal is no tariffs.

Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, says he would not talk about the “private details of the conversations” when asked if Trump brought up the 51st state during the bilateral meetings Monday. Trump’s talk of annexing Canada has infuriated Canadians.

The 17 experts recently dismissed from a government vaccine advisory panel say Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making “destabilizing decisions” that could lead to more preventable disease spread.

Kennedy last week announced he would “retire” the influential panel that guides U.S. vaccine policy the panel. Two days later, he named eight new people to it.

The former panelists all signed onto a commentary published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Kennedy, a leading voice in the anti-vaccine movement before becoming the U.S. government’s top health official, has accused the committee of being too closely aligned with vaccine manufacturers and of rubber-stamping vaccines.

The decision not to invite Trump to its convention next month in Charlotte, North Carolina, would be the first time the prominent civil rights group has opted to exclude a sitting president in its 116-year history.

NAACP President Derrick Johnson announced the move at an afternoon press conference, accusing Trump of working against its mission.

In a text message from the NAACP to The Associated Press, Johnson says, “This has nothing to do with political party. Our mission is to advance civil rights, and the current president has made clear that his mission is to eliminate civil rights.”

A message to the White House seeking comment was not immediately returned. In recent months, the NAACP has filed multiple lawsuits against the Trump administration, including to block its effort to curb diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

French President Emmanuel Macron held extended talks with U.S. President Donald Trump before the G7 summit’s official welcome ceremony, Macron’s top international spokesperson said Monday.

Jean-Noël Ladois said the two leaders discussed “tariffs, the situation in the Near and Middle East, and the situation in Ukraine.” There’s no briefing yet on what came out of the meeting.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is heading to Canada to take part in a session on energy security.

U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said Guterres will participate in Tuesday’s session for G7 and invited leaders on “diversification, technology and investment to ensure access and affordability in a changing world.”

The secretary-general will meet Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney on the margins of the meeting, Haq said.

He said other meetings would be announced later when asked if the U.N. chief would meet with U.S. President Donald Trump.

The four European G7 leaders held an informal meeting over glasses of Canadian wine on the eve of the summit Sunday night, without President Donald Trump, who had yet to arrive at the venue in the Canadian Rockies.

It started when British Prime Minister Keir Starmer bumped into German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in a restaurant-bar area of the venue in the resort of Kananaskis. French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni dropped by and it became an hourlong informal meeting during which the conflict between Israel and Iran was discussed.

Efforts to de-escalate that conflict are a main focus of the two-day summit that officially started Monday.

Emily Williams, a spokesperson for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the G7 host, said the lapel pin “was not provided in any welcome gift from us.”

“That’s all him,” Williams said, meaning Trump.

The lapel pin features the flags of the United States and Canada. Lapel pins featuring the American flag and the host country’s flag are often worn by members of the U.S. delegation when the president is traveling abroad.
Trump is also wearing a separate American flag lapel pin.

Seventeen statewide anti-domestic coalitions against domestic and sexual violence are suing President Donald Trump’s administration over requirements in grant applications that they don’t promote “gender ideology” or run diversity, equity and inclusion programs or prioritize people in the country illegally.

In the filing made in Rhode Island on Monday, the groups say the requirements put them in “an impossible position.”

If they don’t apply for federal money allocated under the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, they might not be able to provide rape crisis centers, battered women’s shelters and other programs to support victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

But if the groups do apply, they said they would have to make statements they called “antithetical to their core values” — and take on legal risk.

Canada’s leader, Mark Carney, has formally opened the Group of Seven summit by telling fellow leaders they’re meeting at “one of those turning points in history.”

Carney said the world is “more divided and dangerous” than during past summits and other “hinge moments,” citing G7 gatherings after the fall of the Berlin Wall or the 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States.

With the leaders of the U.S., Germany, France, Japan, the United Kingdom and Italy seated before him, Carney said, “the world looks to this table for leadership.”

He predicted they’d have “frank discussions” over the two-day summit and not always agree, but he said that where they do agree it will make a difference for their citizens.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the host of this year’s leaders meeting, has greeted the leaders at an official welcome ceremony in front of a picturesque pine tree backdrop.

Carney and his wife, Diana Fox Carney, engaged each of the leaders in small talk before posing for photos.

Trump told Carney the setting he chose was “beautiful.”

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz during his turn asked Carney about how his one-on-one with Trump went. The prime minister responded, “fantastic.”

A Canadian tribal leader tasked with greeting world heads of state arriving for G7 says he considered leaving before Donald Trump arrived, appalled by the U.S. president’s having “caused much pain and suffering in the world.”

Instead, Steven Crowchild, said he prayed to his creator, consulted with his people’s leadership and opted to stay on the tarmac in Calgary, where he spoke at length on Sunday with Trump.

“It was really intense to say the least,” Crowchild told The Associated Press on Monday.

Crowchild wore feathered headgear, spoke in his traditional language and showed Trump tribal medals that he told the president were older than the nation of Canada.

Trump wore a white “Make America Great Again” cap.

“I almost didn’t stay. I was filled with rage,” Crowchild said, adding that he decided to remain “considering that visibility is key and diplomacy is important and there was no indigenous representation there at the time.”

The U.S. is moving tanker aircraft to the Middle East to provide President Donald Trump additional options to defend U.S. bases and personnel in the region in wake of the ongoing ballistic missile attacks by Iran and Israel’s continued air operations against Tehran, two U.S. officials told the Associated Press.

The refueling tankers are vital to supporting any major U.S. air operation, whether it would be evacuations or a potential strike by U.S. fighter jets.

The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide details not announced publicly.

He was talking about his pledge to launch an immigration crackdown targeting Democrat-run areas.

“That’s where the people are,” Trump said in remarks with Canada’s prime minister.

On Sunday night, Trump directed federal officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities.

Trump on Monday singled out New York and Chicago while pointing to demonstrations in Los Angeles against his administration policies and adding many of “those people weren’t from LA, they we’re from California.”

He blamed Biden administration policies for allowing large numbers of people to cross into the U.S. illegally and said “most of those people are in cities — all blue cities, all Democrat-run cities.”

Trump again claimed non-citizens might be able to vote in U.S. elections, something that’s already illegal, vowing, “It’s not going to happen.”

Trump said a trade deal between the US and Canada is achievable, but he and Prime Minister Mark Carney approach it differently.

Trump said, “I have a tariff concept” because “I am a tariff person.”

He said Carney has a “more complex idea but very good.”

The U.S. president declined to answer what it would take for U.S. to be directly involved in the growing conflict between Israel and Iran, saying he didn’t want to talk about the issue.

Instead, he continued to press Iran on negotiations on its nuclear program.

“They should talk, and they should talk immediately,” Trump said during a bilateral meeting with Carney, the Canadian prime minister.

Trump added: “I’d say Iran is not winning this war.”

Russia was once included in the exclusive club of major economies but was kicked out following its 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.

“The G7 used to be the G8. Barack Obama and a person named Trudeau didn’t want to have Russia in,” Trump said referring to former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “And I would say that was a mistake, because I think you wouldn’t have a war right now if you had Russia in and you wouldn’t have a war right now if Trump were president four years ago.”

Trudeau wasn’t elected to be Canada’s prime minister until the year after Russia was booted from the G8. Stephen Harper held that position at the time.

Carney offered opening remarks by wishing Trump “happy birthday” while noting he was “a few days short” since Trump turned 79 over the weekend.

“I didn’t have chance to see you on the day,” Carney said. He also noted that the G7 “is nothing without U.S. leadership” and also told Trump, “Thank you for your personal leadership.”

The U.S. president is expected to meet briefly today with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, according to U.S. officials who requested anonymity to discuss the scheduling plans that haven’t been announced by the White House.

Trump is currently holding talks with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the two will also hold a formal meeting alongside their aides.

The president is also expected to have a brief meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer later Monday.

Trump has kicked off the G7 summit by meeting with Canada’s prime minister.

A White House aide posted a picture of the president and Canada’s Carney seated and talking without media present as the summit kicked off in the Canadian Rockies.

In an unusual twist, the picture showed Trump seated in a chair in front of the Canadian flag, while Carney was seated in front of a U.S. flag.

President Trump is set to kick off his time at the Group of Seven summit in the Canadian Rockies with talks with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Trump has repeatedly said he wants to make Canada the 51st state.

The two met last month in the Oval Office for the first time since Carney’s election victory. Carney made clear Canada “is not for sale” after Trump called the border between the U.S. and Canada “artificial.”

Starmer says he’ll hold a one-on-one meeting with President Trump on Monday about finalizing the U.K.-U.S. trade deal agreed by the two leaders last month.

Starmer said he’ll meet Trump on the margins of a G7 summit in Canada, “and I’m going to discuss with him our trade deal.”

The British leader said the agreement is “in the final stages now of implementation, and I expect that to be completed very soon.”

The deal agreed in May would slash import taxes on British cars, steel and aluminum in return for greater access to the British market for U.S. products including beef and ethanol. But it has yet to take effect, leaving British businesses uncertain about whether the U.K. could be exposed to any surprise hikes from Trump.