“CIA Director John Ratcliffe proposed a trilateral meeting between President Trump, Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky during his covert trip to Moscow earlier this week in an effort to end the war,” Axios reports.

“Donald Trump and Canada continued a verbal duel on Saturday over the U.S. government’s administrative renaming of Lake Ontario, with the country erecting a giant sign saying ‘Lake Ontario. Now and Always’ – and the American president posting a video of him tearing down an avatar of that sign, erecting a replacement saying Lake America, and dancing to YMCA,” The Guardian reports.

“Rhetoric over the naming of Lake Ontario is the public face of an escalating trade dispute between the U.S. and its northern neighbor involving a 50% U.S. tariff on Canadian steel and retaliatory tariffs from Ottawa.”

Mediaite: Trump kicks down Lake Ontario sign and does YMCA dance in wild AI video ratcheting up feud with Canada.

“Google announced on Saturday that it had begun rolling out changes to how its maps display Lake Ontario’s name, after President Trump signed an executive order changing it to ‘Lake America’ amid a trade fight between the U.S. and Canada,” CBS News reports.

“Many Venezuelans suspected that there was going to be a price to pay for President Trump’s brazen capture of their autocratic leader, Nicolás Maduro, who was arrested by U.S. forces in January,” the New York Times reports.

“On Friday, that cost became clear when Mr. Trump announced that the U.S. would be taking majority control of a vast part of Venezuela’s oil reserves — national resources long considered by many in the country to be a birthright.”