A bipartisan group of senators, led by North Dakota Republican Kevin Cramer and New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, recently traveled to Ottawa, Ontario, to help ease rising tensions between the U.S. and Canada.

The quintet, which also included Sens. Peter Welch, D-Vt., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., was photographed glad-handing Prime Minister Mark Carney, a liberal who had been aided in his election over conservative favorite Pierre Poilievre in part due to American right-wing overtures.

As the lone Republican, Cramer was in the difficult spot of balancing representing the president’s party and engendering goodwill with Carney, whose government has been targeted by U.S. tariffs and pledges by President Donald Trump to be made the “51st state.”

He did not respond to a Fox News request for comment in that regard, but Kaine told Punchbowl News that Trump respects Cramer and his “insight and loyalty.”

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“That means the president can probably hear some things from him that, if I said it, I wouldn’t get paid attention to,” Kaine said.

In a statement, Cramer said the two nations share “more than a border” and that working through challenges requires “frank dialogue.”

“I was encouraged by the meetings, and the Prime Minister’s transparent and thoughtful words were smart and instructive. I look forward to working with our friends, business partners, and neighbors in Canada to strengthen our relationship and address mutual issues facing our great countries,” he added.

The delegation, joined by Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, a former border-state congressman from Michigan, was geared toward joint defense and economic priorities, according to Cramer.

The White House directed Fox News Digital to the State Department when asked about its response to the diplomatic overture from Cramer and the four Democrats. But Foggy Bottom did not provide comment for the record.

But Cramer told Punchbowl he didn’t want to get in Trump’s way and that no trade deal could happen without the White House but that Canada needs to know they have a partner in the U.S.

“Hopefully I navigated it OK, but I’ll find out on Truth Social,” he said.

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Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/File)

Kaine plans to force a Senate vote on a resolution to block Trump’s China tariffs if détente isn’t reached between Ottawa and Washington. 

His office directed Fox News Digital to a Punchbowl story on the matter, where the Virginian was quoted saying that there will be negative effects on the U.S. economy if “this doesn’t get sorted out.”

“I hope I don’t need to,” Kaine said.

The U.S. imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian steel, automobiles and other goods not currently covered under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Canada retaliated by imposing $43 billion worth of its own tariffs against the U.S.

“We’ve got more that we need to do before we’re satisfied that we have a partnership that is in Canada’s interest. We’ve made a lot of progress,” Carney said Tuesday after the visit concluded.

Every congressional participant except Kaine hails from a state that borders Canada. One report said that annual Canadian visitation to Cramer’s North Dakota outnumbers its own population, while Welch has been vocal about Vermont’s symbiotic reliance on Canadian residents’ dollars, especially in its recreation sector.

“The U.S.-Canada relationship has made us all safer and more prosperous, protecting our continent from foreign threats and transforming North America into a hub of global trade, innovation and investment,” Welch said in a statement co-signed by the other lawmakers.

“The trip has reaffirmed our joint desire to move past current tensions in the bilateral relationship and lay the groundwork for a stronger partnership moving forward.”

• The Detroit Tigers won their fourth straight game, taking down the San Francisco Giants, 4-3, on Wednesday, May 28.
• Justyn-Henry Malloy drove in the winning run on a two-out, two-run single, part of a four-run fifth inning.
• Rookie right-hander Jackson Jobe allowed three runs in 4 2/3 innings for the Tigers.

The Detroit Tigers swept the San Francisco Giants, secured their fourth win a row and now enter a seven-game road trip with as much momentum as they’ve had in weeks.

They’re playing like the best team in baseball again.

The Tigers secured a 4-3 win over the Giants on Wednesday, May 28, in the finale of a three-game series at Comerica Park, scoring all four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning. The clutch hit: Justyn-Henry Malloy drove in two runs on a single with two strikes and two outs, taking the lead.

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The Tigers (37-20) swept a series for the third time in May.

Before Malloy’s big hit, Colt Keith ripped a double down the right-field line to plate the first two runs in the fifth — cutting the Tigers’ deficit to 3-2. After Keith’s two-run double, Malloy flipped the scoreboard with his two-run single — putting the Tigers ahead, 4-3.

Keith hit right-handed starter Landen Roupp, while Malloy hit right-handed reliever Randy Rodríguez.

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The Tigers, though, had to fend off a comeback effort from the Giants in the eighth inning, as righty reliever John Brebbia allowed two runners in scoring position.

There were no outs, so the Tigers turned to righty reliever Tommy Kahnle. He retired three batters in a row: Patrick Bailey flied out, Christian Koss struck out swinging, and Mike Yastrzemski grounded out.

Kahnle escaped the jam without allowing a run, then closed out a scoreless ninth for his seventh save of the season.

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Jackson Jobe starts

Right-hander Jackson Jobe allowed three runs on seven hits and three walks with four strikeouts across 4⅔ innings, surrendering two of three runs in the fifth inning.

It was his fourth start in a row with at least two walks.

He threw 95 pitches.

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In the fifth, Heliot Ramos hit a two-run home run off Jobe’s middle-middle sinker.

That put the Giants ahead, 3-0.

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MILWAUKEE — Sade Robinson’s mother Sheena Scarbrough prepared for this trial mentally and spiritually.

“I’m ready to get this process started. I want the demon fully held accountable on all the charges of what he did to my baby,” Scarbrough told WTMJ host Jessica Tighe.

Opening statements in the high-profile trial against 34-year-old Maxwell Anderson started May 28th.

Anderson is accused of killing and dismembering Scarbrough’s 19-year-old daughter after a first date in April 2024. He’s charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, hiding a corpse, and arson.

The gruesome nature of Robinson’s death shocked the community and forever changed her family. Parts of the young woman’s body were found scattered across Milwaukee County. Another part was discovered along the lakeshore in Waukegan, Illinois.

Scarbrough says she still doesn’t have all of her daughter’s remains.

“We don’t have my baby’s head– her crown. We still don’t have my baby’s head and her crown,” Scarbrough explained.

She also wants more answers.

“(Sade’s) death certificate reads homicide by unspecified means. There is no cause of death on my daughter’s death certificate,” Scarbrough revealed.

This mother’s pain is unimaginable for most.

“It affects you physically, not just mentally and spiritually, but physically. It’s very heavy. It’s very heavy and draining,” she said.

Scarbrough plans to be in the courtroom every single day, sitting in the front row. She knows she’ll never get her daughter back, but she wants Robinson’s killer to pay.

“What punishment do you think he should get if convicted,” Tighe asked.

“He needs to get the same form of punishment as what he did to my baby,” Scarbrough answered.

Wisconsin does not have the death penalty, but Scarbrough says that’s what she would want if the state did.

“Justice for my baby, justice for my family, justice for me and her father. I want that demon to fully feel and pay for the pain and the suffering and the torture he did to my daughter,” Scarbrough said.

Robinson was set to graduate from MATC in May 2024. She had planned to enlist in the U.S. Air Force and had hopes of eventually joining the FBI.

The trial in Milwaukee County is expected to last two weeks.

Sheena Scarbrough talked with Wisconsin’s Midday News in February and discussed the foundation she created to honor her daughter. Listen to the podcast and learn how “Sade’s Voice Foundation” is working to protect other missing people and crime victims.