Canada responds to Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs as other leaders weigh impact

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday evening vowed to “fight” the new round of tariffs announced by President Donald Trump, and said he would turn to other international partners to get through the rocky times ahead. 

“President Trump has just announced a series of measures that are going to fundamentally change the international trading system,” Carney told reporters following Trump’s Rose Garden announcement. “We’re in a situation where there’s going to be an impact on the U.S. economy, which will build with time.

“In our judgment, it will be negative on the U.S. economy that will have an impact on us,” he added, noting millions of Canadians will be impacted.

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While Trump did not issue any additional tariffs against Canada following the 25% tariffs already in place on all Canadian imports, the 10% tariff on its energy exports and the blanket tariff on all aluminum and steel, he did announce a 25% tariff on all foreign vehicle imports. 

He also pointed out that Trump said there could be future targeted tariffs against pharmaceutical companies, lumber and semiconductors — tariffs that will have wide affect on U.S. trading partners beyond Canada and Mexico, but across Europe and Asia.

“In a crisis, it’s important to come together,” Carney said. “It’s essential to act with purpose and with force, and that’s what we will do.”

Before the tariff announcement, Canadian Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said at an election campaign event on Wednesday that he supports “targeted, reciprocal” tariffs on American goods — and if his party wins the general election on April 28 and he becomes prime minister, he would like to sit down with President Donald Trump and create a new trade deal, replacing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which the president signed in 2020.
 

Poilievre also said that Canada must maintain control of its border and freshwater and protect both its automotive industry and supply-managed farm sectors.

David Adams, president and CEO of Global Automakers of Canada — a national trade association representing the Canadian interests of 16 automakers, including BMW Canada, Inc. and Nissan Canada Inc. — said in a statement, “Tariffs are taxes that hurt consumers by increasing costs, driving up inflation, and unfairly impacting workers on both sides of the border.”

“Governments should look to long-term solutions to remove these tariffs, prioritizing the elimination of regulatory barriers to industry competitiveness and providing automakers with flexibilities to respond in these uncertain times.”

Reactions from European Union leaders began to emerge following Trump’s announcement that he will hit the EU with 20% tariffs on all imported goods, with disappointment, concern and commitments to continue negotiations with the U.S.

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, generally seen as a Trump ally, said Trump’s tariffs were “wrong” and warned they would not only harm American and European pocketbooks, but aid Western adversaries.

“We will do everything we can to work towards an agreement with the United States, with the goal of avoiding a trade war that would inevitably weaken the West in favor of other global players,” Meloni said in a statement on Facebook.

“In any case, as always, we will act in the interest of Italy and its economy, also engaging with other European partners,” she added.

Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister, Simon Harris, said he “deeply regret[s]” the new tariffs but said he is committed to working with Washington to end this tariff war. 

“I must be honest tonight that a 20% blanket tariff on goods from all EU countries could have a significant effect on Irish investment and the wider economy,” he said, noting the effects would “likely be felt for some time.”

Chairman of the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee Bernd Lange called for a united response from countries targeted by Trump.

“While President Trump might call today ‘Liberation Day,’ from an ordinary citizen’s point of view this is ‘Inflation Day,’ he said, reported Reuters. “Because of this decision, U.S. consumers will be forced to carry the heaviest burden in a trade war.”

Lange said the EU will respond through “legal, legitimate, proportionate and decisive” measures.

Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter said her government would work to figure out the next steps.  

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The U.K., along with the president of Mexico ahead of the announcement, said they would continue to work with the U.S. and would not rush to enforce reciprocal tariffs.

Similarly, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said that while Trump’s decision was “not the act of a friend,” his country would not impose reciprocal tariffs, reported Reuters. 

He reportedly condemned the U.S. tariffs as totally unwarranted and said Australia will continue to negotiate to have the tariffs lifted. 

DOGE discovers outlandish contract to maintain VA’s website

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for website changes before canceling the contract and having an internal staffer take over, according to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

While combing through loads and loads of data, DOGE discovered a previous contract by the VA for its website maintenance.

“Good work by @DeptVetAffairs,” DOGE said in a post on X on Wednesday. “VA was previously paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications. That contract has not been renewed, and the same work is now being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~10 hours/week.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to the VA for comment about the former contract.

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VA Secretary Doug Collins has defended DOGE cuts at the VA as part of the new administration’s efforts to reform the department and better serve veterans.

In February, the VA announced that the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees would enable the department to redirect over $98 million per year in resources back to health care, benefits and services for VA beneficiaries.

Billionaire Elon Musk has been the face of DOGE since President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing the department on Jan. 20.

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Trump tasked the organization with optimizing the federal government, streamlining operations and slashing spending and gave the agency 18 months to do it.

Along with discoveries like the former contract VA signed for website maintenance, DOGE continues to find waste and fraud among federal agencies.

Last week, DOGE announced the termination of 113 contracts valued at $4.7 billion, including a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) consulting contract for Peru’s climate change activities.

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DOGE also announced the Department of Labor had canceled $577 million in “America Last” grants, totaling $237 million in savings.

The funding that was canceled included $10 million for “gender equity in the Mexican workplace,” $12.2 million for “worker empowerment in South America” and $6.25 million for “improving respect for workers’ rights in agricultural supply chains” in the countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

As of April 2, DOGE claims on its site it has saved Americans $140 billion, or $869.57 per taxpayer.

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DOGE critics contend the organization has too much access to federal systems and should not be permitted to cancel federal contracts or make cuts to various agencies.

Trump admin acts after blue state refuses to comply with executive order

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Wednesday a pause and an ongoing review of federal funding to Maine after the state refused to provide equal opportunities to women and girls in educational programs. 

The state has refused to comply with President Donald Trump’s February executive order to ban trans athletes from girls and women’s sports, prompting immense federal pressure. Trump initially vowed to cut federal funding to the state if it refused to comply with the order during a Feb. 20 speech. 

Now, Trump has made good on that promise.

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USDA secretary Brooks Rollins said the state must agree to protect female athletes from trans inclusion before funding is restored. 

“In order to continue to receive taxpayer dollars from USDA, the state of Maine must demonstrate compliance with Title IX which protects female student athletes from having to compete with or against or having to appear unclothed before males,” Rollins wrote in a letter to the state. 

“In addition, USDA has launched a full review of grants awarded by the Biden Administration to the Maine Department of Education. Many of these grants appear to be wasteful, redundant, or otherwise against the priorities of the Trump Administration. USDA will not stand for the Biden Administration’s bloated bureaucracy and will instead focus on a Department that is farmer-first and without a leftist social agenda.”

Maine GOP state Rep. Laurel Libby was one of the key figures in bringing attention to the state’s trans inclusion issue, when she made a social media post identifying a transgender track and field athlete at Greely High School had taken first place at a Maine girls pole vault competition after competing as a boy just one year earlier.

Libby’s revelation of the trans athlete ignited national conversation and coverage of the state’s policy on trans inclusion. Libby was censured by the Maine House Democrat majority for her post on the premise that she identified a minor, but she has since filed a lawsuit to have the censure lifted. 

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“Governor Janet Mills and Maine Democrats have chosen to dig their heels in and embrace radical left-wing ideology over the safety and rights of Maine women and girls. Despite repeated warnings from President Trump, Maine Democrats continued to defy federal law, forcing Maine girls to unfairly compete against biological males,” Libby told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. 

“As a result, Maine’s Democrat majority has poised Maine students to lose hundreds of millions in federal funding, starting with our USDA funding, instead of championing Maine girls by adhering to federal law. I continue to stand firmly with Maine girls and President Trump in the pursuit of sanity and fairness. I implore Maine Democrats to abandon this incredibly harmful and radical gender ideology for the sake of our students.”

More potential sanctions could be coming to the state in the next week. 

The U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) on Monday advising a final deadline of April 11 to address the issue or risk a second referral to the Department of Justice. The Department of Health and Human Services already referred Maine to the DOJ last week. 

Wednesday’s announcement is not the first funding freeze USDA announced regarding Maine. 

The department paused funding to the University of Maine System (UMS), a network of eight public universities in the state, on March 11 while it conducted a review of the system’s compliance with Title IX. 

Funding was restored to UMS just days later and the USDA announced the system was in full compliance. 

But the major issue involving trans athlete inclusion in Maine is at the high school level. In addition to the incident involving the pole vaulter at Greely High School, other instances have impacted multiple girls across the state who have had to compete with and share locker rooms with biological males. 

Maine teen Cassidy Carlisle previously told Fox News Digital about how she had to share a locker room with a trans student while in middle school, then had to compete with another trans athlete in Nordic skiing last year. 

“The defeat that comes with that in that moment is heartbreaking,” Carlisle said. “I’m just in shock in a way. I didn’t believe it. … I didn’t think it was happening to me.”

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“I stayed silent for a while,” Carlisle said. “It’s very hard to speak up if you don’t have a platform to do it on. … Backlash is a huge thing. I’m a high school student. No high school student wants to be hurt or yelled at or said mean comments by people. And the reality of it, with the state that I live in, that could very much happen.” 

A survey by the American Parents Coalition found that out of about 600 registered Maine voters, 63% said school sports participation should be based on biological sex, and 66% agreed it’s “only fair to restrict women’s sports to biological women.”

The poll also found that 60% of residents would support a ballot measure limiting participation in women’s and girls sports to biological females. This included 64% of independents and 66% of parents with kids under age 18.

Monstrous tornado rips across state as America’s heartland endures ‘dangerous situation’

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A tornado outbreak on Wednesday impacted the Mississippi River Valley, with tornadoes that damaged or destroyed dozens of homes, from Missouri through Arkansas and Tennessee.

A massive tornado was spotted by FOX Weather Storm Tracker Brandon Copic as it roared near Lake City, Arkansas. Authorities issued a Tornado Emergency – the most dire of tornado alerts – for towns in the path of the storm, such as Leachville and Monette.

“You need to be underground,” Copic said. “You will not survive this tornado if you are above ground.”

And that is just what residents likely did, as local authorities reported fewer than a dozen injured despite significant damage to homes and some businesses in Arkansas. 

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In Potosi, Missouri, firefighters reported responding to several homes that were damaged and people who were trapped, but after clearing the residences, troopers said they had accounted for all local residents.

Significant damage was also reported in Western Kentucky, where at least four people were injured in Ballard County.

The county declared a local state of emergency and said it was difficult for first responders to reach some communities.

A child was reported to be injured by flying debris near the community of Gage, Kentucky, as their family tried finding shelter from a severe storm.

And outside of Indianapolis, first responders were seen looking through debris of a warehouse in Brownsburg, Indiana.

Firefighters did not immediately say how many people were unaccounted for in the collapse.

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Earlier during the day, the fire department in Nevada, Missouri, confirmed to FOX Weather that a suspected tornado hit the city.

Video from residents showed buildings badly damaged, with roofs ripped off and debris littering local streets.

Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Mike McClure told FOX Weather power lines were brought down inside the city of Nevada, and several businesses were damaged, including a hotel. 

The governors of both Kentucky and Arkansas issued states of emergencies, as more than 300,000 customers lost power from the South to the Great Lakes. 

The Storm Prediction Center labeled the event as a ‘Particularly Dangerous Situation’ with the event expected to be a Level 5 out of 5 on its severe storm scale.

The high risk designation marks only the second time this year, and the first instance of two such high-risk alerts in a single year since 2021, that a Level 5 threat has been issued. The previous Level 5 alert was issued on March 15 when the National Weather Service confirmed 13 tornadoes, including six powerful EF-3s, which tragically resulted in seven deaths and 12 injuries.

Severe storms persist through the weekend

Even as the main storm system begins to pull away on Thursday, daytime heating on Thursday afternoon will lead to another round of severe storms.

Damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes will again be possible during the afternoon and evening hours on Thursday. A Level 3 out of 5 risk encompasses a zone from east Texas, including Texarkana, to Tennessee, including Memphis. Meanwhile, a wider area faces a Level 2 out of 5 risk from central Texas to the Northeast. 

More severe weather is forecast through the end of the week and into the weekend, as well. 

The numerous rounds of rain and storms will lead to the aforementioned potentially generational flooding in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys.

Governor DeSantis takes aim at Florida’s fresh GOP congressman

Ron DeSantis intensified his attacks on Randy Fine Wednesday, blaming the representative-elect’s “unique problems” for a thin special election victory in a district known as a Republican stronghold.

The Trump-endorsed candidate won Tuesday night’s special election to take over former Congressman Mike Waltz’s seat by 14 points, the slimmest margin of victory for a Republican in the district since 2018. 

DeSantis, who had already been criticizing Fine’s ability to pull out a victory, called the representative-elect a “squish” who Republican voters didn’t even want to cast their ballots for Tuesday night.   

“The president really had to bail him out at the end because this race would have been much closer had the president sat on the sidelines,” DeSantis said. “I think these were voters who didn’t like Randy Fine but who basically were like, ‘You know what? We’re going to take one for the team.'” 

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The governor also challenged media reports characterizing the close race as a reflection of President Donald Trump’s agenda. 

“I don’t think that’s true at all for this district,” DeSantis said at the press conference. “I think you have a candidate in Randy Fine, who, one, he’s a squish.” 

DeSantis added that Fine “repels” people, including his former colleagues in the state legislature. During the press conference Wednesday, the governor recounted how lawmakers in the state requested he nominate Fine to be the president of Florida Atlantic University so he would not have to serve in the legislature anymore. 

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“I did, and the whole board [at Florida Atlantic] would have resigned rather than make him president,” DeSantis said.

DeSantis and Fine have had a contentious relationship for some time, which can be traced back to at least 2023, when Fine was the first Florida Republican to switch his endorsement from DeSantis to Trump during the 2024 Republican presidential nomination battle. Fine articulated his decision to endorse Trump over DeSantis during the 2024 presidential primary in a subsequent op-ed that slammed the Florida governor for failing to tamp down antisemitism after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on innocent Israelis.

According to DeSantis, Fine has supported restrictions on the Second Amendment, tried to defeat his immigration proposal earlier this year aimed at boosting the enforcement of immigration laws and tried to enact a de facto sanctuary city policy.

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In response to DeSantis’ criticisms, Fine responded on X alongside video of the governor’s remarks at the press conference Wednesday.

“A dying star burns hottest before it fades into oblivion. I’m focused on working with President Donald Trump to stop Democrats from taking this country backwards, not working with them,” Fine wrote. “Let’s go.”

Allies of Fine have been unhappy about DeSantis’ public criticisms of the representative-elect, who will now add another crucial vote to the GOP’s narrow House majority that had dwindled as a result of several members going to work in the Trump administration. 

“Ron and Casey DeSantis are disloyal and consistently put their agenda ahead of the president’s,” a national Republican operative in Trump’s orbit told Fox News Digital. “With the congressional majority on the line in their own backyard, Ron and Casey didn’t lift a finger to help President Trump’s endorsed candidates. Worse, Ron undermined President Trump, openly attacked his candidates leading up to the special election, which could have suppressed Republican turnout, and then crowed about it on Fox News.

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“DeSantis’ personal politics once again betrayed the Trump agenda and the MAGA movement.”

Gov. DeSantis’ office declined to provide comment for this article. 

Top Biden aide paints picture of how former president acted before Trump debate

Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain revealed that former President Joe Biden was “fatigued, befuddled and disengaged” before his debate with President Donald Trump in June, according to a new book.

“At his first meeting with Biden in Aspen Lodge, the president’s cabin,”  author Chris Whipple wrote, Klain “was startled. He’d never seen him so exhausted and out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, the president excused himself and went off to sit by the pool,” according to an excerpt published by The Guardian.

Whipple’s new book, titled “Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History,” is set to be released this month. Klain, a close ally and major supporter of the former president, served as his chief of staff from 2021 until 2023 and helped Biden prepare for his June debate against Trump. 

“The president was fatigued, befuddled, and disengaged,” Whipple wrote, according to the excerpt. “Klain feared the debate with Trump would be a nationally televised disaster.”

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The debate preparation team then organized two mock debates for Biden. 

“The first was scheduled to last 90 minutes but Klain called it off after 45. The president’s voice was shot and so was his grasp of the subject. All he really could talk about was his infrastructure plan and how he was rebuilding America and 16 million jobs. He had nothing to say about his agenda for a second term,” Whipple wrote. 

Klain, according to Whipple, said the president was irritable as he pushed back on the former chief of staff’s suggestions. 

“25 minutes into the second mock debate, the president was done for the day. ‘I’m just too tired to continue and I’m afraid of losing my voice here and I feel bad,’” Klain said, according to the excerpt. “‘I just need some sleep. I’ll be fine tomorrow.’ He went off to bed.”

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Whipple said in an interview with Politico about his book that many of Biden’s closest aides were in a “fog of delusion” about the former president, and calling it a “cover-up” did not go far enough. 

“I have fresh reporting on an hour-by-hour, day-by-day basis of Biden’s final days, and obviously his decline is a major part of the story,” Whipple told Politico on Sunday. “I happen to think that to call it a ‘cover-up’ is simplistic. I think it was stranger and way more troubling than that. Biden’s inner circle, his closest advisers, many of them were in a fog of delusion and denial. They believed what they wanted to believe.”

Biden’s team did not immediately return a request for comment.

Whipple’s book is one of several coming out this year about the 2024 campaign, one of the most chaotic and unpredictable election seasons in recent history. 

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The Hill’s Amie Parnes and NBC News’ Jonathan Allen also have a book about the campaign and what led up to the former president dropping out of the race. 

According to Allen, former President Barack Obama did not want former Vice President Kamala Harris to replace Biden on the ticket and worked against her efforts behind the scenes. 

CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson are also releasing a book, titled “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” in May. 

Legendary rocker’s daughter, reality star reveals stage 4 cancer spread with new tumors

Teddi Mellencamp’s doctors recently found four more tumors in her brain, one month after the reality star was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer.

The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star told US Weekly she’s in the fight of her life after the cancer spread in her brain and to her lungs.

Mellencamp, 43, isn’t sure what the future holds, but she’s remaining positive for her family, friends and herself.

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“I’m fighting for my life,” Mellencamp told the outlet. “But also for my family’s life and all the people I love.”

In February, after medication became ineffective for her migraines and Mellencamp began feeling severe pain, she rushed to an emergency room with her estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave. 

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“The pain had become something I’d never felt before,” she said. “They diagnosed me with multiple brain tumors, but the [ER doctor] says he can’t take them out; they’ve got to get me into Cedars-Sinai [hospital]. 

“And I’m like, ‘Can’t you get me in tonight? I want to go tonight.’ I had six brain tumors and two lung tumors; they all came from melanoma that metastasized into these tumors inside of my body.”

Her “RHOBH” co-star, Kyle Richards, made a few phone calls to get her into a hospital immediately. 

“Kyle saved the day,” Mellencamp said. “I believe it was within 24 hours that an incredible surgeon was able to remove four tumors from my brain. I didn’t know they had been there for six months to a year, and we had no idea.”

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Mellencamp began radiation and immunotherapy treatment immediately after her surgery, which took a toll on her body.  

“I thought I was going to feel like how I felt after my neck lift,” she said. “My reaction is always a headache, and I found out that’s good news because it means that the immunotherapy or the radiation is killing your cancer.”

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Mellencamp said in her Instagram story Wednesday after undergoing both radiation and immunotherapy the day before that she feels “so tired and run down, but I know it’s going to get better again.” 

“Something that everyone can keep in mind … I kind of thought that I’d already beaten it, and then, a couple days later, I found out I had four more tumors. So, there are so many different highs and lows, and yeah, but I’ve learned a lot.”

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She said her famous father, musician John Mellencamp, calls to check in on her every day. 

“Some days, I’m not in the mood. I don’t want a pep talk,” Teddi said. “[I tell him], ‘I’ll talk to you tomorrow. I’ll be more pep talk-ready, but I love you.’”

He’s also given some life advice to his daughter as a survivor of a heart attack when he was 36 years old. 

“I remember his life completely changing,” Teddi said. “And some of the moments [when] I felt really scared, I was like, ‘Hold on. I’m not changing everything about my life. I want more things. I want to keep building.’ 

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“But he’s like, ‘There are moments where you emotionally won’t be able to control how you’re feeling because of a certain medication or a certain whatever. And you have to give yourself some grace and know this isn’t you sometimes. And that’s OK.’”

Probe into mysterious death of former Yankees player’s son triggers warning from experts

Experts are speaking out about the potential dangers attached to carbon monoxide, as authorities continue to probe the death of teen Miller Gardner, son of former New York Yankees player Brett Gardner.

While the cause of Miller Gardner’s death remains unconfirmed, Costa Rican Judicial Investigative Agency (OIJ) General Director Randall Zúñiga told reporters at a press conference on Monday that high levels of carbon monoxide contamination were found in the Gardner family’s hotel room, and that it might have caused the teen’s death.

“Which then leads us towards a line of investigation in which it seems that this person could have died from inhaling these very dangerous gases,” Zúñiga said.

Zúñiga said investigators who work on a specialized dangerous atmospheres team detected “high emissions of pollution of…carbon monoxide” in the room at Costa Rica’s Arenas Del Mar Beachfront & Rainforest Resort, which is where the Gardners were staying.

Officials at the hotel are denying the carbon monoxide claims.

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“The levels in the hotel room were non-existent and non-lethal. There was an error in this initial reporting. As mentioned, we await for conclusive results to confirm the cause of this unfortunate death,” a hotel spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

The spokesperson also said the room has been “closed off out of an abundance of precaution.”

Dr. Nicole Saphier, a Fox News medical contributor, said no parent should ever have to endure the tragedy of losing a child.

In regard to carbon monoxide, she said the gas is “a silent, deadly threat.”

“We often focus on smoke alarms, but carbon monoxide is colorless, odorless and can overcome a person before they even realize what’s happening,” Saphier told Fox News Digital.

Saphier said every household should have multiple functioning carbon monoxide detectors, especially near sleeping areas.

“When we travel — whether staying at a hotel, Airbnb, or even in an RV — it’s worth considering bringing a portable carbon monoxide monitor for added protection,” she suggested.

Dr. Marc Siegel, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health and a Fox News senior medical analyst, said, “symptoms can come on rapidly within minutes or hours and can include headache, nausea, fatigue, dizziness and vomiting.”

If you experience symptoms that you think could be from carbon monoxide poisoning,  the Environmental Protection Agency recommends opening doors and windows, turning off combustion appliances and leaving the building.

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Siegel said prompt treatment with oxygen can sometimes reverse carbon monoxide poisoning.

“It is absolutely shocking to me that it took this long to be disclosed as a likely cause of death, when they could have done a test for carbon monoxide in [Miller Gardener’s] blood within hours during his autopsy weeks ago,” Siegel told Fox News Digital.

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Between 2009 and 2019, deaths from non-fire-related carbon monoxide poisoning were on the rise, according to a report released by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in March 2023.

Fox News Digital reached out to OIJ in Costa Rica for additional comment.