
The Guardian - 16 hours 51 min ago
The president's fixation on piece of ice' Greenland carries an echo of Vladimir Putin's claims about Crimea The good news headline from Donald Trump's trip to Davos was that he seemed to rule out force for now in his urgent quest to acquire Greenland. The bad news was: he started talking about Iceland as well. What might have been a big reveal about the next step in Trump's imperial ambitions was more likely a slip, though all speculation about the working of the presidential...

The Guardian - 17 hours 3 min ago
Conservative and liberal judges questioned administration over president's authority to fire without due process US politics live updates US supreme court justices appeared skeptical of Donald Trump's case for firing a Federal Reserve governor on Wednesday, in a key test of the president's power and his administration's battle to exert greater control over the US central bank. Five months after Trump tried to fire Lisa Cook over apparent discrepancies on mortgage applications his...

ABC News - 17 hours 10 min ago
As tensions simmered between the United States and Europe over President Donald Trump's push to acquire Greenland, Russian officials, state-backed media and pro-Kremlin bloggers watched with a mixture of glee, gloating and wariness...

UPI - 17 hours 11 min ago
EU lawmakers said that approval of the trade agreement between the bloc and the U.S. is suspended until Donald Trump's threats over Greenland end.

The Guardian - 17 hours 17 min ago
The prime minister has a duty to be candid with the British public about the scale of the global realignment caused by a volatile US president One foreign policy achievement that Donald Trump prefers not to boast about is his role in helping Mark Carney win last year's Canadian general election. The incumbent Liberal party faced crushing defeat before Mr Trump threatened to annex Canada . Mr Carney's candidacy was buoyed up by a patriotic rally against US bullying. Perhaps because his country...

CNBC - 17 hours 21 min ago
President Donald Trump said the U.S. "defeated" inflation and reined in consumer prices over the past year. Federal data suggests otherwise.

Advocate - 17 hours 31 min ago
A year into President Donald Trump's second term, Amnesty International and a coalition of U.S. and international rights groups are warning that the United States is exhibiting clear signs of democratic backsliding, marked by the erosion of civil liberties, weakened rule of law , and the normalization of coercive state power.

Fox News - 17 hours 33 min ago
Joy Behar revealed during a podcast that she wants her legacy to be helping remove President Donald Trump from office, calling the president "dangerous."...

The Raw Story - 17 hours 36 min ago
President Donald Trump lamented that he couldn't "screw" people whom he didn't like during a rant at the World Economic Forum. While speaking to CEOs in Davos on Wednesday, Trump bragged that companies were building plants in the U.S. "It's amazing what's going on. Look, it's amazing. We've never had anything like it or close. Nobody else has it," he remarked. "I don't even ask anybody how you're doing now. It's like everybody is making so...

The Guardian - 17 hours 39 min ago
Tory leader tries to score points by siding with out-of-control president hellbent on destroying Nato and Europe It had been a relatively quite night. Apart from Donald Trump giving a long, rambling press conference, in which he offered only a few mild insults to his supposed allies, and posting mockups of Canada and Greenland covered in the Stars and Stripes. Apart from that. But that barely raises an eyebrow these days. Still, any respite even 12 hours is to be welcomed. Gives Keir Starmer a moment...

Huffington Post - 17 hours 54 min ago
The president's remarks were made while he reflected on critics during his first administration.

NBC News - 18 hours 1 min ago
One year in, President Donald Trump says the U.S. is seeing "extraordinarily high economic growth." But the numbers paint a mixed picture...

CNBC - 18 hours 1 min ago
In remarks on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum, President Donald Trump touted his signature "big beautiful bill." Here's how the tax breaks work.

CNBC - 18 hours 15 min ago
Donald Trump told a packed room at Davos he demanded "immediate" negotiations over Greenland. CNBC was there, where the tension was palpable.

The Guardian - 18 hours 18 min ago
Brussels to host emergency summit to discuss options including nuclear deterrent' of retaliatory sanctions The European parliament has formally suspended the ratification process on its US trade deal, in protest against Donald Trump's threat to impose 10% tariffs on EU exports unless the bloc agrees he can take over Greenland. The pause is the strongest material response the EU has shown so far to what several leaders last week called blackmail . Continue reading...

NBC News - 18 hours 23 min ago
Global markets swung sharply Wednesday, gaining back some ground from Tuesday's dip but remaining volatile amid escalating rhetoric from President Donald Trump over control of Greenland...

The Independent - 18 hours 27 min ago
The FTSE 100 index closed up 11.31 points, 0.1%, at 10,138.09.

The Hill - 18 hours 28 min ago
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said on Wednesday that the U.S. is "less reliable" as a global ally under President Trump, but he was otherwise reluctant to criticize the Trump during his interview with The Economist at the World Economic Forum. Asked if he agrees with Canadian President Mark Carney's assessment that there's been a...

NBC News - 18 hours 29 min ago
President Donald Trump said he won't use military force to acquire Greenland, but sent an unmistakable warning that Europe needs to cede it to the U.S.

BBC - 18 hours 31 min ago
The French government is not currently in favour of boycotting this summer's World Cup over US President Donald Trump's threats to annex Greenland, according to the country's sports minister.

The Independent - 18 hours 36 min ago
President said Canada benefits from U.S. protection, in wide-ranging speech in Davos, Switzerland...

The Guardian - 18 hours 42 min ago
Appeasing Trump has only emboldened him. But European leaders are not as helpless as the US president believes Georg Riekeles is the associate director of the European Policy Centre EU leaders' tough rebukes to Donald Trump in Davos must be followed by concrete action when they convene in Brussels on Thursday night. The US president's attempt to strong-arm Greenland and Denmark, backed by explicit tariff threats against those who refuse to comply, is not bluster or improvisation. It is economic...

Fortune - 18 hours 43 min ago
President Donald Trump insisted any bid to bring the "big beautiful piece of ice" under American control would stop short of military force.

The Guardian - 18 hours 46 min ago
As Mark Carney, Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen decide to live in truth', what will it take for Starmer to call out Trump? Davos live latest updates Donald Trump has told the Davos economic forum "without us, most countries would not even work", but for the first time in decades, many western leaders have come to the opposite conclusion: they will function better without the US. Individually and collectively, they have decided "to live in truth" the phrase used by the...