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European countries held an emergency meeting in Brussels Sunday in response to President Trump's post threatening tariffs against countries that have sent military forces into Greenland amid his push to annex the Arctic island. Leigh Kiniry reports.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is considering sending soldiers to Greenland for military exercises with NATO allies, as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens tariffs on European nations unless they let him purchase and control the semiautonomous island, two senior Canadian officials told CBC News.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (56 minutes ago)
Donald Trump has lashed out at a NATO ally in a late night Truth Social post. The president has already taken tariff action against several NATO nations in retaliation to their stance on Greenland. Trump and his administration has made it clear they want to take Greenland for national security reasons. NATO members have opposed this aim, saying it...
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Davos rückt in den Mittelpunkt der Weltpolitik. Zum Start des World Economic Forum stellt sich die zentrale Frage, wie geschlossen EU, NATO und G7 auf Donald Trump reagieren und welche geopolitischen Weichen in den kommenden Tagen in der Schweiz gestellt werden. Gordon Repinski über ein Forum, das von Trump, Grönland, Zoll-Drohungen und der...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (4 hours ago)
President Donald Trump may be on the verge of changing history, but not in a way fans of his MAGA movement are expecting, according to one legal expert. Joyce Vance, law professor at the University of Alabama, argued in a new Substack essay that Trump's deportation operations have an ugly parallel in American history. She compared raids by...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
The Wall Street Journal's editorial board is sounding the alarm, urging the Supreme Court to slam the brakes on President Donald Trump's tariff power grab. The high court is scrutinizing whether Trump's so-called "emergency" tariffs are even legal. And the timing couldn't be more urgent.Trump unleashed a tariff blitz against European allies,...
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President Donald Trump is advancing his ambitions in the far north with a huge investment in a surprising place, The New York Times reported on Monday: the tiny town of Nome, Alaska."Nome is a quiet, frozen frontier town much of the year, known mostly for the Iditarod sled race, and reachable only by air except for a few summer months when the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
A Department of Homeland Security official seemed to back herself into an "extremely implausible" corner over a recent immigration arrest, according to analysts. Over the weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials conducted a raid in St. Paul, Minnesota, where they detained a U.S. citizen, ChongLy Thao. Video shows officers taking Thao,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) was beside himself in an interview on CNN about President Donald Trump's latest threats to annex Greenland, calling the president a "madman" who is divorced from reality and needs to be treated as such."This is a man, again, that only cares about himself," Gallego told Anderson Cooper. "First, he doesn't like commitment to...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)
A GOP analyst warned on Monday that America is following President Donald Trump's recipe for doom with "depressing precision," and it could accelerate the superpower's decline. Mike Madrid, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, argued in a new Substack essay that America is already exhibiting signs of decline, from Trump's repeated attacks against...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
Former Trump administration White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews shredded President Donald Trump over his escalating demands for the United States to acquire Greenland from Denmark, something both Danes and Greenlanders have repeatedly said they have no interest in.Trump raised new alarms on Monday with the exposure of an angry letter...
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The Port of Seattle is experiencing a jobs crisis courtesy of President Donald Trump's economic policies.Dispatcher Sarah Esch faced a grim reality on a recent Monday morning: 70 available shifts for 600 waiting workers, The New York Times reported Monday night. "Those numbers aren't great," she told the outlet.Trump's tariff blitz has transformed...
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A former federal prosecutor was taken aback on Monday by a jury's "staggering new rebuke" of one of President Donald Trump's hand-picked prosecutors. Last week, a federal jury acquitted a 33-year-old man named Jacob Winkler after Trump's Department of Justice charged him with crimes stemming from shining a green laser at the presidential helicopter...
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Elite disease experts are trading microscopes for yoga mats and dog leashes after sweeping purges left Atlanta's public health sector in freefall. Thousands of seasoned epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists have fled the agency following the Trump administration's dramatic staff reductions to the Centers for Disease Control and...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary just revealed the "insanity" behind Trump's ploy to control Greenland, according to one analyst. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined NBC News's "Meet the Press" on Sunday to discuss Trump's efforts to wrest control of Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark. Will Saletan, writer for The Bulwark,...
ReadAustralian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (7 hours ago)
While many West Australians were competing for parking spots at beaches on their holidays, Basil Zempilas latched onto two hot topics on which to challenge the government — the demersal fishing ban and WA's illicit tobacco trade.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's designs on Greenland seem almost perfectly calculated to be a boon to Russia and Vladimir Putin, New York University professor and authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat told MS NOW's Ari Melber on Monday evening."Ruth, what do you see as the validity of this move?" asked Melber. "On a scale of 0 to 10, we're seeing a lot...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
Right-wing podcaster Katie Miller was roundly mocked on Monday after she attempted to chide one of President Donald Trump's biggest rivals on social media, according to a new report. California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office announced that he will travel to Davos, a popular conference for the world's economic elites, and tell the crowd what he thinks...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson unleashed a scathing attack Monday on Donald Trump, calling the former president a threat to American democracy itself, and making the case for forcible removal if Trump doesn't willingly leave.In a fiery piece titled "Declaration of Independence From The Mad King," Wilson ripped into Trump for treating the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
The family of a man in St. Paul, Minnesota, who President Donald Trump's immigration agents detained on a snowy day while he was wearing only his underwear, spoke out on Monday and categorically denied many of the claims the administration made about the incident. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided the home of ChongLy Scott Thao on...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
A major decision was handed down on Monday that will make it harder for Democrats to hold the Trump administration accountable for conditions inside Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, according to a new report. U.S. District Court Judge Jia M. Cobb declined to block a new Department of Homeland Security policy that limits when...
ReadCBC - Politics (8 hours ago)
Before landing in India for a six-day trade mission, B.C. Premier David Eby's main objective was to pack in as many meetings and garner as much interest in his province's resources as possible. Less than a year ago, that would have seemed virtually impossible to achieve in a country that was deep into a tense diplomatic rift with Canada.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Calls were growing Monday to invoke the 25th Amendment after President Donald Trump threatened to continue his campaign to seize Greenland because he didn't receive Nobel Peace Prize. Reports surfaced of a letter Trump sent to Norway's prime minister that included an open threat that his administration would continue to pursue acquiring Greenland,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
A DHS official was criticized Monday after admitting that ICE agents had wrongly taken a U.S. citizen who was showering and forced him outside his home in his underwear in the freezing cold. Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin attempted to respond to a social post where Louansee Moua claimed that ICE broke down the door of her...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Former Naval War College professor Tom Nichols warned in The Atlantic that if President Donald Trump continues with his escalating threats to seize control of Greenland by force, U.S. armed forces — many of whom have worked side by side with Danish forces in NATO exercises — will be faced with impossible decisions.Trump has begun to argue that...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement fumed on Monday after a former CNN host accused them of reinforcing 'white supremacy."Former CNN host Don Lemon discussed MAGA's response to a Sunday morning protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, during a podcast interview on Monday, where he described the movement's response as "entitled" and...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
It appears President Donald Trump has been able to keep one of his most odious campaign promises, according to one analyst. In 2024, Trump made major promises to bring down the cost of living for Americans and to release the FBI's investigation files into disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. However, neither of those...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Officials in both Texas and Minnesota are calling for accountability and a full investigation into conditions at Camp East Montana, the sprawling detention complex at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, following the third reported death at the facility in less than two months.Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
Ex-CNN host Don Lemon didn't hold back on Monday when discussing the latest "intimidation tactic" President Donald Trump is trying to use against him. Lemon discussed Trump's response to a protest he attended at a church in St. Paul on Sunday morning during an interview on the IHIP News podcast. Lemon was one of dozens of protesters who entered...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
President Donald Trump melted down in a Truth Social post on Monday over claims that his ex-fixer was "coerced" into providing testimony against him. Michael Cohen, the former counsel for The Trump Organization, testified against Trump in New York Attorney General Letitia James' civil fraud case, which ended with Trump being charged with 34...
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Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg had a sharp response Monday to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller's unfounded claims that local and state police should "stand down" and "surrender" to ICE agents. Goldberg was on a CNN panel responding to Miller's comments on X that alleged police in Minneapolis — where ICE agent Jonathan...
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A reporter for Creative Loafing Tampa went to a Border Patrol recruitment event in St. Petersburg, Florida, and says she was rapidly and forcefully corralled into applying, barely with her consent, and used an artificial intelligence tool to generate her resume to expedite the process.According to Valerie Smith, "My experience with Border Patrol...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Bishop William Barber vowed to "overcome" the Trump administration in his Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech in New York City.During his MLK Day speech on Monday, Barber tied the fight against Trump to the song "We Shall Overcome.""And I stop by to say that we need to sing it and live it. We shall overcome," he explained. "I don't care what...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
World leaders were reportedly anxious after President Donald Trump's demand for his proposed "Board of Peace for Gaza" signing ceremony ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, according to reports Monday. The clock was ticking as the international community was pressured to decide on accepting Trump's membership for $1 billion as insiders...
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President Donald Trump is stuck in an immigration enforcement nightmare with no good options in sight, according to a political analyst.Anti-ICE protests are escalating, with protesters even storming a Minnesota church service over a pastor's alleged ICE connections, while activists elsewhere attacked a conservative influencer and blocked the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
A new episode of drama is flaring up in the fiercely contested Republican U.S. Senate primary in Texas, where incumbent Sen. John Cornyn is accusing his highest-polling challenger, Attorney General Ken Paxton, of abusing his official powers to write a 74-page campaign ad masquerading as a legal opinion.Paxton, a far-right firebrand who previously...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
President Donald Trump amplified a call for a former CNN host to be sentenced to 40 years in prison for attending a protest at a church in Minneapolis on Sunday. Don Lemon, who hosted CNN's "Don Lemon Tonight" from 2014 to 2022, attended a protest on Sunday morning organized by anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement activists at Cities Church in...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
Damning new polling revealed Monday that the vast majority of the country believes the federal government is deliberately withholding explosive information about the Jeffrey Epstein case.The CNN/SSRS survey found a whopping two-thirds of Americans believe Washington is intentionally sitting on files that should see the light of day. Just16% believe...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
Trump resistance protesters have planned to pivot to disruption — signaling a major change in the movement, according to a report Monday. A "Free America" walkout slated for Tuesday has anticipated tens of thousands to participate on the day of President Donald Trump's one-year anniversary of his inauguration, according to a new Axios report....
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A Trump-friendly right-wing podcaster is furious with the president over a recent gaudy celebration at his Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida, HuffPost reported on Monday.Comedian Tim Dillon, an influencer with a wide male fanbase who advocated hard for President Donald Trump during the election but has grown more critical of the president in...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer faces mounting allegations of misconduct while her department operates largely without her showing up for work, according to The Washington Post.In addition to ongoing investigations into allegations of an affair with a staffer and drinking on the job, new reports describe alcohol stored in her office and...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Questions have mounted over whether President Donald Trump has sold off pardons in exchange for donations to his MAGA allies.The controversy surrounding these presidential pardons has "just got louder," wrote Steve Benen, producer of "The Rachel Maddow Show” and editor of MaddowBlog, in an analysis published Monday. Trump has rewarded "generous...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Today, we honor the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr.Trump has removed MLK Jr.'s birthday from the National Park Service's fee-free days and substituted his own birthday of June 14 as a fee-free day.I write this more in sorrow than in angerAll told, I feel profound sorrow for America. Sorrow for the people of Minneapolis who are enduring this...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
The leading French economist Gabriel Zucman is urging European governments to inflict financial pain on American billionaires in response to US President Donald Trump's effort to seize control of Greenland, a mineral-rich island that some of Trump's rich campaign donors see as a potentially massive profit opportunity."Europe should respond to...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's administration has appealed a federal court order that protects protesters in Minneapolis from some of the most controversial and heavy-handed crackdown tactics being used by federal agents.The motion, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, notifies the judge that the administration will seek relief...
ReadAustralian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (13 hours ago)
Following the Trump administration's recent tariff threat on European allies, some experts warn it may push Europe closer to China, and potentially see the European Union use its anti-coercion instrument, also known as a "trade bazooka", in response.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
The doctor who formerly treated Dick Cheney, longtime cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Reiner, called on Congress to launch an investigation into President Donald Trump's mental health over his obsession with owning Greenland.In a recent letter, Trump linked his quest for Greenland to a failure to secure the Nobel Peace Prize."Considering your Country...
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President Donald Trump sent shockwaves across the globe Monday morning after the text of a letter he'd sent Norway's prime minister was made public, leading historian Anne Applebaum to conclude that the president "genuinely lives in a different reality” — and demanding GOP lawmakers step in before it's too late.Described by Applebaum as being...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
The Trump administration has been quietly expediting plans to put a nuclear plant on the moon in a geopolitical race with China and Russia to control the future of space. NASA has awarded contracts to three companies to develop small nuclear reactors that could supply power in space by 2030, according to Politico which published a list of...
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A top Justice Department official floated the idea Monday of charging ex-CNN host and journalist Don Lemon – who had reported on an anti-ICE demonstration at a Minnesota church Sunday – under an 1871 law designed to combat the Ku Klux Klan."Whenever anyone conspires to violate the protected civil rights of American citizens, the Klan Act can be...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
European nations singled out for tariff hikes by Donald Trump could hit back with an economic sanction of their own. While the eight nations, including the UK, Denmark, France, and Germany, are set to receive a 10% tariff on the price of goods, they could counter this with a "trade bazooka" move that could cripple the president's clear hopes of...
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Elon Musk's takeover and rebrand of Twitter — now X — is now ripping apart the MAGA movement, according to a report Monday. Musk rebranded the platform in 2023, changing its moderation rules and prompting a rise in hate speech that has created a series of complaints among conservatives, Politico reported. "Three years later, Musk's control of...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
Department of Justice senior adviser Alina Habba insisted that federal prosecutors would "come down hard" on Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) after he danced with a Somali flag, allegedly creating hostility against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.During a Monday interview on Fox News, host Brian Kilmeade noted that Attorney General Pam...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
As early as this week, the Trump administration appears poised to gut a "century-old” Justice Department ethics norm that requires the agency's attorneys to recuse themselves from cases in which they hold a conflict of interest, MeidasTouch News reported Monday.The move, revealed to MeidasTouch News by "three senior administration sources” who...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. celebrated his birthday over the weekend by posing for a photo cutting into a steak with three lit candles — a post that left online critics confused over its "deeply weird” messaging."No cake, just steak,” reads a social media post from HHS wishing RFK Jr. a "happy birthday,” a post...
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Former Florida prosecutor Dave Aronson expressed disgust Monday at Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's fierce refusal on Fox News to investigate ICE agent Jonathan Ross for shooting and killing unarmed 37-year-old Minnesota mom Renee Nicole Good — and warned it will backfire on the Trump administration.Speaking with MS NOW's Jonathan Lemire,...
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Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers reportedly grabbed a U.S. citizen while he was showering and forced him outside into the freezing cold in just his underwear.In a Sunday Facebook post, Louansee Moua claimed that ICE broke down the door of her brother-in-law Saly's Minneapolis apartment.The officers "trashed the place, handcuffed him,...
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Donald Trump's floor is his ceiling. And his ceiling is his floor.That is the stark takeaway from a new Associated Press-NORC poll showing his approval rating stuck at roughly 40 percent — flatlining across every major issue. Only 37 percent approve of his handling of the economy. Just 38 percent on immigration. On foreign policy, it drops to 33...
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President Donald Trump has a plan for an instant strike back if the Supreme Court rules against his tariffs, according to a report Monday. In an interview with The New York Times, the United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer — Trump's top trade negotiator — revealed that the president intends to impose tariffs no matter what. And even...
ReadCBS News - Politics (16 hours ago)
President Trump announced Saturday that he would institute 10% tariffs on eight European countries who oppose his plan to put Greenland under U.S. control. The announcement came after a bipartisan group of congressional lawmakers flew to Denmark to express support for keeping Greenland under Danish control. Ramy Inocencio has more.
ReadPolitico - Europe (16 hours ago)
Der Grönland-Konflikt eskaliert und wird zum handfesten Handelsstreit. Donald Trump droht mit neuen Strafzöllen gegen Europa, als Reaktion auf die gemeinsame Erkundungsmission westlicher Staaten. Im Zentrum steht Kanzler Friedrich Merz, der sich demonstrativ hinter Dänemark stellt und vor einer Eskalation der transatlantischen Beziehungen warnt....
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