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President Trump marked the first year of his return to power by posting private text messages between him and other world leaders, mocking critics of his plan to take control of Greenland, and then heading overseas to negotiate with those critics face-to-face. Ed O'Keefe has more.
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Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said on Tuesday that Ottawa does not plan to pay the $1-billion US price tag for a permanent seat on U.S. President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace," that will oversee the governance and reconstruction of Gaza.
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Should a police officer be able to pull you over without a reason? The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on a Quebec case that deals with exactly that. Proponents of random police traffic stops say they're important to stop drunk drivers. Detractors say they open the door to racial profiling.
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The people of Greenland are looking to Canada for support as they continue to face threats of annexation from the U.S., says Gov. Gen. Mary Simon. Simon, a former ambassador to Denmark and Canada's first ambassador for Circumpolar Affairs, says she has spoken with Greenlanders who feel "uneasy” about U.S. President Donald Trump's stated desire...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank assessment of how he views the world in a provocative speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where he said the longstanding U.S.-led, rules-based international order is over and middle powers like Canada must pivot to avoid falling prey to further "coercion" from powerful actors.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (56 minutes ago)
President Donald Trump is not going to stop his escalating parade of chaos, columnist Jamelle Bouie warned in his new analysis for The New York Times published on Wednesday — and America must survive another three years.Bouie set the context by comparing what legendary journalist Bob Woodward wrote about the final days of Richard Nixon, a...
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Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino faced protests as he visited several convenience stores in Minneapolis on Wednesday.MAGA influencer Cam Higby captured Bovino on video as a bag of chips was dumped on him at one store. His agents quickly departed after protesters surrounded them and yelled "Nazi! Nazi!"Later in the afternoon, Bovino was allegedly...
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Reactions were rolling in Wednesday after President Donald Trump appeared to change direction on his demands for the United States to own Greenland. Trump had threatened to impose tariffs on European nations on Feb. 1 and told reporters after his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that a deal was apparently in the works with...
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President Donald Trump appeared unprepared and visibly irked during Tuesday's White House press briefing, delivering an 80-minute ramble touching foreign policy, the economy, and past elections — with a recurring gripe about the Nobel Peace Prize. CNN reporter Kristen Holmes noted Trump seemed "snubbed” by the Norwegian committee, repeatedly...
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Mark Shanahan, University of SurreyThe meeting and venue were the same, but the style and tone of the two most anticipated keynote speeches at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss town of Davos could not have been more different. On Tuesday, January 20, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney addressed the assembled political and business leaders as...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (56 minutes ago)
President Donald Trump is not going to win his bid at the Supreme Court to remove Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, predicted Vanderbilt University law professor Brian Fitzpatrick on MS NOW Wednesday afternoon.Trump ordered Cook removed based on unproven and largely debunked allegations from Federal Housing Finance Agency chief Bill Pulte that...
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One supposes that it's not an especially unusual phenomenon for politicians who ascend to power to do everything they can to cling to it. Between the ability to shape public policy and the trappings that come with inhabiting high office, political power is almost always an addictive drug that's hard to kick. That said, it's also one of the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 hours ago)
President Donald Trump claimed to have a "framework of a future deal" regarding Greenland without saying whether it would become part of the United States as he had vowed it would."Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to...
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Disappointment, disdain, frustration, humiliation.Any of these words could describe sentiment inside the camp of Bill Cassidy after President Donald Trump issued a surprise statement Saturday night in support of U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow in this fall's U.S. Senate election in Louisiana. One word that doesn't apply: Surprise.In the world of whim and...
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Trump administration immigration agents are descending on Maine as a massive immigration enforcement sweep targets Somali immigrants, The New York Times reported Wednesday.The operation marks the latest chapter in the administration's aggressive nationwide immigration crackdown following a controversial Minnesota campaign that sparked nationwide...
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Former Obama economic adviser Robert Wolf forcefully shut down a Fox News host and conservative economist Stephen Moore after they lavished praise on Donald Trump's economy without, Wolf argued, any grounding in reality. Cutting through repeated interruptions and attempts to pin current problems on Joe Biden, Wolf pointed to hard data showing...
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An MS NOW reporter was stunned following President Donald Trump's shift away from suggesting he would use military force to seize Greenland and his comments to world leaders on Wednesday. Ravi Agrawal described a full room at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where people were anticipating hearing Trump's comments on the Arctic...
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Donald Trump's attempt to claim Greenland has alarmed global observers, with commentator Sabrina Haake arguing that the former president's rhetoric is empowering authoritarian leaders like Vladimir Putin. Writing on her Substack, Haake warned that Trump's threats against Greenland and disregard for NATO undermine the "rule-based global order,”...
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Republicans on the House Oversight Committee voted Wednesday to hold both Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas to testify about their knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein."They possessed information directly relevant to the investigation,” said Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the chair of the committee. "The Clintons had...
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President Donald Trump made a major shift in direction in his first remarks on Wednesday after demanding a deal to own Greenland.Trump appeared to change his mind about military action to acquire the Arctic Island and Danish territory, and his comments were a notable change in development over the situation at the World Economic Forum in Davos,...
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Frustrated Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers fled a Minnesota neighborhood after residents alerted each other by triggering car alarms from their homes.A Reddit user shared a video of the incident on Wednesday in a post titled, "People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes...
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Former prime minister Justin Trudeau and international pop star Katy Perry took their relationship to the next level, appearing together at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where Trudeau delivered a speech to the world's elite on the virtues of soft power.
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A hearing room for the House Oversight Committee erupted into laughter Wednesday after the committee chair, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), blanked on a question asked by a Democratic committee member.Wednesday's hearing saw the committee fiercely debate whether to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress for defying a congressional subpoena...
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Donald Trump is facing mounting legal and political fallout over his controversial move to rename the Kennedy Center after himself, with a federal lawsuit alleging the change inflicted serious financial, cultural, and reputational damage on the iconic arts institution. Former White House ethics lawyer Norm Eisen, who is challenging the move, said...
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The full text of a charter for President Donald Trump's proposed Board of Peace sounds suspiciously like plans to make himself "king of the world," according to a political theorist.A charter was sent out with invitations to dozens of world leaders, asking them to join the U.S. president on a panel to oversee the postwar management of Gaza, but the...
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A former prosecutor reflected on President Donald Trump's first year in office and what he has attempted to hide.Joyce Vance argued that it's time for the public to have more information about the Jeffrey Epstein files and the Mar-a-Lago case in her Substack Wednesday. Trump has called on Florida federal Judge Aileen Cannon to block the Department...
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A three-star Navy admiral ousted during Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's controversial leadership shakeup is now mounting a high-stakes political comeback, announcing a Democratic run for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District. Nancy Lacore, a 35-year Navy veteran and former Chief of Navy Reserve, says she was removed from her post "without...
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WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement has congressional Democrats disjointed.Since the Jan. 7 shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, nearly half of House Democrats have endorsed an effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Earlier this week, though, Democratic leaders signed off on a measure that would let...
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Republican lawmakers took part in a demonstration of support for President Donald Trump's threats to take over Greenland.Some of the 79-year-old president's MAGA allies, alongside a pro-Kremlin Romanian right-wing nationalist, carved up a Greenland-shaped cake decorated like an American flag in a video recorded at the Kennedy Center, reported The...
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In a fiery speech, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) demanded Wednesday that bank executives for JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America be dragged before Congress to testify over their alleged unlawful connections with Jeffrey Epstein.Tlaib's remarks were made during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee, which was deliberating a vote on a measure that...
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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...
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House Oversight Committee Chair faced accusations that he was "hiding" Mar-a-Lago massage records for President Donald Trump after he shut down an attempt to subpoena them during a hearing on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who has been described as the president's' former best friend.During a Wednesday hearing, Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) argued that...
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Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom was captured on video laughing Wednesday while listening to President Donald Trump's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.During his speech, which lasted over an hour and saw him confuse Iceland with Greenland, Trump lavished praise on his own administration for the "help” it provided...
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President Donald Trump's effort to acquire Greenland backfired as the European Parliament stopped work on a trade deal with the U.S.While Trump was speaking to the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, Bernd Lange, the chair of the European Parliament's trade committee, confirmed that "the EU-US deal is on hold until further notice.”"Our...
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TO: European leadersFrom: Robert Reich. It is impossible to appease a tyrant.You know this better than most. I need not remind you of Neville Chamberlain's interactions with Adolf Hitler in 1938. Chamberlain met Hitler three times, culminating in the infamous Munich Agreement, which allowed Germany to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland in exchange...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt faced backlash after she insisted that President Donald Trump did not confuse Iceland with Greenland during his speech to the World Economic Forum.In a Wednesday post on X, NewsNation correspondent Libbey Dean noted that "President Trump appeared to mix up Greenland and Iceland around three times.""No he...
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers was a member of an advisory board at Telefonica, a cell phone service provider operating largely in Latin America which admitted in 2022 to collaborating with the Venezuelan government — then led by the now-deposed Nicolas Maduro — to spy on its citizens.Rogers, a former Congressman who represented a...
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor had sharp questions as the Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in the case involving Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, who was fired from the Federal Reserve board on social media by President Donald Trump over accusations of mortgage fraud. The significant case Trump v. Cook has raised questions over the federal...
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Donald Trump ist zurück auf der Weltbühne und sorgt in Davos für maximale Spannung. Mit scharfer Kritik an Europa, Seitenhieben gegen Emmanuel Macron und Angriffen auf die NATO setzt der US-Präsident altbekannte Marker. Der zentrale Satz seiner Rede fällt spät und wirkt dennoch wie ein Signal der Deeskalation: Trump erklärt, Grönland nicht...
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President Donald Trump's Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, went on Fox Business on Wednesday to complain about the fact that America's NATO allies are now sending small security forces to Greenland, in response to President Donald Trump's escalating threats to annex the glaciated island territory away from the Kingdom of Denmark."I didn't...
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Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Mehmet Oz on Wednesday said that one of the ultimate goals of President Donald Trump's healthcare plan is to get Americans healthy enough so that they're able to work for at least one more year during their lives.During an interview on Fox Business to tout Trump's recently unveiled and widely derided healthcare...
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A federal judge on Wednesday declined to appoint a special master to oversee the immediate release of the remaining Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files, dealing a blow to a bipartisan group of lawmakers who filed a motion to do so.The reason for the rejection: this isn't the proper venue to make such a request.In the ruling, U.S. District...
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President Donald Trump, a documented liar, appeared to confirm in a televised interview that aired Tuesday night that the US military deployed a "secret sonic weapon” against Venezuelan and Cuban soldiers during the Jan. 3 raid in Caracas that killed scores of people, including civilians.Asked about the existence or use of such a "sonic weapon”...
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House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) declared that Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) was "out of order" after she demanded contempt proceedings against Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.During Wednesday's Republican-controlled hearing seeking to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt for declining to testify on Epstein, Lee noted...
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s attempt to cut crucial health care funding and has been met with major resistance that could signal a significant shift in support for his MAHA agenda. Salon's Sophia Tesfaye described in an opinion piece published Wednesday how Kennedy's move to terminate $2 billion in federal grants to support substance...
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Former Vice President Al Gore said he was shocked by President Donald Trump's threats against a NATO ally during a speech in Switzerland.Trump told European leaders in Davos that he would not send troops to seize Greenland from Denmark but still demanded ownership of the world's largest island, saying he would impose severe economic and security...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
President Donald Trump briefly said that he wanted to acquire Iceland instead of Greenland during a confusing moment at the World Economic Forum.While speaking in Davos on Wednesday, Trump insisted that "all the U.S. is asking is for a place called Greenland.""We've never asked for anything," the president said. "It's always a one-way street. Now...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
President Donald Trump lashed out at NATO Wednesday during his address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland over its opposition to his threats to acquire Greenland – which he appeared to confuse with Iceland – while also reminiscing of when NATO's secretary general once referred to him as "daddy.”Trump argued the United States'...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
Donald Trump's administration's unprovoked invasion of Minnesota, combined with his threats to take Greenland by force, is another sign of his commonality with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, writes one columnist.On Wednesday morning, as Trump was speaking at Davos and demanding Denmark turn over Greenland to the U.S. with a threat of...
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