JANUARY 20, 2026
LONDON — The president was fine with it a year ago. Now it’s “GREAT STUPIDITY.”
President Donald Trump told British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in February that he was on board with a deal the United Kingdom had reached with the island nation of Mauritius over ownership of the Chagos Archipelago, a remote string of atolls in the...
JANUARY 20, 2026
Mark Carney said there had been a ‘rupture in the world order’ after Donald Trump demanded to take over Greenland - Anadolu
Canada’s Armed Forces have created a model to prepare for the possibility of US invasion after Donald Trump said he wanted to annex its territory.
The plans, which ruled out conscription, are thought to mark the first...
JANAURY 20, 2026
The headquarters of the European Central Bank seen behind the transshipment station for containers on January 19, 2026, in Frankfurt, Germany. - Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images
US stocks fell sharply Tuesday afternoon as investors continued to express concern about President Donald Trump’s clash with European leaders over ownership of Greenland.
The Dow was down 842 points, or 1.71%, in early...
JANAURY 20, 2026
A geomagnetic storm caused an auroral display over western Germany Monday evening. - Sascha Schuermann/AFP/Getty Images
Powerful solar activity released by the sun reached Earth Monday, causing colorful auroral displays and GPS issues for aircraft, according to the National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction Center, or SWPC.
A solar radiation storm, ranked at a level four out of five...
JANAURY 20, 2026
President Donald Trump has made it clear for months — maybe even years? — that he is uniquely motivated by a desire to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Maybe it’s because former President Barack Obama, a frequent Trump target, won it in 2009. Maybe it is the way Trump craves validation from those who he believes have looked down on him for years.
But it...
JANUARY 16, 2026
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks during a press conference in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 16, 2026. - REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
OSLO, NORWAY - The Nobel Peace Prize remains inseparably linked to the person or organisation designated as the laureate, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday, one day after last year's winner gave part of her award...
JANUARY 16, 2026
President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters aboard Air Force One on January 11. Getty Images
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President Donald Trump said he thinks the U.S. “shouldn’t even have” midterms in November, according to an interview with Reuters published Thursday, ramping up his attacks on the upcoming election after repeatedly expressing alarm about the possibility of Republicans losing control of Congress.
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JANUARY 16, 2026
Greenland is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark. - Julia Wäschenbach/dpa/Zuma Press
President Trump threatened to impose tariffs on countries that oppose his efforts to take control of Greenland.
“I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland because we need Greenland for national security. So I may do that,” the president said at the White House on...
JANUARY 14, 2026
The production line at a car factory in Hangzhou, China, in October. Exports to the United States fell, but rose to much of the rest of the world. - Chang W. Lee/NYT
China’s surplus reached $1.19 trillion last year, a 20 percent increase from 2024, as Beijing kept the currency weak and pursued self-reliance to replace imports.
China announced on...
JANAURY 14, 2026
Houses covered by snow are seen on the coast of a sea inlet of Nuuk, Greenland, on Monday. - Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that “anything less” than US control of Greenland is “unacceptable,” arguing the United States needs the territory for national security purposes, which could in turn strengthen NATO.
“NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland...
