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...
JANUARY 14, 2026
FILE PHOTO: A general view of a U.S. State Department sign outside the U.S. State Department building in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 11, 2025. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon/File Photo
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is suspending processing for immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries, a State Department spokesperson said on Wednesday, as part of Washington's intensifying...
JANUARY 14, 2026
For more than a decade, the idea of American decline has hardened into a familiar refrain. Polarised politics, institutional strain and a relentless cycle of domestic crises have made it easy to assume that US power is ebbing, particularly when measured against a supposedly rising China and a cohort of wealthy democratic allies. Yet when the economic...
JANUARY 13, 2026
Offshore Wind. - Sebastian Elias Uth
A federal judge ruled Monday that work on a major offshore wind farm for Rhode Island and Connecticut can resume, handing the industry at least a temporary victory as President Donald Trump seeks to shut it down.
At the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Senior Judge Royce Lamberth said the government...
