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...
JANUARY 9, 2026
A Chipotle restaurant advertises it is hiring in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., August 28, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. employment growth slowed more than expected in December amid job losses in the construction, retail and manufacturing sectors, but a decline in the unemployment rate to 4.4% suggested the labor market was not rapidly deteriorating.
The Labor Department's closely...
JANUARY 8, 2026
Havana, Cuba’s capital. The country’s economy has imploded. - Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images
Elderly Cubans are digging through garbage for scraps of food in Havana. In the country’s second city, Santiago, crowds have gathered, blaring music by Cuban exiles such as Gloria Estefan and Willy Chirino, who sings “Our day is coming soon.”
The U.S. ouster of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has...
JANAURY 8, 2026
An aerial view of brine ponds and processing areas of the lithium mine of the Chilean company Sociedad Quimica Minera (SQM) in the Atacama Desert (Photo: Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty)
The job is barely done in Venezuela, and we are invited, not least by Trump courtiers themselves, to ask, where next? On the menu are the overthrow of the...
JANAURY 5, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump hasn't minced words about the larger message he's trying to send the world with the U.S. military raid to capture Nicolás Maduro and spirit the deposed Venezuelan leader and his wife to the United States to face federal drug trafficking charges.
“American dominance in the Western Hemisphere," Trump declared following Maduro's capture, “will never be questioned again.”
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