Month: January 2026

The White House press secretary is getting a fact-check on social media.

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) expressed concern after President Trump’s behavior Wednesday, after the president confused Greenland and Iceland multiple times during a speech earlier in the day. “The president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways,” Ocasio-Cortez told Migrant Insider’s Pablo Manríquez on Capitol Hill. Earlier Wednesday, Trump mistook the two islands for each…

The Trump administration is accelerating the permitting timeline for deep-seabed mining applications. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) unveiled revisions to the regulatory process for exploration licenses and commercial recovery permit applications on Wednesday. Under the changes, eligible applicants can apply for and obtain an exploration license while simultaneously applying for a commercial recovery…

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) told CNN he is seriously considering running for president in 2028. “I still think it needs to be the right person for the moment, and we don’t know what that moment is yet,” he said in a wide-ranging interview published Tuesday. The retired astronaut and Navy officer is embroiled in a…

The bass guitarist also commended one music group for pushing boundaries and setting itself apart from other acts in recent years.

The president also ranted about the “problem with NATO.”

Gass, who founded the comedy rock band with Jack Black, said he felt there was “no way out” after his comments on the shooting sparked conservative outrage.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb warned Wednesday that “it’s not over yet” after President Trump de-escalated his aggressive stance on possibly acquiring Greenland for the U.S. by force. “I took two positive takeaways from this speech,” Stubb said on “Amanpour & Co” with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “One was he said there will be no military intervention,…

The “Daily Show” host explained how the U.S. can respond to the “damage” caused by the president.

The leaders of some of America’s closest allies used the Davos summit this week to confront a new world order under President Trump in which the U.S. is an unreliable partner, at best, and increasingly viewed as an adversary. The leaders of Canada and France were among those speaking out during the World Economic Forum…

Rahm Emanuel, seen as a potential 2028 contender, is pushing for a 75-year maximum age limit for people holding office. “You can’t serve in the armed forces. You can’t serve in a private sector job,” Emanuel told reporters during a Christian Science Monitor event Wednesday. “75: Go work on your golf swing,” he quipped. Emanuel,…

The comedy news program put a montage together to show just how biased some of the biggest MAGA pundits can be.

Trump boasted of a “framework of a future deal” regarding U.S. access to Greenland for military purposes — access it already under an existing agreement.

The Supreme Court explored several pathways as it weighed the monumental battle over President Trump’s firing power at the Federal Reserve on Wednesday. Though the justices appeared open to arguments from Fed board of governors member Lisa Cook that she was unlawfully removed, it remains unclear after the two-hour argument how broadly the court will rule. Justices…

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Wednesday defended giving her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump during her visit to the White House last week. “I already said what I meant and what it means to the Venezuelan people to present President Trump with our gratitude for what he has done,” Machado told independent…

President Donald Trump hedged when asked whether a new deal with NATO would include ownership of Greenland.

“There’s all these young, smart people who are just looking outside with their ideas as leaders get older and older,” Obama said.

The former TV personality known as Dr. Oz said the plan is to keep Americans healthy enough to work one additional year before retirement.

Labor unions are calling on people to skip work and hit the streets to demonstrate against the swarm of federal agents in Minneapolis.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday claimed vindication after learning that President Trump has ruled out acquiring Greenland by U.S. military force. “I know that he has said that we will not have troops involved in Greenland,” Johnson told reporters on Capitol Hill. “And as I had been saying for days, I wouldn’t ever…

One year into his second term, what we’ve actually experienced feels less like a golden age and more like a political stress test — full of speed, spectacle, and sharp division.  

President Trump told reporters Wednesday that NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is “more important” than Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen when asked about Danish officials’ unwillingness to discuss the U.S. acquiring Greenland.  “They didn’t tell me that, so when they tell me because I don’t like getting it second hand. And if he wants to…

President Trump on Wednesday sent a message to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, telling him that his country “lives because of the United States,” days after the prime minister defended Greenland against Trump’s effort to acquire the island territory. “We’re building a Golden Dome that’s going to, just by its very nature, going to be defending…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was denied entry to the USA House in Davos, Switzerland, where he was invited to speak during the World Economic Forum. “Under pressure from the White House and State Department, USA House (a church acting as the official US pavilion) is now denying entry to @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom to speak…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said President Trump was not going to invade Greenland, comments that followed the president ruling out military force to acquire the island. “He was never going to invade Greenland,” Newsom told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins while at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “It was never real. So, that was…