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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…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Wednesday he received positive feedback from world leaders after he criticized them a day earlier for caving to President Trump on foreign policy. “I heard a surprising number say: ‘I’m glad you made those comments,’” Newsom told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The exact opposite…

The president’s remarks were made while he reflected on critics during his first administration.

On assignment in Minnesota, HuffPost reporter Matt Shuham saw immigration agents constrain a man until he became unconscious, just one of many people to be caught up in what the state has called an “invasion” of federal forces.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Denmark “irrelevant” on Tuesday amid tensions between the U.S. and the Scandinavian country over Greenland. “Denmark’s investment in U.S. Treasury bonds — like Denmark itself — is irrelevant,” Bessent said at a press conference Tuesday. “Less than 100 million dollars, they’ve been selling Treasurys for years,” he added. “I’m not…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday dismissed President Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as “remarkably boring.” “It was remarkably insignificant,” Newsom continued as he spoke with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in Davos. “He was never going to invade Greenland, it was never real. So that was always a fake, and…

The president said the U.S. should have just kept the Danish territory after World War II and that Denmark was being “ungrateful” by not handing it over now.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said on Wednesday that the U.S. is “less reliable” as a global ally under President Trump, but he was otherwise reluctant to criticize the Trump during his interview with The Economist at the World Economic Forum. Asked if he agrees with Canadian President Mark Carney’s assessment that there’s been a…

Many countries have formally agreed to join President Trump’s Board of Peace to transform the Gaza strip into a stabilized region following disruption from conflict between Hamas and Israel, with Trump saying that as many as 59 nations are in play. As the entities work to maintain a ceasefire authored by the Trump administration, international…

Even the conservative justices had no qualms about tearing apart the administration’s justification for attempting to fire Lisa Cook.

“Oh, I’m glad my finger wasn’t in that sucker!” he exclaimed. “That could have done some damage!”

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) on Wednesday lambasted President Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which the governor called “dangerous, disrespectful and unhinged.” Trump used his speech to make his pitch for why the U.S. should acquire Greenland, telling world leaders that he is not considering using the military to take…

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) said Tuesday that President Trump’s renewed threats of annexing Greenland have left young children in the semiautonomous territory frightened of a possible military attack, calling the president’s comments “nonsense.” “The president is not making a lot of sense,” Dean, who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told host Erin Burnett…

The Vermont independent told Stephen Colbert that the territory could remain unscathed if one particular group gets their act together.

What a space cadet the Fox News host is.