President Donald Trump has displayed an unrelenting desire during the first year of his second term to be seen as the negotiator-in-chief and a peacemaking leader. But as he hits the one-year mark on Tuesday, that desire is seemingly no more.Now, Trump is using military and rhetorical intimidation to force...
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Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) called to remove President Donald Trump from office via the 25th Amendment due to Trump’s recent efforts to acquire Greenland. Markey was responding to the letter Trump sent to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. This letter included complaints that Trump’s ambitions to take over Greenland...
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court for a case in which President Donald Trump is testing the bounds of his power by attempting to fire a member of the central bank’s board of governors.Powell will attend the hearing, set for Wednesday, a source...
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Trump sent a letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, complaining that his ambitions to take over Greenland were partially because he was rejected for the Nobel Peace Prize last year.“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars...
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Multiple, seemingly disconnected touchstones of President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda underscore the Arctic’s emergence as an economic and potential military battleground.Northern ice sheets are receding, which senior Trump administration officials tell the Washington Examiner is providing China and Russia with both the means and the incentive to expand their territorial claims in...
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For a man who has been accused of being a political chameleon and someone who has changed his opinion on multiple topics, including President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance has been relentlessly on message.Vance has spent the first year as the White House No. 2, acting as an attack...
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Despite being the largest military in the world with a $1 trillion budget and roughly 1.3 million active-duty service members, the U.S. does not have the ability to deploy significant assets across the globe at one time, so every place of emphasis results in a deemphasis somewhere else. As a...
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Kamala Harris’s vetting team in 2024 asked Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) if he was an Israeli agent, according to a new memoir from the Pennsylvania governor.The book, Where We Keep the Light, details, in part, the Harris campaign’s fixation on Shapiro’s views on Israel. Shapiro, who is Jewish, was a...
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Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) criticized President Donald Trump’s response to the deadly Iranian protests, saying he hasn’t “seen much” action from the president’s support of the protesters.Trump wrote on Truth Social last week that “help is on the way” when he encouraged the Iranian protesters to continue their demonstrations, canceling...
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The Nobel Foundation reaffirmed that its peace prize can’t be “passed on” after laureate Maria Corina Machado gave President Donald Trump her award.In a statement issued after Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader, met with Trump and gifted him her award, the Nobel Foundation denounced the move without directly mentioning it. BYRON...
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European countries that don’t align with the Trump administration on an acquisition of Greenland by the United States will face tariffs, President Donald Trump said Saturday.Trump noted that the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland will face a 10% tariff starting in...
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Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) got a glimpse of the White House this week as speculation continues to grow he is eyeing a 2028 presidential campaign.Alongside fellow possible 2028 Democratic presidential candidate Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD), Shapiro was at the White House on Friday to help President Donald Trump’s administration put...
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