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For decades, leaders have gathered in Davos to discuss a shared economic and political future. On Wednesday, President Trump turned the forum into a bracing clash between his worldview and theirs.
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The move was described as precautionary in the event that President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act in response to protests.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) had come to the Davos forum to rebut President Donald Trump on the world stage.
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As the justices weighed the consequences of allowing President Trump to fire a Federal Reserve official, the president reprised his pressure campaign on the central bank.
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The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration's request to block, at least for now, a lower court's injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.
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At an oversight hearing, Democratic lawmakers peppered the agency's acting director over the Transportation Security Administration's role in Trump's immigration crackdown.
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The announcement was the latest head-spinning twist in his effort to seize Greenland from Denmark despite Danish and Greenlandic objections that the island is not for sale.
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President Trump said on social media that he had reached a framework agreement over the future of the Danish territory.
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A similar operation that unfolded in Minnesota became a flashpoint between protesters and immigration authorities.
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U.S. president toys with NATO leaders in call for "immediate negotiations to discuss the acquisition of Greenland."
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TINA BROWN: They could win!
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Behind the scenes, Sir Keir had been coming under greater pressure to change his approach to the president.
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World leaders are gathered in Davos, Switzerland, site of the World Economic Forum — which has turned into an emergency summit over President Trump's threats to take over Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark. This comes as Oxfam International has released a report finding economic inequality creates "fertile ground for increased authoritarianism." Amitabh Behar, executive director of Oxfam International, says "the entire multilateral structure seems not just fragile, it's broken."
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The initiative is the latest example of the president dismantling the post-World War II international system and building a new one, with himself at the center.
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The president gave misleading accounts of the U.S. role in Greenland's history and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, among other claims.
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The Supreme Court's ruling, which is expected in the coming weeks or months, is one of the most significant tests to date of Trump's push to expand presidential power.
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Mr. Trump's address to European leaders encapsulated his approach to global power and policymaking in his second term, alternating between coercion and humiliation.
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Days after President Trump urged her to run, Representative Julia Letlow said she would challenge Mr. Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican who voted to convict Mr. Trump in his second impeachment trial.
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President Trump's criticism reversed his administration's previous support for the deal, in which Britain relinquished control of the Chagos Islands, site of a joint U.S.-British base.
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Tensions are escalating between the United States and Europe after President Trump threatened to impose tariffs on eight European allies that oppose his push to take over Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark. Thousands took part in protests in Greenland and Denmark over the weekend to oppose Trump's annexation threats.
Julie Rademacher, chair of Uagut, an organization for Greenlanders in Denmark, tells Democracy Now! that Trump's rhetoric is a threat to everyone. "This is not only Greenland being attacked. This is democracy, freedom and the world order as we know it that's being attacked."
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