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The deputy PM says the US President rowed back on threats after UK stood up for Denmark's sovereignty.
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The president appeared to be lashing out in response to stark, high-profile remarks by Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada that rejected Mr. Trump's efforts to dismantle the international order.
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The Minnesota senator, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, appears set to enter a race that has been transformed by President Trump's immigration crackdown in the state and protests against it.
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The US president said allied troops had "stayed a little back" during the war in Afghanistan.
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The appearance provides Mr. Smith with what is likely to be his best opportunity to challenge President Trump's assertion that he was persecuted for his politics, not for his misdeeds.
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The split between ideological allies showed the limits of the U.S. president's with-me-or-against-me politics, and a key obstacle to cooperation among nationalist parties.
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The Canadian prime minister spoke after returning from the World Economic Forum where he urged middle powers to team up in resisting President Trump.
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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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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rallied supporters at the Pennsylvania State Capitol, where he promoted his new dietary guidelines.
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"I watched your prime minister yesterday," the president said in a speech on Wednesday. "He wasn't so grateful — they should be grateful to us, Canada. Canada lives because of the United States.
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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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 ABC/screengrabWhoopi Goldberg is never shy about her criticisms of Donald Trump on-air at The View, but on Tuesday her critique of him turned to utter bewilderment, as the hosts reviewed footage of the former president's Pennsylvania town hall Monday.
The footage, which the show cut into a montage, featured several clips of the former president requesting songs and doing a mix of standing silently still and dancing awkwardly to the music as the crowd stared at him. According to the montage, the strange behavior went on for nearly an hour—which Goldberg said, "really upset me."
"This should freak everybody out," Goldberg said, "57 minutes of him playing music, not saying jack-doo about anything that has to do with what's going on in the world. This freaked me out." The other hosts, including former Trump White House official Alyssa Farah Griffin, pointed out that Trump's strange behavior at the rally, during which attendees were supposed to have the opportunity to ask him questions, was a sign of "a real decline" in his mental abilities.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 President Donald Trump said on Monday he would cut the number of U.S. troops in Germany to 25,000, faulting the close U.S. ally for failing to meet NATO's defense spending target and accusing it of taking advantage of America on trade.
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