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Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 - Washington — President Trump said Friday he may hike tariffs on countries that decline to "go along with" his administration's efforts to acquire Greenland, as Denmark, Greenland and other NATO allies remain staunchly opposed to his plans to acquire it.  "I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security," the president said during a ...

Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 - BEIJING — With U.S. ties at their lowest point in modern history, Canada is turning to one of the only countries with which it had even worse relations: China . Canada is forging a "new strategic partnership" with China, its second-biggest trading partner, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday during what he called a "historic" trip to Beijing. That includes a break with the United States on tariffs, which ...

Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 - Iran appeared to backpedal on previous threats to execute protesters, amid global condemnation and fears of U.S. military action, even as the government continues a brutal crackdown after weeks of demonstrations. Iran's judiciary said on Thursday that it had not issued a death sentence for Erfan Soltani, 26, a protester whose execution had been widely reported as imminent and had drawn intense international ...

Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 - SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against California that sought detailed voting records and personal data on its 23 million registered voters , concluding that the government's request was "unprecedented and illegal." The Trump administration's lawsuit, filed last year , contended that California and other states were illegally blocking the ...

Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 - SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison Friday in the first verdict from eight criminal trials over the martial law debacle that forced him out of office and other allegations. Yoon was impeached, arrested and dismissed as president after his short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024 triggered huge public protests calling for ...

Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 - officials who resist him or refuse to bend to his demands. But he may have met his match in Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. As the Trump administration ramps up its pressure campaign against the central bank — now including around Powell, defending an independent Fed chair under attack from a president of their own party. "I know Chairman Powell very well. I will be stunned — I will be shocked ...

Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 - Ruling delivers victory to Trump administration in its efforts to deport the pro-Palestinian activist A federal appeals court on Thursday reversed a lower court decision that ordered the release of the former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from immigration detention, delivering the Trump administration a victory in its efforts to deport the pro-Palestinian activist. A 2-1 panel of the ...