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New York Times:
Denied Peace Prize, Trump Tells Norway He'll Push for Greenland  —  In a text message, President Trump told Norway's prime minister that he no longer felt obliged to “think purely of Peace” and that the world would not be secure until America controlled the island.
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump Has an Offramp on Greenland.  He Doesn't Seem to Want It.  —  The strategic importance of Greenland is growing, and NATO has underinvested in Arctic security.  But President Trump, intent on ownership, is rebuffing deals with Europe to solve the problem.
John Irish / Reuters:
Trump tells Norway he no longer feels obligation to think only of peace  —  U.S. President Donald Trump has told Norway's prime minister in a letter that he no longer feels obligated “to think purely of Peace” because he had not been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and he repeated his demand for control of Greenland.
Tom Fairless / Wall Street Journal:
Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds  —  Research contradicts President Trump's claim that foreigners are footing the bill, and could weaken his hand in the dispute over Greenland  —  FRANKFURT—Americans, not foreigners, are bearing almost the entire cost of U.S. tariffs …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Raw Story
TASS:
Kremlin agrees that Trump will go down in history if he annexes Greenland  —  According to Dmitry Peskov, by resolving the issue of Greenland's accession, the US leader will go down not only in US history, but in world history as well  —  MOSCOW, January 19.  /TASS/.
NBC News:
Trump won't say whether he would use force to seize Greenland
Discussion: Mediaite and Townhall
Tim Ross / Politico:
Trump's Greenland threats push Europe toward divorcing America
Discussion: Associated Press
New York Times:
Starmer Pushes Back Against Greenland Tariff Threat as ‘Completely Wrong’
Lizzie Dearden / New York Times:
Starmer Pushes Back Against Greenland Tariff Threat as ‘Completely Wrong’
Bloomberg:
Germany Says Trump Reached Red Line With Greenland Threat
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
‘No longer in my hands’: How Hill Republicans stopped caring about DOJ releasing the Epstein files … “I don't give a rip about Epstein,” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said last week when she was asked to take stock of the month since the Dec. 19 deadline.  —  “Like, there's so many other things we need to be working on,” she added.
Discussion: NBC News, Raw Story, The Guardian and CNN
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Celebrate a King, Not a Trump  —  The Justice Department remains wildly out of compliance with the Jeffrey Epstein transparency law Congress passed last year—but don't expect the House Republicans who voted for the bill to make too much of a stink about it.
Politico:   The Green-eyed monster  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Makayla Gray  —  Good Monday morning.
CNN:
Putin invited to join Trump's ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza, Kremlin says  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to join US President Donald Trump's “Board of Peace,” the committee that will oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, his spokesman said on Monday.
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Financial Times:   Trump has invited Putin to join ‘Board of Peace’, Kremlin says
Associated Press:
$1 billion gets a permanent seat on Trump's Board of Peace for Gaza, as India and others invited
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
Inside Bari Weiss's Hostile Takeover of CBS News  —  The network's new editor-in-chief has championed a press free from élite bias, while aligning herself with a billionaire class more willing than ever to indulge Donald Trump.  —  On Halloween, a production team from “60 Minutes,” …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
‘60 Minutes’ airs report on Trump deportations that was suddenly pulled a month ago
Associated Press:
Lawyers allege Dept. of Homeland Security is denying legal counsel to Minnesota detainees  —  Detainees are being held at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis.  —  Federal officers stand outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building during a protest on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, in Minneapolis.
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Josh Shapiro Writes That Harris Team Asked if He Had Ever Been an Israeli Agent  —  In his new memoir, the Pennsylvania governor suggests that when Kamala Harris's team vetted him to be her running mate, aides focused on Israel to an extent he found offensive.
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Lydia Polgreen / New York Times:
There's a reason Trump Is Targeting Minneapolis  —  Late last Wednesday night, I was standing on a street corner in the Hawthorne neighborhood in North Minneapolis, when I witnessed an extraordinary confrontation.  A federal agent marched up a narrow residential sidewalk, flanked by modest bungalows …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Musk shocks with $10 million donation in Ky. Senate race  —  Elon Musk has cut a massive $10 million check to bolster Nate Morris, an outsider, pro-Trump candidate running to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Axios has learned. … - Musk, the world's richest person …
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters  —  Legal and criminal justice experts said a ruling by a federal judge last week revealed conduct by immigration agents that evokes the civil rights era.  —  A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned.
Discussion: Associated Press
Robert Kagan / The Atlantic:
America vs. the World … The trump administration's National Security Strategy made it official: The American-dominated liberal world order is over.  This is not because the United States proved materially incapable of sustaining it.  Rather, the American order is over because the United States …
Chan Ho-him / Associated Press:
China's economy grows 5% in 2025, buoyed by strong exports despite Trump's tariffs  —  China's economy expanded at a 5% annual pace in 2025, buoyed by strong exports despite U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs.  However, growth slowed to a 4.5% rate in the last quarter of the year, the government said Monday.
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
ICE's Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman.  Twice  —  When authorities used Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) facial recognition app on a detained woman in an attempt to learn her identity and immigration status, it returned two different and incorrect names …
Financial Times:
Could Europe really leverage its $12.6tn pile of US assets?  —  NIIPing an outlandish idea in the bud  —  The latest twist in The Apprentice: American Carnage is its threat of escalating tariffs on European countries that weirdly don't think the US should be threatening to invade a Nato ally.
NHK WORLD:
PM Takaichi announces snap election for Feb. 8  —  People in Japan will head to the polls on February 8.  —  Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae says she is seeking a stronger mandate for her coalition government.  —  The starting gun for the snap race will fire next week, after Takaichi dissolves the Lower House this Friday.
Washington Post:
Top Catholic cardinals say U.S. foreign policy raises moral questions  —  Three senior archbishops said recent events raise “basic questions about the use of military force” and have put America's moral role “under examination.”  —  Echoing concerns of Pope Leo XIV over a new era of unilateralism …
 
 
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