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.

‘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.

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,” …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

China's Birthrate Sinks to Record Low  —  Population shrinks for fourth consecutive year  —  China's population shrank for a fourth consecutive year as its birthrate fell to a record low, underscoring the demographic challenges facing the world's second-largest economy.  —  The details

Top Catholic Clerics Denounce U.S. Foreign Policy … The three highest-ranking Roman Catholic clerics who lead archdioceses in the United States said in a strongly worded statement on Monday that America's “moral role in confronting evil around the world” is in question for the first time in decades.

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 …

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.

Author of 'Don't Say Abolish ICE' Memo Is a Corporate Consultant  —  Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms.  — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email  —  The author of a controversial memo telling Democrats …

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 …

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 …

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.