Live updates: France's Macron says EU could use a powerful trade tool in response to Trump tariffs  —  EDITED BY BRIDGET BROWN, BRIAN P. D. HANNON, SARA ABOUBAKR, DREW CALLISTER AND LUENA RODRIGUEZ-FEO VILEIRA  —  Corporate chiefs and government leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump …

How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion  —  $1,408,500,000  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.  It is separate from the newsroom.

It's Sundowning in America  —  A short post.  Today doesn't seem like a day for charts and number-crunching.  —  I had never heard the term “sundowning” before it happened to my own father, yet it's a fairly common syndrome.  In his last few months my father remained lucid and rational — remained himself — during daylight hours.

ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment  —  ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months  —  During the second Trump administration, the population of migrants held at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) …

Into the abyss  —  The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.  —  Events are moving so quickly that it's worth stopping to assess where we are.  The U.S. government is currently building massive detention facilities, already detaining tens of thousands of people …

Trump ‘crossing red lines’ says Belgian PM after US president warns ‘there can be no going back’ on Greenland - Europe live  —  Belgium's PM says Europe is ‘at a crossroads’ and 80 years of Atlanticism could be drawing to a close  —  EU cannot ‘stay herbivore’ in post-atlantic world, Belgium's De Wever says

Democrats Support Bill That Would Give ICE $10 Billion  —  The party has few good options for restraining ICE, which is flush with cash thanks to the passage of President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill.  —  WASHINGTON ― Democrats touted modest constraints on President Donald …

US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search  —  Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions …

Canada's Mark Carney calls on world to adapt to ‘rupture’ caused by ‘great powers’ … Carney was walking a political high-wire — balancing the need to stand with European allies facing an unprecedented attack on their sovereignty from Trump's Greenland annexation threats …

Feds Create Drone No Fly Zone That Would Stop People Filming ICE  —  The Federal Aviation Administration put a drone no fly zone within 3,000 feet of “Department of Homeland Security facilities and mobile assets,” according to a notice to airmen posted by the government.

“ICE 101” — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police  —  ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America. … It's sometimes hard to capture just how far the looking glass …

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns  —  Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth  —  Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has warned that artificial intelligence …

Supreme Court weighs Trump's firing of the Fed's Lisa Cook by social media  —  In the battle over President Donald Trump's effort to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook that is set to go before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, the justices may focus on the president's use of social media to carry out this unprecedented action.

Julia Letlow announces US Senate run  —  U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, R-La., is running for the U.S. Senate, challenging Republican incumbent Bill Cassidy.  —  Letlow announced her candidacy at Business Report's Power Breakfast on Tuesday morning.  Her announcement comes after President Donald Trump encouraged …

Judge posts job opening for top prosecutor spot that DOJ claims Lindsey Halligan occupies  —  Though a judge disqualified Halligan from her position, the Justice Department as recently as last week referred to her as the interim U.S. attorney.  —  WASHINGTON — A top federal judge …

Americans Foot the Bill for Tariffs, Study Finds  —  Americans, not foreigners, are bearing almost the entire cost of U.S. tariffs, according to new research that contradicts a key claim by President Trump and suggests he might have a weaker hand in a reemerging trade war with Europe.  —  4%

MAYDAY from the airwaves: Belarus begins a death penalty purge of radio amateurs  —  Behind the absurdity of charging Baofeng users with ‘High Treason’ lies a terrifying intellectual genocide and an urgent call for international solidarity  —  In 1956, the legendary French film If All the Guys …

Congress clinches bipartisan health deal  —  Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan, bicameral health care deal early Tuesday morning they hope lawmakers will pass later this week as part of a four-bill government spending package.  Alongside funding for the departments of Defense …

Trump's Attack on Democracy Is Faltering  —  One year into Trump's second term, the country's institutions and civil society are still checking his authoritarian impulses.  —  The past year has been an annus horribilis for American democracy.  Donald Trump launched an assault on any source …

President Trump Will Get a Third Term Even Without Defying the Constitution … One year after Donald Trump began his second term with an inaugural address assertion that he was “saved by God to make America great again,” one way to measure his influence is to cast the mind forward two years from now.

Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion  —  Armed Forces envision insurgency tactics like those used by Afghan mujahedeen, sources say.  But officials and experts stress a U.S. operation is unlikely, and the scenarios are conceptual  —  GAVIN JOHN  —  OTTAWA AND CALGARY

Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion  —  Greenland's prime minister said the Arctic island's population and its authorities need to start preparing for a possible military invasion, even as it remains an unlikely scenario, as President Donald Trump continues to threaten taking over the territory.

Army veteran says ICE agents detained him for hours without access to phone or his attorney  —  A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.  —  MINNEAPOLIS — A combat-wounded Army veteran …

Trump And Miller Slashing Legal Immigration By 33% To 50%  —  New research concludes the Trump administration's policies will reduce legal immigration to the United States by 33% to 50% over four years.  Restricting Americans' ability to sponsor their closest family members …

Trump's “roving patrols” are closing in on Americans  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is going all-in to defend immigration officers who've detained U.S. citizens, even as the number of incidents continues to rise. … But it's locked in court battles over whether …