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The president's quick reversal on tariffs over Greenland was another sign of his willingness to rip up the international order — even parts of it that he himself has made.
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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 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 president's handpicked members of the Commission of Fine Arts are set to review the planned project. The White House hopes to win their approval by March.
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Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says the Russian president has shown no commitment to peace in Ukraine.
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How the choice of outerwear for Gregory Bovino, the president's Border Patrol chief, turned into part of the deportation story.
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For decades, leaders have gathered in Davos to discuss a shared economic and political future. On Wednesday, President Trump turned the forum into a bracing clash between his worldview and theirs.
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"Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland," the president said, referring to market shifts related to his repeated threats to seize Greenland. "So Iceland's already cost us a lot of money."
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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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The row over Greenland risked uprooting the PM's carefully cultivated relationship with the US president.
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Delcy Rodríguez is the latest spare politician to be thrust into a top job.
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As President Trump continued his quest for Greenland, Prime Minister Mark Carney said great powers were unrestrained and urged medium-size countries to band together.
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As President Trump threatens Iran, Venezuela, Mexico, Greenland and more, renowned historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is "an empire in decline," following a predictable pattern of militarism abroad and political instability at home as it loses power and influence on the world stage. "American politics become increasingly contorted and irrational," says McCoy. "I think the thing to do is to realize that we are an empire in decline, … and it will continue for another decade or two, until American power finally slips away."
McCoy just published his latest book, Cold War on Five Continents: A Global History of Empire and Espionage, on the impact of U.S.-Soviet imperial proxy wars in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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