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Trump: 'No Comment' on Using Force to Seize Greenland

EU leaders plan emergency summit to discuss response to his tariff threat

(Newser) - President Trump isn't ruling out using the US military to seize Greenland—but he's not saying much about it, either. In a brief interview with NBC News on Monday, Trump responded, "No comment" when asked whether he'd consider using force to take control of the vast...

Powell Plans Another Public Stand Against White House

Fed chief will attend Lisa Cook's Supreme Court hearing in person this week

(Newser) - Fed chief Jerome Powell now appears to be leaning into his fight with President Trump . Both the New York Times and the AP report that Powell will be in attendance at the Supreme Court on Wednesday when justices hear arguments on whether Trump can fire Lisa Cook as a Federal...

Trump Commutes Sentence of Congressman's Son

Son of Rep. Steve Womack was sentenced to 8 years on methamphetamine charge in 2024

(Newser) - President Trump has freed an Arkansas congressman's son who was serving time on a federal methamphetamine conviction. According to a Justice Department clemency order dated Jan. 15, Trump has commuted the sentence of James Phillip Womack, son of Republican US Rep. Steve Womack, USA Today reports. James Womack was...

Americans Bear Nearly the Full Cost of Tariffs
Americans Bear Nearly
the Full Cost of Tariffs
new study
Jan 19, 2026 10:41 AM CST

Americans Bear Nearly the Full Cost of Tariffs

Study out of Germany estimates that 96% of the costs are being paid by those in the US

(Newser) - A new study of President Trump's tariffs will not please the president: The research finds that Americans are footing nearly the entire cost of them, reports the Wall Street Journal . Specifically, the study from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany finds that US consumers and importers...

Trump Writes a Snippy Letter to Norway on Nobel, Greenland

President references prize snub, links it to his push for the territory

(Newser) - President Trump complained about getting overlooked for a Nobel Peace Prize in a new letter to Norway's prime minister—and tied it to his wish to control Greenland:
  • "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no
...

Trump's AI Voice Makes Its Debut in an Ad

The ad for Fannie Mae uses president's bot-generated voice—with his permission

(Newser) - What sounds like President Trump narrating a new Fannie Mae ad actually is an AI-cloned voice reading text, according to a disclaimer in the video. The voice in the ad, created with permission from the Trump administration, promises an "all new Fannie Mae" and calls the institution the "...

UN Chief Has Some Blunt Words for Trump's Moves

'There are those who believe the power of law should be replaced by the law of power'

(Newser) - The outgoing head of the United Nations is offering a blunt new criticism of American power under President Trump: "There are those who believe the power of law should be replaced by the law of power," Secretary-General António Guterres tells the BBC in an interview. Washington now...

Iran Warns US Move Against Khamenei Would Mean War

Threat follows Trump's suggestion about a change at the top

(Newser) - Iran's president warned Sunday that his country would consider any US attack on its top leader to be a declaration of war. In what appeared to be a response to President Trump's comment the day before to Politico that "It's time to look for new leadership...

Army Battalions Ordered to Prepare for Minneapolis

Soldiers are on standby after Trump's threat to invoke Insurrection Act

(Newser) - The Trump administration is positioning about 1,500 active-duty soldiers for possible deployment to Minnesota, the Washington Post reports. President Trump has publicly threatened to send troops there under the Insurrection Act if the state's Democratic officials don't stop demonstrations in Minneapolis opposing the actions of federal immigration...

How Prosecutors Feel When the Bad Guy Gets Pardoned

Career prosecutors say clemencies erase accountability, waste years of work

(Newser) - The Washington Post zooms in on an unusual perspective in the Trump pardon story: the prosecutors who spent years building complex cases, only to watch them vanish with a signature. Reporter Perry Stein details how public-corruption and white-collar-crime teams poured millions in taxpayer-funded resources and countless late nights into prosecutions...

Trump Names Board to Oversee Gaza, Drawing Israeli Complaint

Panel includes no Palestinians and no Israeli officials

(Newser) - President Trump has unveiled the first roster for a new international body he says will direct the rebuilding of Gaza, an announcement that immediately drew public pushback from Israel. The White House on Friday named Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff,...

A Word of Warning: Greenland Is a Money Pit

Island depends on Danish welfare, fragile fishing industry

(Newser) - Anyone eyeing Greenland as a geopolitical prize might want to look at the balance sheet first. The Wall Street Journal reports that behind President Trump's talk of buying the vast Arctic island sits an economy that leans heavily on Danish cash and shrimp—and isn't growing much. Greenland'...

Trump: Tariffs Over Greenland Start Feb. 1

Rate will rise to 25% unless a deal is struck for US takeover by June 1, post says

(Newser) - As demonstrators in Greenland and Denmark protested his coveting of their territory, President Trump announced Saturday that he's levying new tariffs on European nations that will remain in effect until the US takes ownership of Greenland. Posting on Truth Social, Trump said he's imposing a 10% tariff on...

New Research Good News for Tylenol, Bad News for Trump

Review of studies on acetaminophen boosts wide consensus that it doesn't up risk of autism, ADHD

(Newser) - A new review of studies has found that taking Tylenol during pregnancy doesn't up the risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disabilities, adding to the growing body of research refuting claims made by the Trump administration. President Trump last year promoted unproven ties between the painkiller and autism, telling...

Trump Plan Would Open 401(k) Accounts for Down Payments

Initiative would accompany administration's mortgage market proposals

(Newser) - President Trump is preparing to roll out a housing pitch built around Americans' retirement savings. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Friday that Trump will unveil a proposal at next week's World Economic Forum in Davos that would let people tap their 401(k) accounts to help cover a...

ICE Detainee Was Freed, Re-Arrested, Then Re-Freed

Liberian man in Minnesota is no longer in custody

(Newser) - A Liberian man in Minnesota who has been shuttled in and out of custody since immigration agents in Minnesota broke down his door with a battering ram was released again Friday, hours after a routine check-in with authorities led to his second arrest. The dramatic initial arrest of Garrison Gibson...

Norwegians Blast 'Absurd' Nobel Medal Handover

'This is, above all, absurd. The peace prize cannot be given away'

(Newser) - Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado handed her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Trump on Thursday, a move Norwegians called "absurd" and "pathetic." "This is completely unheard of," Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor at the University of Oslo, told public broadcaster NRK. She...

Trump Warns World: OK My Greenland Push or Face Tariffs

US president threatens to lay down tariffs hammer on countries that don't go along with his plans

(Newser) - President Trump suggested on Friday that he may punish countries with tariffs if they don't back the United States controlling Greenland, a message that came as a bipartisan Congressional delegation sought to lower tensions in the Danish capital. Trump for months has insisted that the US should control Greenland,...

GOP Rep Threatens Trump Impeachment Over Greenland

Congressman Don Bacon blasts annexation talk, says White House is bullying US allies

(Newser) - A Republican lawmaker is warning that any move to seize Greenland by force could put President Trump on a collision course with impeachment. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, who's retiring at the end of his current term, said he'd consider supporting Trump's removal from office if the...

Leavitt: Trump Remarks About Canceling Midterms 'Facetious'

POTUS has made such comments at least twice recently

(Newser) - President Trump wasn't floating a constitutional crisis—he was cracking a joke, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Pressed Thursday on why the president has recently mused multiple times about scrapping this year's midterm elections, Leavitt told reporters Trump's comments were not serious, Mediaite reports....

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