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.For President Trump, the sheer size of Greenland’s territory holds part of the appeal; it is about three time
European Union ambassadors held an emergency meeting on Sunday, and leaders from across the 27-nation bloc will meet in Brussels later this week.The flag of Greenland flying outside the Danish Parliament on Friday.
The British prime minister said his country “must stand up for its values” after President Trump threatened a new tariff war over acquiring the island.Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain speaking to the news media at Downing Street in London on Monday.
Plus, chimney sweeps are making a comeback.A protest on Saturday in Nuuk, Greenland, against President Trump’s campaign to take over the semiautonomous Danish territory.
Photographs show a tangled mess of metal, wires and broken glass at the scene of the crash, which killed at least 39 people.Members of the Spanish Civil Guard, along with other emergency personnel, work next to one of the trains involved in the accident near Adamuz, Spain, on Monday.
Sunday’s train crash in the southern region of Andalucía was the deadliest in Spain since at least 2013.A person affected by a deadly train derailment is transferred for treatment to the Caseta Municipal in Adamuz, Spain, on Sunday.
If the Supreme Court rules against its tariffs, the Trump administration would begin replacing them immediately, said Jamieson Greer, the United States Trade Representative.
Musicians, theater groups and others from overseas are facing visa challenges and rising costs, posing a looming crisis for the performing arts sector.Tinariwen canceled an American tour when the Trump administration announced travel restrictions on 19 countries, including Mali, where most of its me
The Stanford Daily lost a 1978 Supreme Court case over the search of its newsroom. But a bipartisan backlash prompted a federal law protecting journalists.The search of the home of a Washington Post reporter last week may be another turning point in arguments over press freedom.
China’s population fell for a fourth straight year and its birthrate tumbled as policymakers failed to slow a demographic crisis.Despite sweeping efforts to boost births, China’s population has shrunk and aged for a fourth straight year as deaths again outnumbered births.
Falling apartment prices have erased the savings of millions of Chinese households, but exports lifted the economy to 5 percent growth last year.China is still grappling with a property market crash that began four years ago, after many years of overbuilding.
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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.Federal agents hold down a protester outside the Whipple federal building in Minneapolis on Jan. 11.
Just before President Trump took office, Border Patrol agents led by Gregory Bovino arrested immigrants in Kern County using the same playbook later seen in places like Chicago and Minneapolis. Then a federal judge ordered them to stop.
As federal agents swarm the Twin Cities, their presence has also grown in medical centers. Health care workers are pushing back.Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis on Sunday.
Citing recent events in Venezuela, Ukraine and Greenland, three cardinals said their statement was inspired by Pope Leo.Cardinal Blase Cupich said in an interview that, among his fellow cardinals, there was “a sense of alarm about the way things were going in the world.”
Generations of Times journalists have journeyed there with scientists. Their coverage traces humankind’s changing relationship with the most mysterious continent.One of the dog teams of the Byrd Expedition resting in the foothills near the Axel Heiberg Glacier on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica in
U.S. authorities have accused Hezbollah of complicity in drug trafficking and money laundering schemes in Venezuela.Hezbollah fighters at the Lebanon-Syria border in 2017.
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, backed Nate Morris, a Republican businessman, in the primary race to succeed Senator Mitch McConnell in Kentucky.Elon Musk at the Kennedy Center in November. After his falling out with President Trump last year, he has inched back toward the Republican fold.
An anonymous negative ad campaign has been aimed at New Jersey’s departing attorney general. “It’s a warning to others,” one political scientist said.Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin of New Jersey is leaving office but nonetheless is being targeted by campaign-style mailers.
Billions of dollars are trading hands on sites like Polymarket and Kalshi, where people bet on everything from Taylor Swift’s wedding date to election outcomes.
The world’s largest asset manager has been enlisted to help build Ukraine’s recovery plan. Some fear it is part of a Trump administration effort to steer the effort toward American business interests.Mezhova, in eastern Ukraine, in December. Ukrainian officials have likened their country’s recovery
The traditional rhetoric of the World Economic Forum centered on global integration, climate change and international cooperation. Not anymore.Attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last year.
The 3.3 percent rate for 2026 would match last year’s pace. Booming investment in artificial intelligence is buttressing global output.An exhibit at a conference held by Nvidia, which makes chips that power artificial intelligence. Surging investment in technology is poised this year to offset the h
