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President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that he wants to “get Greenland, including right, title and ownership,” but said he would not use military force to do so — even as he repeatedly derided European allies, warned NATO not to interfere and threatened steep tariffs if Denmark refuses to negotiate. In …

President Donald Trump doubled down over the weekend on threats to acquire Greenland, saying he would place a 10% tariff on eight European countries that object to his plans and posting several times on social media. Trump’s insistence that the United States gain control of the Arctic island from Denmark …

President Donald Trump privately linked his increasingly aggressive posture toward Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize last year, telling Norway’s prime minister that he no longer felt “an obligation to think purely of Peace,” according to two European officials familiar with the exchange. The message, sent …

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said Thursday that she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump during a White House meeting, a striking symbolic gesture even as Trump has publicly questioned her ability to lead Venezuela following the U.S.-backed ouster of former President Nicolás Maduro. Machado …

President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that “the Trump economic boom has officially begun,” even as new government data showed consumer prices continuing to rise during the first year of his presidency and polls indicated many Americans remain worried about affordability. Speaking to members of the Detroit Economic Club gathered in …

References to President Donald Trump’s two impeachments have been removed from his display at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the latest apparent shift at the nation’s premier museum complex as Trump asserts greater influence over how U.S. history is publicly presented. The wall text summarizing Trump’s first presidency — including …

President Donald Trump on Friday escalated his rhetoric over Greenland, declaring that the United States will take action to acquire the Arctic territory regardless of opposition from Denmark or Greenland’s government. “We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not,” Trump told reporters at the …

The Senate on Thursday issued a rare bipartisan rebuke of President Donald Trump, voting to advance a resolution that would bar him from using U.S. military force “within or against Venezuela” without prior approval from Congress. The 52–47 vote came over objections from Republican leaders and amid escalating rhetoric from …

President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States will effectively govern Venezuela following a U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, marking a dramatic escalation in Washington’s confrontation with the South American nation. “We’re going to run the country until such time …

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is abandoning — at least for now — his effort to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, after courts repeatedly blocked the moves. “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins …

President Donald Trump pushed back this week against questions about his health and stamina, telling The Wall Street Journal that he does not fall asleep during meetings and that visible bruising on his hands is caused by his long-term use of high-dose aspirin. “They say aspirin is good for thinning …

President Donald Trump this week exercised his veto power for the first time since returning to the White House, rejecting two bipartisan bills that had sailed through Congress with little opposition — a move that stunned lawmakers in both parties and underscored the president’s willingness to override congressional consensus to …

President Donald Trump spent part of Christmas Eve in a festive mood, taking phone calls at his Mar-a-Lago estate from children asking about Santa Claus as the North American Aerospace Defense Command tracked his journey around the globe. “Nice, right?” Trump told reporters after one call. “Could do this all …

President Donald Trump announced Monday that his name will be attached to a new class of U.S. Navy battleships expected to carry nuclear-capable weapons, marking an extraordinary personalization of a major military program and reviving a type of warship the United States has not used in combat in more than …

President Donald Trump used an 18-minute prime-time address Wednesday to deliver a rapid-fire review of the first year of his second term, offering sweeping claims about wages, inflation, immigration, energy prices and drug costs. Some of his assertions aligned partially with available data, but others were misleading or plainly incorrect, …