Germany’s Vice-Chancellor and Finance Minister, Lars Klingbeil, is pushing back against President Donald Trump amid the tenuous situation involving Denmark, Greenland, and Trump’s proposed tariffs against European nations. Speaking to the media on Monday morning, Klingbeil encouraged the European Union not to be reluctant to use retaliatory measures against the U.S. if tariffs were implemented. […]
Multiple, seemingly disconnected touchstones of President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda underscore the Arctic’s emergence as an economic and potential military battleground. Northern ice sheets are receding, which senior Trump administration officials tell the Washington Examiner is providing China and Russia with both the means and the incentive to expand their territorial claims in the Arctic. Officials noted […]
The second round of January Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,108, will be issued in two days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born between the 11th and 20th of a month will receive this payment on Wednesday, Jan. 21. The first round of payments went out on Jan. 14 to recipients born […]
February 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in 11 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of a month. However, February’s payment will go out on Jan. 30. When the first of a month falls on a weekend or holiday, SSI payments are issued […]
Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is leaning on her experience as a former school board official to buoy her Senate bid in a contested primary, but her record and the district’s turmoil under her tenure paint a different picture. A review of public records and archived news reports spanning back more than two decades to when […]
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) expressed skepticism that the U.S. will use military action to take Greenland. The Kentucky senator made the comments on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday during an interview with Kirstin Welker, after Paul was asked if “annexing Greenland would be an impeachable offense.” “The difficulty about saying you’re going to impeach […]
For a man who has been accused of being a political chameleon and someone who has changed his opinion on multiple topics, including President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance has been relentlessly on message. Vance has spent the first year as the White House No. 2, acting as an attack dog for Trump while […]
Candidates jostling to succeed Gavin Newsom as the governor of California are being forced to walk a fine line between acknowledging voter frustration, while avoiding direct criticism of a man who could dominate national Democratic politics for the next decade. Until proven otherwise, Newsom is seen by many as the presumptive front-runner for the 2028 […]
Despite being the largest military in the world with a $1 trillion budget and roughly 1.3 million active-duty service members, the U.S. does not have the ability to deploy significant assets across the globe at one time, so every place of emphasis results in a deemphasis somewhere else. As a result, air, land, and naval […]
President Donald Trump made a social media post on Sunday night about the need to protect Greenland from a Russian threat. He claimed that Denmark has been warned about such a threat for years but has not been able to successfully address the situation. In his post, the president claimed that, for years, Denmark has […]
