The Pentagon has ordered roughly 1,500 active-duty troops to remain on standby for a possible deployment to Minnesota, where anti-ICE protests are prevalent after an officer-involved shooting that killed a woman. Tensions between federal and state officials are growing increasingly fraught after President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, though he has since […]

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 […]