The United States will not take control of Greenland, the island’s new prime minister said on Sunday in response to President Trump’s latest assertion that he wants to annex the territory. “President Trump says that the United States ‘will get Greenland,’” Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, who was sworn in on Friday, said on social media. … Read more
Amid raucous questioning by opposition members in Italy’s Parliament this month, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni noted that she had been asked repeatedly: “Are you with Europe or with the United States?” The prime minister responded that she was always with Italy and by extension, Europe. “I don’t blindly follow Europe or the United States,” she … Read more
For much of this week, President Trump was consumed by a single question. What should he do about his national security adviser, Michael Waltz? “Should I fire him?” he asked aides and allies as the fallout continued over the stunning leak of a Signal group chat set up by Mr. Waltz, who had inadvertently added … Read more
President Trump has been less than subtle in his insistence that the United States will “get” Greenland one way or another, reiterating on Friday that the United States cannot “live without it.” By the time he uttered those words in Oval Office, the highest-level American political expeditionary force ever to step foot on the vast … Read more
Vice President JD Vance landed in Greenland on Friday afternoon as part of a contentious trip pushed by the Trump administration and angrily opposed by Greenlanders. His group, which includes his wife, Usha, and the national security adviser, Michael Waltz, was set to tour the Pituffik Space Base, an American missile defense station and one … Read more
Vice President JD Vance and other top U.S. officials arrived on Friday in Greenland, where locals have expressed deep unease about the visit after President Trump vowed to acquire the island “one way or the other.” Mr. Vance is being joined on the one-day trip by Usha Vance, his wife; Chris Wright, the energy secretary; … Read more
When he arrives in Greenland on Friday, Vice President JD Vance is not going to get much of a welcome from Greenlanders. Mr. Vance will be the highest-ranking American official ever to visit the island. But the government of Greenland never invited him and after all that President Trump has said about his desire to … Read more
When he arrives in Greenland on Friday, Vice President JD Vance is not going to get much of a welcome from Greenlanders. Mr. Vance will be the highest-ranking American official ever to visit the island. But the government of Greenland never invited him and after all that President Trump has said about his desire to … Read more
Vice President JD Vance and other top U.S. officials are scheduled to arrive on Friday in Greenland, where locals have expressed deep unease about the visit after President Trump vowed to acquire the island “one way or the other.” Mr. Vance is being joined on the one-day trip by Usha Vance, his wife; Chris Wright, … Read more
Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, has been busy in the early months of 2025 trying out ways to make himself a counterweight to the Trump administration. In a social-media skirmish in February over the administration’s hiring and firing of an official who had written racist posts, Mr. Khanna drew the ire of Vice President … Read more