Inside Trump’s Plan to ‘Get’ Greenland: Persuasion, Not Invasion
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Inside Trump’s Plan to ‘Get’ Greenland: Persuasion, Not Invasion

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s longtime goal of claiming Greenland for America has shifted from rhetoric to official U.S. policy as the White House moves forward on a formal plan to acquire the Arctic island from Denmark. The plan mobilizes several cabinet departments behind Mr. Trump’s…

Russia Freed Ksenia Karelina, a Detained American, Rubio Says
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Russia Freed Ksenia Karelina, a Detained American, Rubio Says

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that an American citizen had been released from Russian custody in a rare prisoner swap, amid a broader effort by Washington and Moscow to mend relations. The prisoner, Ksenia Karelina, a dual citizen of Russia…

Trump Reverses Course on Global Tariffs, Announcing 90-Day Pause
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Trump Reverses Course on Global Tariffs, Announcing 90-Day Pause

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump on Wednesday abruptly reversed course on steep global tariffs that have roiled markets, upset members of his own party and raised fears of a recession. Just hours after he put punishing levies into place on nearly 60 countries, the president said…

4 Things to Know About Mike Huckabee, Trump’s Ambassador to Israel
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4 Things to Know About Mike Huckabee, Trump’s Ambassador to Israel

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, Republican presidential contender and Baptist minister, was confirmed as ambassador to Israel by a vote of 53 to 46 on Wednesday, with senators largely divided along party lines. President Trump announced Mr. Huckabee as his nominee for…

Netanyahu Sticks By Trump’s Brazen Proposal for Gazans to Leave
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Netanyahu Sticks By Trump’s Brazen Proposal for Gazans to Leave

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel visited the White House two months ago, President Trump sold him a brazen dream: The United States would take control of the Gaza Strip, relocate about two million Palestinians and turn the devastated seaside enclave into…

Opinion | The Special Relationship Between America and Britain Is a Myth
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Opinion | The Special Relationship Between America and Britain Is a Myth

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In the 1980s it was widely supposed that there was an intimate bond between President Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. She liked him personally and shared his free market and anti-Communist convictions, but she had her private misgivings. Shortly after Reagan was inaugurated…

Trump Wants an Iran Nuclear Deal, but It Must Be Better Than Obama’s
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Trump Wants an Iran Nuclear Deal, but It Must Be Better Than Obama’s

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In 2016, running for president and pressed for details on how he would handle some of the world’s knottiest security issues, then-candidate Donald J. Trump had a simple formula for defanging the Iranian nuclear program. Barack Obama’s negotiating team, he said, should have…

With Trump’s Return, Netanyahu Faces Fewer Restraints On Gaza Than Ever
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With Trump’s Return, Netanyahu Faces Fewer Restraints On Gaza Than Ever

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines There was a time, not long ago, when Israel’s resumption of the war in the Gaza Strip three weeks ago — a renewed offensive that has already claimed more than a thousand casualties — would have unleashed fierce Western pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu,…

Leaders Flex Muscles Against International Criminal Court
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Leaders Flex Muscles Against International Criminal Court

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines There aren’t a lot of countries Israel’s prime minister can visit without risking arrest. Which makes the red-carpet treatment Benjamin Netanyahu received in Hungary — Europe’s only proud “illiberal democracy” — all the more noteworthy. Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister, invited Mr. Netanyahu…

U.S. and Iran Will Hold Nuclear Talks on Saturday
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U.S. and Iran Will Hold Nuclear Talks on Saturday

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump said on Monday that the United States would engage in “direct” negotiations with Iran next Saturday in a last-ditch effort to rein in the country’s nuclear program, saying Tehran would be “in great danger” if it failed to reach an accord….