President Donald Trump addressed the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, speaking to an audience of the globe’s wealthiest and most influential leaders. Tensions with European allies over Greenland have taken center stage at this year’s gathering in the Alpine village.

YouTube creator Nick Shirley will testify on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol about his findings, during a House Judiciary Hearing named "When Public Funds Are Abused: Addressing Fraud and the Theft of Taxpayer Dollars."

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Jan. 20 expressed confidence that the United States and European countries would find a solution to the Trump administration’s effort to acquire Greenland. Bessent, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, dismissed what he called "hysteria" about a possible trade war.

The UK government on Jan. 20 approved plans for China to build its largest embassy in Europe, in London, in a bid to improve ties with Beijing despite warnings from British and U.S. lawmakers that the facility could be used for spying.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday that he does not believe U.S. President Donald Trump is 'genuinely considering' military action on Greenland. He suggests that Britain would not retaliate against U.S.tariffs. The German and French finance ministers said that European powers would not be blackmailed and that there would be a clear and united response to U.S. tariffs threat.

Donald Trump is expected to join the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland this week.

President Donald Trump threatened 25 percent tariffs on eight European nations that recently sent troops to Greenland. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Jan. 18, “We are not going to outsource our national security.” We explore the rationale behind these remarks with a geopolitical analyst.

The U.S. military announced the killing of an al-Qaeda affiliate leader. The individual had ties to a gunman who killed three U.S. citizens in Syria last month.

Trump is set to dominate Davos in the coming week with the largest U.S. delegation ever.

The Trump administration might send 1,500 active-duty soldiers to Minnesota.

Protests erupted in central London over plans for a massive new Chinese embassy. Analysts said it could pose a national security risk.

President Donald Trump will hold a roundtable discussion on investments in rural health care at the White House on Friday, which is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. ET. NTD will have live coverage of the event.

The United States said on Thursday that all options remain on the table to stop the Iranian regime’s violent suppression of nationwide protests, with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz delivering a clear message during an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting held at Washington’s request. The meeting underscored international alarm over Iran’s brutal suppression of protests that began on Dec. 28, 2025, amid economic collapse and a failing currency.

President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to quell protests against ICE agents in Minneapolis. This comes as tensions escalate in the city following a violent nighttime confrontation between an ICE agent and an illegal immigrant in the city. The Department of Homeland Security said the immigrant ambushed the agent, who shot the attacker in the leg in self-defense.

President Trump and Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will meet at the White House on Thursday. Just hours before the meeting, U.S. Southern Command confirmed in a post on X that U.S. armed forces had seized another Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the Caribbean.

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet with Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers at the White House on Wednesday. Hours before the meeting, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that anything less than Greenland "in the hands" of the United States would be "unacceptable." Trump wrote that America needs Greenland for its national security. He added that NATO would be far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the United States.

Trump said on Tuesday that the federal government would suspend payments to so-called sanctuary cities that defy federal immigration enforcement, starting on Feb. 1. Since reclaiming the Oval Office, Trump has made immigration enforcement a priority for his administration and already made similar bids to defund sanctuary jurisdictions. So far, however, he has been blocked from doing so in federal courts.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments over whether state bans on males in female sports violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the White House has “canceled all meetings” with Iranian officials and that “help is on the way” amid days of unprecedented protests in the country against the regime.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the U.S. central bank was served with grand jury subpoenas by the Department of Justice on Jan. 9. Powell confirmed in a statement on Jan. 11 that officials threatened a criminal indictment over his Senate Banking Committee testimony in June 2025. Powell noted the testimony “concerned, in part, a multi-year project to renovate historic Federal Reserve office buildings.” The central bank chief dismissed the idea that this criminal probe was driven by his testimony or the renovation, saying it's connected to his position on interest rates.

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran’s leadership has contacted his administration to seek negotiations after he warned of possible military action in the wake of mass protests in Iran. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that Iranian leaders had reached out to U.S. officials and that a meeting between the two sides was being set up.

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