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Europe Responds to Greenland Tariff Threat; Trump is Going to Davos

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.

Bessent on Greenland: "We Won’t Outsource National Security" | NTD News Today (Jan. 18)

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.

Trump May Punish Countries Opposing Greenland Plan; Machado on Future Plans

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.

Trump Threatens to Use Insurrection Act to End Minneapolis Protests; US Seizes Venezuela-Linked Tanker Ahead of Trump–Machado Meeting

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.

Vance, Rubio to Meet Greenlandic, Danish Officials; Trump: Federal Funding to Sanctuary Cities to Be Suspended

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.