Trump’s message full of falsehoods
In a message to Norway’s prime minister, Donald Trump linked his pursuit of the self-governing Danish territory of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump did not seem to know that Norway and Denmark are separate countries and that the country of Norway has nothing to do with awarding the Nobel Peace Prize. In the message, Trump repeated his long-debunked claim that he ended eight wars. He falsely claimed that no written documents support Denmark’s ownership of Greenland. The settlement that became Greenland’s capital of Nuuk was established by a Danish-Norwegian ministry in the early 1700s,decades before U.S. independence. There are numerous written documents recognizing Danish sovereignty over Greenland some of them signed by the U.S. government. “Donald Trump’s claim is false, again,” said Marc Jacobsen, associate professor at the Royal Danish Defence College who is an expert on Arctic security and diplomacy. He noted that Denmark’s sovereignty over Greenland has been repeatedly recognized internationally.
Trump going to Davos 2026
President Trump’s desire to take over Greenland and threats of new tariffs on European trading partners will loom large over this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where more than 3,000 business and political leaders from over 130 countries are gathering. Trump, who is scheduled to speak at the forum on Wednesday, told reporters that he expects little pushback on his plan to either buy Greenland or take it by force, despite sharing a message from French President Emmanuel Macron questioning the move. Meanwhile, markets reacted nervously today with European stocks falling and the U.S. stock market opening down about 600 points as investors worldwide try to gauge how tensions between the U.S. and Europe might develop.
Administration in court to defend ICE in Minneapolis
The Trump administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) made a federal court filing yesterday even though it was a federal holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. The DOJ is asking federal Judge Katherine Menendez to allow the administration’s surge of sending more federal agents into Minneapolis to continue. Minnesota and the Twin Cities have filed a lawsuit to block the buildup. Judge Menendez has said she will consider Minnesota’s request to block the immigration operation “on an expedited basis.” Menendez held a hearing on the lawsuit last Wednesday and decided not to issue a temporary restraining order, but said her decision “should not be considered a prejudgment.” The lawsuit presents “somewhat frontier issues in constitutional law,” she said.
DOJ appeals judge’s ruling
The DOJ is appealing a federal judge’s order curtailing how federal agents respond to Minnesota protests. The order, issued Friday, prohibits agents from arresting or detaining peaceful protesters, using certain crowd-control measures like pepper spray against them, and stopping and detaining drivers when there is “no reasonable articulable suspicion” they are forcibly obstructing or interfering with federal operations. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called the order “a little ridiculous,” saying agents only use chemical irritants “when there’s violence happening.” However, numerous videos show Trump’s agents breaking car windows and pulling people from their cars, spraying people in the face at close range and firing nonlethal bullets at them when it appears the people have done nothing.
DOJ has violated Epstein law for a month
Today not only marks the anniversary of the first year of Donald Trump’s second term as president, it marks the one month anniversary of the deadline for the Trump administration’s Department of Justice to release all of the Epstein files. DOJ estimates it has made available less than 1% of the records. Republican Representative Thomas Massie, co-author of the bill that became law and required DOJ to release the Epstein files, said the DOJ is obstructing justice by failing to follow the law.
Measles outbreak began one year ago
Today marks one year since a measles outbreak started in West Texas, and there have been new cases in the United States each week since. Texas reported more than 760 cases and the deaths of two children. Other large outbreaks involving hundreds of cases were in South Carolina and on the border of Utah and Arizona. Donald Trump’s head of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been against measles vaccination. The U.S. reported more than 2,200 confirmed measles cases in 2025 with 171 measles cases have been reported in the first two weeks of 2026. More than 95% of the cases have been in people who had not been vaccinated with the recommended two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine.
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