A tumultuous period between the United States and its traditional allies took another lurch Friday, as NATO nations expressed outrage over remarks from President Trump the previous day.
The new furor began when Trump downplayed the willingness of the U.S.'s partners to sacrifice on behalf of the alliance.
"We have never really asked anything of them. You know, they'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan, or this or that. And they did — they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines," Trump said in an interview with Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business. The Memo is a reported column by Niall Stanage. |
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Tensions between the United States and Canada have rapidly escalated this week after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a rousing speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, declaring a "rupture" in the old world order and calling on "middle powers" to unite.
The once jovial public relationship between Carney and President Trump has descended into a barbed back-and-forth, with Trump on Friday disinviting Canada from his Board of Peace, which Ottawa was already hesitant to join. |
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Texas Democrats Rep. Jasmine Crockett and state Rep. James Talarico are set for a Saturday showdown in the first debate of their closely watched Senate primary.
The stakes are high for both campaigns, as new polling shows Talarico with a single-digit lead over Crockett, whose entry into the race last month added a new layer to the party's long-shot hopes of winning in the red state.
Just weeks before squaring off in a March primary, the rivals will have to make their case for statewide electability on the debate stage as they race to replace incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R), who faces his own tough challenge in the GOP primary. |
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Fed board of governors member Lisa Cook faced a choice ahead of this week's Supreme Court oral argument: show up, or sit it out?
They chose visibility, forming part of a crowd of economic and legal heavyweights in the justices' lines of sight as they mulled the future of the Fed's protections from the executive branch.
Some others involved in recent high-profile Supreme Court cases have stayed away for their own strategic reasons. |
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, in a seeming rebuke of the Trump administration's withdrawal from international collaborations.
Newsom traveled this week to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he was scheduled to speak at an event but was canceled at the last moment. During his trip, he met with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. |
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An FBI agent in Minneapolis who attempted to probe the death of a 37-year-old woman killed by a federal immigration officer earlier this month has resigned, according to multiple reports.
Tracee Mergen left her job in the bureau's Minneapolis field office after facing pressure to discontinue an inquiry into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, Jonathan Ross, according to The New York Times, which first reported on Mergen's resignation. "It is FBI policy not to comment on personnel matters," the FBI said in a statement to The Hill. |
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Vice President Vance and conservative influencer Laura Loomer traded jabs on social media Friday after Loomer questioned why Republicans were "pushing more abortion messaging" ahead of the November midterms.
"Why is the GOP pushing more abortion messaging in a midterm election year? Didn't they learn their lesson in 2018? Loomer wrote Friday afternoon on social platform X. "[President] Trump doesn't like it when the GOP focuses on abortion," she added. "How many times does he have to say this?" |
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Governors in multiple states have issued emergency declarations ahead of expected severe winter weather this weekend.
A forecast report issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) early Friday morning warned of an impending "significant, long duration winter storm" from the Southern Rockies to New England beginning Friday and lasting until Monday. On Friday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) declared a state of emergency in his state beginning Saturday, citing "dangerous travel and road conditions" and "damage to public infrastructure." |
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Friday he is back in the Lone Star State after a viral photo showed him on a plane as the state prepared for a massive winter storm.
"I've returned home from my work trip. It's 66 degrees & beautiful. A storm is expected tomorrow night," Cruz posted on the social platform X alongside a picture of himself standing outdoors.
"But I am reliably informed by Twitter that if I simply raise up my hand on Texas soil, the storm will turn around & sunshine, rainbows & unicorns will emerge. Let it be," he added, jokingly. |
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OPINION | In the middle of President Trump's first term, a tale of two power plants reflected the nation's seemingly irrevocable course of turning from high carbon dioxide-emitting coal to non-emitting nuclear and renewables.
In Arizona, the Navajo coal-fired power plant closed in November 2019, despite efforts by the first Trump administration to keep it open. The administration tried forcing the federally constructed but locally-run Central Arizona Project to purchase Navajo's power and even sought a private buyer for the plant. But the numbers just didn't pencil out — it was too expensive to operate, the private deal fell through, and the project got its power elsewhere. |
OPINION | Trump's "Board of Peace" might sound ridiculous, and perhaps it is. But it's no more ridiculous than claiming NATO is a board of peace.
That phrase now circulates in respectable company, with a straight face, as though repetition alone could make it true. It cannot. NATO was not born as a peace club, but as a military alliance with a narrow defensive purpose — specifically, to prevent the Soviet Union from rolling tanks across Western Europe. |
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The narrative surrounding the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations in cities such as Minneapolis falls largely along political lines, despite a growing number of Americans expressing displeasure with the tactics being used by federal agents and officers. |
A string of violent incidents has added fresh urgency to calls for more body-worn cameras. But DHS proposed reducing spending on them in its initial budget proposal. |
The police in Brookfield, Ill., filed a battery charge against a federal agent, who was off duty when he scuffled with an immigrant rights activist. |
Blueprint says U.S. will focus attention on Western Hemisphere while reducing military role in Europe, South Korea and Middle East. |
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