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Tenacious D will return: Jack Black and Kyle Gass ‘hashed it out’ after Trump joke controversy

The band went on hiatus after outrage over onstage joke in 2024, but Gass confirms the band will return, saying: ‘It was hard. It is like a marriage’

Tenacious D member Kyle Gass has confirmed that he and bandmate Jack Black have reconciled and will reunite, after outrage over an onstage joke about the assassination attempt on the US president, Donald Trump, lead to the band going on hiatus.

While performing in Sydney in July 2024, when Black suggested he make a wish for his birthday while blowing candles on stage, Gass responded, “Don’t miss Trump next time”, referring to the assassination attempt on Trump in Pennsylvania earlier that week.

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China Wins as Trump Cedes Leadership of the Global Economy

The president used a keynote speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to renounce the last vestiges of the liberal democratic order.

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“Everybody took advantage of the United States,” President Trump told an audience at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday.
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Europe must heed Mark Carney – and embrace a painful emancipation from the US | Paul Taylor

Trump’s tariff retreat should lull nobody into dropping their guard. The EU must join forces with Canada, Japan and other like-minded countries

EU leaders would do well to meditate on the seminal lesson that the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, delivered at this year’s World Economic Forum.

In an incisive analysis of the new age of predatory great powers, where might is increasingly asserted as right, Carney not only accurately defined the coarsening of international relations as “a rupture, not a transition”. He also outlined how liberal democratic “middle powers” such as Canada – but also European countries – must build coalitions to counter coercion and defend as much as possible of the principles of territorial integrity, the rule of law, free trade, climate action and human rights. He spelled out a hedging strategy that Canada is already pursuing, diversifying its trade and supply chains and even opening its market to Chinese electric vehicles to counter Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian-made automobiles.

Paul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre

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Will Trump’s board of peace replace the UN? – podcast

Trump’s board of peace includes Putin, Netanyahu and Tony Blair. What on earth will it do? Julian Borger reports

Donald Trump promised to bring peace to Gaza. And part of that promise was the creation of a board of peace. For months it was unclear who would be on it, but now we know: Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu, alongside billionaire businessmen and Tony Blair.

Apart from how Putin and Netanyahu – who have been accused of war crimes – can bring peace, there are other questions. The charter of the board makes no mention of Gaza. And there is apparently a price tag – if you want to stay on the board for more than three years, you must pay $1bn.

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Trump Drops Tariff Threats Over Greenland After Meeting With NATO Chief

President Trump’s announcement appeared to draw the United States back from the possibility of military and economic conflict with American allies over Greenland.

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Hours after his address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, President Trump said he had reached a framework agreement with the leader of NATO over the future of Greenland.
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Trump declaration of Greenland framework deal met with scepticism amid tariff relief

Nato chief Mark Rutte says there is ‘a lot of work to be done’, as some Danish MPs voice concern at Greenland apparently being sidelined in US president’s talks

Donald Trump’s announcement of a “framework of a future deal” that would settle the issue of Greenland after weeks of escalating threats has been met with profound scepticism from people in the Arctic territory, even as financial markets rebounded and European leaders welcomed a reprieve from further tariffs.

Just hours after the president used his speech at the World Economic Forum to insist he wanted Greenland, “including right, title and ownership,” but backed away from his more bellicose threats of military intervention – Trump took to social media to announce “the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland” and withdrew the threat of tariffs against eight European countries. He later called it “a concept of a deal” when he spoke to business network CNBC soon after Wall Street closed.

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© Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP

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At Davos, a Clash Between Trump’s World and the Old World

For decades, leaders have gathered in Davos to discuss a shared economic and political future. On Wednesday, President Trump turned the forum into a bracing clash between his worldview and theirs.

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Audience members listening to President Trump’s address at Davos on Wednesday.
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Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Would Have Global Scope but One Man in Charge

The initiative is the latest example of the president dismantling the post-World War II international system and building a new one, with himself at the center.

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Israel, Saudi Arabia and other nations have said they would join President Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace,” but France, Norway and Sweden have said no.
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T.S.A. Leader Defends Working With ICE to Congress

At an oversight hearing, Democratic lawmakers peppered the agency’s acting director over the Transportation Security Administration’s role in Trump’s immigration crackdown.

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Ha Nguyen McNeill, the acting T.S.A. director, speaking to lawmakers at an oversight hearing at the Capitol on Wednesday.
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RFK Jr., Kicking Off National Tour, Says He’s Not Running for President

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rallied supporters at the Pennsylvania State Capitol, where he promoted his new dietary guidelines.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a rally on Wednesday at the Pennsylvania State Capitol to mark the start of a national “Take Back Your Health” tour.
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Trump’s Davos speech, explained: From who calls him ‘Daddy’ to why ‘Iceland’ came up

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a speech heavily aimed at a domestic audience and focused on America's economy, but which also made crucial reference to the many geopolitical storms that involve America today, from Greenland and Gaza to Venezuela and Ukraine. He said America is owed legal title to Greenland, though said he would not take it by force. He referred to the Russian president as "Vladimir," the French president as "Emmanuel," the former president of the Swiss Confederation as "a woman," and the NATO secretary-general as "Mark," and fondly remembered the time Mark Rutte called him "Daddy." He called Greenland "Iceland" a few times. It all stood in contrast to the speech on Tuesday by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney — whom Trump also called "Mark," but in a less conciliatory manner — which quoted both the Ancient Greek historian Thucydides ("the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must") and the modern corporate aphorism that "if you are not at the table, you are on the menu," and was over in about 15 minutes with a standing ovation. Trump's was well over an hour. The National Post annotates some of the key portions of Trump's speech. Read More
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