Labor unions and progressive organizations have called on workers across the state to stay home in an ‘economic blackout’

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Talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States have begun in Abu Dhabi, according to the United Arab Emirates’ ministry of foreign affairs.

The UAE is hosting a rare set of trilateral talks, bringing together negotiators from Russia, Ukraine, and the US. The talks have started today, and are scheduled to continue over the next two days.

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President Donald Trump's Air Force One experiences electrical problems during takeoff to Switzerland for World Economic Forum, with White House citing decades-old aircraft concerns.

As President Donald Trump pushes a White House ballroom construction project, Judge Richard Leon reportedly asked about the president's authority.

Iran’s top prosecutor Mohammad Movahedi is criticizing an announcement from President Donald Trump that Iran recently canceled more than 800 executions.

Iran's top prosecutor denies Trump's claim that Tehran halted mass executions under U.S. pressure as American naval forces head toward the region.

If the United States under President Trump starts acting as if it’s Russia, where does that leave President Vladimir V. Putin?

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President Donald Trump has revived his threats to use military force against Iran’s senior leadership amid a violent crackdown on nationwide protests. Late Thursday he said an armada of U.S. Navy vessels is en route to the Middle East. Read More

As a lightning government offensive leaves the Kurdish-dominated SDF reeling, the political horizon needs attention as well as security

In little more than a fortnight, a dramatic Syrian government offensive appears to have undone over a decade of Kurdish self-rule in the north-east and extended President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s control. The Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) held around a quarter of the country and many critical resources – but were forced out of much of it within days. Though the SDF has effectively agreed to dissolution in principle, it has not shown it will do so in practice: a worrying sign for a fragile truce. A peaceful resolution is in everyone’s interests. Forcible integration by Damascus would risk breeding insurgency.

The US relied upon the SDF in the battle against Islamic State. But Donald Trump has embraced “attractive, tough” Mr Sharaa – a former jihadist who had a $10m US bounty on his head until late 2024. The US administration became increasingly frustrated at the SDF’s failure to implement last spring’s agreement to integration into the new army, apparently due to internal divisions. Tom Barrack, the US special envoy to Syria and ambassador to Turkey, wrote this week that the rationale for partnership with the SDF had “largely expired” because Damascus was ready to take over security responsibilities.

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The U.S. once maintained more than a dozen. Now it has one. President Trump wants more.

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U.S. President Donald Trump says a large bruise on his left hand was caused by bumping it on furniture while in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum. Read More

US president asks ‘whatever happened to global warming?’ Well, it could be making our winter storms worse

Donald Trump has erroneously cited an enormous winter storm that is set to deliver freezing temperatures and heavy snow to half of the US as supposed proof that the world is not heating up due to the burning of fossil fuels.

Trump, who has repeatedly questioned and mocked established climate science in the past, posted of the storm on Truth Social: “Rarely seen anything like it before. Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain – WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???”

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From derailing meetings by telling fictional stories about serial killers to Davos, the president has left people confused and concerned

Donald Trump vowed to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars” during his inauguration speech last year, a bold promise that spoke to otherworldly achievements.

But during the first year of his second term, it is on the planet Earth where Trump has sought to plant the US flag. He has deployed troops to US cities, as waves of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents terrorize communities. Trump has ordered the invasion of Venezuela and the capture of its leader, is engaged in ongoing saber-rattling over Greenland, and has threatened historic US allies should they oppose his efforts to seize the autonomous territory of the Danish kingdom. He has amplified online claims that Nato is a bigger threat to the US than historical adversaries China and Russia.

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With tight business restrictions still in place, companies may find it challenging to even assess what opportunities exist for them in the South American nation.

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Dissenting voices were few and far between as the US president brought his smash-and-grab politics to the WEF

“If we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.” The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, was the darling of Davos this week as he rallied resistance to Donald Trump’s smash and grab politics and his voracious appetite for other countries’ wealth and land.

“Call it what it is,” he told delegates. “A system of intensifying great power rivalry, where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as coercion”. He urged “middle powers” to band together or be crushed, and was rewarded with a standing ovation.

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Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said a person’s right to refuse a vaccine outweighed concerns about illness or death from infectious diseases.

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Just outside Minneapolis, the Whipple Building houses offices, a detention center and a courthouse — and has become the home base for immigration agents and protesters alike.

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Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a physician, reluctantly voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary. It didn’t appease President Trump.

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President Donald Trump has turned up the heat on European leaders as he looks to ink a deal for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, including a specific focus on French President Emmanuel Macron in recent weeks.

President’s assertion that Nato troops were not on the front line in Afghanistan has sparked widespread anger

Keir Starmer’s allies have launched a “Stop Andy Burnham” campaign to prevent the Labour mayor from returning to parliament after the resignation of a Manchester MP triggered a byelection, Pippa Crerar, Jessica Elgot and Josh Halliday report in their overnight story.

In a good analysis, Jess explains why, if Burnham does decide that he wants to return to the Commons as MP for Gorton and Denton in Manchester, he faces a colossal challenge.

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The US president took his bullying doctrine to Davos and hit a wall of opposition. If this creates a new western alliance against him, all to the good

The temptation is strong to hope that the storm has passed. To believe that a week that began with a US threat to seize a European territory, whether by force or extortion, has ended with the promise of negotiation and therefore a return to normality. But that is a dangerous delusion. There can be no return to normality. The world we thought we knew has gone. The only question now is what takes its place – a question that will affect us all, that is full of danger and that, perhaps unexpectedly, also carries a whisper of hope.

Forget that Donald Trump eventually backed down from his threats to conquer Greenland, re-holstering the economic gun he had put to the head of all those countries who stood in his way, the UK among them. The fact that he made the threat at all confirmed what should have been obvious since he returned to office a year ago: that, under him, the US has become an unreliable ally, if not an actual foe of its one-time friends.

Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist

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TikTok vient d'annoncer la finalisation un accord majeur avec des investisseurs US pour créer une entité contrôlée à 80,1% par des Américains.

President Donald Trump poked fun at "environmental insurrectionists" as Americans expect massive winter storms, asking, "What happened to global warming?"

House conservatives revive their impeachment push after Speaker Mike Johnson signals support for targeting federal judges.

Trump promises "a lot" of campaign travel for GOP midterms as Republicans work to defend their narrow majorities in House and Senate races nationwide.