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Protests in Greenland and Denmark as Trump repeats tariffs threat – Europe live

‘Hands off Greenland’ rallies have been organised in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense and Nuuk

Demonstrators have begun gathering in front of City Hall in Copenhagen as part of a series of actions planned throughout Denmark and Greenland in protest of Donald Trump and his plans to take control of Greenland.

The plan in Copenhagen is march to the US embassy in the Danish capital. Other rallies are set to begin later Saturday in Greenland and in other parts of Denmark.

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How local and national news outlets are covering the aftermath of ICE shooting: ‘Get there, bear witness, ask questions’

Strong media presence in Minneapolis has ensured Renee Good’s shooting, and its fallout, has received wide coverage

After a federal immigration agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with grisly videos quickly going viral on social media, news organizations from around the state, country and world dispatched correspondents and anchors to the scene.

In the days since, that media presence has ebbed and flowed – though a well-resourced local news corps and many national journalists have remained, including reporters for the Guardian, covering additional clashes between police and protesters.

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Americans disapprove of Trump’s foreign policy. His escapades are likely to cost him | Sid Blumenthal

History tells us what happens when American presidents focus on foreign policy and neglect domestic economic policy

Donald Trump’s blitzkrieg since his 3 January seizure of the Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has been guided by his triumph of the will, as he told the New York Times. “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me … I don’t need international law.”

Trump treats the spectacle as a reality TV show in which he is both the executive producer and the host who ultimately declares himself the winner. At his 3 January press conference on the day of Maduro’s seizure, Trump mentioned “oil” 27 times, “money” 13 times and “democracy” not once. He trashed the democratic opposition as lacking “respect” and “support”. The capture of Maduro was a decapitation, not regime change. Indeed, Trump served as a convenient agent of an internal coup of the existing powers, whom he declared “an ally”. “We have to fix the country first,” he said. “You can’t have an election.”

Sidney Blumenthal, former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has published three books of a projected five-volume political life of Abraham Lincoln: A Self-Made Man, Wrestling With His Angel and All the Powers of Earth. He is a Guardian US columnist

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A Trump Veto Leaves Republicans in Colorado Parched and Bewildered

The first veto of the president’s second term killed legislation that would have brought clean water to some of the most conservative parts of the state. Residents wonder why.

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Ed Brown can’t consume water that comes out of the tap at his house because it is contaminated with unsafe levels of radium and uranium. He fills jugs of drinking water at Rocky Ford Food Market in Rocky Ford, Colo.
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Can Cuba Survive Without Venezuela’s Oil?

President Trump stopped Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba, and experts say disaster looms. Oil fuels its electric grid and without alternative supplies the country will plunge into extended darkness.

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A Cuban-flagged oil tanker anchored near the Matanzas terminal this month in Cuba.
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How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change

Six years after the financial industry pledged to use trillions to fight climate change and reshape finance, its efforts have largely collapsed.

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Climate activists protest BlackRock in New York City in 2023.
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Les véhicules électriques chinois se rapprochent du marché américain via le Canada

L’Amérique du Nord pourrait bientôt voir circuler davantage de véhicules électriques chinois, mais par une porte détournée. Ottawa vient d’annoncer une inflexion notable de sa politique commerciale, ouvrant un nouveau corridor aux constructeurs asiatiques. Cette décision intervient alors que les équilibres mondiaux du secteur automobile évoluent rapidement, sous l’effet conjugué des stratégies industrielles chinoises et ... Lire plus

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Les véhicules électriques chinois se rapprochent du marché américain via le Canada

L’Amérique du Nord pourrait bientôt voir circuler davantage de véhicules électriques chinois, mais par une porte détournée. Ottawa vient d’annoncer une inflexion notable de sa politique commerciale, ouvrant un nouveau corridor aux constructeurs asiatiques. Cette décision intervient alors que les équilibres mondiaux du secteur automobile évoluent rapidement, sous l’effet conjugué des stratégies industrielles chinoises et ... Lire plus

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Claudette Colvin’s life should teach us this: resistance is collective, and it never stops | Gary Younge

Colvin, who died this week, made a stand on an Alabama bus nine months before Rosa Parks. When we met, her message about the struggle was clear

“In life, there’s the beginning and the end,” John Carlos, the African American sprinter who raised his fist in a black power salute from the podium of the 1968 Olympics, once told me. “The beginning don’t matter. The end don’t matter. All that matters is what you do in between – whether you’re prepared to do what it takes to make change. There has to be physical and material sacrifice. When all the dust settles and we’re getting ready to play down for the ninth inning, the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.”

Claudette Colvin, who died earlier this week in a hospice in Texas, did her job while she was here on the planet, although it was several decades before her physical and material sacrifice was acknowledged. On 2 March 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, aged just 15, Colvin took a stand and refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman.

Gary Younge is a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester

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© Illustration: Matt Kenyon/The Guardian

© Illustration: Matt Kenyon/The Guardian

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Trump Administration Delays Forced Collections on Student Loan Defaults

The Education Department has temporarily paused a plan to seize tax refunds and begin garnishing the wages of borrowers who have defaulted on their student loans.

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The Education Department said it was postponing its plan to gradually resume garnishing the wages of those who have defaulted on their student loans.
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Trump Administration Begins Criminal Inquiry Into Minnesota Leaders

The Justice Department’s investigation is a major escalation in the state-federal battle over the conduct of immigration agents in Minneapolis.

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Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, at a news conference this month. He and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota are being investigated by the Justice Department, according to a senior law enforcement official.
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Minnesota leaders decry targeting by US justice department over ICE turmoil

Governor Tim Walz says ‘weaponizing the justice system is an authoritarian tactic’ as he and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey reportedly will be subpoenaed

The US justice department is investigating Minnesota’s political leaders for allegedly conspiring to obstruct the Trump administration’s controversial immigration crackdown there, according to multiple reports.

The investigation, which CBS News first reported, marks an extraordinary use of federal power to challenge two of the crackdown’s most vocal Democratic critics, including the state’s governor, Tim Walz, and the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey.

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© Photograph: AP, Retuers

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As Kennedy Center Rebrands It’s Mired in Black Tape

After the institution’s board declared it the Trump Kennedy Center, a lot of signage around the building is in the midst of a makeover.

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A sign in an entryway to the parking garage of the Kennedy Center. Since the board voted to change the center’s name to include that of President Trump, black tape has begun to cover up signage that has the old name.
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Trump Has Machado’s Nobel Prize, but Neither Got What They Really Wanted

President Trump has María Corina Machado’s medal, but he is not recognized as the prize laureate. Ms. Machado did not win Mr. Trump’s endorsement to become Venezuela’s president.

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María Corina Machado’s decision to present her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Trump has been met with mixed reviews in the United States and abroad.
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