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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen met on Tuesday in a show of unity after U.S. President Donald Trump again stressed his designs on Greenland.

Trump has signaled his desire for the Arctic island, which is believed to hold large untapped mineral and oil reserves, to become part of the United States.

by Sara HUSSEIN

Having shattered assumptions in the tech sector and beyond about the cost of artificial intelligence, Chinese startup DeepSeek's new chatbot is now roiling another industry: energy companies.

A pause to all government grants and loans – estimated to be in the trillions of dollars – sent Capitol Hill into a tizzy on Monday as confusion swirled around the order sent across federal agencies, media reports say.

In an internal memo that circulated Monday, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget Matthew J. Vaeth directed federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance,” according to the Washington Post, which obtained a copy of the two-page document.

by Léon BRUNEAU

Tariffs, just as they were during his first term from 2017 to 2021, are Trump's weapon of choice on the global stage.

Career attorneys and Justice Department staff are said to be rattled by the sea of changes upending the agency in President Donald Trump’s first week in office, as they struggle to adjust to the new reality.

The latest development affecting the department – which Trump spent four years blasting as overly political as it pursued criminal cases against him – came Monday when he fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked with special counsel Jack Smith on Trump’s charges.

President Donald Trump has ordered a halt to a decades-old program dating back to the George W. Bush administration that has saved millions of lives abroad by distributing HIV medications to low-income countries, The New York Times reported — "even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics."

The shutdown of the program, known as the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, is part of a broader directive by the Trump administration to suspend nearly all foreign aid, except for emergency food assistance and arms deals for Egypt and Israel. It also comes amid Trump's move to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, which many in the GOP have accused of being overly protective of the Chinese government during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Minnesota Senate Republicans tried to expel Sen. Nicole Mitchell, DFL-Woodbury, from the chamber Monday, arguing that her felony burglary charge restricts her from adequately representing her constituents and that the nature of the allegations is unbecoming of a Minnesota senator.

Mitchell’s trial for the burglary charge was scheduled to begin Monday, but lawyers for Mitchell successfully delayed it until after the Legislature adjourns on May 19. In their motion to delay, Mitchell’s lawyers cited a 2007 appellate ruling stating that legal proceedings involving legislators should be delayed until after the legislative session to ensure constituents still receive representation.

by Nicolas REVISE

The project at the Museum of Jewish Heritage (MJH) in New York saw 10 survivors undertake interviews on a range of topics to allow future visitors to question their virtual likenesses about their experiences.

by Frankie TAGGART

For Trump critics, however, it is a frontal assault on civil rights that will chill efforts to create a fairer country, dismantling decades of affirmative action that they argue led to a more skilled, representative workforce.

President Donald Trump wants to do more than just extend the income and corporate tax cuts he passed in 2017, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — he wants to make good on campaign promises to eliminate taxes on various forms of spending and earning. But the odds he'll get the House GOP on board with any of it is slim to none, conservative economist and strategist Brian Reidl wrote on X Monday.

Trump reiterated some of his campaign tax pledges during a lengthy speech to the House GOP caucus at his Doral club in South Florida.

Two former federal prosecutors took to CNN on Monday to call into question President Donald Trump's latest controversial move: purging more than a dozen inspectors general, tasked with acting as a watchdog for the federal government.

Trump fired at least 17 independent watchdogs late Friday at multiple federal agencies — a move even some allies have opposed. The move will allow him to insert his own choices for the roles, CNN reported.

President Donald Trump’s decision to terminate security protection for former administration officials turned critics John Bolton, Brian Hook and Mike Pompeo is one early decision that he “would be wise to reverse,” the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board argued.

In a stinging editorial out Monday, the editorial board applauded Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) for publicly bashing Trump’s revoking of security for his former advisers – and lobbed their own scorn at the president’s decision.

Trump's new anti-diversity executive order could prevent the State Department from observing Black History Month, reported the Wall Street Journal on Monday.

The order is designed to eliminate any diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, programs from the executive branch — a common target of right-wing ire. However, as strictly written, the order goes beyond eliminating recently enacted diversity training policies, and could also eliminate decades-old discrimination and sensitivity policies.