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by Anna KORKMAN

NATO countries on the Baltic Sea met in Helsinki on Tuesday, looking to boost security following the suspected sabotage of undersea cables, widely blamed on Russia.

Donald Trump had a lot on his mind in the middle of the night less than a week before his return to the White House.

The president-elect issued a series of posts on his Truth Social network between 1:24 a.m. and 1:54 a.m. attacking President Joe Biden and recently resigned special counsel Jack Smith, who issued his hotly-anticipated report on Trump's election interference case about a half hour before the social media spree began.

by Hieun Shin and Claire Lee

South Korea's Constitutional Court opened the impeachment trial of President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday over his failed martial law bid, but quickly adjourned the first hearing after the suspended leader didn't show up.

by Hieun SHIN / Claire LEE

North Korea fired several short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Tuesday, according to Seoul's military, in what experts said could be a message to US President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration.

Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly snubbed her incoming Republican counterpart in the days ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

Following her defeat in November in what was a contentious campaign, Harris has not invited Vice President-elect J.D. Vance for a formal sit-down or tour of the Naval Observatory residence, where Vance and his family will live come Jan. 20, Democratic and Republican sources told CBS News.

by Arunabh SAIKIA

Millions of Hindu pilgrims are gathering in India to bathe in sacred waters for the six-week-long Kumbh Mela festival -- from the very old to babies, cave-dwelling monks to science teachers.

Following Texas’ lead, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday announced that she would also order her state’s flags to be flown at “full-staff” when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated as the country's 47th president next week.

Ivey’s directive comes just days before Trump is set to return to the Oval Office and is in direct defiance of Joe Biden’s presidential order following the death of former Democratic President Jimmy Carter.

Cattle ranchers in a state that President-elect Donald Trump won by 20 points are worried about the ramifications of one of his key campaign pledges: mass deportations.

Trump has repeatedly vowed to deport millions of immigrants living in the country illegally beginning on his first day in office. In November, Trump said he would declare a national emergency to carry out his mass deportations and even use military assets to do so.

A 2021 fundraiser that longtime Republican Michael Allen co-hosted for former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) proved to be detrimental to his role in Donald Trump’s transition, according to a new report.

Allen, who served in various national security policy and legislative positions in the George W. Bush administration, was pushed out as CIA director nominee John Ratcliffe’s “sherpa” because of his help in organizing a fundraiser for prominent Trump critic Cheney, Politico reported.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow opened her show on Monday with a blistering look at how President-elect Donald Trump has loaded his transition with chaos and grift.

"The last transition Donald Trump was part of was the worst presidential transition in the history of the country," said Maddow, alluding to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. "And given how disastrously he performed in that last transition, I mean, you have to just assume that this one inherently will be better. It has to be, right? But I think it is worth being blunt about the fact that it might be close. Because this, too, is a terrible, terrible presidential transition. And I think it ought to be more central to the way that we are talking about what's going on in politics and in our country and in government at this moment."

A far-right attorney with close ties to President-elect Donald Trump — and a penchant for threats — turned his gaze onto a federal prosecutor who led the Jan. 6, 2021, investigation against rioters at the Capitol.

Matthew Graves served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 2021 to 2025. He was nominated by President Joe Biden and announced he would resign effective Thursday, Jan. 16, four days before Trump's inauguration.

Officials in Greenland said they plan to work with the United States amid threats of economic — or even military — force from President-elect Donald Trump.

Trump has said the U.S. needs the massive island for "economic security." When asked last week if he would consider using military or economic coercion to make the acquisition proceed, Trump replied: “I can’t assure you — you’re talking about Panama and Greenland — no, I can’t assure you on either of those two."

A company linked to far-right webcaster Alex Jones is upping the bidding to keep the Infowars platform in his hands amid bankruptcy, reported The Independent on Monday.

"First United American Companies, which runs a website in Jones’ name that sells nutritional supplements, submitted the new offer even though there was no request to do so, Joshua Wolfshohl, an attorney for the trustee overseeing Jones' bankruptcy, told a bankruptcy court judge at a hearing in Houston," said the report. "Wolfshohl said the trustee is also expecting a new offer soon from The Onion's parent company, Chicago-based Global Tetrahedron."