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President-elect Donald Trump is looking for a way to legally justify his plan to impose huge trade tariffs on goods coming into the United States, according to a new CNN report.

CNN cited four anonymous sources saying that Trump may be intent on declaring a "national economic emergency" in order to accomplish this goal.

Donald Trump's talk about U.S. territorial expansion has infuriated foreign allies, according to national security experts.

The president-elect has been musing about retaking control of the Panama Canal, purchasing Greenland and merging with Canada, and CNN's John Berman said leaders in other countries don't appreciate his apparent threats.

Elon Musk is building a framework to dominate the global political order with himself standing above nation states, according to an expert analysis.

The tech mogul and the world's richest man injected hundreds of millions of dollars into Donald Trump's re-election campaign and is said to be sitting by his side as something like an unelected co-president, and political commentator Elad Nehorai published a column for MSNBC analyzing the billionaire's authoritarian ambitions.

Panelists on "CNN This Morning" tried to make sense of Donald Trump's imperialist threats against Canada, Greenland and Panama.

The president-elect refused to rule out military or economic actions to take control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, which he has mused about doing since his Nov. 5 re-election, and he has suggested a merger between Canada and the U.S., saying that all of those territorial expansions would be necessary for national security.

Mexico's government plans to offer up to $1,300 for people who hand in firearms including machine guns and assault rifles under a citizen disarmament program aimed at reducing violent crime.

The financial incentives for people dropping off weapons at collection points in churches were published late Monday in the country's official gazette.

by Claire Lee, Hieun Shin and Hailey Jo

Hundreds of supporters of South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol rallied outside his residence Wednesday as investigators prepared a fresh attempt to arrest him.

A heated debate unfolded Tuesday night on CNN over President-elect Donald Trump's suggestion that the U.S. obtain Greenland, either through economic or military force.

Trump has said the U.S. needs the massive island for "economic security." When asked Tuesday 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."

Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa warned Wednesday of "extremely dangerous times ahead" in an interview with AFP after social media giant Meta ended its US fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram.

Ressa and the Rappler news site she co-founded have spent years fighting online disinformation while battling court cases filed under former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte after critical reporting of his deadly drug war.

Journalist Anne Applebaum has noticed an odd international political alliance forming between far-right nationalists and traditionally left-wing wellness warriors who share a mutual loathing of the principles of the Enlightenment.

Writing in The Atlantic, Applebaum uses the recent example of Călin Georgescu, the Romanian presidential candidate who seems to have gamed TikTok algorithms to nearly make himself the president.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) voiced his support of President-elect Donald Trump's suggestion to use military force to regain control of the Panama Canal while speaking to Fox Business host Larry Kudlow on Tuesday.

Tuberville has long complained that China has a growing influence over the canal and that ISIS was sneaking into the United States through an unsecured border by making their way from the Middle East to Panama and then heading north to the United States.

Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's language changed drastically on Tuesday after President-elect Donald Trump answered questions about his fantasy of using "economic force" to take over Canada.

Trump spoke at Mar-a-Lago about his desire to make Canada a state. Trump told reporters he wouldn’t rule out using military action to regain control of the Panama Canal and acquire Greenland from Denmark. When asked if he would consider the same to obtain Canada, Trump replied, “No — economic force.”

Donald Trump on Tuesday pushed NATO members to boost their defense spending to five percent of GDP, underlining his long-standing claims that they are underpaying for US protection.

"They can all afford it, but they should be at five percent not two percent," the incoming U.S. president told reporters.

Donald Trump Jr. quickly left Greenland Tuesday after spending less than a day in the autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

The son of President-elect Donald Trump traveled to the island as part of his father's effort to purchase the territory. Representatives from Denmark, however, made it clear that Greenland was "not for sale."