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President Donald Trump has announced that he’s reached a preliminary framework agreement with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte regarding Greenland, a development he said will pause a looming round of punitive tariffs on European nations.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the discussions produced a framework for a future deal covering Greenland and the broader Arctic region.
The development prompted the president to cancel tariffs that were set to take effect on February 1.
Virginia Democrats have been in total control of the state for less than a week and one of their primary focuses has been to protect criminals generally and illegal immigrants specifically, even illegals who commit crimes in addition to being in the country unlawfully.
One of the first things Gov. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., did when she took office in Richmond was to repeal an executive order from her predecessor, Republican Glenn Youngkin. The order had directed state and local law enforcement to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other immigration enforcement agencies. “State and local law enforcement should not be required to divert their limited resources to enforce federal civil immigration laws,” Spanberger said about signing Executive Order 10.
Surprise medical bills have bludgeoned most Americans. In fact, about half of insured Americans face unexpected charges every year. In 2020, Congress passed the No Surprises Act, which banned out-of-network billing rates for some services. It also entitled patients who aren’t using health insurance to a “good faith estimate” of out-of-pocket costs before receiving care. But there’s a catch that stacks the deck against patients and taxpayers: final bills within $400 of the original estimate are legally collectible.
After stinging GOP losses in November, health care “affordability” is all the rage. Voters are frustrated that every other medical appointment brings another unexpected charge and an inevitable battle of wills and wits with the billing department. Christopher Jacobs recently opined in these pages that “Republicans should stop playing into Democrats’ hands and start … reducing the underlying cost of health care.”
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was heckled by former Vice President Al Gore during a World Economic Forum event in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, according to news coverage.
Gore booed Lutnick while the Commerce secretary was giving a speech at an invite-only dinner event hosted by BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Mediaite reported on Wednesday. The report comes after Lutnick criticized Europe during his remarks, which prompted European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde to suddenly leave the dinner event, multiple outlets reported.
“I sat and listened to his remarks,” Gore said Wednesday in a statement provided to Mediaite. “I didn’t interrupt him in any way. It’s no secret that I think this administration’s energy policy is insane.”
A Texas math teacher was recorded, I guess “teaching,” a lesson in how to demonize ICE, and coaching students to ignore law enforcement, while also implying ICE was super duper raaaaaaaacist. And I know what you’re thinking, “Hey Brodigan, I thought you were not supposed to mess with Texas.” I had heard that, too, but it turns out you can mess with Texas all you want during the school day.
Others of you might feel bad because it looks like Machine Gun Kelly has fallen on hard times and is struggling to make ends meet. It’s an easy mistake.
No, this is not MGK. It’s Mr. Shearod, a math teacher in the Garland school district. Yes, Garland, TEXAS.
With the ascension of newly minted Gov. Abigail Spanberger, Democrats in the Virginia Legislature have lost no time in introducing a bill that, if enacted, would officially codify racism in the Old Dominion.
These legislators must have missed the day in school when we learned about the Civil War.
In any event, for those who may not be “in the know” when it comes to government contracting, governments consume goods and services, just as any other firm or institution does. This includes the relatively simple services like landscaping or janitorial needs, to the more specialized, like IT hardware and cybersecurity consulting.
This will no doubt be paid for by taxpayers. The left sure has it good.
Washington bill would require universities to provide abortion pills
Washington could soon join a handful of states that require public colleges and universities to offer abortion pills on campus.
Lawmakers in the state House listened to testimonies for and against Senate Bill 5826 during a hearing Thursday, The News Tribune reports.
An illegal alien and suspected human smuggler allegedly used his vehicle as a weapon while fleeing from federal immigration agents in southern California.
William Eduardo Moran Carballo, a Salvadoran national with a lengthy rap sheet who has been living unlawfully in the United States, rammed his vehicle into Customs and Border Protection agents during an operation Wednesday morning in Compton, California, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
The incident marks just the latest example of criminals weaponizing their vehicles against federal law enforcement.
Well, would you look at that?
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is inciting violence again.
While standing safely behind the gate of his luxury mansion, Tim urged people to continue making “good trouble” against ICE.
He also bizarrely claimed that the U.S. will torture people whether or not people go after ICE, so they might as well keep doing it.
Police have yet to identify the pro-Palestinian vandals who caused $7K worth of damage to the home of University of Washington’s former president, according to police reports obtained by The College Fix through a public records request.
The Fix recently obtained the police report and notes for Seattle’s investigation into the November 14, 2024 attack on Ana Mari Cauce’s home and car. This attack followed a similar pro-Palestinian vandalism at the university’s mansion, which is available for use by the school’s president on October 28, 2024. Cauce retired last summer.
The vandals spray painted the front of her house and her car, then slashed three of her tires. They left messages including “FREE PALESTINE” and “ANA MARI COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE,” among other pro-Palestinian messages,” The Fix previously reported.
“The movement will continue to apply pressure to Ana Mari until UW cuts ties with war profiteers such as Boeing, and divests from the Zionist entity,” one message also stated, referring to Israel. President Cauce supported a ceasefire in Gaza but opposed Israeli divestment, according to Fox 13.
Under Trump, the media elites treat the executive branch as an evil empire, but under Biden, journalists were so eager to help promote the Democrats that they sometimes offered their sources the ability to edit their articles to their liking.
New documents shared exclusively with MRC Business just exposed the latest example of elitist media hacks violating every modicum of journalistic integrity to genuflect to the Biden administration’s whims and wishes.
Forbes contributor Rhett Buttle and his associate Abdullah Kahn offered to delay a story schmoozing President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan on his “environmental justice” focus until his team had a chance to address the catastrophic February 3, 2023, train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, according to emails obtained by the Functional Government Initiative.
The incident had led to a controlled explosion and the spewing of hazardous fumes into the atmosphere, with reports of groundwater damage, dead animals and health issues circulating. Both Buttle and Khan attempted to take some of the media pressure off of the Biden administration by postponing publication of the interview until the political heat died down, even though they had been in communication with the EPA about the interview since at least December 2022.
The House Oversight Committee has voted to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas related to the panel’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
The GOP-controlled committee advanced the contempt resolutions against the Clintons for a full House vote, which should take place within weeks.
Several Democrat lawmakers joined Republicans to vote in favor of the contempt resolutions.
“Today was a big day for accountability,” House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) said.
If you need any more evidence as to why the work our ICE and Border Patrol heroes are doing is so important, here it is.
A 26-year-old illegal alien has been arrested in Bulloch County, Georgia for raping an 11-year-old girl in front of her 10-year-old sister.
Kenneth Moreno Guzman allegedly broke into the family’s mobile home at night, then held the two young children at knife-point while he raped the older sister.
Sadly, we’re seeing a lot of reports about ICE and border patrol agents being denied service at places like Minneapolis Hilton Hotel locations – ostensibly over “public safety concerns,” as RedState previously reported.
There’s even one report from independent journalist Cam Higby about a Speedway gas station in Minnesota, where Border Patrol Commander at Large Greg Bovino was allegedly denied service by a man claiming to be a gas station attendant. As of this writing, Speedway has not confirmed if the man was or is an actual employee. But the video shows the scene very active with triggered anti-ICE agitators, and the man was seen trailing Bovino with a cellphone camera in hand in front of the store and near the gas pumps.
Hotels and gas stations are one thing. But hospitals, too? That’s a claim that has surfaced related to an incident in New York involving NYPD detectives who reportedly went to a Brooklyn hospital after one of them sustained an injury while trying to apprehend a suspect.
A federal judge has shut down an effort by two anti-Trump House lawmakers to force the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to immediately release all remaining files related to Jeffrey Epstein, ruling that the court lacks jurisdiction to intervene.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer issued a seven-page decision rejecting a request from Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to participate in the closed criminal case of Ghislaine Maxwell as amici curiae, or “friends of the court.”
Khanna and Massie had asked Engelmayer to appoint a special master to oversee the DOJ’s compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), a law they authored and that was signed by President Donald Trump last year.
In his final hours as New Jersey governor, Democrat Phil Murphy issued 97 pardons and 51 commutations.
Among Murphy’s more controversial recipients of clemency was Harris Jacobs, the killer son of Democratic fundraiser and Atlantic City powerbroker Joe Jacobs. Jacobs is a friend of Murphy who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the failed 2024 Senate campaign of the then-governor’s wife, Tammy Murphy.
‘When politics pervades justice, the rule of law becomes subordinate to influence and power.’
Orlando Fraga — a Cuban who moved to the United States in 1980 in pursuit of a better life — was fatally struck by a vehicle when walking along Atlantic Avenue on Sept. 4, 2022.
Gavin Newsom clearly has his sights on a 2028 run for the White House. Why else would the outgoing governor of the failed state of California be in Davos this week? Yesterday, Townhall reported on how Newsom went on an unhinged rant about Donald Trump, Europe, and Greenland, and at some point he called Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent “smug.”
To that, this writer has to ask: Has Gavin Newsom met…Gavin Newsom?
But Bessent doesn’t need anyone to come to his defense. He took matters into his own hands and absolutely nuked Newsom from orbit.
California Governor Gavin Newsom called the Treasury Secretary smug. Today in Davos the Treasury Secretary responded.. and I have to quote this: “Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken, may be the only Californian who knows less about economics…
— Edward Lawrence (@EdwardLawrence) January 21, 2026
Well, as expected when the progressive Democrats took full control of Richmond, they quickly passed legislation last week that will place an unlimited abortion clause in the Virginia Constitution.
The Constitutional Amendment on abortion will now go to a statewide vote in November and if passed, Virginia would join states like New York, California and Vermont where their extreme abortion laws are enshrined in their constitutions.
Planned Parenthood and other left-wing, pro-abortion groups will now spend millions to influence voters in Virginia to support this drastic change to our constitution. We Must Fight Back!
One speedway employee appeared to be on a power trip and made the conscious choice to put his job on the line to kick out ICE officers, claiming he did not “care” whether or not he had the right to do so.
There are many things wrong with this situation that it’s unclear where to begin.
Firstly, I hardly doubt Speedway enforces a policy where law enforcement officers, local or federal, are to be refused service. Secondly, I don’t think this employee owns the place. Thirdly, this is America, and the fact that he despises the people protecting our freedoms is deranged and totally naive.
Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari couched a chilling prediction within a warning at the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland: Artificial Intelligence (AI) will soon control not only most of the world’s legal, education, and healthcare systems, “AI will take over religion.”
“This is particularly true of religions based on books, like Islam, Christianity, and Judaism,” the homosexual atheist claimed.
“Anything made of words will be taken over by AI,” said Harari, so, “What happens to a religion of the book when the greatest expert on the holy book is an AI?”
A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer was injured in a vehicle-ramming attack during a targeted operation near Compton, California, Wednesday morning.
Officers were attempting to arrest William Eduardo Moran Carballo, an illegal alien from El Salvador, who was wanted for human smuggling and had two prior arrests for inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant. An immigration judge issued him a final order of removal in 2019.
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Carballo weaponized his vehicle and rammed law enforcement in an attempt to evade arrest. Fearing for their safety, a federal agent fired defensive shots.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — For days it seemed there was no way out of the latest standoff between Europe and the United States: U.S. President Donald Trump insisted he must have Greenland — and would settle for nothing short of total ownership.
Even after he dropped the threat of force in a speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, the impasse remained. Enter: Mark Rutte.
The NATO secretary-general appears to have been instrumental in persuading Trump to scrap the threat of slapping punitive tariffs on eight European nations to press for U.S. control over Greenland — a stunning reversal shortly after insisting he wanted to get the island “including right, title and ownership.”
Washington could soon join a handful of states that require public colleges and universities to offer abortion pills on campus.
Lawmakers in the state House listened to testimonies for and against Senate Bill 5826 during a hearing Thursday, The News Tribune reports.
The bill, sponsored by state Sen. T’wina Nobles, D-Fircrest, would require higher education institutions with a health center to offer abortion pills on campus. Institutions without a health center would be required to provide referrals to abortion facilities.
All public colleges and universities also would be required to create a webpage with information about abortion, prenatal care, and other “reproductive health” services.
China’s loans to Africa plummet as Beijing pivots to strategic investments Semafor
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China Wins as Trump Cedes Leadership of the Global Economy The New York Times
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At her Wednesday morning press conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke about her government’s transfer to the United States on Tuesday of 37 cartel figures. (Read Mexico News Daily’s report here.)
She also offered some advice to cell phone users to help them avoid becoming victims of crime, and took a moment to endorse the speech Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Here is a recap of the president’s Jan. 21 mañanera.
Haiti crisis at breaking point as gangs tighten grip ahead of transition deadline UN News
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Qatar and Turkey join ‘Board of Peace’ despite Israeli protest, highlighting Trump’s autocratic approach Washington Examiner
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