BERLIN — Negotiations to resolve the future of Greenland have focused in recent days on proposals to increase NATO’s presence in the Arctic, give America a sovereign claim to pockets of Greenland’s territory and block potentially hostile adversaries from mining the island’s minerals. Those elements, described by eight senior Western...
Tulare County Reports 678 Proposition 36 Cases Filed in First Year
The Tulare County District Attorney’s Office has filed 678 cases eligible under Proposition 36 since the law took effect in December 2024, according to a first-year review released by the office. California voters in all 58 counties approved Proposition 36 in the November 2024 general election, expanding treatment and punishment...
Filipino Journalist Gets Prison in Case Seen as Attack on Free Press
MANILA, Philippines — A Philippine court on Thursday convicted a journalist on charges of financing terrorism and sentenced her to more than a decade in prison, in a ruling that rights and press groups said was a blatant attack on press freedom. The Regional Trial Court in Tacloban City gave...
Trump Touts ‘Total Access’ Greenland Deal as NATO Asks Allies to Step Up
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had secured total and permanent U.S. access to Greenland in a deal with NATO, whose head said allies would have to step up their commitment to Arctic security to ward off threats from Russia and China. News of a framework deal came as...
Trump Sues JPMorgan Chase, CEO Dimon Over Alleged ‘Political’ Debanking, Fox Business Reports
President Donald Trump is suing JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, in a $5 billion lawsuit, Fox Business reported on Thursday. The president's attorney, Alejandro Brito, filed the lawsuit Thursday morning in Florida state court in Miami, the report said, alleging the bank of debanking him for political reasons....
Venezuela’s Proposed Oil Reform to Give Operating Autonomy to Companies, Cash Proceeds, Documents Show
Jan 22 - A sweeping proposed reform of Venezuela's hydrocarbons law would allow foreign and local companies to operate oilfields on their own through a new contract model, commercialize output and receive sale proceeds even if acting as minority partners of state company PDVSA, drafts seen by Reuters on Thursday...
X Down for Thousands, Downdetector Reports
X (formerly Twitter) experienced a possible outage Thursday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 17,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 9:23 a.m. PST, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users reporting issues say...
Instagram Down for Thousands of Users, Downdetector Reports
Instagram experienced a possible outage Thursday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 4,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 9:20 a.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users reporting issues say they’re experiencing...
China Wins as Trump Cedes Leadership of the Global Economy
DAVOS, Switzerland — In a long, rambling address that was by turns bombastic, aggrieved and self-congratulatory, President Donald Trump pronounced last rites on American leadership of the liberal democratic order forged by the United States and its allies after World War II. Trump used a keynote speech at the World...
Largest US Electric Grid Expects All-Time Record Winter Demand
Winter electricity demand on the largest U.S. power grid - the PJM Interconnection - is expected to set an all-time record next week as large swaths of the United States brace for an Arctic blast of cold weather. PJM's seven-day forecast on Thursday morning predicted 144,465 megawatts of demand on...