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President Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday. The president said he wouldn’t use force to take control of Greenland. But his remarks were again highly critical of U.S. allies in Europe and elsewhere. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP President Trump has backed off his threat to take Greenland by force. Yet Trump still delivered a fresh round of highly inflammatory remarks at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday that once again rattled U.S. allies and threatened to tear down the pillars of the world order constructed by Washington 80 years ago.…

Politics / The Mamdani Beat / January 22, 2026 Zohran Mamdani has pledged to govern at the same pace New Yorkers live—but city politics are largely designed to thwart that ambition. Ad Policy New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks before striking nurses at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images) On Tuesday morning, after joining his friend Bernie Sanders to deliver a few encouraging words of support to striking nurses shivering at the start of their 10th day on the picket line at Mount Sinai West, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani raced downtown to Hudson…

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith arrives to testify during a closed-door deposition before the House Judiciary Committee on December 17, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Former special counsel Jack Smith has been itching to talk about his investigations into President Trump. He’ll get that chance on Thursday on Capitol Hill, with one big caveat: a part of Smith’s report that focused on the president’s mishandling of classified materials remains under wraps. Smith’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee marks the first open testimony about his work. He presided over two federal…

Economy / January 20, 2026 The agency is planning to delete a document that provides up-to-date guidance on the protections workers have in this complex and rapidly changing area of law. Ad Policy Andrea Lucas, now chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, testifies at her confirmation hearing in front of the Senate HELP Committee, in June 2025.(Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the only federal agency that protects private-sector workers’ rights to be free from discrimination, is on the verge of erasing a guidance document outlining all forms of illegal harassment,…

Lindsey Halligan speaks as President Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 31, 2025. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP Lindsey Halligan, a former senior White House aide with no prior experience as a prosecutor, is now out of the post that President Trump appointed her to in eastern Virginia. Her embattled status as an interim federal prosecutor led to the dismissal of controversial Justice Department cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Trump named Halligan to the Virginia post on Sept. 21, 2025 — one day after…

Politics / January 20, 2026 In the metro and in public spaces, its hard to miss all the advertisements hawking the lethal wares of military contractors, tech companies, and the like. Ad Policy An advertisement for the US Border Patrol on a MetroBus at the Fort Totten Metro station in Washington, DC, 2025. (Al Drago / Bloomberg) In the month and a half I spent in DC this autumn, advertisements for defense contractors proved unavoidable. Everywhere I looked in the capital, there were promises to make America’s globe-spanning killing machine more lethal. The city’s Metro is so saturated with these…

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky. (pictured right), and ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., confer during a hearing Wednesday on whether to hold former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images The House Oversight Committee voted on Wednesday to hold former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in criminal contempt of Congress after the couple defied a congressional subpoena. The testimony demand was filed in connection with the panel’s investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein…

Politics / January 21, 2026 Nothing says “I care about working people” like a speech to an audience of billionaires at an exclusive Swiss ski resort. Ad Policy Donald Trump attends the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on January 21, 2026.(Harun Ozalp / Anadolu via Getty Images) As President Donald Trump seeks to force the attendees of the World Economic Forum in Davos to submit to his fever dreams of imperial expansion, he also faces a more stubborn, far less operatic challenge to his grip on domestic power. The American public has turned on his presidency, chiefly…

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories President Trump plans to focus on affordability today in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. But his foreign policy — specifically, Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland — and his threats of tariffs on eight European countries if he doesn’t get his way are overshadowing the summit. When the president takes the stage, world leaders will be paying close attention to signs of where…

Politics / January 20, 2026 The neofascist tech oligarch was cast out of Trump’s inner circle, but his money and influence are still omnipresent. Ad Policy Elon Musk addresses a MAGA rally in Washington on the eve of President Donald Trump’s inauguration last year. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images) Last June, the relationship between President Donald Trump and his top political benefactor, Elon Musk, seemed to be in shambles. Wrapping up his 180-day tenure as a “special government employee,” Musk had stepped down from the cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which had secured for the world’s richest…