President Donald Trump openly mused about invoking NATO’s collective defense obligation to place allied troops along the US-Mexico border, a suggestion that, even if not meant seriously, represents another volley of rhetoric aimed squarely at European allies.
A US armored tank next to the US-Mexico border at Santa Teresa, New Mexico, US.
President Donald Trump said that his new Board of Peace was withdrawing Canada’s invitation to join, days after Prime Minister Mark Carney issued a withering speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos warning against coercive tactics by the world’s great powers.
US President Donald Trump during the Board of Peace signing ceremony in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said he is ready to commit Russian assets that remain frozen in the US to rebuild Ukrainian regions damaged during the war after a peace treaty is concluded.
Local residents stand on the porch of a damaged residential building following a drone attack in Dnipro on Jan. 7, 2026, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said he is ready to commit Russian assets that remain frozen in the US to rebuild Ukrainian regions damaged during the war after a peace treaty is concluded.
Local residents stand on the porch of a damaged residential building following a drone attack in Dnipro on Jan. 7, 2026, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
President Donald Trump faulted Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy as the main obstacle to an agreement to end the war Russia launched against his country four years ago.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy and President Donald Trump in December. Photographer: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s full statement on the Justice Department serving the Fed with grand jury subpoenas, issued the evening of Jan. 11:
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s full statement on the Justice Department serving the Fed with grand jury subpoenas, issued the evening of Jan. 11:
President Donald Trump warned other drug-producing nations in the Western Hemisphere that he wouldn’t long tolerate the flow of illegal substances to the US.
US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in an early morning raid, sending him to the US to face criminal charges following a series of airstrikes that mark an extraordinary escalation in the Trump administration’s months-long campaign against the country.
Nicolas Maduro Photographer: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images
The Trump administration will increase vetting of applicants for H-1B visas, with a specific instruction to reject anyone who was involved in “censorship” of free speech.