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Denmark said Monday it would summon the U.S. ambassador after President Trump appointed a special envoy to Greenland, the Danish autonomous territory he has often expressed interest in obtaining. Since returning to the White House in January 2025, Mr. Trump has said the U.S. needs the resource-rich island for security reasons and has refused to rule out the use of force to secure it. On Sunday, Mr. Trump appointed Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as special envoy to Greenland. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said Monday he was "deeply angered" by the move and warned Washington to respect Denmark's sovereignty....

Nancy Pelosi was recently asked by USA Today’s Susan Page if the Democrats would impeach President Trump a third time if they capture a majority in the House next year. Her answer was predictably coy: “The person most responsible for impeaching President Trump when I was speaker was President Trump.” When Page pressed Pelosi on whether she believed impeachment should be on her party’s agenda, she said, “No, there has to be cause. There has to be reason.” This is very similar to the way she tiptoed around the “I” word during the run-up to the 2018 midterms, knowing full...

California Congressman Eric Swalwell has accumulated an extraordinary record of controversy: his well-documented association with the Chinese intelligence asset known as “Fang Fang,” his removal from the House Intelligence Committee over national-security concerns, and his unforgettable on-air incident during a 2019 Hardball with Chris Matthews interview. These episodes alone raise questions about judgment. But recent disclosures expose something even more fundamental. Eric Swalwell appears unable to meet the basic legal, financial, and residency requirements of the office he now seeks, Governor of California.

Gold and silver prices saw a fresh uplift on Monday as the shortened trading week kicks off. Investors typically rebalance their portfolios at the end of the year, and gold and silver are seen as safe bets. “The value of gold as a monetary potential hedge has reemerged,” said Matthew McLennan, head of global value team at First Eagle Investments. Gold and silver prices soared to new highs on Monday. Gold was last seen at a record $4,445.8 per ounce while spot gold was last trading at $4,414.99. Prices are up nearly 70% since the start of the year. The...

Pop superstar Nicki Minaj on Sunday gave an ominous warning against allowing people filled with the spirit of anti-Christ to be hold power in America. Appearing with Erika Kirk at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona, Minaj said it's not just Nigeria that is facing vicious persecution of those who follow the teachings of Jesus. "Christians have been being persecuted right here in our country in different ways," Minaj said. "So when we talk about Nigeria and other countries, know that prior administrations saw nothing wrong with that, and that's what was wrong with them." "I truly feel that...

The Trump administration on Monday halted Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, the largest project of its kind in the U.S., as well four other wind farms on the U.S. East Coast. Shares of Dominion Energy, the utility developing the project, dropped more than 4% on the news. The administration also paused leases for four other large-scale offshore wind projects. They are Vineyard Wind 1, Revolution Wind, Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind 1. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the administration paused leases for the projects due to national security concerns identified by the Pentagon. This is a developing story. Please check back...

Key Points * Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said he is “deeply upset” over Trump’s appointment of a U.S. special envoy to Greenland. * Trump has repeatedly said that the U.S. needs the resource-rich Greenland for security reasons. * Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen said: “Greenland belong to Greenlanders, and the U.S. should not take over Greenland.” ************************************************************************************ Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said Monday he will summon the U.S. ambassador to Denmark for a conversation about President Donald Trump’s appointment of a special envoy to Greenland. “I’m deeply upset about the appointment and the statement, which I...

Listen carefully to the words of President John F. Kennedy in his speech before the American Newspaper Publishers Association - 5 min

A quick way to keep a couple of guys occupied is to pose this question, “Batman versus the Terminator—Go.” The typical American male can entertain himself for hours with such banal stuff as this. I know I can. Unlike Superman, Captain America, or the Flash, Batman is just a dude. Sure, he has ninja training and more cool-guy gadgets than Delta Force, but at his heart, he’s really no different from the rest of us. What always befuddled me, however, is how anybody could philosophically oppose his violent nocturnal forays into the Gotham underworld. Certain events are watershed moments in...

Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school in November, according to a presidential spokesman, after 100 were freed earlier this month. “Another 130 Abducted Niger State Pupils Released, None Left In Captivity,” Sunday Dare said in a post on X on Sunday. In late November, hundreds of students and staff were kidnapped from St Mary’s co-educational boarding school in north-central Niger State. The attack came amid a wave of mass abductions reminiscent of the 2014 Boko Haram kidnapping of schoolgirls in the town of Chibok. The West African country suffers...

FIRST ON FOX: A conservative, Trump-aligned legal group filed a civil rights complaint alleging that a school district in Colorado is using race as a major factor when determining disciplinary procedures and has retaliated against administrators who attempt to push back. America First Legal (AFL), founded by top Trump advisor Stephen Miller, filed a civil rights complaint asking the Department of Education and the Department of Justice to investigate Cherry Creek School District, alleging it is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In its complaint, AFL cites a specific instance in which a Black...

This week Chile elected the devout Catholic and father of nine José Antonio Kast to serve as the country’s 35th president. He will take office on 11 March 2026 after a decisive run off victory that has redrawn the country’s political map. He won the second round on 14 December with 58.16 per cent of the vote, defeating Jeannette Jara and reversing his first round placing a month earlier. Kast framed the election as a national turning point, telling supporters in Santiago during his election speech: “It’s a special day. It’s a day that stays with us, a day that...

Daily Readings from the USCCBMary said: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior… He has cast down the mighty from their thrones and has lifted up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.” Luke 1:46; 52–53The last two sentences quoted from our Blessed Mother’s song of praise give us much to ponder. She, who is the Mother of God and full of grace, rejoiced that God “cast the mighty down from their thrones” and “the rich he sent away empty.” It’s...

Five years after the fact, Georgia election officials have admitted that 315,000 votes in the 2020 presidential election lacked the necessary signature from poll workers and should not have been counted. President Donald Trump was unjustly indicted for alleging just such a violation of election security. A bombshell report out last week in The Federalist from journalist Brianna Lyman provides all the details on what should be considered one of the biggest election-related scandals in American history. As she relays, election officials in Fulton County, Georgia, the most populous in the state, admitted to failing “to sign off on the...

When the U.S. dollar loses its monopoly on pricing the world’s critical resources, Americans’ purchasing power weakens The dollar losing monopoly power is a slow leak, not a blowout. But slow leaks still leave you flat. If the 21st century runs on anything besides oil, it runs on African rocks.

What about propane for rural folks? Do we have to give up gas furnaces and stoves? Who will pay? Will electric bills go way up? Flames emerge from burners on a natural gas stove, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, in Walpole, Mass. Gas and construction trade groups sued to block New York state’s controversial ban on gas stoves and furnaces in new buildings. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Credit: AP ================================================================================ News that Colorado has set hard target dates for an end to burning natural gas in our daily lives prompted many “wait, what?” questions from Colorado Sun readers. And we are here...

CHRISTMAS BIBLE-ART EPISODE #10 of 33 SHOULD JOSEPH MARRY MARY? M A T T H E W CHAPTER 1 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. 1 JAMES TISSOT "The Anxiety of Saint Joseph" But after he had considered this, an angel of the...

A series of tax documents have revealed that Rewiring America, a climate group that Democratic activist Stacey Abrams served as senior counsel for, banked over $5 million in federal climate funding just before President Donald Trump slashed the grant, which came into existence during former President Joe Biden’s administration, earlier in the year. The documentation indicates that Abrams played a much bigger part in getting the grant than she previously claimed. The $5 million was the first portion of what ultimately ended up being a $2 billion grant awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency in April 2024 to a group...

* Silence from authorities turns coincidence into currency. * Information vacuums don’t calm the public, they activate pattern-seeking. * When motive disappears, attention shifts to everything else. =========================================================================== BRIEFING There are a lot of questions swirling around the Brown University shooting, and as usual, the internet did what the internet does. People started digging, and they’ve turned up some details about the shooter that have caught some attention. Let’s break it down. After the assassination of Ella Cook, a conservative student at Brown University, the details haven’t necessarily been coming out at breakneck speed. On the contrary, they’ve had to...

In late October 2025, a violent altercation in Podgorica’s Zabjelo neighborhood ignited a firestorm of public outrage across Montenegro, exposing deep-seated anxieties over rapid Turkish migration. On the night of October 25, a 25-year-old local resident, identified only as M.J., was brutally stabbed—suffering seven wounds—during a verbal dispute outside a bar in the working-class district. Police investigations quickly pointed to involvement by three Azerbaijani nationals and one Turkish citizen, leading to the arrest of two suspects and the detention of 45 other Turkish and Azerbaijani individuals for questioning on residency status and potential links to the violence. Eight were slated...