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Trump blames 'bad public relations people' on not selling economic wins

01/20/26 4:29 PM ET President Trump on Tuesday acknowledged his administration was having trouble selling his economic wins, at one point saying it could be the result of “bad public relations people.” “The numbers that we inherited were way up, and now we brought them, almost all of them, way down, way down,” Trump told reporters from the White House briefing room where he made an appearance to mark exactly one year in office. “I mean… maybe you have bad public relations people, but we’re n ...

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Texas to defend law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms

Jan. 20, 2026, 3:09 PM EST Arguments in the latest battle over the separation of church and state will be heard Tuesday in a Louisiana federal courtroom where a law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed at public schools is being challenged on constitutional grounds. And in a highly unusual development, all 17 active judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans will be present to hear the Texas case, as well as a similar lawsuit filed by parents and civil liberties ...

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More than 10 countries have signed on to Trump's "Board of Peace," sources say

Updated on: January 20, 2026 / 12:33 PM EST / CBS News Washington — More than 10 countries have signed on to join President Trump's "Board of Peace" for Gaza, sources familiar with the discussions told CBS News, though only five — United Arab Emirates, Belarus, Morocco, Hungary and Canada — have publicly accepted his invitation to join. As the president envisions it, the group would comprise world leaders, with him as its chairman. Countries can contribute $1 billion to become perm ...

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Canada PM Mark Carney gets standing ovation at Davos as he warns of world order 'rupture'

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney received a standing ovation at Davos Tuesday as he warned that “the old order is not coming back.” Carney spoke at the World Economic Forum, insisting the world order based on rules has become “fiction” and stressing the need for smaller countries to forge new alliances. "If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate,& ...

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Dozens of former military leaders defend Mark Kelly in Pentagon fight

Jan. 20, 2026, 12:15 p.m. ET Dozens of former military leaders are supporting Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly’s First Amendment lawsuit against the Pentagon, saying Secretary Pete Hegseth’s threats against the retired Navy captain could serve to undermine veterans’ protected speech. The group includes former Secretary of the Army Louis E. Caldera, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton in 1998, and former Secretary of the Navy Sean C. O’Keefe, who served in the position during President ...

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Trump Shares Map of US Including Greenland, Canada, Venezuela

(Newsweek) President Donald Trump has shared an image, seemingly AI-edited, that shows him sitting alongside a map of the U.S. that includes Greenland, Canada and Venezuela as he speaks with European leaders. The picture, which Trump posted on Truth Social, appears to be an edited version of a photograph taken when leaders—including French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen—went to Washington, D.C., in August 2025.

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Trump Leaks Leaders’ Private Texts and Trashes Allies in Deranged Posting Frenzy

(Daily Beast) Trump has gone on an insane posting spree that covered everything from leaking private messages to issuing further takeover threats against U.S. allies. In a flurry of unhinged messages on Truth Social, the 79-year-old president continued his dangerous rhetoric about the U.S. seizing Greenland while also sharing apparent text messages from French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO chief Mark Rutte, as well as calling for his political opponents to be jailed.

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Senator Thinks Trump Is Literally 'Insane': 'He Is a Madman'

(Mediaite) Asked on Anderson Cooper 360 whether there was any hope for European leaders to “de-escalate” and “reason with the president” over his repeated threats to annex Greenland, Gallego said, “No, and I’ve been very clear. He is a madman. He is insane. He’s only thinking about himself.” “You really think he’s insane?” pressed Cooper. “Yes! I’m sorry, where are we at this moment where we don’t understand what’s happening in this country?”

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U.S. Senator Comes Out And Says It About Trump: 'Invoke The 25th Amendment'

(Huff Post) Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is calling on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet and Vice President JD Vance to remove him from office via the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution over his latest threat to Greenland. Markey shared a New York Times headline on X about Trump’s letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, which noted that since he was not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, he no longer feels an “obligation to think purely of Peace.”

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Its sundowning in America

(Paul Krugman) I had never heard the term “sundowning” before it happened to my own father, yet it’s a fairly common syndrome. It’s terrible to watch sundowning in someone you love. But that’s a personal tragedy – not a national or global one. It’s an entirely different matter when the president of the United States is sundowning — a president surrounded by malign sycophants who tell him whatever he wants to hear and indulge his every whim, no matter how destructive.

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Global markets on alert as Europe to suspend approval of US trade deal

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More than 10 countries have signed on to Trump's "Board of Peace," sources say

5 hrs ago - Updated on: January 20, 2026 / 12:33 PM EST / CBS News Washington — More than 10 countries have signed on to join President Trump's "Board of Peace" for Gaza, sources familiar with the discussions told CBS News, though only five — United Ar ... (CBS News)

US spending deal provides funding for 2,500 new air traffic controllers, $2.4 billion for Amtrak

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US forces seize seventh sanctioned tanker linked to Venezuela in Trump's effort to control its oil

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Trump blames 'bad public relations people' on not selling economic wins

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Texas to defend law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms

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France supports suspension of EU-US trade deal, foreign minister says

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Justice Department subpoenas Walz and others in immigration enforcement obstruction probe

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