news2shortsMeet the Press moderator Kristen Welker joins Willie Geist on Sunday TODAY with a preview of NBC’s Jacob Soboroff’s exclusive interview with California Gov. Gavin Newsom on the devastating wildfires still burning.
President Biden has awarded Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction. Biden, a lifelong Catholic, was scheduled to travel to the Vatican but canceled due to the California fires.
President-elect Donald Trump said he would not rule out the use of American military force to seize control of Greenland, a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. Trump is not the first American president to consider the strategic appeal of the world’s largest island. NBC’s Raf Sanchez reports in this week’s Sunday Focus.
Diplomats have advised the UK prime minister to have a face-saving response just in case he comes low down on the list at the inauguration Donald Trump may invite populist rightwing leaders from Europe such as Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán to the White House before Keir Starmer, senior UK diplomats believe. … Read more
Suspension of executive order until 18 June gives courts time to review steelmakers’ legal challenge The Biden administration has delayed until June an order for Nippon Steel to abandon its $14.9bn bid for US Steel, potentially giving the companies some time to revive the politically contentious deal. Joe Biden blocked the acquisition on national security … Read more
Top Foreign Affairs Republican Sen. Jim Risch predicted the U.S. would not abandon NATO under the Trump administration – and promised to work with the new president to strengthen it instead. Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, who leads the powerful Foreign Relations Committee under the new Republican majority, said his number one priority is “getting Trump’s … Read more
Amid deepening debt and an onslaught by the president-elect, Labour must calm the markets, then think big economically It’s certainly not 2008, nor even Truss 2022, but the men and women who move the financial markets are suddenly darkly pessimistic. Some of the private emails and WhatsApp messages circulating last week matched any efforts by … Read more
LA Department of Water and Power says it is working to restore power as Los Angeles county sheriff says death toll expected to rise Full report: international crews arrive to battle raging wildfires Politicians quibbling as LA burns: Gavin Newsom’s latest beef with Trump Details emerge about the LA fire victims 34,646 homes and businesses … Read more
President-elect Trump blasted special counsel Jack Smith as a “disgrace” to himself and the country following Smith’s resignation from the Justice Department. Smith’s resignation was announced in a court filing Saturday. “The Special Counsel completed his work and submitted his final confidential report on January 7, 2025, and separated from the Department on January 10,” … Read more
Certain business titans have made Mar-a-Lago a scene of such flagrant self-abnegation, ring-kissing, and genuflection that it would embarrass a medieval Pope.
