Congress Narrowly Averts Authorities Shutdown — And Rejects Trump’s Debt Ceiling Instructions
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Donald Trump has posted his conventional rambling Christmas message calling out varied foes, taunting adversaries, and reiterating his want for U.S. territorial expansionism — together with retaking the Panama Canal, incorporating Canada into the union, and shopping for Greenland.
A Danish official stated an announcement that the nation is boosting protection spending for Greenland, was an “irony of fate.”
Troels Lund Poulsen, the Danish protection minister, advised the paper Jyllands-Posten Tuesday that the nation plans to spend a “double-digit billion amount” in krone — about $1.5 billion — to ensure they’ve a “stronger presence” within the Arctic.
Trump stated the “ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity” for the U.S., which operates a base within the territory’s northwest.
After seemingly joking about Canada changing into the “51st” state, the incoming president fired off ominous messages in current days alleging the Panama Canal and Greenland pose critical financial and nationwide safety threats to the USA and is likely to be focused for some form of annexation or buy.
In the meantime, school campuses throughout the nation are calling the nation’s greater than 1 million worldwide college students again to highschool earlier than Trump’s inauguration, warning that the potential for an imminent journey ban concentrating on sure international locations may affect their return.
After a 12 months of authorized challenges and a wild inventory market experience, right here’s Trump’s internet value going into 2025
Gustaf Kilander has the small print.
Alex Woodward26 December 2024 15:30
These are a number of the most infamous January 6 rioters may pardon when he returns to the White Home
Greater than 1,500 individuals who have been criminally charged in reference to a mob’s assault on the Capitol — fuelled by his bogus narrative that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and stolen from him — at the moment are awaiting potential pardons for alleged crimes live-streamed to tens of millions of viewers.
Trump may problem mass amnesty to a whole bunch of defendants as quickly as his first day in workplace, sustaining that even violent offenders may very well be granted clemency on a “case-by-case” foundation.
Listed below are a few of their tales:
The infamous January 6 rioters Trump may pardon
Lots of of defendants admitted to their crimes or had been convicted by juries after attacking police, threatening lawmakers or conspiring in opposition to the federal government. Trump may wipe their slates clear, Alex Woodward stories
Alex Woodward26 December 2024 15:00
School campuses are calling worldwide college students again to campus earlier than Trump’s presidency begins
Greater than 1.1 million worldwide college students are enrolled in U.S. faculties and universities within the 2023 and 2024 12 months, and many faculties are calling them again to campus earlier than Trump returns to the White Home, in response to CNN.
Worldwide college students sometimes depend on nonimmigrant visas that permit them to review within the U.S. however are usually not a authorized pathway for everlasting resident standing.
At Cornell College, college students who’re touring overseas have been suggested to return for the spring semester by January 21 or to “communicate with an advisor about your travel plans and be prepared for delays.”
“A travel ban is likely to go into effect soon after inauguration,” the college warned college students late final month, in response to a memo obtained by CNN. “The ban is likely to include citizens of the countries targeted in the first Trump administration: Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Myanmar, Sudan, Tanzania, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, and Somalia. New countries could be added to this list, particularly China and India.”
Greater than 17,000 worldwide college students studied on the College of Southern California over the past tutorial 12 months — the biggest variety of worldwide college students within the state — and college directors have urged overseas college students in an e-mail to return to campus one week earlier than Trump’s presidency, in response to an e-mail reviewed by CNN.
“One or more executive orders impacting travel … and visa processing” could also be issued, the e-mail stated.
Trump has promised to reinstate a ban on journey into the USA from majority-Muslim international locations he carried out in his first administration by way of a collection of govt actions concentrating on immigration. Joe Biden later rescinded them.
On the campaig path, the president-elect threatened to take intention at college students concerned in campus protests in opposition to the Israel-Hamas warfare, after which college students who would in any other case be eligible for everlasting resident standing after commencement might be screened to “exclude all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters and public charges.”
Trump has additionally promised to “ban refugee resettlement from terror-infested areas like the Gaza Strip” and to launch an aggressive nationwide deportation operation concentrating on folks dwelling within the nation illegally.
“We didn’t take people from certain areas of the world because I didn’t want to have people ripping down and burning our shopping centers and killing people,” he stated earlier this 12 months.
(AP)
Alex Woodward26 December 2024 14:28
Trump’s lengthy, bizarre historical past with Panama
In a collection of posts on Fact Social, the president-elect accused the nation of “ripping off” the US.
Oliver O’Connell26 December 2024 14:00
Trump goals dig at Obama in weird hour-long Christmas Day Fact Social posting spree
The president-elect initially appeared to undertake a toned-down festive message, merely posting, “MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!” on Fact Social on Wednesday morning.
Within the afternoon, nonetheless, he shared a prolonged publish the place he wished “Merry Christmas to the Radical Left Lunatics,” however refused the identical sentiment to the “37 most violent criminals” pardoned by Joe Biden, as an alternative telling them to “GO TO HELL.”
Rhian Lubin has the story.
Oliver O’Connell26 December 2024 13:30
Biden indicators 50 bills into regulation on Christmas Eve
Oliver O’Connell26 December 2024 13:00
GOP senator mocked for claiming Trump has introduced Christmas ‘back in America’
Oliver O’Connell26 December 2024 12:30
Trump trolls Canada in Christmas message by claiming ex-hockey star Wayne Gretzky needs to be PM – or governor
“I just left Wayne Gretzky, ‘The Great One’ as he is known in Ice Hockey circles,” Trump wrote on Fact Social on Christmas Day. “I said, ‘Wayne, why don’t you run for Prime Minister of Canada, soon to be known as the Governor of Canada – You would win easily, you wouldn’t even have to campaign.’”
Oliver O’Connell26 December 2024 11:30
Trump needs to purchase Greenland — may he?
And whereas it’s extremely unlikely that the president-elect may have any success in convincing the governments of both Greenland or Denmark to sever the ties between the European nation and its autonomous North American territory, it’s value trying into the method of how the U.S. acquires new territories — and the way that territory may very well be labeled.
Oliver O’Connell26 December 2024 10:30
After a 12 months of authorized challenges and a wild inventory market experience, right here’s Trump’s internet value going into 2025
Gustaf Kilander has the small print.
Oliver O’Connell26 December 2024 09:30
