A major shake-up of local government is underway and postponing ballots is intended to help deliver that reorganisation.

Top officials from across the European Union will meet in Brussels on Thursday to discuss Greenland and, more broadly, their dire relationship with America.

President Trump and Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, are expected to talk about sticking points in negotiations to end the war with Russia.

Denmark and Greenland have made it clear they will not relinquish sovereignty of the world’s largest island.

President Trump is in Davos, Switzerland, where he is meeting with world leaders and unveiled his new Board of Peace in Gaza. Earlier Thursday, the president participated in a signing ceremony for his peace board initiative alongside a handful of world leaders. No major European allies attended the Thursday signing ceremony, however, as tensions flare…

President Trump is in Davos, Switzerland, where he is meeting with world leaders and unveiled his new Board of Peace in Gaza. Earlier Thursday, the president participated in a signing ceremony for his peace board initiative alongside a handful of world leaders. No major European allies attended the Thursday signing ceremony, however, as tensions flare…

Nuneaton and Bedworth’s leader loses a vote of no confidence after calling for a delay to elections.

The Greater Manchester MP was suspended from Labour after reports he sent offensive messages in a WhatsApp Group

Federal agents detained a 5-year-old boy, along with his father, as he was arriving home on Wednesday in Minnesota. It comes as Vice President JD Vance is set to visit amid ongoing anti-ICE protests. NBC’s Maggie Vespa reports for TODAY.

The Home Office says 27 people seeking asylum have been housed in the training camp in East Sussex.

Women deserve better than the shoddy care and direct harm they receive at Planned Parenthood.

Women deserve better than the shoddy care and direct harm they receive at Planned Parenthood.

President Trump said he has confidence in the Secret Service’s protection regarding his safety after surviving two assassination attempts before his return to the White House last year. The president was asked by NewsNation’s Katie Pavlich on “Katie Pavlich Tonight” if he is ever afraid about his safety given threats that loom, to which he…

President Trump said he has confidence in the Secret Service’s protection regarding his safety after surviving two assassination attempts before his return to the White House last year. The president was asked by NewsNation’s Katie Pavlich on “Katie Pavlich Tonight” if he is ever afraid about his safety given threats that loom, to which he…

Both Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight Committee voted to hold former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress for failing to appear for a deposition as part of an investigation into the actions of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Clintons have not been accused of any specific wrongdoing and say they have nothing of substance to offer the committee. NBC’s Ryan Nobles reports for TODAY.

Trump and his envoy Witkoff have said a deal to resolve nearly four years of war between Russia and Ukraine is close.

President Donald Trump arrived in Davos on Wednesday looking to negotiate a deal that would give the U.S. more control over Greenland’s security and in the broader Arctic region, a congressional official and two former U.S. officials told NBC News.

The prime minister says the “hard yards” of bolstering Arctic security can begin after the US president’s shift.

Plus, a Greenland U-turn, ​ trouble for the Clintons over Epstein links and SCOTUS skepticism over Trump’s power to sack Lisa Cook.

There is another reason Trump decided to come in from the cold: It is likely to get very hot — as in militarily hot — in Iran.

There is another reason Trump decided to come in from the cold: It is likely to get very hot — as in militarily hot — in Iran.

Americans are turning against ICE, polls show, yet its reach is expected only to grow.

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says the Russian president has shown no commitment to peace in Ukraine.

Plus: Trump launches ‘Board of Peace’ and former Vice President Al Gore boos Trump Cabinet member Howard Lutnick in Davos.

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The appearance provides Mr. Smith with what is likely to be his best opportunity to challenge President Trump’s assertion that he was persecuted for his politics, not for his misdeeds.

President Trump’s verbal broadsides drew gasps and nervous laughter at the annual gathering of political and business leaders.

The European far right’s pushback showed the limits of the president’s with-me-or-against-me politics, a key obstacle to cooperation among nationalist parties.

Democrats are ahead of Republicans by 6 percentage points on a generic congressional ballot, according to a new poll. In the poll from Emerson College, 48.1 percent of respondents backed a Democratic candidate in a hypothetical 2026 matchup. The Republican candidate garnered 41.7 percent backing in the hypothetical matchup and 10.2 percent were undecided. The…

Schools in Minneapolis have set up remote learning and increased their transportation options, facing falling attendance and ongoing protests as the community grapples with the fallout from the death of Renee Good. The city is shrouded in chaos after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed Good on January 7, becoming the epicenter of pushback against the Trump administration’s…

President Trump on Wednesday de-escalated his threats to seize Greenland and hammer Europe with new tariffs, but some lawmakers in both parties fear the damage to NATO and the trans-Atlantic alliance has already been done. “It’s hard to un-ring the bell,” said Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.), the senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee….

President Trump’s bet on Syria’s new leader is facing a pivotal moment, as Kurdish forces are under attack from President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s forces in the northeast and facing growing pressure to fold into the central government. Al-Sharaa’s government and the Kurdish-led militias, collectively known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), reached a ceasefire over the…

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has higher favorability than a slate of top Trump administration officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Kristi Noem, new polling shows. An Emerson College Polling national survey finds Powell with a positive net favorability of 18 points, as 45 percent of likely voters view him favorably and…

Democrats are ahead of Republicans by 6 percentage points on a generic congressional ballot, according to a new poll. In the poll from Emerson College, 48.1 percent of respondents backed a Democratic candidate in a hypothetical 2026 matchup. The Republican candidate garnered 41.7 percent backing in the hypothetical matchup and 10.2 percent were undecided. The…

Schools in Minneapolis have set up remote learning and increased their transportation options, facing falling attendance and ongoing protests as the community grapples with the fallout from the death of Renee Good.  The city is shrouded in chaos after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed Good on January 7, becoming the epicenter of pushback against the Trump administration’s…

President Trump on Wednesday de-escalated his threats to seize Greenland and hammer Europe with new tariffs, but some lawmakers in both parties fear the damage to NATO and the trans-Atlantic alliance has already been done. “It’s hard to un-ring the bell,” said Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.), the senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.…

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has higher favorability than a slate of top Trump administration officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Kristi Noem, new polling shows. An Emerson College Polling national survey finds Powell with a positive net favorability of 18 points, as 45 percent of likely voters view him favorably and…

President Trump’s bet on Syria’s new leader is facing a pivotal moment, as Kurdish forces are under attack from President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s forces in the northeast and facing growing pressure to fold into the central government. Al-Sharaa’s government and the Kurdish-led militias, collectively known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), reached a ceasefire over the…

Speaking in Davos, Chancellor Friedrich Merz also implicitly criticized President Trump’s demeaning treatment of European allies.

More money than expected was collected through tax and higher National Insurance Contributions, although public sector spending also increased.

During the first meeting of the “Board of Peace” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump said it could be “one of the most consequential bodies ever created.” Trump added that he is honored to serve as the board’s chairman. 

One year later, the second Trump coalition has come apart, a Times/Siena poll finds.

A majority of voters said that Mr. Trump had focused on the wrong priorities and that they disapproved of his handling of top issues, but the president still enjoys strong support from Republicans.

Girl Scouts singing folk songs, a flag-waving party and a Times Square ball drop are among the planned Semiquincentennial celebrations.

Officials said Lafayette Square, the public park next to the White House, will be improved as part of Trump’s America 250 celebration.

A report by a left-of-center think tank sees negative bias in the field’s flagship journal, American Quarterly. The journal counters that its mission isn’t national boosterism.

Jack Smith’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee marks the first open testimony about his work after presiding over two federal criminal indictments of President Trump.

NPR’s Steve Inskeep speaks with longtime Democrat Rahm Emanuel about politics in the Trump era.

The president has backed off his threat to take Greenland by force. But his highly inflammatory remarks in Switzerland rattled U.S. allies and threatened to tear down the pillars of the world order.

A new focus group of Biden-to-Trump voters weighs in on immigration operations and Trump’s foreign affairs leadership on Greenland and Venezuela.