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‘You’ll find out,’ Trump says on Greenland takeover strategy
President Donald Trump points during a press briefing at the White House on the one-year mark into his second term in office, Jan. 20, 2026. Nathan Howard | Reuters President Donald Trump on Tuesday declined to detail what lengths he will go to in order to achieve his aim of making Greenland part of the […]
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Justice Department subpoenas Walz and others in immigration enforcement obstruction investigation
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz speaks to reporters after he announced that he would not seek reelection, at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. Jan. 5, 2026. Tim Evans | Reuters Federal prosecutors served six grand jury subpoenas Tuesday to Minnesota officials as part of an investigation into whether they obstructed or impeded […]
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OpenAI is rolling out age prediction for ChatGPT consumer plans
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is pictured on Sept. 25, 2025, in Berlin. Florian Gaertner | Photothek | Getty Images OpenAI on Tuesday said it is rolling out an age prediction model to its ChatGPT consumer plans to help the artificial intelligence company identify accounts that belong to users under 18 years old. The model […]
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‘This is sell America’ — U.S. dollar, Treasury prices tumble and gold spikes as globe flees U.S. assets
A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange next to a U.S. flag after Republican Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, in New York, Nov. 6, 2024. Andrew Kelly | Reuters The “sell America” trade is in full swing Tuesday morning after President Donald Trump and European leaders escalated tensions over Greenland. U.S. […]
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California billionaire tax faces potential ‘uphill battle,’ new poll finds
Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, during a news conference outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty Images With about 10 months to go before the 2026 elections, one of the hot-button topics in California has become a proposal to tax billionaires. […]
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Salesforce’s Benioff calls for AI regulation, says models have become ‘suicide coaches’
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Tuesday that “there has to be some regulation” of artificial intelligence, pointing to several documented cases of suicide linked to the technology. “This year, you really saw something pretty horrific, which is these AI models became suicide coaches,” Benioff told CNBC’s Sarah Eisen Tuesday at the World Economic Forum’s flagship […]
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Watch: Trump to speak at White House press briefing
[The stream is slated to start at 1 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] President Donald Trump on Tuesday is set to appear at a White House press briefing marking the first anniversary of his second term in office. White House press secretary Karoline […]
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Greenlanders ‘bewildered’ by Trump’s ‘devastating’ takeover threats, business minister tells CNBC
Naaja Nathanielsen, Greenland’s minister for industry, raw materials, mining, energy, law enforcement and equality, addresses MPs at a meeting in the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) room, in the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, organised by the APPG for Greenland following US threats to take over the territory. James Manning – Pa Images | Pa Images | Getty […]
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Trump’s Greenland tariff threats could be upended by Supreme Court decision
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he meets with Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 22, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Trade attorneys tell CNBC that the looming U.S. Supreme Court ruling on President Donald Trump’s tariffs could impact Trump’s threats to […]
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Bessent says Trump’s pick for the next Fed chair could happen next week
Key Points After months of speculation and political intrigue, President Donald Trump is close to nominating the next chair of the Federal Reserve, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC on Tuesday. “My guess is the president will reach a decision maybe as soon as next week,” he said during the interview at the World Economic […]
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