American Pursuit

What began as President Donald Trump’s attempt to use emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs on Canada has developed into a broader trade confrontation between two of the world’s most closely integrated economies, encompassing retaliatory tariffs, import bans and an increasingly acrimonious diplomatic relationship. The dispute entered a new phase this summer after the Supreme Court rejected the legal foundation Trump had used to impose tariffs on Canada and other trading partners. In a...

In late January 2026, President Donald Trump directed a significant change in federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis following widespread public outrage over the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens.

In one of the more surreal episodes of his second presidency, Donald Trump used his address at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week to revive his long-standing fixation on acquiring Greenland — but ended up confusing audiences and the markets instead. Trump has suggested repeatedly that the United States should own Greenland, a vast Arctic territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, on the grounds of national security and strategic rivalry with Russia and China. That push has put him at odds...