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EU/u2019s AI Act doesn\u2019t do enough to protect artists\u2019 copyright, creative groups say<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"America's creative community is the envy of the world and creates jobs, economic growth, and exports,\" the open letter reads. <\/p>\n<p>\"But rather than respect and protect this valuable asset, some of the biggest tech companies, many backed by private equity and other funders, are using American creators' work to build AI platforms without authorisation or regard for copyright law.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2026//01//21//art-in-the-age-of-ai-is-creativity-still-human-euronews-tech-talks/">Art in the age of AI: Is creativity still human? |Euronews Tech Talks<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>There are around 60 ongoing lawsuits in the US where creators and rightsholders are suing AI companies. Similar cases are also underway in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>AI companies train their models by feeding vast amounts of data\u2014including text, images, music, and video\u2014into their systems. These models learn patterns from this data to generate new content. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//11//11//openai-chatbots-cannot-use-song-lyrics-without-paying-german-court-rules-in-landmark-trial/">OpenAI chatbots cannot use song lyrics without paying, German court rules in landmark trial<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>But much of this training material is scraped from the internet without permission from copyright holders, including books, articles, artwork, photographs, and music. Companies argue this practice falls under \"fair use,\" while artists contend it's unauthorised copying that undermines their livelihoods and intellectual property rights.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, OpenAI faced backlash from Scarlett Johansson after its Advanced Voice feature sounded similar to the actor's voice in the 2013 film \"Her.\" Legal representatives for Johansson sent OpenAI letters claiming the company did not have the right to use a voice resembling hers. OpenAI subsequently paused the \"Sky\" voice.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1769089086,"updatedAt":1769090184,"publishedAt":1769090015,"firstPublishedAt":1769090015,"lastPublishedAt":1769090015,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/27\/47\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_51f47b7b-3e2a-500d-b335-e8c9191cb32d-9622747.jpg","altText":"FILE - Scarlett Johansson poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere for the film 'Transformers One' o, Sept. 19, 2024, in London. 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The country is expecting swaths of painful subzero temperatures, heavy snow and powerline-toppling ice.\n\nMeteorologists said the eastern two-thirds of the nation is threatened with a winter storm that could rival the damage of a major hurricane and has some origins in an Arctic that is warming from climate change. They warn that the frigid weather is likely to stick around through the rest of January and into early February, meaning the snow and ice that accumulates will take a long time to melt.\n\nForecasts have the storm, expected to hit starting Friday, stretching from New Mexico to New England and across the Deep South. About 230 million people face temperatures of -7 degrees Celsius or colder and around 150 million are likely to be hit by snow and ice, with many Americans getting both, according to the National Weather Service.\n\n\u201cI think people are underestimating just how bad it\u2019s going to be,\u201d said former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief scientist Ryan Maue, now a private meteorologist.\n\nWhat's behind the US cold snap?\n\nThe polar vortex, a patch of bitterly cold air that often stays penned up in northern Canada and Alaska, is being elongated by a wave in the upper atmosphere that goes back to a relatively ice-free part of the Arctic and snow-buried Siberia. As the bone-chilling temperatures sweep through the US, they'll meet with moisture from off California and the Gulf of Mexico to set up crippling ice and snow in many areas.\n\nThe origins of the system begin in the Arctic, where relatively warmer temperatures add energy to the polar vortex and help push its cold air south.\n\n\u201cThe atmosphere is aligned perfectly that the pattern is locked into this warm Arctic, cold continent,\" Maue said. \"And it\u2019s not just here for us in North America, but the landmass of Eastern Europe to Siberia is also exceptionally cold. The whole hemisphere has gone into the deep freeze.\u201d\n\nShrinking sea ice is worsening extreme winter weather\n\nAs far back as October 2025, changes in the Arctic and low sea ice were setting up conditions for the kind of stretched polar vortex that brings severe winter weather to the US, said winter weather expert Judah Cohen, an MIT research scientist.\n\nHeavy Siberian snowfall added to the push-and-pull of weather that warps the shape of the normally mostly circular air pattern. Those conditions \u201ckind of loaded the dice a bit'' for a stretching of the polar vortex, he said.\n\nCohen co-authored a July 2025 study that found more stretched polar vortex events linked to severe winter weather bursts in the central and eastern US over the past decade. Cohen said part of the reason is that dramatically low sea ice in the Barents and Kara seas in the Arctic helps set up a pattern of waves that end up causing US cold bursts. A warmer Arctic is causing sea ice in that region to shrink faster than other places, studies have found.\n\nArctic sea ice is at a record low extent for this time of year, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.\n\nWhere the winter blast will strike\n\nThe centre of the stretched polar vortex will be somewhere above Duluth, Minnesota, by Friday morning, ushering in \u201clong-lasting brutal cold\u201d, Maue said. Temperatures in the North and Midwest will get about as cold as possible, even down to minus 32 to minus 34 degrees Celsius, Maue said. The average low temperature for the Lower 48 states will dance around minus 12 to minus 11 degrees Celsius on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Maue said.\n\nTwo Great Lakes - Erie and Ontario - may freeze up, which would at least reduce the famed lake-effect snow a bit, Maue said.\n\nNational Weather Service meteorologist Zack Taylor of the national Weather Prediction Center said most areas east of the Rockies will be impacted by the bitter cold, snow or ice. Treacherous freezing rain could stretch from the southern plains through the mid-South and into the Carolinas, he said.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re looking at the potential for impactful ice accumulation. So the kind of ice accumulation that could cause significant or widespread power outages or potentially significant tree damage,\u201d he said.\n\nAnd if you don't get ice, you could get \u201canother significant swath of heavy snow\u201d, Taylor said. He said it was too early to predict how many inches will fall, but \u201csignificant snowfall accumulations\u201d could hit \"the Ozarks region, Tennessee and Ohio valleys, the central Appalachians, and then into the mid-Atlantic, and perhaps into the portions of the northeast\u201d.\n\nMaue said in the mid-Atlantic around the nation's capital, there's a possibility that \u201cyou can get two blizzards on top of each other in the next 14 days\u201d.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Warm Arctic waters and cold continental land are combining to stretch the dreaded <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//06//is-the-winter-of-the-century-coming-experts-see-chance-of-arctic-cold-spells/">polar vortex<\/strong><\/a> in a way that will send much of the United States a devastating dose of winter weather later this week. The country is expecting swaths of painful subzero temperatures, heavy snow and powerline-toppling ice.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologists said the eastern two-thirds of the nation is threatened with a winter storm that could rival the damage of a major hurricane and has some origins in an Arctic that is <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//05//21//why-climate-models-are-getting-arctic-warming-wrong-and-how-scientists-are-fixing-them/">warming from climate change<\/strong><\/a>. They warn that the frigid weather is likely to stick around through the rest of January and into early February, meaning the snow and ice that accumulates will take a long time to melt.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasts have the storm, expected to hit starting Friday, stretching from New Mexico to New England and across the Deep South. About 230 million people face temperatures of -7 degrees Celsius or colder and around 150 million are likely to be hit by snow and ice, with many Americans getting both, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">I think people are underestimating just how bad it&#x2019;s going to be.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Ryan Maue\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n Meteorologist\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cI think people are underestimating just how bad it\u2019s going to be,\u201d said former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief scientist Ryan Maue, now a private meteorologist.<\/p>\n<h2>What's behind the US cold snap?<\/h2>\n<p>The polar vortex, a patch of bitterly cold air that often stays penned up in northern Canada and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//10//24//trump-administration-finalises-plan-to-open-pristine-alaska-wildlife-refuge-to-oil-and-gas/">Alaska, is being elongated by a wave in the upper atmosphere that goes back to a relatively ice-free part of the Arctic and snow-buried Siberia. As the bone-chilling temperatures sweep through the US, they'll meet with moisture from off California and the Gulf of Mexico to set up crippling ice and snow in many areas.<\/p>\n<p>The origins of the system begin in the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//10//16//climate-change-in-the-arctic-how-melting-ice-is-causing-greenland-to-shrink/">Arctic, where relatively warmer temperatures add energy to the polar vortex and help push its cold air south.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe atmosphere is aligned perfectly that the pattern is locked into this warm Arctic, cold continent,\" Maue said. \"And it\u2019s not just here for us in North America, but the landmass of Eastern Europe to Siberia is also exceptionally cold. The whole hemisphere has gone into the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//02//27//europe-deep-freeze-from-atlantic-current-collapse-unlikely-this-century-computer-simulatio/">deep freeze<\/strong><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2026//01//07//why-scientists-are-worried-that-greenlands-prudhoe-ice-dome-could-melt-away-again/">Why scientists are worried that Greenland\u2019s Prudhoe ice dome could melt away \u2013 again<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2026//01//28//direct-assault-how-trump-has-rolled-back-climate-progress-in-the-first-10-days-of-2026/">Trump Tracker: How the US is rolling back back climate progress in 2026<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Shrinking sea ice is worsening extreme winter weather<\/h2>\n<p>As far back as October 2025, changes in the Arctic and low sea ice were setting up conditions for the kind of stretched polar vortex that brings severe winter weather to the US, said winter weather expert Judah Cohen, an MIT research scientist. <\/p>\n<p>Heavy Siberian snowfall added to the push-and-pull of weather that warps the shape of the normally mostly circular air pattern. Those conditions \u201ckind of loaded the dice a bit'' for a stretching of the polar vortex, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen co-authored a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.science.org//doi//10.1126//sciadv.adq9557/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>July 2025 study<\/strong><\/a> that found more stretched polar vortex events linked to severe winter weather bursts in the central and eastern US over the past decade. Cohen said part of the reason is that dramatically low sea ice in the Barents and Kara seas in the Arctic helps set up a pattern of waves that end up causing US cold bursts. A warmer Arctic is causing sea ice in that region to shrink faster than other places, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com//doi//full//10.1029//2024GL108195/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>studies have found<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Arctic sea ice is at a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////nsidc.org//data//seaice_index//images//daily_images//N_iqr_timeseries.png/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>record low extent<\/strong><\/a> for this time of year, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//21//51//808x454_cmsv2_725539cd-0046-5f17-b534-1c42282f397a-9622151.jpg/" alt=\"A large wave from Lake Michigan sends ice balls into the air as it crashes into the South Pierhead Outer Light in Grand Haven, Mich., Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/21\/51\/384x216_cmsv2_725539cd-0046-5f17-b534-1c42282f397a-9622151.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/21\/51\/640x360_cmsv2_725539cd-0046-5f17-b534-1c42282f397a-9622151.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/21\/51\/750x422_cmsv2_725539cd-0046-5f17-b534-1c42282f397a-9622151.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/21\/51\/828x466_cmsv2_725539cd-0046-5f17-b534-1c42282f397a-9622151.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/21\/51\/1080x608_cmsv2_725539cd-0046-5f17-b534-1c42282f397a-9622151.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/21\/51\/1200x675_cmsv2_725539cd-0046-5f17-b534-1c42282f397a-9622151.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/21\/51\/1920x1080_cmsv2_725539cd-0046-5f17-b534-1c42282f397a-9622151.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A large wave from Lake Michigan sends ice balls into the air as it crashes into the South Pierhead Outer Light in Grand Haven, Mich., Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Joel Bissell\/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Where the winter blast will strike<\/h2>\n<p>The centre of the stretched polar vortex will be somewhere above Duluth, Minnesota, by Friday morning, ushering in \u201clong-lasting brutal cold\u201d, Maue said. Temperatures in the North and Midwest will get about as cold as possible, even down to minus 32 to minus 34 degrees Celsius, Maue said. The average low temperature for the Lower 48 states will dance around minus 12 to minus 11 degrees Celsius on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Maue said.<\/p>\n<p>Two Great Lakes - Erie and Ontario - may freeze up, which would at least reduce the famed lake-effect snow a bit, Maue said.<\/p>\n<p>National Weather Service meteorologist Zack Taylor of the national Weather Prediction Center said most areas east of the Rockies will be impacted by the bitter cold, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2026//01//16//these-european-cities-wont-be-able-to-host-future-winter-olympics-due-to-climate-change/">snow or ice. Treacherous <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2026//01//13//flights-diverted-and-trains-delayed-as-freezing-rain-and-ice-hit-central-and-eastern-europ/">freezing rain<\/strong><\/a> could stretch from the southern plains through the mid-South and into the Carolinas, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking at the potential for impactful ice accumulation. So the kind of ice accumulation that could cause significant or widespread power outages or potentially significant tree damage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>And if you don't get ice, you could get \u201canother significant swath of heavy snow\u201d, Taylor said. He said it was too early to predict how many inches will fall, but \u201csignificant snowfall accumulations\u201d could hit \"the Ozarks region, Tennessee and Ohio valleys, the central Appalachians, and then into the mid-Atlantic, and perhaps into the portions of the northeast\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Maue said in the mid-Atlantic around the nation's capital, there's a possibility that \u201cyou can get two blizzards on top of each other in the next 14 days\u201d.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1769077739,"updatedAt":1769079978,"publishedAt":1769079783,"firstPublishedAt":1769079783,"lastPublishedAt":1769079783,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/21\/51\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_35fb0fa1-baa2-59b0-8f13-559cfc017bb2-9622151.jpg","altText":"Vehicles are driven through whiteout conditions along Lake Michigan Drive during a winter storm warning in Ottawa County, Mich. on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. ","caption":"Vehicles are driven through whiteout conditions along Lake Michigan Drive during a winter storm warning in Ottawa County, Mich. on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Joel Bissell\/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/21\/51\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_725539cd-0046-5f17-b534-1c42282f397a-9622151.jpg","altText":"A large wave from Lake Michigan sends ice balls into the air as it crashes into the South Pierhead Outer Light in Grand Haven, Mich., Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. ","caption":"A large wave from Lake Michigan sends ice balls into the air as it crashes into the South Pierhead Outer Light in Grand Haven, Mich., Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. 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The high priestess of pop has been become the youngest female artist to be inducted into the America's Songwriters Hall of Fame.\n\nThe 36-year-old has undeniably shaped pop music trends over her relatively short but sensational career and will be formally invited to join the prestigious club at a New York ceremony in June.\n\nBefore Swift's induction, the record holder was Carole Bayer Sager, who was 43 when she became a member in 1987.\n\nThis year inductees will also include Kiss founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley \u2014 fresh off the band's farewell \u2014 who will be recognised for their glam rock classics 'Rock and Roll All Nite' and 'I Love It Loud.'\n\nIn addition, the other nominees include soft rock legend Kenny Loggins ('Footloose,' 'Danny's Song'), alt-rock icon Alanis Morissette ('You Oughta Know,' 'Ironic') and the game-changing R&B songwriter, producer and rapper Christopher \u201cTricky\u201d Stewart, best known for work like Rihanna\u2019s 'Umbrella,' Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s 'Single Ladies' and 'Break My Soul.'\n\n\u201cThe music industry is built upon the incredible talent of songwriters who create unforgettable songs. Without their artistry, there would be no recorded music, concert experiences, or engaged fans. Everything originates from the song and its creator,\u201d Songwriters Hall of Fame chairman Nile Rodgers said in a statement. \u201cThis year\u2019s lineup not only showcases iconic songs but also celebrates unity across various genres.\u201d\n\nThe Hall annually inducts performers and nonperformers alike. This year, the latter category includes the duo Terry Britten and Graham Lyle (Tina Turner\u2019s 'What\u2019s Love Got To Do With It.')\n\nThe 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held June 11 in New York City.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Another day, another page in the history books for <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//10//06//taylor-swifts-the-life-of-a-showgirl-shatters-sales-and-streaming-records/">Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a>. The high priestess of pop has been become the youngest female artist to be inducted into the America's Songwriters Hall of Fame. <\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old has undeniably <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//10//07//explained-why-the-taylor-swift-backlash-is-already-in-full-swing/">shaped pop music trends<\/strong><\/a> over her relatively short but sensational career and will be formally invited to join the prestigious club at a New York ceremony in June.<\/p>\n<p>Before Swift's induction, the record holder was Carole Bayer Sager, who was 43 when she became a member in 1987. <\/p>\n<p>This year inductees will also include Kiss founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley \u2014 fresh off the band's farewell \u2014 who will be recognised for their glam rock classics 'Rock and Roll All Nite' and 'I Love It Loud.'<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//10//03//taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-euronews-cultures-review-and-verdict/">Taylor Swift - 'The Life of a Showgirl': Euronews Culture's review and verdict<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//12//03//spotify-wrapped-2025-bad-bunny-dethrones-taylor-swift-as-most-streamed-global-artist/">Spotify Wrapped 2025: Bad Bunny dethrones Taylor Swift as most-streamed global artist<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>In addition, the other nominees include soft rock legend Kenny Loggins ('Footloose,' 'Danny's Song'), alt-rock icon Alanis Morissette ('You Oughta Know,' 'Ironic') and the game-changing R&amp;B songwriter, producer and rapper Christopher \u201cTricky\u201d Stewart, best known for work like <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//07//05//rihanna-makes-spotify-history-with-ten-songs-reaching-one-billion-streams/">Rihanna/u2019s 'Umbrella,' <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//tag//beyonce/">Beyonc/u00e9/u2019s 'Single Ladies' and 'Break My Soul.'<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.299\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//18//76//808x242_cmsv2_86e02310-532a-56d3-93bb-fac4b564dbc1-9621876.jpg/" alt=\"Hall of Famers: Songwriters, from left, Kenny Loggins, Alanis Morissette, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley and Taylor Swift\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/18\/76\/384x115_cmsv2_86e02310-532a-56d3-93bb-fac4b564dbc1-9621876.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/18\/76\/640x191_cmsv2_86e02310-532a-56d3-93bb-fac4b564dbc1-9621876.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/18\/76\/750x224_cmsv2_86e02310-532a-56d3-93bb-fac4b564dbc1-9621876.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/18\/76\/828x248_cmsv2_86e02310-532a-56d3-93bb-fac4b564dbc1-9621876.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/18\/76\/1080x323_cmsv2_86e02310-532a-56d3-93bb-fac4b564dbc1-9621876.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/18\/76\/1200x359_cmsv2_86e02310-532a-56d3-93bb-fac4b564dbc1-9621876.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/18\/76\/1920x574_cmsv2_86e02310-532a-56d3-93bb-fac4b564dbc1-9621876.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Hall of Famers: Songwriters, from left, Kenny Loggins, Alanis Morissette, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley and Taylor Swift<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cThe music industry is built upon the incredible talent of songwriters who create unforgettable songs. Without their artistry, there would be no recorded music, concert experiences, or engaged fans. Everything originates from the song and its creator,\u201d Songwriters Hall of Fame chairman <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//01//19//nile-rodgers-on-his-proudest-moment-and-the-fantastic-potential-of-ai-in-music/">Nile Rodgers<\/strong><\/a> said in a statement. \u201cThis year\u2019s lineup not only showcases iconic songs but also celebrates unity across various genres.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hall annually inducts performers and nonperformers alike. This year, the latter category includes the duo Terry Britten and Graham Lyle (Tina Turner\u2019s 'What\u2019s Love Got To Do With It.')<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held June 11 in New York City.<\/strong><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1769065688,"updatedAt":1769075271,"publishedAt":1769075174,"firstPublishedAt":1769075174,"lastPublishedAt":1769075174,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/18\/76\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_64dfd916-b3b9-5bed-ad38-5562f2f93fa9-9621876.jpg","altText":"FILE: Taylor Swift appears at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York, 11 Sep 2024","caption":"FILE: Taylor Swift appears at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York, 11 Sep 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Evan Agostini\/Invision 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teenagers\u200b","titleListing2":"ChatGPT to predict users\u2019 ages to boost safety for teenagers","leadin":"ChatGPT will estimate whether a user is under 18 based on how long their account has existed, when they\u2019re online and what they ask about.","summary":"ChatGPT will estimate whether a user is under 18 based on how long their account has existed, when they\u2019re online and what they ask about.","keySentence":"","url":"chatgpt-to-predict-users-ages-to-protect-teen-users","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2026\/01\/21\/chatgpt-to-predict-users-ages-to-protect-teen-users","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"OpenAI\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT will predict the age of its users to give teenagers a safer online experience, as scrutiny grows about how tech companies protect minors online.\n\nThe company\u2019s new age prediction system will use information about a user\u2019s account to predict whether that person is under 18, such as how long the account has existed, the times of day that they log on, and how they use the app.\n\nWhen ChatGPT identifies a user under 18, additional protections against graphic, violent, self-harm, and sexual content will immediately be turned on. Viral social media challenges that encourage \u201crisky or harmful behaviour\u201d for minors will also be limited.\n\nOpenAI said this approach is \u201cguided by expert input and rooted in academic literature about the science of child development.\u201d\n\nAccounts identified as belonging to those under the age of 18can still use ChatGPT to learn, create, and ask questions, the company said.\n\nThe OpenAI update comes as governments in the European Union are discussing restrictions on social media accounts for users under 16, after Australia enacted a banin December. ChatGPT is not considered a social media platform under Australia\u2019s restrictions.\n\nOpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, are being sued in California by the parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine, who committed suicide last April, after the platform allegedly coached him to take his life and wrote a suicide note for him.\n\nOpenAI previously introduced parental controls on ChatGPT that allow parents to set \u201cquiet hours\u201d where the AI can\u2019t be used and to receive notifications if their teen shows any signs of distress during their messages with the AI bot.\n\nAnyone falsely identified as under 18 in the new system will be able to take a live selfie or upload a government ID to verify their age and have the restrictions lifted.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT will predict the age of its users to give teenagers a safer online experience, as scrutiny grows about how tech companies protect minors online.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s new age prediction<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////openai.com//index//our-approach-to-age-prediction///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> <strong>system<\/strong><\/a>will use information about a user\u2019s account to predict whether that person is under 18, such as how long the account has existed, the times of day that they log on, and how they use the app.<\/p>\n<p>When ChatGPT identifies a user under 18, additional protections against graphic, violent, self-harm, and sexual content will immediately be turned on. Viral social media challenges that encourage \u201crisky or harmful behaviour\u201d for minors will also be limited.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI said this approach is \u201cguided by expert input and rooted in academic literature about the science of child development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accounts identified as belonging to those under the age of 18can still use ChatGPT to learn, create, and ask questions, the company<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////help.openai.com//en//articles//12652064-age-prediction-in-chatgpt/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2026//01//08//open-ai-launches-dedicated-chatgpt-health-feature-with-medical-record-integrations/">OpenAI launches dedicated ChatGPT Health feature with medical record integrations<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The OpenAI update comes as<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//12//23//which-european-countries-are-considering-banning-social-media-for-children/"> <strong>governments<\/strong><\/a> in the European Union are discussing restrictions on social media accounts for users under 16, after Australia<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2026//01//15//australia-under-16-social-media-ban-how-is-it-going-one-month-since-law-took-effect/"> <strong>enacted<\/strong><\/a> a banin December. ChatGPT is not considered a social media platform under Australia\u2019s restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, are being<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//11//26//openai-denies-chatgpt-caused-teenagers-suicide-claims-16-year-old-misused-chatbot/"> <strong>sued<\/strong><\/a> in California by the parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine, who committed suicide last April, after the platform allegedly coached him to take his life and wrote a suicide note for him.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI previously introduced parental<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////help.openai.com//en//articles//12315553-parental-controls-on-chatgpt-faq/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> controls<\/a> on ChatGPT that allow parents to set \u201cquiet hours\u201d where the AI can\u2019t be used and to receive notifications if their teen shows any signs of distress during their messages with the AI bot.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone falsely identified as under 18 in the new system will be able to take a live selfie or upload a government ID to verify their age and have the restrictions lifted. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1768995004,"updatedAt":1769004348,"publishedAt":1769004064,"firstPublishedAt":1769004064,"lastPublishedAt":1769004064,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/08\/19\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c6ba6341-8337-5a64-bc73-618b14d14a1e-9620819.jpg","altText":"FILE - The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen which displays output from ChatGPT, March 21, 2023, in Boston","caption":"FILE - The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen which displays output from ChatGPT, March 21, 2023, in Boston","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Michael Dwyer, File","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1333}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":12661,"slug":"artificial-intelligence","urlSafeValue":"artificial-intelligence","title":"Artificial intelligence","titleRaw":"Artificial intelligence"},{"id":28266,"slug":"ai","urlSafeValue":"ai","title":"AI","titleRaw":"AI"},{"id":27828,"slug":"chatgpt","urlSafeValue":"chatgpt","title":"ChatGPT","titleRaw":"ChatGPT"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2863749},{"id":2863751}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"tech-news","urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/tech-news\/tech-news"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"next","verticals":[{"id":9,"slug":"next","urlSafeValue":"next","title":"Next"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":9,"slug":"next","urlSafeValue":"next","title":"Next"},"themes":[{"id":"tech-news","urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News","url":"\/next\/tech-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":40,"urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":{"id":3771,"urlSafeValue":"san-francisco","title":"San Francisco"},"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/next\/2026\/01\/21\/chatgpt-to-predict-users-ages-to-protect-teen-users","lastModified":1769004064},{"id":2863935,"cid":9620535,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"FTC says it will appeal Meta antitrust decision","daletPyramidId":3948637,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"FTC presses on with appeal after Meta's monopoly battle win","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"FTC presses on with appeal after Meta's monopoly battle win","titleListing2":"FTC presses on with appeal after Meta's monopoly battle win","leadin":"The agency says Meta cemented its dominance by buying rivals. Meta says the market is fiercely competitive and points to TikTok and YouTube.","summary":"The agency says Meta cemented its dominance by buying rivals. Meta says the market is fiercely competitive and points to TikTok and YouTube.","keySentence":"","url":"ftc-presses-on-with-appeal-after-metas-monopoly-battle-win","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2026\/01\/21\/ftc-presses-on-with-appeal-after-metas-monopoly-battle-win","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Tuesday it will appeal a November court ruling in favour of Meta in its long-running antitrust battle with the social media giant.\n\nThe appeal keeps alive a high-stakes legal fight over whether Meta unlawfully maintained monopoly power in social networking by acquiring competitors such as Instagram and WhatsApp.\n\nIn a press release, the FTC reiterated its argument that, for more than a decade, Meta has \u201cillegally maintained a monopoly\u201d by buying \u201cthe significant competitive threats it identified in Instagram and WhatsApp.\u201d\n\nThe regulator insists that these acquisitions harmed competition and consumers by neutralising rivals instead of competing with them on merit.\n\nMeta had won a major victory in November when US District Judge James Boasberg ruled that the FTC had failed to prove Meta currently holds monopoly power in personal social networking services.\n\nThe court concluded that platforms like TikTok and YouTube provide real competition, undermining the FTC\u2019s claim that Meta holds an illegal monopoly.\n\nMeta welcomed the decision at the time, asserting that the ruling was \u201ccorrect\u201d and reflected the \u201cfierce competition\u201d the company faces. It noted that it would remain focused on innovation and investment in the United States.\n\nMajor US antitrust case\n\nThe FTC\u2019s appeal marks a fresh chapter in one of the most closely watched antitrust disputes involving Big Tech companies or platforms that exercise both major control over technology, social media platforms, or tech-adjacent services.\n\nThe case began in December 2020, when the FTC \u2014 joined by 46 US states \u2014 filed suit against Meta, formerly Facebook, under Section 2 of the Sherman Act, alleging that its acquisitions of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 were part of an anticompetitive \u201cbuy-or-bury\u201d strategy.\n\nThe original complaint was dismissed in June 2021 but was revived in amended form later that year and ultimately survived pre-trial motions, leading to a full bench trial in 2025, during which CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified.\n\nJudge Boasberg\u2019s November 2025 decision was a setback for regulators seeking to use antitrust law to roll back past tech mergers \u2014 an effort that has also surfaced in cases against other major firms.\n\nFor example, US courts have branded Google an illegal monopoly in separate antitrust suits over search and online advertising, although courts have typically been reluctant to order structural breakups.\n\nInternationally, antitrust authorities have also pursued parallel scrutiny of Meta\u2019s behaviour.\n\nIn the EU, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) imposes obligations on gatekeepers to give consumers choices about data sharing and interoperability \u2014 rules that have put pressure on Meta\u2019s data integration practices across its platforms, particularly for EU users.\n\nThe appeal now moves to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, where a new judge will reconsider whether the FTC\u2019s evidence and legal theories are sufficient to overturn the lower court\u2019s dismissal.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Tuesday it will appeal a November court ruling in favour of Meta in its long-running antitrust battle with the social media giant. <\/p>\n<p>The appeal keeps alive a high-stakes legal fight over whether Meta unlawfully maintained monopoly power in social networking by acquiring competitors such as Instagram and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, the FTC reiterated its argument that, for more than a decade, Meta has \u201cillegally maintained a monopoly\u201d by buying \u201cthe significant competitive threats it identified in Instagram and WhatsApp.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The regulator insists that these acquisitions harmed competition and consumers by neutralising rivals instead of competing with them on merit.<\/p>\n<p>Meta had won a major victory in November when US District Judge James Boasberg ruled that the FTC had failed to prove Meta currently holds monopoly power in personal social networking services. <\/p>\n<p>The court concluded that platforms like TikTok and YouTube provide real competition, undermining the FTC\u2019s claim that Meta holds an illegal monopoly.<\/p>\n<p>Meta welcomed the decision at the time, asserting that the ruling was \u201ccorrect\u201d and reflected the \u201cfierce competition\u201d the company faces. It noted that it would remain focused on innovation and investment in the United States.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2026//01//16//wikipedia-signs-deals-with-amazon-meta-microsoft-saying-ai-firms-should-pay-fair-share/">Wikipedia signs deals with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, saying AI firms should pay 'fair share'<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//12//31//meta-to-acquire-ai-startup-manus-in-deal-valued-at-over-2-billion/">Meta to acquire AI startup Manus in deal valued at over $2 billion<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Major US antitrust case<\/h2>\n<p>The FTC\u2019s appeal marks a fresh chapter in one of the most closely watched antitrust disputes involving Big Tech companies or platforms that exercise both major control over technology, social media platforms, or tech-adjacent services. <\/p>\n<p>The case began in December 2020, when the FTC \u2014 joined by 46 US states \u2014 filed suit against Meta, formerly Facebook, under Section 2 of the Sherman Act, alleging that its acquisitions of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 were part of an anticompetitive \u201cbuy-or-bury\u201d strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The original complaint was dismissed in June 2021 but was revived in amended form later that year and ultimately survived pre-trial motions, leading to a full bench trial in 2025, during which CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Boasberg\u2019s November 2025 decision was a setback for regulators seeking to use antitrust law to roll back past tech mergers \u2014 an effort that has also surfaced in cases against other major firms. <\/p>\n<p>For example, US courts have branded Google an illegal monopoly in separate antitrust suits over search and online advertising, although courts have typically been reluctant to order structural breakups.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, antitrust authorities have also pursued parallel scrutiny of Meta\u2019s behaviour. <\/p>\n<p>In the EU, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) imposes obligations on gatekeepers to give consumers choices about data sharing and interoperability \u2014 rules that have put pressure on Meta\u2019s data integration practices across its platforms, particularly for EU users.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal now moves to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, where a new judge will reconsider whether the FTC\u2019s evidence and legal theories are sufficient to overturn the lower court\u2019s dismissal.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1768988014,"updatedAt":1769003771,"publishedAt":1769003766,"firstPublishedAt":1769003766,"lastPublishedAt":1769003766,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/05\/35\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_e1b90164-7477-5e2c-988b-f0e8040698b0-9620535.jpg","altText":"FILE. 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Nobody wants their child to die in a pointless conflict.\u201d\n\nThe question is: does Trump have the authority to invade Greenland?\n\nAn act of war\n\n\u201cNo, he has not,\u201d said Carrie Lee, Senior Fellow at the Democracy and Security Network at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington.\n\nAn invasion of Greenland would be an act of war against a treaty ally for which Trump would need Congressional authorisation, Lee explained. As enshrined in Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution, Congress, not the president, has the power to declare war.\n\nArticle 2 of the Constitution specifies that the president is commander-in-chief of the US armed forces, but that authority is generally understood to apply only once hostilities are authorised or in emergencies.\n\nPresidents can use military force without prior Congressional authorisation only in limited circumstances: self-defence, protection of US citizens or short-term military actions.\n\nAn unprovoked invasion of Greenland would be offensive, not defensive, would target a NATO ally, and would lack any plausible claim of imminent threat. It would far exceed the scope of unilateral presidential war powers recognised since World War II.\n\nThis would place it far outside accepted constitutional practice. Lee said that so long as there is no pretext that would justify military force, such as a Danish attack on a US ship, an assault on Greenland would be \u201cnaked aggression\u201d.\u00a0\n\nThen there is Article 50 of the Charter of the United Nations, dating from 1945, which prevents the use of force against another state without credible claim of self-defence.\n\n\u201cThis was ratified by the US and has therefore become domestic law,\u201d Lee said.\n\nIn addition, the UN Charter protects the people affected most by Trump\u2019s possible land grab: the Greenlanders themselves.\n\n\u201cThe right of self-determination would be violated if Denmark ceded Greenland to the United States without popular support in Greenland in favour of such a transfer of territorial title, even if this were a completely peaceful process,\u201d wrote Jure Vidmar, professor of Public International Law at Maastricht University, in a research note.\n\n\"Greenland cannot be ceded without the consent of its people.\"\n\nSo far, opposition in Congress to action against Greenland is building, even within Trump\u2019s own Republican Party, which usually follows him in lockstep. At the time of writing, only one Republican Senator, Ted Cruz of Texas, has backed Trump on Greenland.\n\nThe Senate and the House can pass legislation to tie Trump\u2019s hands, but the president can veto it. Such a veto can be overridden by a two-thirds majority in the Senate \u2013 a tall order given the sharp partisan divide in the Capitol.\n\nBut Republican Senator Thom Tillis from North Carolina, who is retiring at the end of this Congress, predicted members of both parties would come together if it became clear Trump was actually ordering the military to get ready.\n\n\u201cIf there was any sort of action that looked like the goal was actually landing in Greenland and doing an illegal taking \u2026 there\u2019d be sufficient numbers here to pass a war powers resolution and withstand a veto,\u201d Tillis said.\n\nIf Trump ignores Congress\u2019 resolution on Greenland, lawmakers have another tool at their disposal: they could simply withdraw funding for the military operation, something Congress did during President Richard Nixon's second term, accelerating the end of the war in Vietnam.\n\nThat traumatic experience led Congress to pass the War Powers Resolution (WPR, often known as the the War Powers Act) in 1973, designed to limit the president\u2019s power to commit troops to armed conflict without Congressional approval.\n\nUnder the WPR, Congress can order US forces to withdraw within 60-90 days if the legislative branch doesn\u2019t authorise the action and demand hearings, subpoenas and testimony from military and civilian officials.\n\nIf Trump ignored such measures, that\u2019s where the constitutional crisis begins \u2013 a situation where two branches of government issue conflicting claims of authority.\n\nThe impeachment scenario\n\nCongress could hold Trump in contempt and start impeachment proceedings to drive him out of office. Republican Congressman Don Bacon from Nebraska is already predicting such a scenario, calling Trump\u2019s Greenland obsession \u201cthe dumbest thing I\u2019ve ever heard\u201d.\n\nIn case of an invasion of Greenland, Congress could argue that Trump abused his power, violated the Constitution, and violated treaty obligations which are part of US law under the Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Section 2 of the US Constitution), which establishes that the Constitution, federal law and treaties are \u201cthe law of the land\u201d \u2013 meaning they take precedence over everything else.\n\nHowever, impeachment proceedings need to originate in the House of Representatives where the Republicans hold a majority, albeit a razor-thin one.\n\n\u201cWhat Trump has done in Venezuela and plans to do in Greenland is unprecedented and plainly unconstitutional,\u201d said Bruce Ackerman, a prominent legal scholar at Yale Law School. \u201cBut the Republican majority, largely composed of Trump hardliners, controls the agenda and can block any floor vote.\u201d\n\nEventually, only a Democratic victory in the midterm elections in November could truly alter the balance of power on Capitol Hill.\n\nIn addition, the WPR is \u201ctricky legislation\u201d, according to Lee, as its constitutionality remains a subject of intense, ongoing legal debate.\n\nWhile presidents have often viewed it as an unconstitutional encroachment on executive authority, supporters of the WPR saw it as a necessary assertion of Congress's constitutional role in war-making.\n\n\u201cAll presidents ever since have complied with the letter of the Resolution, while also saying it was not binding,\u201d she added. \u201cSo it\u2019s not clear whether Trump would violate the War Powers Resolution by invading Greenland.\u201d\n\nHowever, she added that \u201cit would become a bigger constitutional crisis, if the president orders the military to attack a treaty ally and not a bunch of drug smugglers. It would be extremely difficult to make the case that (the invasion of Greenland) is lawful.\u201d\n\nIf Trump were to issue such an order, the military command would move from the president to the secretary of defence to the respective commander overseeing the operation.\n\n\u201cAt that point, the commander would have to make the decision whether to follow the order, likely based on some fig leaf legal justification, or not. So the question is, are these orders lawful?\u201d\n\nThe US military is bound to obey lawful orders and trained to refuse unlawful orders. Invading Greenland without congressional authorisation, against a NATO ally, and in violation of treaty obligations would raise serious legality concerns.\n\n\u201cThe only response of the commander should be: I can\u2019t follow this order,\u201d Lee said.\n\nAnd yet, it\u2019s more complicated. US military officers swear to support and defend the Constitution, which is the supreme law, rather than swearing allegiance to a single person or political party.\n\nEnlisted service members take a similar oath, but add a commitment to \u201cobey the orders of the president of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me\u201d. A subtle difference.\n\nIn 2016, Professor Ackerman served as legal counsel to US Army Captain Nathan Michael Smith, who took then-President Barack Obama to court over the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. His argument was that Obama violated the WPR by continuing the conflict without Congressional support within the law\u2019s timeframe.\n\nAfter a district court dismissed the lawsuit as a \u201cpolitical question\u201d, Ackerman appealed and lost again. The case did not move up to the Supreme Court, almost a decade after the original trial, Ackerman suggested a similar case could reach that level.\n\n\u201cIt is still a question in history that might take years to be entirely resolved,\u201d he said.\n\nAmong the consequences of Trump\u2019s possible military action, then, would be both a challenge to the military chain of command and a potentially enormous legal battle.\n\nThe US system is ostensibly designed to prevent presidential overreach, but an invasion of Greenland would push it closer to the edge than almost any scenario short of domestic authoritarian measures.\n\n\u201cThe thing is that none of this is forced upon us, none of this is done for meaningful purposes,\u201d said Professor Koh. \u201cIt\u2019s clearly a war of choice.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>With the crisis over Greenland is fast approaching a transatlantic breaking point, the world is focused on the European reaction to Donald Trump\u2019s possible land grab.<\/p>\n<p>But domestically, his Greenland plans could further fire up an already vocal Congressional opposition and eventually lead to his impeachment, if not trigger a constitutional crisis, according to several experts in United States law who spoke to Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few days, a series of opinion polls published in the US showed that there is overwhelming public opposition to the annexation of Greenland, and that a scenario involving which military force has practically zero public support.<\/p>\n<p>But is Trump\u2019s sabre-rattling just a bluff?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people still doubt that Trump is serious about it and that he would blow up NATO and start a war with Europe,\u201d said Harold Honju Koh, a professor of international law at Yale University and a former legal adviser to the US State Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut as soon as we have boots on the ground there, the blowback will be gigantic. Nobody wants their child to die in a pointless conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The question is: does Trump have the authority to invade Greenland?<\/p>\n<h3>An act of war<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cNo, he has not,\u201d said Carrie Lee, Senior Fellow at the Democracy and Security Network at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>An invasion of Greenland would be an act of war against a treaty ally for which Trump would need Congressional authorisation, Lee explained. As enshrined in Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution, Congress, not the president, has the power to declare war.<\/p>\n<p>Article 2 of the Constitution specifies that the president is commander-in-chief of the US armed forces, but that authority is generally understood to apply only once hostilities are authorised or in emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>Presidents can use military force without prior Congressional authorisation only in limited circumstances: self-defence, protection of US citizens or short-term military actions.<\/p>\n<p>An unprovoked invasion of Greenland would be offensive, not defensive, would target a NATO ally, and would lack any plausible claim of imminent threat. It would far exceed the scope of unilateral presidential war powers recognised since World War II.<\/p>\n<p>This would place it far outside accepted constitutional practice. Lee said that so long as there is no pretext that would justify military force, such as a Danish attack on a US ship, an assault on Greenland would be \u201cnaked aggression\u201d. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//07//00//808x539_cmsv2_1c5583a0-62e8-58f4-92d6-518ac4b61d17-9620700.jpg/" alt=\"Jens Kjeldsen protests against Trump&#x27;s policy towards Greenland in front of the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo\/Evgeniy Maloletka)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/384x256_cmsv2_1c5583a0-62e8-58f4-92d6-518ac4b61d17-9620700.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/640x427_cmsv2_1c5583a0-62e8-58f4-92d6-518ac4b61d17-9620700.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/750x500_cmsv2_1c5583a0-62e8-58f4-92d6-518ac4b61d17-9620700.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/828x552_cmsv2_1c5583a0-62e8-58f4-92d6-518ac4b61d17-9620700.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/1080x720_cmsv2_1c5583a0-62e8-58f4-92d6-518ac4b61d17-9620700.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/1200x800_cmsv2_1c5583a0-62e8-58f4-92d6-518ac4b61d17-9620700.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/1920x1280_cmsv2_1c5583a0-62e8-58f4-92d6-518ac4b61d17-9620700.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Jens Kjeldsen protests against Trump&#x27;s policy towards Greenland in front of the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo\/Evgeniy Maloletka)<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Then there is Article 50 of the Charter of the United Nations, dating from 1945, which prevents the use of force against another state without credible claim of self-defence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was ratified by the US and has therefore become domestic law,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the UN Charter protects the people affected most by Trump\u2019s possible land grab: the Greenlanders themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe right of self-determination would be violated if Denmark ceded Greenland to the United States without popular support in Greenland in favour of such a transfer of territorial title, even if this were a completely peaceful process,\u201d wrote Jure Vidmar, professor of Public International Law at Maastricht University, in a research note.<\/p>\n<p>\"Greenland cannot be ceded without the consent of its people.\"<\/p>\n<p>So far, opposition in Congress to action against Greenland is building, even within Trump\u2019s own Republican Party, which usually follows him in lockstep. At the time of writing, only one Republican Senator, Ted Cruz of Texas, has backed Trump on Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate and the House can pass legislation to tie Trump\u2019s hands, but the president can veto it. Such a veto can be overridden by a two-thirds majority in the Senate \u2013 a tall order given the sharp partisan divide in the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>But Republican Senator Thom Tillis from North Carolina, who is retiring at the end of this Congress, predicted members of both parties would come together if it became clear Trump was actually ordering the military to get ready.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//07//00//808x539_cmsv2_e68408ee-3f6a-5c46-b2f5-87bacef5e0b4-9620700.jpg/" alt=\"Senator Thom Tillis speaks during a panel session at the 56th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (Gian Ehrenzeller\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/384x256_cmsv2_e68408ee-3f6a-5c46-b2f5-87bacef5e0b4-9620700.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/640x427_cmsv2_e68408ee-3f6a-5c46-b2f5-87bacef5e0b4-9620700.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/750x500_cmsv2_e68408ee-3f6a-5c46-b2f5-87bacef5e0b4-9620700.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/828x552_cmsv2_e68408ee-3f6a-5c46-b2f5-87bacef5e0b4-9620700.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/1080x720_cmsv2_e68408ee-3f6a-5c46-b2f5-87bacef5e0b4-9620700.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/1200x800_cmsv2_e68408ee-3f6a-5c46-b2f5-87bacef5e0b4-9620700.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/1920x1280_cmsv2_e68408ee-3f6a-5c46-b2f5-87bacef5e0b4-9620700.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Senator Thom Tillis speaks during a panel session at the 56th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (Gian Ehrenzeller<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cIf there was any sort of action that looked like the goal was actually landing in Greenland and doing an illegal taking \u2026 there\u2019d be sufficient numbers here to pass a war powers resolution and withstand a veto,\u201d Tillis said.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump ignores Congress\u2019 resolution on Greenland, lawmakers have another tool at their disposal: they could simply withdraw funding for the military operation, something Congress did during President Richard Nixon's second term, accelerating the end of the war in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>That traumatic experience led Congress to pass the War Powers Resolution (WPR, often known as the the War Powers Act) in 1973, designed to limit the president\u2019s power to commit troops to armed conflict without Congressional approval.<\/p>\n<p>Under the WPR, Congress can order US forces to withdraw within 60-90 days if the legislative branch doesn\u2019t authorise the action and demand hearings, subpoenas and testimony from military and civilian officials.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump ignored such measures, that\u2019s where the constitutional crisis begins \u2013 a situation where two branches of government issue conflicting claims of authority.<\/p>\n<h3>The impeachment scenario<\/h3>\n<p>Congress could hold Trump in contempt and start impeachment proceedings to drive him out of office. Republican Congressman Don Bacon from Nebraska is already predicting such a scenario, calling Trump\u2019s Greenland obsession \u201cthe dumbest thing I\u2019ve ever heard\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In case of an invasion of Greenland, Congress could argue that Trump abused his power, violated the Constitution, and violated treaty obligations which are part of US law under the Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Section 2 of the US Constitution), which establishes that the Constitution, federal law and treaties are \u201cthe law of the land\u201d \u2013 meaning they take precedence over everything else.<\/p>\n<p>However, impeachment proceedings need to originate in the House of Representatives where the Republicans hold a majority, albeit a razor-thin one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Trump has done in Venezuela and plans to do in Greenland is unprecedented and plainly unconstitutional,\u201d said Bruce Ackerman, a prominent legal scholar at Yale Law School. \u201cBut the Republican majority, largely composed of Trump hardliners, controls the agenda and can block any floor vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, only a Democratic victory in the midterm elections in November could truly alter the balance of power on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the WPR is \u201ctricky legislation\u201d, according to Lee, as its constitutionality remains a subject of intense, ongoing legal debate.<\/p>\n<p>While presidents have often viewed it as an unconstitutional encroachment on executive authority, supporters of the WPR saw it as a necessary assertion of Congress's constitutional role in war-making.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll presidents ever since have complied with the letter of the Resolution, while also saying it was not binding,\u201d she added. \u201cSo it\u2019s not clear whether Trump would violate the War Powers Resolution by invading Greenland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, she added that \u201cit would become a bigger constitutional crisis, if the president orders the military to attack a treaty ally and not a bunch of drug smugglers. It would be extremely difficult to make the case that (the invasion of Greenland) is lawful.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.568\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//07//00//808x459_cmsv2_d25ff268-aad1-518f-ae22-0f9c1cdf6ef7-9620700.jpg/" alt=\"A US marine lands near Sandstrand, Norway, March 21, 2022, during the military exercise Cold Response 22. (NATO via AP)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/384x218_cmsv2_d25ff268-aad1-518f-ae22-0f9c1cdf6ef7-9620700.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/640x364_cmsv2_d25ff268-aad1-518f-ae22-0f9c1cdf6ef7-9620700.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/750x426_cmsv2_d25ff268-aad1-518f-ae22-0f9c1cdf6ef7-9620700.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/828x470_cmsv2_d25ff268-aad1-518f-ae22-0f9c1cdf6ef7-9620700.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/1080x613_cmsv2_d25ff268-aad1-518f-ae22-0f9c1cdf6ef7-9620700.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/1200x682_cmsv2_d25ff268-aad1-518f-ae22-0f9c1cdf6ef7-9620700.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/1920x1091_cmsv2_d25ff268-aad1-518f-ae22-0f9c1cdf6ef7-9620700.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A US marine lands near Sandstrand, Norway, March 21, 2022, during the military exercise Cold Response 22. (NATO via AP)<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>If Trump were to issue such an order, the military command would move from the president to the secretary of defence to the respective commander overseeing the operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt that point, the commander would have to make the decision whether to follow the order, likely based on some fig leaf legal justification, or not. So the question is, are these orders lawful?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US military is bound to obey lawful orders and trained to refuse unlawful orders. Invading Greenland without congressional authorisation, against a NATO ally, and in violation of treaty obligations would raise serious legality concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only response of the commander should be: I can\u2019t follow this order,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//07//00//808x539_cmsv2_8db9e549-436e-5fac-9ea4-fda0e971092f-9620700.jpg/" alt=\"Cadets recite the oath of office during the graduation ceremony of the US Military Academy class of 2023 in West Point (AP Photo\/Bryan Woolston)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/384x256_cmsv2_8db9e549-436e-5fac-9ea4-fda0e971092f-9620700.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/640x427_cmsv2_8db9e549-436e-5fac-9ea4-fda0e971092f-9620700.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/750x500_cmsv2_8db9e549-436e-5fac-9ea4-fda0e971092f-9620700.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/828x552_cmsv2_8db9e549-436e-5fac-9ea4-fda0e971092f-9620700.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/1080x720_cmsv2_8db9e549-436e-5fac-9ea4-fda0e971092f-9620700.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/1200x800_cmsv2_8db9e549-436e-5fac-9ea4-fda0e971092f-9620700.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/1920x1280_cmsv2_8db9e549-436e-5fac-9ea4-fda0e971092f-9620700.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Cadets recite the oath of office during the graduation ceremony of the US Military Academy class of 2023 in West Point (AP Photo\/Bryan Woolston)<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>And yet, it\u2019s more complicated. US military officers swear to support and defend the Constitution, which is the supreme law, rather than swearing allegiance to a single person or political party.<\/p>\n<p>Enlisted service members take a similar oath, but add a commitment to \u201cobey the orders of the president of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me\u201d. A subtle difference.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Professor Ackerman served as legal counsel to US Army Captain Nathan Michael Smith, who took then-President Barack Obama to court over the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. His argument was that Obama violated the WPR by continuing the conflict without Congressional support within the law\u2019s timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>After a district court dismissed the lawsuit as a \u201cpolitical question\u201d, Ackerman appealed and lost again. The case did not move up to the Supreme Court, almost a decade after the original trial, Ackerman suggested a similar case could reach that level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is still a question in history that might take years to be entirely resolved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Among the consequences of Trump\u2019s possible military action, then, would be both a challenge to the military chain of command and a potentially enormous legal battle.<\/p>\n<p>The US system is ostensibly designed to prevent presidential overreach, but an invasion of Greenland would push it closer to the edge than almost any scenario short of domestic authoritarian measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing is that none of this is forced upon us, none of this is done for meaningful purposes,\u201d said Professor Koh. \u201cIt\u2019s clearly a war of choice.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1768992641,"updatedAt":1769001273,"publishedAt":1769001266,"firstPublishedAt":1769001266,"lastPublishedAt":1769001266,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_8d0bc7f4-5b30-5502-b5cf-352ea7900a6f-9620700.jpg","altText":"Dark clouds are seen behind the US Capitol as a storm moves through Washington, DC.","caption":"Dark clouds are seen behind the US Capitol as a storm moves through Washington, DC.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1620,"height":911},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_8db9e549-436e-5fac-9ea4-fda0e971092f-9620700.jpg","altText":"Cadets recite the oath of office during the graduation ceremony of the US Military Academy class of 2023 in West Point (AP Photo\/Bryan Woolston)","caption":"Cadets recite the oath of office during the graduation ceremony of the US Military Academy class of 2023 in West Point (AP Photo\/Bryan Woolston)","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1333},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/07\/00\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d25ff268-aad1-518f-ae22-0f9c1cdf6ef7-9620700.jpg","altText":"A US marine lands near Sandstrand, Norway, March 21, 2022, during the military exercise Cold Response 22. 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In recent weeks, the feature was used to undress images of women.\u00a0\n\nAfter mounting criticism, parent company X said on January 14 that it had \u201cimplemented technological measures\u201d to prevent Grok from editing images of real people in revealing clothing.\n\nBut European non-profit AI Forensics found that Grok could still be used to generate sexualised images of individuals.\u00a0\n\nIt analysed 2,000 user conversations on January 19 and found an \"overwhelming\" majority depicted nudity or sexual activity, showing the platform is still used to generate sexual images.\n\nThe researchers also found that users can bypass restrictions by accessing Grok directly through its website rather than through X, or by using Grok Imagine, the AI\u2019s video and image generation tool.\u00a0\n\nGrok did not answer Euronews Next\u2019s prompt to generate a sexual image on January 20th. Instead, it said xAI implemented content blocks to prevent image creation that depicts real people in revealing or sexualised clothing, including bikinis, and underwear.\u00a0\n\n\u201cYou cannot reliably generate naked or half-naked images through Grok right now, especially not of real people or anything explicit,\u201d the chatbot said in response to the prompt. \u201cxAI has prioritised legal compliance and safety over unrestricted \u2018spicy\u2019 generation after the January controversies.\u201d\n\nEuronews Next reached out to xAI for comment about the analysis, and received an automated reply back that said \"legacy media lies.\"\n\nSeparately, Musk wrote\u00a0 on X that the algorithm for both xAI and Grok is \u201cdumb\u201d and \u201cneeds massive improvements.\u201d\n\n\u00a0X has since open sourced its algorithm and posted it on GitHub, a developer platform, to share code, so users can watch its team \u201cstruggle to make it better in real-time,\u201d Musk said.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nX\u2019s algorithm considers what a user has clicked on or engaged with when deciding which content to show on its feed, according to xAI\u2019s GitHub page.\u00a0\n\nIt also analyses \u201cout-of-network\u201d content from accounts that the user doesn\u2019t follow but that they might find interesting. The algorithm then sorts and ranks this content using a mathematical formula to decide what will be shown in the user\u2019s feed.\u00a0\n\nIt also filters out posts from blocked accounts or keywords that the user doesn\u2019t want to see, along with content that the algorithm detects as violent or spam, the diagram continued.\u00a0\n\nMusk has committed to updating the GitHub page every four weeks with the developer\u2019s notes, so users can understand what changes have been made.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p> Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) platform Grok is still being used to generate sexually explicit images despite recent restrictions by the company, according to a new analysis. <\/p>\n<p>Last summer, xAI, Grok\u2019s operating company, introduced an image-generator feature that included a \u201cspicy mode\u201d that could generate adult content. In recent weeks, the feature was used to undress images of women. <\/p>\n<p>After mounting criticism, parent company X <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////x.com//Safety//status//2011573102485127562/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>said on January 14<\/strong><\/a> that it had \u201cimplemented technological measures\u201d to prevent Grok from editing images of real people in revealing clothing.<\/p>\n<p>But European non-profit AI Forensics found that Grok could still be used to generate sexualised images of individuals. <\/p>\n<p>It<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////aiforensics.org//uploads//Grok_Unleashed_Updated.pdf/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> <strong>analysed 2,000<\/strong><\/a> user conversations on January 19 and found an \"overwhelming\" majority depicted nudity or sexual activity, showing the platform is still used to generate sexual images.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2026//01//15//x-bans-sexually-explicit-grok-deepfakes-but-is-its-clash-with-the-eu-over/">X bans sexually explicit Grok deepfakes \u2013 but is its clash with the EU over?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The researchers also found that users can bypass restrictions by accessing Grok directly through its website rather than through X, or by using Grok Imagine, the AI\u2019s video and image generation tool. <\/p>\n<p>Grok did not answer Euronews Next\u2019s prompt to generate a sexual image on January 20th. Instead, it said xAI implemented content blocks to prevent image creation that depicts real people in revealing or sexualised clothing, including bikinis, and underwear. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot reliably generate naked or half-naked images through Grok right now, especially not of real people or anything explicit,\u201d the chatbot said in response to the prompt. \u201cxAI has prioritised legal compliance and safety over unrestricted \u2018spicy\u2019 generation after the January controversies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Euronews Next reached out to xAI for comment about the analysis, <strong>and received an automated reply back that said \"legacy media lies.\"<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Separately, Musk wrote on X that the algorithm for both xAI and Grok is \u201cdumb\u201d and \u201cneeds massive improvements.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2026//01//13//from-bans-to-probes-which-countries-are-taking-aim-at-elon-musks-grok-ai-chatbot/">From bans to probes: Which countries are taking aim at Elon Musk\u2019s Grok AI chatbot?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p> X has since open sourced its <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////x.com//XEng//status//2013471689087086804/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>algorithm<\/strong><\/a>and posted it on GitHub, a developer platform, to share code, so users can watch its team \u201cstruggle to make it better in real-time,\u201d Musk said. <\/p>\n<p>X\u2019s algorithm considers what a user has clicked on or engaged with when deciding which content to show on its feed, according to xAI\u2019s GitHub page. <\/p>\n<p>It also analyses \u201cout-of-network\u201d content from accounts that the user doesn\u2019t follow but that they might find interesting. The algorithm then sorts and ranks this content using a mathematical formula to decide what will be shown in the user\u2019s feed. <\/p>\n<p>It also filters out posts from blocked accounts or keywords that the user doesn\u2019t want to see, along with content that the algorithm detects as violent or spam, the diagram continued. <\/p>\n<p>Musk has committed to updating the GitHub page every four weeks with the developer\u2019s notes, so users can understand what changes have been made. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1768989675,"updatedAt":1769426911,"publishedAt":1768991460,"firstPublishedAt":1768991460,"lastPublishedAt":1769426911,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Susan Walsh, File","altText":"FILE - Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition, March 9, 2020, in Washington","callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"caption":"FILE - Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at 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invitation to join Board of Peace","titleListing2":"Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu accepts invitation to join Trump's 'Board of Peace'","leadin":"The board was originally envisioned as a small group of world leaders overseeing the Gaza ceasefire plan but appears to have changed into a body tasked with solving conflicts more broadly.","summary":"The board was originally envisioned as a small group of world leaders overseeing the Gaza ceasefire plan but appears to have changed into a body tasked with solving conflicts more broadly.","keySentence":"","url":"israels-pm-benjamin-netanyahu-accepts-invitation-to-join-trumps-board-of-peace","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/21\/israels-pm-benjamin-netanyahu-accepts-invitation-to-join-trumps-board-of-peace","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he has agreed to join US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, after his office earlier criticised the makeup of the board\u2019s executive committee.\n\nThe board, chaired by Trump, was originally envisioned as a small group of world leaders overseeing the Gaza ceasefire plan.\n\nThe Trump administration's\u00a0ambitions appear to have morphed towards a more ambitious concept, with Trump extending\u00a0invitations to dozens of countries\u00a0and hinting it will soon broker global conflicts.\n\nNetanyahu's office had previously said the executive committee, which includes key regional rival Turkey, wasn't coordinated with the Israeli government and \"is contrary to its policy,\" without clarifying its objections.\n\nIsrael\u2019s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, criticised the board and called for Israel to take unilateral responsibility for Gaza's future.\n\nOthers who have joined the board are the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Vietnam, Belarus, Hungary, Kazakhstan and Argentina.\n\nOthers, including the UK, Russia and the executive arm of the European Union, say they have received invitations but have not yet responded.\n\nIt came as Trump travelled to the World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland, where he is expected to provide more details about the board.\n\nThere are many unanswered questions and it is not immediately clear how many or which other leaders would receive invitations.\n\nWhen asked by a reporter on Tuesday if the board should replace the UN, Trump said, \"It might.\"\n\nHe asserted that the world body \"hasn't been very helpful\" and \"has never lived up to its potential\" but also said the UN should continue \"because the potential is so great.\"\n\nReplacing the United Nations?\n\nThat has created controversy, with some saying Trump is trying to replace the UN.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean- No\u00ebl Barrot said on Tuesday, \"Yes to implementing the peace plan presented by the president of the United States, which we wholeheartedly support, but no to creating an organisation as it has been presented, which would replace the United Nations.\"\n\nTold late on Monday that French President Emmanuel Macron was unlikely to join, Trump said, \"Well, nobody wants him because he's going to be out of office very soon.\" A day later, Trump called Macron \"a friend of mine\" but reiterated that the French leader is \"not going to be there very much longer.\"\n\nTrump also threatened to impose a 200% tariff on French wine and champagne if Paris declined the invitation to join the board.\n\nThe executive board's members\u00a0include US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Apollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan, World Bank President Ajay Banga and Trump's deputy national security adviser Robert Gabriel.\n\nThe White House also announced the members of another board, the Gaza Executive Board, which, according to the ceasefire, will be in charge of implementing the tough second phase\u00a0of the agreement.\n\nThat includes deploying an international security force, disarming Hamas and rebuilding the war-devastated territory.\n\nNickolay Mladenov, a former Bulgarian politician and UN Middle East envoy, is to serve as\u00a0the Gaza executive board\u2019s representative\u00a0overseeing day-to-day matters.\n\nThe board will also supervise a newly appointed committee of Palestinian technocrats who will be running Gaza's day-to-day affairs.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he has agreed to join US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, after his office earlier criticised the makeup of the board\u2019s executive committee.<\/p>\n<p>The board, chaired by Trump, was originally envisioned as a small group of world leaders overseeing the Gaza ceasefire plan.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration's ambitions appear to have morphed towards a more ambitious concept, with Trump extending invitations to dozens of countries and hinting it will soon broker global conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu's office had previously said the executive committee, which includes key regional rival Turkey, wasn't coordinated with the Israeli government and \"is contrary to its policy,\" without clarifying its objections.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, criticised the board and called for Israel to take unilateral responsibility for Gaza's future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//03//12//808x539_cmsv2_b8073654-48f1-5b40-a86f-27dd90cb6fec-9620312.jpg/" alt=\"US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israel&#x27;s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, 29 December, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/03\/12\/384x256_cmsv2_b8073654-48f1-5b40-a86f-27dd90cb6fec-9620312.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/03\/12\/640x427_cmsv2_b8073654-48f1-5b40-a86f-27dd90cb6fec-9620312.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/03\/12\/750x500_cmsv2_b8073654-48f1-5b40-a86f-27dd90cb6fec-9620312.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/03\/12\/828x552_cmsv2_b8073654-48f1-5b40-a86f-27dd90cb6fec-9620312.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/03\/12\/1080x720_cmsv2_b8073654-48f1-5b40-a86f-27dd90cb6fec-9620312.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/03\/12\/1200x800_cmsv2_b8073654-48f1-5b40-a86f-27dd90cb6fec-9620312.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/03\/12\/1920x1280_cmsv2_b8073654-48f1-5b40-a86f-27dd90cb6fec-9620312.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israel&#x27;s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, 29 December, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Others who have joined the board are the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Vietnam, Belarus, Hungary, Kazakhstan and Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>Others, including the UK, Russia and the executive arm of the European Union, say they have received invitations but have not yet responded.<\/p>\n<p>It came as Trump travelled to the World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland, where he is expected to provide more details about the board.<\/p>\n<p>There are many unanswered questions and it is not immediately clear how many or which other leaders would receive invitations.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by a reporter on Tuesday if the board should replace the UN, Trump said, \"It might.\"<\/p>\n<p>He asserted that the world body \"hasn't been very helpful\" and \"has never lived up to its potential\" but also said the UN should continue \"because the potential is so great.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//21//trump-says-youll-find-out-how-far-hell-go-to-seize-greenland-ahead-of-departure-for-davos/">Trump says 'you'll find out' how far he'll go to seize Greenland ahead of departure for Davos<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//20//president-trump-is-trying-to-replace-the-un-says-belgian-fm/">'President Trump is trying to replace the UN', says Belgian FM<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Replacing the United Nations?<\/h2>\n<p>That has created controversy, with some saying Trump is trying to replace the UN.<\/p>\n<p>French Foreign Minister Jean- No\u00ebl Barrot said on Tuesday, \"Yes to implementing the peace plan presented by the president of the United States, which we wholeheartedly support, but no to creating an organisation as it has been presented, which would replace the United 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20 January, 2026<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Told late on Monday that French President Emmanuel Macron was unlikely to join, Trump said, \"Well, nobody wants him because he's going to be out of office very soon.\" A day later, Trump called Macron \"a friend of mine\" but reiterated that the French leader is \"not going to be there very much longer.\"<\/p>\n<p>Trump also <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2026//01//20//trump-threatens-200-tariff-on-french-wine-leaks-macron-text-exchange/">threatened to impose a 200% tariff on French wine and champagne<\/strong><\/a> if Paris declined the invitation to join the board.<\/p>\n<p>The executive board's members include US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Apollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan, World Bank President Ajay Banga and Trump's deputy national security adviser Robert Gabriel.<\/p>\n<p>The White House also announced the members of another board, the Gaza Executive Board, which, according to the ceasefire, will be in charge of implementing the tough second phase of the agreement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//81//84//808x539_cmsv2_4552ac65-860f-5256-bdb8-f5424b12308c-9618184.jpg/" alt=\"Makeshift tents shelter displaced Palestinians stand among buildings destroyed by Israeli air and ground operations in Gaza City, 15 January, 2026\" 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Netflix","daletPyramidId":3946646,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Netflix earnings beat estimates but subscriber growth risks linger","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Netflix earnings beat estimates but subscriber growth risks linger","titleListing2":"","leadin":"Netflix shares have fallen more than 5% in after-hours trading despite earnings beating Wall Street estimates.","summary":"Netflix shares have fallen more than 5% in after-hours trading despite earnings beating Wall Street estimates.","keySentence":"","url":"netflix-earnings-beat-estimates-but-subscriber-growth-risks-linger","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2026\/01\/21\/netflix-earnings-beat-estimates-but-subscriber-growth-risks-linger","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Netflix capped off last year with another solid financial performance, although the firm warned of potential storm clouds ahead, notably linked to a proposed deal with Warner Bros Discovery.\n\nThe fourth-quarter results announced on Tuesday eclipsed the projections of Wall Street analysts, but Netflix's report also noted that the video service ended the year with more than 325 million worldwide subscribers. Since 2024, that means the firm has added about 23 million subscribers.\n\nThe 2025 increase marked a dramatic slowdown from the 41 million customers picked up during 2024, amplifying investor worries that Netflix's growth has peaked since the 2022 introduction of a low-priced, advertising-supported version of its service that triggered a massive surge in subscribers.\n\nManagement also forecast a profit for the January-March period that was below analysts' predictions and announced Netflix would stop buying back its own stock while trying to complete the Warner Bros deal.\n\nEven though its ad sales are expected to double, Netflix also projected its revenue growth would taper off from 16% in 2025 to 12%-14% this year.\n\n\u201cOverall, this points to a challenging start to the year,\" said Investing.com analyst Thomas Monteiro.\n\nNetflix's shares sank more than 5% in extended trading, despite the fact that its profit and revenue for the past quarter were better than anticipated. The company earned $2.4bn (\u20ac2.05bn), or 56 cents per share, a 29% year-on-year increase. Revenue rose 18% from the previous year to more than $12bn (\u20ac10.24bn).\n\nThe streamer also said that its content costs would increase by around 10% in 2026, with higher growth in the first half of the year due to the timing of title launches. It expects $275mn (\u20ac234.57mn) in added costs in 2026 linked to the Warner Bros acquisition.\n\nA battle for Warner\n\nThe bidding war for Warner took another turn earlier on Tuesday when Netflix converted its original offer that included a stock component into an all-cash deal. Such a move is designed to simplify the takeover process and make it easier for Warner shareholders to resist overtures from rival bidder Paramount.\n\nAlthough Warner Bros has reiterated its commitment to getting the Netflix deal done, Paramount isn\u2019t showing any signs of backing down and could still sweeten its counteroffer.\n\nEarlier this month, Paramount told shareholders that it would nominate directors to Warner's board to vote against the approval of its deal with Netflix, as well as filing a lawsuit seeking to force fuller disclosure around that deal.\n\nNetflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos seemed to send a warning shot across Paramount's bow during a Tuesday conference call as he recalled fending off rivals such as Walmart and the now-vanquished Blockbuster video chain during the company's days as a DVD-by-mail rental service. \u201cWe are no strangers to competition and we are no strangers to change,\u201d Sarandos said.\n\nBesides having to fend off Paramount, Netflix will also need to persuade US regulators that adding HBO to a streaming service that has the most subscribers in the country won\u2019t stifle competition and drive up prices.\n\nThe uncertainty has been reflected in Netflix\u2019s stock price, which has fallen by 20% since its agreement with Warner Bros Discovery was unveiled last month. It\u2019s a cloud likely to hang over Netflix through most of this year since the company doesn't expect to complete its purchase until Warner spins off its cable TV business \u2014 a process expected to take six to nine months.\n\n\"Its move to stump up an all-cash deal demonstrates how much Netflix wants its prize, but shareholders will be hoping the same desire might lead to a fresh counter bid from Paramount Skydance and potentially a few more rounds in this bidding war,\" said AJ Bell head of financial analysis Danni Hewson.\n\n\"That\u2019s where things could get sticky for Netflix. It doesn\u2019t want to overpay but neither does it want to be bested in this race for content domination.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Netflix capped off last year with another solid financial performance, although the firm warned of potential storm clouds ahead, notably linked to a proposed deal with Warner Bros Discovery.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth-quarter results announced on Tuesday eclipsed the projections of Wall Street analysts, but Netflix's report also noted that the video service ended the year with more than 325 million worldwide subscribers. Since 2024, that means the firm has added about 23 million subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 increase marked a dramatic slowdown from the 41 million customers picked up during 2024, amplifying investor worries that Netflix's growth has peaked since the 2022 introduction of a low-priced, advertising-supported version of its service that triggered a massive surge in subscribers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//12//17//warner-bros-will-urge-shareholders-to-reject-hostile-bid-as-trump-attacks-paramount/">Warner Bros will urge shareholders to reject hostile bid as Trump attacks Paramount<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2026//01//12//paramount-sues-warner-bros-launches-proxy-war-to-scupper-netflix-deal/">Paramount sues Warner Bros, launches proxy war to scupper Netflix deal<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Management also forecast a profit for the January-March period that was below analysts' predictions and announced Netflix would stop buying back its own stock while trying to complete the Warner Bros deal.<\/p>\n<p>Even though its ad sales are expected to double, Netflix also projected its revenue growth would taper off from 16% in 2025 to 12%-14% this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, this points to a challenging start to the year,\" said Investing.com analyst Thomas Monteiro.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix's shares sank more than 5% in extended trading, despite the fact that its profit and revenue for the past quarter were better than anticipated. The company earned $2.4bn (\u20ac2.05bn), or 56 cents per share, a 29% year-on-year increase. Revenue rose 18% from the previous year to more than $12bn (\u20ac10.24bn).<\/p>\n<p>The streamer also said that its content costs would increase by around 10% in 2026, with higher growth in the first half of the year due to the timing of title launches. It expects $275mn (\u20ac234.57mn) in added costs in 2026 linked to the Warner Bros acquisition.<\/p>\n<h2>A battle for Warner<\/h2>\n<p>The bidding war for Warner took another turn earlier on Tuesday when Netflix converted its original offer that included a stock component into an all-cash deal. Such a move is designed to simplify the takeover process and make it easier for Warner shareholders to resist overtures from rival bidder Paramount.<\/p>\n<p>Although Warner Bros has reiterated its commitment to getting the Netflix deal done, Paramount isn\u2019t showing any signs of backing down and could still sweeten its counteroffer.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Paramount told shareholders that it would nominate directors to Warner's board to vote against the approval of its deal with Netflix, as well as filing a lawsuit seeking to force fuller disclosure around that deal.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos seemed to send a warning shot across Paramount's bow during a Tuesday conference call as he recalled fending off rivals such as Walmart and the now-vanquished Blockbuster video chain during the company's days as a DVD-by-mail rental service. \u201cWe are no strangers to competition and we are no strangers to change,\u201d Sarandos said.<\/p>\n<p>Besides having to fend off Paramount, Netflix will also need to persuade US regulators that adding HBO to a streaming service that has the most subscribers in the country won\u2019t stifle competition and drive up prices.<\/p>\n<p>The uncertainty has been reflected in Netflix\u2019s stock price, which has fallen by 20% since its agreement with Warner Bros Discovery was unveiled last month. It\u2019s a cloud likely to hang over Netflix through most of this year since the company doesn't expect to complete its purchase until Warner spins off its cable TV business \u2014 a process expected to take six to nine months.<\/p>\n<p>\"Its move to stump up an all-cash deal demonstrates how much Netflix wants its prize, but shareholders will be hoping the same desire might lead to a fresh counter bid from Paramount Skydance and potentially a few more rounds in this bidding war,\" said AJ Bell head of financial analysis Danni Hewson.<\/p>\n<p>\"That\u2019s where things could get sticky for Netflix. It doesn\u2019t want to overpay but neither does it want to be bested in this race for content domination.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1768977658,"updatedAt":1768980682,"publishedAt":1768980626,"firstPublishedAt":1768980626,"lastPublishedAt":1768980682,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP\/Jae C. 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Europe.","keySentence":"","url":"trump-says-youll-find-out-how-far-hell-go-to-seize-greenland-ahead-of-departure-for-davos","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/21\/trump-says-youll-find-out-how-far-hell-go-to-seize-greenland-ahead-of-departure-for-davos","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"During an unexpected appearance at the White House briefing room on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said only \"you'll find out\", when asked how far he was willing to go to seize Greenland.\n\nAt the same time, Trump remained confident NATO allies \"will work something out\", ahead of his departure for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.\n\n\u201cI think that we will work something out where NATO is going to be very happy, and where we\u2019re going to be very happy,\" he said, without providing specifics.\n\n\"We have a lot of meetings scheduled on Greenland, and I think things are going to work out pretty well,\" Trump told reporters about his Davos meetings.\n\nHis comments came despite European leaders' steadfast resolve in their defence of the Danish territory in recent days.\n\nOver the weekend, Trump vowed fresh tariffs on European countries including Britain, France and Germany which sent troops to Greenland in solidarity.\n\nHe dismissed suggestions that he was putting at risk a deal last year with the EU in which the allies promised to ramp up investment in the United States, saying \"They need that agreement very badly with us.\"\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pushed back against Trump's threats, vowing that the EU\u2019s response \u201cwill be unflinching, united and proportional,\u201d as she spoke in Davos on Tuesday.\n\nTaking firmer stances defied the approach that many European leaders have offered since Trump returned to office, mostly appeasing the president to try to stay in his good graces, while working furiously through other avenues to find compromise.\n\nTrump says the US needs Greenland to deter possible threats from China and Russia. But his continued insistence in recent weeks that anything short of the US owning Greenland is unacceptable is testing the limits of the softer strategy.\n\nMeanwhile, Trump\u2019s plane, Air Force One, returned to Joint Base Andrews about an hour after departing for Switzerland on Tuesday evening.\n\nWhite House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the decision to return was made after takeoff when the crew aboard Air Force One identified \u201ca minor electrical issue\u201d and, out of an abundance of caution, decided to turn around.\n\nA reporter on board said the lights in the press cabin of the aircraft went out briefly after takeoff, but no explanation was immediately offered. About half an hour into the flight reporters were told the plane would be turning around.\n\nTrump will board another aircraft and continue on with his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>During an unexpected appearance at the White House briefing room on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said only \"you'll find out\", when asked how far he was willing to go to seize Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Trump remained confident NATO allies \"will work something out\", ahead of his departure for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that we will work something out where NATO is going to be very happy, and where we\u2019re going to be very happy,\" he said, without providing specifics.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have a lot of meetings scheduled on Greenland, and I think things are going to work out pretty well,\" Trump told reporters about his Davos meetings.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came despite European leaders' steadfast resolve in their defence of the Danish territory in recent days.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//01//41//808x539_cmsv2_df8f30f6-8e76-5932-aabd-faeef10f6570-9620141.jpg/" alt=\"President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/01\/41\/384x256_cmsv2_df8f30f6-8e76-5932-aabd-faeef10f6570-9620141.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/01\/41\/640x427_cmsv2_df8f30f6-8e76-5932-aabd-faeef10f6570-9620141.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/01\/41\/750x500_cmsv2_df8f30f6-8e76-5932-aabd-faeef10f6570-9620141.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/01\/41\/828x552_cmsv2_df8f30f6-8e76-5932-aabd-faeef10f6570-9620141.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/01\/41\/1080x720_cmsv2_df8f30f6-8e76-5932-aabd-faeef10f6570-9620141.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/01\/41\/1200x800_cmsv2_df8f30f6-8e76-5932-aabd-faeef10f6570-9620141.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/01\/41\/1920x1280_cmsv2_df8f30f6-8e76-5932-aabd-faeef10f6570-9620141.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Over the weekend, Trump vowed fresh tariffs on European countries including Britain, France and Germany which sent troops to Greenland in solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed suggestions that he was putting at risk a deal last year with the EU in which the allies promised to ramp up investment in the United States, saying \"They need that agreement very badly with us.\"<\/p>\n<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pushed back against Trump's threats, vowing that the EU\u2019s response \u201cwill be unflinching, united and proportional,\u201d as she spoke in Davos on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Taking firmer stances defied the approach that many European leaders have offered since Trump returned to office, mostly appeasing the president to try to stay in his good graces, while working furiously through other avenues to find compromise.<\/p>\n<p>Trump says the US needs Greenland to deter possible threats from China and Russia. But his continued insistence in recent weeks that anything short of the US owning Greenland is unacceptable is testing the limits of the softer strategy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2026//01//20//in-davos-von-der-leyen-pitches-european-independence-versus-trumps-worldview/">In Davos, von der Leyen pitches 'European independence' versus Trump's worldview<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump\u2019s plane, Air Force One, returned to Joint Base Andrews about an hour after departing for Switzerland on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the decision to return was made after takeoff when the crew aboard Air Force One identified \u201ca minor electrical issue\u201d and, out of an abundance of caution, decided to turn around.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter on board said the lights in the press cabin of the aircraft went out briefly after takeoff, but no explanation was immediately offered. About half an hour into the flight reporters were told the plane would be turning around.<\/p>\n<p>Trump will board another aircraft and continue on with his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1768967689,"updatedAt":1768982991,"publishedAt":1768971227,"firstPublishedAt":1768971227,"lastPublishedAt":1768982990,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Alex Brandon","altText":"An Aurora Borealis is seen in the sky above Nuuk, 20 January, 2026","callToActionText":null,"width":1620,"caption":"An Aurora Borealis is seen in the sky above Nuuk, 20 January, 2026","url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/01\/41\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2ab276e1-be50-5d08-8ba3-a671712473b3-9620141.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":911},{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein","altText":"President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. 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Here\u2019s what we know so far about the system.","summary":"US President Donald Trump said his planned acquisition of Greenland is crucial for his $175-billion \u2018Golden Dome\u2019 defence project. Here\u2019s what we know so far about the system.","keySentence":"","url":"what-is-donald-trumps-proposed-golden-dome-missile-defence-system-and-how-would-it-work","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2026\/01\/19\/what-is-donald-trumps-proposed-golden-dome-missile-defence-system-and-how-would-it-work","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"US President Donald Trump said he needs Greenland for his planned \u201cGolden Dome for America\u201d, a missile defence shield.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThe United States needs Greenland for the purpose of national security,\u201d Trump wrote last week on his social media platform, Truth Social. \u201cIt is vital for the Golden Dome that we are building,\u201d adding that NATO should support the US\u2019 acquisition of the island because the alliance becomes \u201cfar more formidable,\u201d with it.\u00a0\n\nTrump\u2019s Golden Dome defence system would protect the country from the threat of foreign missile attack, according to a US executive order signed last May.\n\nTrump claims the Golden Dome would be able to shoot down hypersonic, ballistic, and advanced cruise missiles and drones, even if they are launched from the other side of the world or from space.\u00a0\n\nThis is what we know so far about the Golden Dome project, including who is working on it and what weapons could be involved.\u00a0\n\nWhich weapons could be used for the Golden Dome?\u00a0\n\nThe Golden Dome may incorporate \u201csome or all\u201d of the US\u2019 current missile defence systems in sensing, intercept and command, according to a September report from the US Congress.\n\nThe report lists several technologies that the US already has that could be integrated into the Golden Dome, such as long-range, space-based or early warning radar systems.\u00a0\n\nThe Dome could include the US\u2019s ballistic missile defence capabilities, such as the Terminal High Altitude Aerial Defence (THAAD) system and the Patriot system that can intercept cruise missiles, hypersonic weapons and large drones, the Congress report said.\n\nThe report also notes that Trump\u2019s administration \u201chas not publicly provided a comprehensive picture of the systems, procurement plans, timelines and operational concepts involved,\u201d in the Golden Dome.\u00a0\n\nAt the initial press conference for the Golden Dome, senators named as potential contractors\u00a0 L3Harris Technologies, Lockheed Martin, and RTX (formerly Raytheon).\n\nAerospace and defence company Lockheed Martin said it has built a prototype for a \u201ccommand and control,\u201d or C2 capabilities for the Golden Dome that it will \u201cconnect sensors, shooters, and platforms across all domains, from seabed to space\u201d.\n\nThe company said its prototype is important because it \u201cperform[s] the crucial task of integrating data from various sensors and coordinating direct actions,\u201d like launching interceptor missiles in \u201cfast, more confident\u201d responses to threats.\u00a0\n\nIn January, the company said it is \u201cready to support\u201d the Golden Dome project with its PAC-3 MSE missile defence system, its F-35 fighter jets, satellites and maritime vessels.\n\nLast year, communications systems company L3Harris announced it expanded plants in the states of Indiana and Florida to work on \"on-orbit technology\" for the Golden Dome.\u00a0\n\nThe company said in August that it is already developing 34 satellites dedicated to \u201chypersonic missile tracking\u201d for the country\u2019s Department of War.,\u00a0\n\nNo contracts awarded yet\n\nAs of now, the American government has not publicly announced any contract awards for the Golden Dome project.\n\nHowever, the US Missile Defence Agency (MDA) announced three rounds of staggered awards in December and January to over 2,000 companies, such as Lockheed Martin, L3Harris, and Raytheon (RTX), under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defence (SHIELD) contract.\u00a0\n\nThe initial SHIELD awards are meant to establish a portfolio of qualified firms that may compete for Golden Dome contracts, according to defence publication Defense News.\u00a0\n\nThe programme is supposed to make it easier for the US Department of Defence and the MDA to complete orders \u201cunder one flexible enterprise vehicle,\u201d with a funding ceiling of up to $151 billion (\u20ac128.4 billion) over the next decade, according to the government.\n\nDo other multi-layered defence systems exist?\n\nThe United States could also include joint weapons developed with Israel for their layered defence system.\u00a0\n\nCommonly known as the \"Iron Dome,\" Israel\u2019s system is capable of detecting incoming fire and deploying only if the projectile is headed towards a population centre or sensitive military or civilian infrastructure.\u00a0\n\nIsrael uses a combination of the Arrow, David\u2019s Sling, and the Iron Dome to protect itself from long, medium, and short-range missiles.\n\nThe Arrow weapons system is a family of interceptive missiles that \"surveil, detect, track, and kill\" incoming attacks \"far away from their target,\" with a fully automated control system, according to an Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI). It was developed by the IAI in cooperation with the US company Boeing.\u00a0\n\nDavid\u2019s Sling, the medium-range defence system developed by Israel\u2019s Rafael Advanced Defence Systems and the US\u2019 RTX, offers \"hit-to-kill\" defence against ballistic missiles, enemy planes, and drones. The Iron Dome then works exclusively to deter the short-range threats.\u00a0\n\nIsraeli officials say the system isn\u2019t 100 percent effective but still credit it as having played a critical role in the country\u2019s defence from various rocket and missile fire from Iran and militia groups in the Israel-Hamas conflict launched on October 7, 2023.\u00a0\n\nEurope is also working on its own version. In 2022, 21 European countries launched the European \"Sky Shield\" Initiative, whereby they agreed to cooperate in how defence systems are procured, maintained, and how to support each other.\u00a0\n\nAny weapons procured for the Sky Shield will then be folded into an existing NATO mission that \"protects Alliance territory\u2026 against any air or missile threat or attack,\" according to the organisation.\u00a0\n\nMeanwhile, last year, Italian defence company Leonardo unveiled plans for a shield powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to protect cities and critical infrastructure amid geopolitical tensions.\n\nSome countries, such as Germany, have signed contracts with Israel or the US for the Arrow rocket system as part of Sky Shield.\n\nThis story was originally published on 23\/05\/2025 and was updated.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>US President Donald Trump said he needs Greenland for his planned \u201cGolden Dome for America\u201d, a missile defence shield. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States needs Greenland for the purpose of national security,\u201d Trump <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////truthsocial.com//@realDonaldTrump//posts//115893255826342514/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> last week on his social media platform, Truth Social. \u201cIt is vital for the Golden Dome that we are building,\u201d adding that NATO should support the US\u2019 acquisition of the island because the alliance becomes \u201cfar more formidable,\u201d with it. <\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s Golden Dome defence system would protect the country from the threat of foreign missile attack, according to a US executive order signed last May. <\/p>\n<p>Trump claims the Golden Dome would be able to shoot down hypersonic, ballistic, and advanced cruise missiles and drones, even if they are launched from the other side of the world or from space. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2026//01//19//eu-seeks-to-de-escalate-greenland-crisis-while-preparing-retaliation-on-trump-tariffs/">EU seeks Greenland de-escalation while plotting tariff retaliation against Trump <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>This is what we know so far about the Golden Dome project, including who is working on it and what weapons could be involved. <\/p>\n<h2>Which weapons could be used for the Golden Dome?<\/h2>\n<p>The Golden Dome may incorporate \u201csome or all\u201d of the US\u2019 current missile defence systems in sensing, intercept and command, according to a September <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.congress.gov//crs-product//IF13115/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>report<\/strong><\/a>from the US Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The report lists several technologies that the US already has that could be integrated into the Golden Dome, such as long-range, space-based or early warning radar systems. <\/p>\n<p>The Dome could include the US\u2019s ballistic missile defence capabilities, such as the Terminal High Altitude Aerial Defence (THAAD) system and the Patriot system that can intercept cruise missiles, hypersonic weapons and large drones, the Congress report said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//12//26//small-space-tech-companys-shares-skyrocket-on-trump-golden-dome-contract/">Small space tech company\u2019s shares skyrocket on Trump Golden Dome contract<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The report also notes that Trump\u2019s administration \u201chas not publicly provided a comprehensive picture of the systems, procurement plans, timelines and operational concepts involved,\u201d in the Golden Dome. <\/p>\n<p>At the initial press conference for the Golden Dome, senators named as potential contractors L3Harris Technologies, Lockheed Martin, and RTX (formerly Raytheon).<\/p>\n<p>Aerospace and defence company Lockheed Martin said it has built a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////news.lockheedmartin.com//2025-08-05-Lockheed-Martin-Establishes-Command-and-Control-Prototyping-Hub-for-Golden-Dome-for-America?%5Fgl=1%2A1d4fplc%2A%5Fgcl%5Fau%2AMTc4Njk0OTY0Ni4xNzY4ODE2MDI5\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>prototype<\/strong><\/a> for a \u201ccommand and control,\u201d or C2 capabilities for the Golden Dome that it will \u201cconnect sensors, shooters, and platforms across all domains, from seabed to space\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The company said its prototype is important because it \u201cperform[s] the crucial task of integrating data from various sensors and coordinating direct actions,\u201d like launching interceptor missiles in \u201cfast, more confident\u201d responses to threats. <\/p>\n<p>In January, the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.lockheedmartin.com//en-us//news//features//2026//2026-Look-Ahead-Delivering-the-Future-of-Defense.html/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>company<\/strong><\/a> said it is \u201cready to support\u201d the Golden Dome project with its PAC-3 MSE missile defence system, its F-35 fighter jets, satellites and maritime vessels.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, communications systems company L3Harris announced it expanded plants in the states of Indiana and Florida to work on \"on-orbit technology\" for the Golden Dome. <\/p>\n<p>The company said in August that it is already developing 34 satellites <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.l3harris.com//newsroom//press-release//2025//08//l3harris-expands-florida-facility-support-americas-golden-dome/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>dedicated<\/strong><\/a> to \u201chypersonic missile tracking\u201d for the country\u2019s Department of War., <\/p>\n<h2>No contracts awarded yet<\/h2>\n<p>As of now, the American government has not publicly announced any contract awards for the Golden Dome project.<\/p>\n<p>However, the US Missile Defence Agency (MDA) <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////sam.gov//workspace//contract//opp//22bd56e58c4e471c87444e6a203c20e7//view/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> three rounds of staggered awards in December and January to over 2,000 companies, such as Lockheed Martin, L3Harris, and Raytheon (RTX), under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defence (SHIELD) <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.war.gov//News//Contracts//Contract//Article//4364107//contracts-for-dec-18-2025///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>contract<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//06//06//exclusive-europe-also-needs-golden-dome-missile-defence-say-us-experts/">Exclusive: Europe also needs Golden Dome missile defence, say US experts<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The initial SHIELD awards are meant to establish a portfolio of qualified firms that may compete for Golden Dome contracts, according to defence publication <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.defensenews.com//air//2025//12//03//pentagon-taps-more-than-1000-companies-that-could-work-on-golden-dome//?utm%5Fsource=chatgpt.com\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>Defense News<\/strong>.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The programme is supposed to make it easier for the US Department of Defence and the MDA to complete orders \u201cunder one flexible enterprise vehicle,\u201d with a funding ceiling of up to $151 billion (\u20ac128.4 billion) over the next decade, according to the government.<\/p>\n<h2>Do other multi-layered defence systems exist?<\/h2>\n<p>The United States could also include joint weapons developed with Israel for their layered defence system. <\/p>\n<p>Commonly known as the \"Iron Dome,\" Israel\u2019s system is capable of detecting incoming fire and deploying only if the projectile is headed towards a population centre or sensitive military or civilian infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>Israel uses a combination of the Arrow, David\u2019s Sling, and the Iron Dome to protect itself from long, medium, and short-range missiles.<\/p>\n<p>The Arrow weapons system is a family of interceptive missiles that \"surveil, detect, track, and kill\" incoming attacks \"far away from their target,\" with a fully automated control system, according to an Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI). It was developed by the IAI in cooperation with the US company Boeing. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//10//02//the-iron-dome-how-does-israels-missile-defence-system-work/">The Iron Dome: How does Israel\u2019s missile defence system work?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>David\u2019s Sling, the medium-range defence system developed by Israel\u2019s Rafael Advanced Defence Systems and the US\u2019 RTX, offers \"hit-to-kill\" defence against ballistic missiles, enemy planes, and drones. The Iron Dome then works exclusively to deter the short-range threats. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials say the system isn\u2019t 100 percent effective but still credit it as having played a critical role in the country\u2019s defence from various rocket and missile fire from Iran and militia groups in the Israel-Hamas conflict launched on October 7, 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Europe is also working on its own version. In 2022, 21 European countries launched the European \"Sky Shield\" Initiative, whereby they agreed to cooperate in how defence systems are procured, maintained, and how to support each other. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//07//28//how-sky-shield-europes-proposed-iron-dome-would-work-and-why-its-becoming-controversial/">How Sky Shield, Europe's proposed Iron Dome, would work and why it's becoming controversial <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Any weapons procured for the Sky Shield will then be folded into an existing NATO mission that \"protects Alliance territory\u2026 against any air or missile threat or attack,\" according to the organisation. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, last year, Italian defence company Leonardo<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//11//28//italys-leonardo-unveils-ai-powered-michelangelo-dome-to-boost-europes-defence/"> <strong>unveiled plans for a shield<\/strong> <\/a>powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to protect cities and critical infrastructure amid geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n<p>Some countries, such as Germany, have signed contracts with Israel or the US for the Arrow rocket system as part of Sky Shield.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This story was originally published on 23\/05\/2025 and was updated.<\/strong> <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1747919999,"updatedAt":1768833906,"publishedAt":1768833865,"firstPublishedAt":1748005225,"lastPublishedAt":1768833905,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","altText":"The Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept an 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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOLLY ","daletPyramidId":3926939,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Happy Birthday Dolly Parton! Tennessee honours country music legend's life and legacy","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Tennessee declares 'Dolly Parton Day' to mark music icon's 80th ","titleListing2":"Dolly Parton has been rewarded by Tennessee with her own day to celebrate her life, times and legacy","leadin":"This Monday, January 19th, marks Dolly Parton\u2019s 80th birthday and to celebrate the Queen of Country has welcomed her rise into octogenarian ranks with probably the only way she knows, by trying to make the world a better place, with music or otherwise.","summary":"This Monday, January 19th, marks Dolly Parton\u2019s 80th birthday and to celebrate the Queen of Country has welcomed her rise into octogenarian ranks with probably the only way she knows, by trying to make the world a better place, with music or otherwise.","keySentence":"","url":"happy-birthday-dolly-parton-tennessee-honours-country-music-legends-life-and-legacy","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/01\/19\/happy-birthday-dolly-parton-tennessee-honours-country-music-legends-life-and-legacy","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Happy Birthday Dolly Parton!\n\nTo celebrate the occasion, the legendary country singer has put out a rerecording of Light of a Clear Blue Morning, originally released in 1977.\n\nThe latest version features an all-female cast of some of the most important voices in American music. Miley Cyrus, Lainey Wilson, Queen Latifah and Reba McIntyre all join her on stage, in the reimagining of one of her timeless classics.\n\n\u201cI wrote \u2018Light of a Clear Blue Morning\u2019 during a season when I was searching for hope, and 50 years later that message still feels just as true. As I celebrate my 80th birthday, this new version is my way of using what I\u2019ve been blessed with to shine a little light forward, especially by sharing it with some truly incredible women,\u201d Parton said in a statement.\n\nLocal hero\n\nTennessee, Dolly Parton\u2019s home state and one of the cradle-states of the holy trinity of rock, rockabilly and country, has declared the 19th of January as 'Dolly Parton Day', \u201cto honour the life, legacy, and extraordinary contributions of Tennessee\u2019s favourite daughter,\u201d Governor Bill Lee said in a statement.\n\n\u201cDolly Parton\u2019s life and career is woven into Tennessee\u2019s music, culture, and rich history,\u201d \u201cHer talent and generosity have made a lasting impact on the world, and it is fitting that we honour her 80th birthday by celebrating her remarkable legacy,\u201d\n\nAll the proceeds generated from the new rendition of Light of a Clear Blue Morning will be donated to a paediatric cancer research at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. The Jolene star still clearly focussed on her quest to make her legacy not just music for pleasure, but music for the sake of charity.\n\nGiving back\n\nParton\u2019s philanthropic record is well known and that's why we are also taking a moment to sing her praises. Back in 1988, she created the \u201cDolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library\u201d a charity meant to inspire children from her home state to pursue education. Now, the Dollywood Foundation as it is better known, is sending more than three million books each month to children around the world.\n\nParton has also famously led many disaster relief efforts in the United States, most recently in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene which swept through southeast states in 2024.\n\nThe country singer\u2019s charity work also received deserved recognition last year, when she was awarded an Honorary Oscar and even found her achievements highlighted in Time magazine\u2019s \u201cTIME100 Philanthropy List\u201d.\n\n\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Happy Birthday Dolly Parton! <\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the occasion, the legendary country singer has put out a rerecording of <em>Light of a Clear Blue Morning<\/em>, originally released in 1977. <\/p>\n<p>The latest version features an all-female cast of some of the most important voices in American music. <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//07//07//move-over-ed-sheeran-miley-cyrus-has-the-biggest-song-of-2023-so-far/">Miley Cyrus<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//03//15//lainey-wilson-brings-the-country-music-spirit-to-europe/">Lainey Wilson<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//08//11//culture-re-view-happy-50th-birthday-to-hip-hop/">Queen Latifah<\/strong><\/a> and Reba McIntyre all join her on stage, in the reimagining of one of her timeless classics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wrote \u2018Light of a Clear Blue Morning\u2019 during a season when I was searching for hope, and 50 years later that message still feels just as true. As I celebrate my 80th birthday, this new version is my way of using what I\u2019ve been blessed with to shine a little light forward, especially by sharing it with some truly incredible women,\u201d Parton said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h2>Local hero<\/h2>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//81//14//808x539_cmsv2_bd22f010-3e72-543a-be34-d4e5d314297e-9618114.jpg/" alt=\"FILE: Dolly Parton at a news conference for her show &#x27;Dolly: An Original Musical&#x27; in Nashville, Tenn, 28 Jan 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/384x256_cmsv2_bd22f010-3e72-543a-be34-d4e5d314297e-9618114.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/640x427_cmsv2_bd22f010-3e72-543a-be34-d4e5d314297e-9618114.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/750x500_cmsv2_bd22f010-3e72-543a-be34-d4e5d314297e-9618114.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/828x552_cmsv2_bd22f010-3e72-543a-be34-d4e5d314297e-9618114.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/1080x720_cmsv2_bd22f010-3e72-543a-be34-d4e5d314297e-9618114.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/1200x800_cmsv2_bd22f010-3e72-543a-be34-d4e5d314297e-9618114.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/1920x1280_cmsv2_bd22f010-3e72-543a-be34-d4e5d314297e-9618114.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE: Dolly Parton at a news conference for her show &#x27;Dolly: An Original Musical&#x27; in Nashville, Tenn, 28 Jan 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/George Walker <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Tennessee, Dolly Parton\u2019s home state and one of the cradle-states of the holy trinity of rock, rockabilly and country, has declared the 19th of January as 'Dolly Parton Day', \u201cto honour the life, legacy, and extraordinary contributions of Tennessee\u2019s favourite daughter,\u201d Governor Bill Lee said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDolly Parton\u2019s life and career is woven into Tennessee\u2019s music, culture, and rich history,\u201d \u201cHer talent and generosity have made a lasting impact on the world, and it is fitting that we honour her 80th birthday by celebrating her remarkable legacy,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All the proceeds generated from the new rendition of <em>Light of a Clear Blue Morning<\/em> will be donated to a paediatric cancer research at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. The <em>Jolene<\/em> star still clearly focussed on her quest to make her legacy not just music for pleasure, but music for the sake of charity.<\/p>\n<h2>Giving back<\/h2>\n<p>Parton\u2019s philanthropic record is well known and that's why we are also taking a moment to sing her praises. Back in 1988, she created the \u201cDolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library\u201d a charity meant to inspire children from her home state to pursue education. Now, the <em>Dollywood Foundation<\/em> as it is better known, is sending more than three million books each month to children around the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//81//14//808x539_cmsv2_1020ca82-9f64-525c-a302-499f9b851e5d-9618114.jpg/" alt=\"FILE: Dolly Parton&#x27;s 100 millionth book, &#x27;Coat of Many Colors&#x27; was donated to the US Library of Congress collection in Washington, Feb 2017 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/384x256_cmsv2_1020ca82-9f64-525c-a302-499f9b851e5d-9618114.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/640x427_cmsv2_1020ca82-9f64-525c-a302-499f9b851e5d-9618114.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/750x500_cmsv2_1020ca82-9f64-525c-a302-499f9b851e5d-9618114.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/828x552_cmsv2_1020ca82-9f64-525c-a302-499f9b851e5d-9618114.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/1080x720_cmsv2_1020ca82-9f64-525c-a302-499f9b851e5d-9618114.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/1200x800_cmsv2_1020ca82-9f64-525c-a302-499f9b851e5d-9618114.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/1920x1280_cmsv2_1020ca82-9f64-525c-a302-499f9b851e5d-9618114.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE: Dolly Parton&#x27;s 100 millionth book, &#x27;Coat of Many Colors&#x27; was donated to the US Library of Congress collection in Washington, Feb 2017 <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Parton has also famously led many disaster relief efforts in the United States, most recently in the aftermath of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//10//10//celebrities-for-hurricane-relief-taylor-swift-and-dolly-parton-lead-donations/">Hurricane Helene<\/strong><\/a> which swept through southeast states in 2024.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7675\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//81//14//808x622_cmsv2_d93fb7d7-f551-5a50-b638-cdf1c735d39b-9618114.jpg/" alt=\"FILE: Dolly Parton performs at Austin City Limits Live during Blockchain Creative Labs&#x27;s Dollyverse event.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/384x295_cmsv2_d93fb7d7-f551-5a50-b638-cdf1c735d39b-9618114.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/640x491_cmsv2_d93fb7d7-f551-5a50-b638-cdf1c735d39b-9618114.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/750x576_cmsv2_d93fb7d7-f551-5a50-b638-cdf1c735d39b-9618114.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/828x635_cmsv2_d93fb7d7-f551-5a50-b638-cdf1c735d39b-9618114.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/1080x829_cmsv2_d93fb7d7-f551-5a50-b638-cdf1c735d39b-9618114.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/1200x921_cmsv2_d93fb7d7-f551-5a50-b638-cdf1c735d39b-9618114.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/1920x1474_cmsv2_d93fb7d7-f551-5a50-b638-cdf1c735d39b-9618114.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE: Dolly Parton performs at Austin City Limits Live during Blockchain Creative Labs&#x27;s Dollyverse event.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Jack Plunkett\/Invision <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The country singer\u2019s charity work also received deserved recognition last year, when she was awarded an <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//06//18//oscar-glory-at-last-tom-cruise-and-dolly-parton-are-finally-getting-academy-awards/">Honorary Oscar<\/strong><\/a> and even found her achievements highlighted in Time magazine\u2019s \u201cTIME100 Philanthropy List\u201d.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1768826779,"updatedAt":1768831238,"publishedAt":1768831217,"firstPublishedAt":1768831217,"lastPublishedAt":1768831237,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/81\/14\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2ba0037d-2d3d-5cc7-9811-94236929a0ad-9618114.jpg","altText":"FILE: Dolly Parton presents 'Threads: My Songs in Symphony' in Nashville, Tenn, 20 March, 2025","caption":"FILE: Dolly Parton presents 'Threads: My Songs in Symphony' in Nashville, Tenn, 20 March, 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Amy 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TRUMP THREATENS COUNTRIES WITH TARIFFS","daletPyramidId":3909066,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Trump says he may punish countries opposed to US control of Greenland with tariffs","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Trump threatens tariffs on countries against US control of Greenland","titleListing2":"Trump says he may punish countries opposed to US control of Greenland with tariffs","leadin":"US President Donald Trump says he may implement tariffs on countries opposing Washington\u2019s controlling of Greenland as he remains stern in his stance to take over the Arctic island by \u201cany means necessary\u201d.","summary":"US President Donald Trump says he may implement tariffs on countries opposing Washington\u2019s controlling of Greenland as he remains stern in his stance to take over the Arctic island by \u201cany means necessary\u201d.","keySentence":"","url":"trump-says-he-may-punish-countries-opposed-to-us-control-of-greenland-with-tariffs","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/17\/trump-says-he-may-punish-countries-opposed-to-us-control-of-greenland-with-tariffs","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Donald Trump suggested on Friday that he may punish countries that do not back the US controlling of Greenland with tariffs as a bipartisan Congressional delegation visited the Danish capital, Copenhagen, to display unity and ease tensions.\n\nThe US president has for months insisted that Washington should control Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark, citing national security reasons. Earlier this week, Trump said that anything other than Arctic island being in US hands is \u201cunacceptable\u201d.\n\nDuring an unrelated event at the White House about rural health care, Trump recounted how he had threatened European allies with tariffs on pharmaceuticals, noting that he may once more deploy the strategy to achieve this objective.\n\n\u201cI may do that for Greenland too,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI may put a tariff on countries if they don\u2019t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security. So I may do that,\u201d said Trump.\n\nThe comments after failed talks between Danish, Greenlandic and US officials earlier in the week in Washington, which aimed to find ways to satisfy US concerns, without resorting to threats or annexation.\n\nThe talks were attended by the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland, who met with US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.\n\nThat encounter didn\u2019t resolve the deep differences, but did produce an agreement to set up a working group \u2014 on whose purpose Denmark and the White House then offered sharply diverging public views.\n\nEuropean leaders have insisted that is only for Denmark and Greenland to decide on matters concerning the territory, and Denmark said this week that it was increasing its military presence in Greenland in cooperation with allies.\n\n\u2018A relationship we need to nurture\u2019\n\nA group of US senators and members of the House of Representatives met with Danish and Greenlandic lawmakers, and with leaders, including Denmark\u2019s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.\n\nDemocrat Senator Chris Coons, the delegation leader, thanked the group\u2019s hosts for \u201c225 years of being a good and trusted ally and partner\u201d and said that \u201cwe had a strong and robust dialogue about how we extend that into the future.\u201d\n\nSenator Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, said after meeting lawmakers that the visit reflected a strong relationship over decades and \u201cit is one that we need to nurture.\u201d\n\nShe told reporters that \u201cGreenland needs to be viewed as our ally, not as an asset, and I think that\u2019s what you\u2019re hearing with this delegation.\u201d\n\nThe tone contrasted with that emanating from the White House. Trump has sought to justify his calls for a US takeover by repeatedly claiming that China and Russia have their own designs on Greenland, which holds vast untapped reserves of critical minerals.\n\nThe White House says all options are on the table, including seizing the island by military force.\n\nThe issue sounded alarms throughout Europe, both on legality and the dangerous precedent it sets. Asked about the implications of taking over the Danish territory, Trump said he intends to take it one way or another \u201cwhether they (European lawmakers) like it or not\u201d.\n\nThe dispute is looming large in the lives of Greenlanders, who refute Trump\u2019s narrative of an imminent Chinese and Russian threat, saying the biggest threat on their country comes from none other than Washington.\n\nGreenland\u2019s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said on Tuesday that \u201cif we have to choose between the United States and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Donald Trump suggested on Friday that he may punish countries that do not back the US controlling of Greenland with tariffs as a bipartisan Congressional delegation visited the Danish capital, Copenhagen, to display unity and ease tensions.<\/p>\n<p>The US president has for months insisted that Washington should control Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark, citing national security reasons. Earlier this week, Trump said that anything other than Arctic island being in US hands is \u201cunacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>During an unrelated event at the White House about rural health care, Trump recounted how he had threatened European allies with tariffs on pharmaceuticals, noting that he may once more deploy the strategy to achieve this objective.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//59//92//808x539_cmsv2_0699dbca-df69-53c8-9657-bdf8ab9c0ded-9615992.jpg/" alt=\"US President Donald Trump speaks during an event to promote investment in rural health care in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, in Washington\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/384x256_cmsv2_0699dbca-df69-53c8-9657-bdf8ab9c0ded-9615992.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/640x427_cmsv2_0699dbca-df69-53c8-9657-bdf8ab9c0ded-9615992.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/750x500_cmsv2_0699dbca-df69-53c8-9657-bdf8ab9c0ded-9615992.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/828x552_cmsv2_0699dbca-df69-53c8-9657-bdf8ab9c0ded-9615992.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/1080x720_cmsv2_0699dbca-df69-53c8-9657-bdf8ab9c0ded-9615992.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/1200x800_cmsv2_0699dbca-df69-53c8-9657-bdf8ab9c0ded-9615992.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/1920x1281_cmsv2_0699dbca-df69-53c8-9657-bdf8ab9c0ded-9615992.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">US President Donald Trump speaks during an event to promote investment in rural health care in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, in Washington<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Evan Vucci\/Copyright 2026 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cI may do that for Greenland too,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI may put a tariff on countries if they don\u2019t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security. So I may do that,\u201d said Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The comments after failed talks between Danish, Greenlandic and US officials earlier in the week in Washington, which aimed to find ways to satisfy US concerns, without resorting to threats or annexation.<\/p>\n<p>The talks were attended by the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland, who met with US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>That encounter didn\u2019t resolve the deep differences, but did produce an agreement to set up a working group \u2014 on whose purpose Denmark and the White House then offered sharply diverging public views.<\/p>\n<p>European leaders have insisted that is only for Denmark and Greenland to decide on matters concerning the territory, and Denmark said this week that it was increasing its military presence in Greenland in cooperation with allies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//59//92//808x539_cmsv2_c577572c-b073-59b4-a684-0ffbdc786206-9615992.jpg/" alt=\"Military vessel HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen of the Royal Danish Navy patrols near Nuuk, Greenland, on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/384x256_cmsv2_c577572c-b073-59b4-a684-0ffbdc786206-9615992.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/640x427_cmsv2_c577572c-b073-59b4-a684-0ffbdc786206-9615992.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/750x500_cmsv2_c577572c-b073-59b4-a684-0ffbdc786206-9615992.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/828x552_cmsv2_c577572c-b073-59b4-a684-0ffbdc786206-9615992.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/1080x720_cmsv2_c577572c-b073-59b4-a684-0ffbdc786206-9615992.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/1200x800_cmsv2_c577572c-b073-59b4-a684-0ffbdc786206-9615992.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/1920x1281_cmsv2_c577572c-b073-59b4-a684-0ffbdc786206-9615992.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Military vessel HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen of the Royal Danish Navy patrols near Nuuk, Greenland, on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Evgeniy Maloletka\/Copyright 2026 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2><strong>\u2018A relationship we need to nurture\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A group of US senators and members of the House of Representatives met with Danish and Greenlandic lawmakers, and with leaders, including Denmark\u2019s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Senator Chris Coons, the delegation leader, thanked the group\u2019s hosts for \u201c225 years of being a good and trusted ally and partner\u201d and said that \u201cwe had a strong and robust dialogue about how we extend that into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, said after meeting lawmakers that the visit reflected a strong relationship over decades and \u201cit is one that we need to nurture.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//59//92//808x539_cmsv2_d7bd0553-bcf3-50b1-9a4b-9a089e82628e-9615992.jpg/" alt=\"Chris Coons and Thom Tillis arrive as members of the Danish Parliament and a Greenlandic committee meet with US Congress members in Copenhagen, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/384x256_cmsv2_d7bd0553-bcf3-50b1-9a4b-9a089e82628e-9615992.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/640x427_cmsv2_d7bd0553-bcf3-50b1-9a4b-9a089e82628e-9615992.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/750x500_cmsv2_d7bd0553-bcf3-50b1-9a4b-9a089e82628e-9615992.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/828x552_cmsv2_d7bd0553-bcf3-50b1-9a4b-9a089e82628e-9615992.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/1080x720_cmsv2_d7bd0553-bcf3-50b1-9a4b-9a089e82628e-9615992.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/1200x800_cmsv2_d7bd0553-bcf3-50b1-9a4b-9a089e82628e-9615992.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/1920x1281_cmsv2_d7bd0553-bcf3-50b1-9a4b-9a089e82628e-9615992.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Chris Coons and Thom Tillis arrive as members of the Danish Parliament and a Greenlandic committee meet with US Congress members in Copenhagen, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ida Marie Odgaard\/Ritzau Scanpix<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>She told reporters that \u201cGreenland needs to be viewed as our ally, not as an asset, and I think that\u2019s what you\u2019re hearing with this delegation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tone contrasted with that emanating from the White House. Trump has sought to justify his calls for a US takeover by repeatedly claiming that China and Russia have their own designs on Greenland, which holds vast untapped reserves of critical minerals.<\/p>\n<p>The White House says all options are on the table, including seizing the island by military force.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//59//92//808x539_cmsv2_c869d62c-cb4a-522c-bc5c-9898cafa4ff2-9615992.jpg/" alt=\"Senator Lisa Murkowski arrives as members of the Danish Parliament and a Greenlandic committee meet with US Congress members in Copenhagen, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/384x256_cmsv2_c869d62c-cb4a-522c-bc5c-9898cafa4ff2-9615992.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/640x427_cmsv2_c869d62c-cb4a-522c-bc5c-9898cafa4ff2-9615992.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/750x500_cmsv2_c869d62c-cb4a-522c-bc5c-9898cafa4ff2-9615992.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/828x552_cmsv2_c869d62c-cb4a-522c-bc5c-9898cafa4ff2-9615992.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/1080x720_cmsv2_c869d62c-cb4a-522c-bc5c-9898cafa4ff2-9615992.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/1200x800_cmsv2_c869d62c-cb4a-522c-bc5c-9898cafa4ff2-9615992.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/59\/92\/1920x1281_cmsv2_c869d62c-cb4a-522c-bc5c-9898cafa4ff2-9615992.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Senator Lisa Murkowski arrives as members of the Danish Parliament and a Greenlandic committee meet with US Congress members in Copenhagen, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ida Marie Odgaard\/Ritzau Scanpix<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The issue sounded alarms throughout Europe, both on legality and the dangerous precedent it sets. Asked about the implications of taking over the Danish territory, Trump said he intends to take it one way or another \u201cwhether they (European lawmakers) like it or not\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute is looming large in the lives of Greenlanders, who refute Trump\u2019s narrative of an imminent Chinese and Russian threat, saying the biggest threat on their country comes from none other than Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Greenland\u2019s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said on Tuesday that \u201cif we have to choose between the United States and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1768592890,"updatedAt":1768647250,"publishedAt":1768633949,"firstPublishedAt":1768633949,"lastPublishedAt":1768639819,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Alex Brandon\/Copyright 2026 The AP. 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Kathleen Kennedy has officially stepped down as the president of Lucasfilm, the Disney subsidiary home to the Star Wars franchise.","summary":"The first post-Disney Star Wars dynasty is over. Kathleen Kennedy has officially stepped down as the president of Lucasfilm, the Disney subsidiary home to the Star Wars franchise.","keySentence":"","url":"end-of-an-empire-kathleen-kennedy-departs-from-disney-and-star-wars","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/01\/16\/end-of-an-empire-kathleen-kennedy-departs-from-disney-and-star-wars","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"An empire enters a new age. The first post-Disney Star Wars dynasty is over.\n\nKathleen Kennedy is stepping down as Lucasfilm president after 13 turbulent years in charge. She has officially quit as president of Lucasfilm, Disney's subsidiary home to the Star Wars franchise.\n\nOver the course of her reign, which began in 2012 when Disney officially acquired Lucasfilm and all of its properties, Kennedy oversaw one of the most productive and profitable periods in the history of the world's most popular science-fiction saga.\n\nKennedy\u2019s time at Star Wars will be remembered for ushering Star Wars into the modern content economy with the production of the three sequel movies to the Original Trilogy (1977-1983), two standalone feature films (Rogue One, Solo), five major TV series (The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka, Andor), and dozens more of animated shows, video games, books and comics; all fuelling Star Wars\u2019 status as arguably the most expansive fictional universe.\u00a0\n\nBut, for every critically acclaimed production like Andor or the first instalment of the Sequel Trilogy, The Force Awakens, Lucasfilm\u2019s ex-president has faced intense criticism from the old-school members of the Star Wars fanbase, coming to a head in the incredibly polarising release of The Last Jedi, which on the online review platform Rotten Tomatoes received a hugely positive 91% from critics and a scathing 41% from the audiences.\n\nThis of course might hardly matter to the executive board as Kennedy\u2019s stewardship over the franchise brought in a total of $5.6 billion (\u20ac4.2 billion) in box office alone, good business considering the $4.2 billion (\u20ac3.6 billion) Disney paid to buy the firm.\n\nSuccession\n\nKennedy now hands over the reins of Lucasfilm to its current chief creative officer Dave Filoni, and Lynwenn Brennan, the studio\u2019s business affairs and operations chief.\n\nFiloni\u2019s name should be well known to most of the Star Wars faithful. He was involved in some of the most beloved works within the franchise, such as the animated TV show Star Wars: Clone Wars (2008-2020) and more recently had a hand in creating Ahsoka (2023).\n\nFiloni will retain his position as creative chief while also holding the title of president while Brennan will be co-president. Both are expected to preside over the day to day operations of the media company.\n\n\u201cFrom Rey to Grogu, Kathy has overseen the greatest expansion in Star Wars storytelling on-screen that we have ever seen,\u201d said Filoni. \u201cI am incredibly grateful to Kathy, George, Bob Iger, and Alan Bergman for their trust and the opportunity to lead Lucasfilm in this new role, doing a job I truly love. May the Force be with you.\u201d\n\nBefore joining Lucasfilm, Kennedy was one of Hollywood\u2019s most successful producers ever. In 1981, she co-founded Amblin Entertainment with Steven Spielberg and her eventual husband, Frank Marshall. She produced E.T., Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Jurassic Park and the Back to the Future trilogy.\n\nHer final projects as president within the Star Wars franchise will be as executive producer on two upcoming Star Wars movies, The Mandalorian & Grogu and Star Wars: Starfighter starring Ryan Gosling.\n\n\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>An empire enters a new age. The first post-Disney Star Wars dynasty is over.<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as Lucasfilm president after 13 turbulent years in charge. She has officially quit as president of Lucasfilm, Disney's subsidiary home to the <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of her reign, which began in 2012 when Disney officially acquired Lucasfilm and all of its properties, Kennedy oversaw one of the most productive and profitable periods in the history of the world's most popular science-fiction saga. <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy\u2019s time at Star Wars will be remembered for ushering Star Wars into the modern content economy with the production of the three sequel movies to the Original Trilogy (1977-1983), two standalone feature films (<em>Rogue One, Solo<\/em>), five major TV series (<em>The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka, Andor<\/em>), and dozens more of animated shows, video games, books and comics; all fuelling Star Wars\u2019 status as arguably the most expansive fictional universe. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//09//05//darth-vaders-lightsaber-shatters-star-wars-record-at-auction/">Darth Vader\u2019s lightsaber shatters Star Wars record at auction <\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//06//06//star-wars-figurine-breaks-record-to-become-worlds-most-valuable-vintage-toy/">Star Wars figurine breaks record to become world\u2019s most valuable vintage toy<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>But, for every critically acclaimed production like <em>Andor<\/em> or the first instalment of the Sequel Trilogy, <em>The Force Awakens<\/em>, Lucasfilm\u2019s ex-president has faced intense criticism from the old-school members of the Star Wars fanbase, coming to a head in the incredibly polarising release of <em>The Last Jedi<\/em>, which on the online review platform Rotten Tomatoes received a hugely positive 91% from critics and a scathing 41% from the audiences.<\/p>\n<p>This of course might hardly matter to the executive board as Kennedy\u2019s stewardship over the franchise brought in a total of $5.6 billion (\u20ac4.2 billion) in box office alone, good business considering the $4.2 billion (\u20ac3.6 billion) Disney paid to buy the firm. <\/p>\n<h2><strong>Succession<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Kennedy now hands over the reins of Lucasfilm to its current chief creative officer Dave Filoni, and Lynwenn Brennan, the studio\u2019s business affairs and operations chief.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio 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He was involved in some of the most beloved works within the franchise, such as the animated TV show <em>Star Wars: Clone Wars<\/em> (2008-2020) and more recently had a hand in creating <em>Ahsoka<\/em> (2023).<\/p>\n<p>Filoni will retain his position as creative chief while also holding the title of president while Brennan will be co-president. Both are expected to preside over the day to day operations of the media company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Rey to Grogu, Kathy has overseen the greatest expansion in Star Wars storytelling on-screen that we have ever seen,\u201d said Filoni. \u201cI am incredibly grateful to Kathy, George, Bob Iger, and Alan Bergman for their trust and the opportunity to lead Lucasfilm in this new role, doing a job I truly love. May the Force be with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Lucasfilm, Kennedy was one of Hollywood\u2019s most successful producers ever. In 1981, she co-founded Amblin Entertainment with Steven Spielberg and her eventual husband, Frank Marshall. She produced <em>E.T.<\/em>, <em>Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom<\/em>, <em>Jurassic Park<\/em> and the <em>Back to the Future<\/em> trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>Her final projects as president within the Star Wars franchise will be as executive producer on two upcoming Star Wars movies, <em>The Mandalorian &amp; Grogu<\/em> and <em>Star Wars: Starfighter<\/em> starring Ryan Gosling.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1768567542,"updatedAt":1768575031,"publishedAt":1768574969,"firstPublishedAt":1768574969,"lastPublishedAt":1768574969,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/54\/08\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_7bc65b22-bf33-56ab-ae23-058104cc12f1-9615408.jpg","altText":"FILE: Kathleen Kennedy collects her BAFTA Fellowship award at the BAFTA Film Awards in London, 2, Feb, 2020","caption":"FILE: Kathleen Kennedy collects her BAFTA Fellowship award at the BAFTA Film Awards in London, 2, Feb, 2020","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Joel C 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May?","titleListing2":"","leadin":"Trump said on Tuesday that he hopes to name a new Fed chair in the next few weeks. But that could get held up by the criminal investigation of Powell.","summary":"Trump said on Tuesday that he hopes to name a new Fed chair in the next few weeks. But that could get held up by the criminal investigation of Powell.","keySentence":"","url":"criminal-probe-raises-key-question-will-powell-leave-the-fed-in-may","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2026\/01\/16\/criminal-probe-raises-key-question-will-powell-leave-the-fed-in-may","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The Justice Department\u2019s investigation into federal reserve chair Jerome Powell has brought heightened attention to a key drama that will play out at the central bank in the coming months. Will Powell leave the Fed when his term as chair ends, or will he take the unusual step of remaining a governor?\n\nPowell's term as Fed chair finishes on 15 May, but because of the central bank's complex structure, he has a separate term as one of seven members of its governing board that lasts until 31 January 2028. Historically, nearly all Fed chairs have stepped down from the board when they are no longer chair. But Powell could be the first in nearly 50 years to stay on as a governor.\n\nMany Fed watchers believe that the criminal investigation into Powell's testimony about cost overruns for Fed building renovations was intended to intimidate him out of taking that step. If Powell stays on the board, it would deny the White House a chance to gain a majority, undercutting the Trump administration's efforts to seize greater control over what has for decades been an institution largely insulated from day-to-day politics.\n\n\u201cI find it very difficult to see Powell leaving before midnight on 31 January 2028,\u201d said David Wilcox, a former top economist at the Fed and senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. \"This is a mortal threat to the governance structure of the Fed as we\u2019ve known it for 90 years. And I think that Powell does take that threat exceedingly seriously, and therefore will believe that it is his solemn duty to continue to occupy his seat on the board of governors.\u201d\n\nPowell, 72, was appointed as Fed chair by Trump in 2018, and must step down from the position in May because his second four-year term is ending. He has declined several times to comment on his plans beyond that when asked by reporters. A spokesperson declined to comment for this story.\n\nTrump has sought to push out Powell before his time is up, obsessively attacking him for not cutting rates as sharply as the president wants, particularly in light of ongoing concerns about high costs for groceries, utilities, and housing that have remained a salient political issue even as inflation has cooled.\n\nOn Tuesday, Trump highlighted that mortgage rates have declined in the past year. \u201cIf I had the help of the Fed, it would be easier,\u201d he said. \"But that jerk will be gone soon.\u201d\n\nOr maybe not.\n\nWhat happens if Powell stays on the board\n\nTrump said on Tuesday that he hopes to name a new Fed chair in the next few weeks. But that could get held up by the criminal investigation of Powell.\n\nSeveral Republican senators, including at least two on the banking committee who would have to approve Trump\u2019s nominees to the Fed, have expressed scepticism that Powell committed crimes during his testimony last June regarding the Fed\u2019s $2.5bn (\u20ac2.15bn) renovation of two office buildings, a project that Trump has criticised as excessive. That testimony is the subject of subpoenas sent to the Fed by US attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.\n\nSenator Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, said he would not vote for any Fed nominees until the legal cloud around Powell is resolved. That would be enough to delay a nomination from getting out of the banking committee.\n\nIf no new chair of the Fed's board has been confirmed by 15 May, then Powell could remain in that post until a replacement has been confirmed. As a result, the Fed might not cut interest rates anywhere near as quickly as Trump wants.\n\nIf Powell stays on as a governor even after he is no longer chair, Trump could still name someone to lead the Fed but that would give him a total of three appointments on the board \u2014 including two from his first term \u2014 and short of a majority.\n\nSo even if Trump nominates a chair who seeks to do the president\u2019s bidding regarding interest rates, that person \u201cwould have very little persuasive power with his colleagues,\" said Wilcox, who is also director of research at Bloomberg Economics. Powell, along with other members of the Fed's 19-member interest rate-setting committee, could outvote the new chair. That hasn't happened since 1986.\n\nWhat happens if Powell leaves the board\n\nIf Powell leaves, Trump could nominate a fourth person to the board and gain a majority. He could even then add a fifth, if the Supreme Court allows his attempt to fire Governor Lisa Cook to proceed. The high court will hear her case on Wednesday.\n\nA majority on the board would enable the White House to make sweeping changes to the Federal Reserve. Trump's Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, has advocated numerous reforms to reduce the central bank's influence in the economy and financial markets.\n\nTrump's majority on the Fed's board could also remove some of the presidents of the 12 regional banks, who are members of the Fed's rate-setting committee. The New York Fed president has a vote on the committee and four others vote on a rotating basis.\n\nSeveral of those bank presidents have expressed opposition to the deep rate cuts that Trump has demanded. The board of governors could seek to have them fired if a chair wanted to do so.\n\nWhat past Fed chairs have done\n\nWhile nearly all Fed chairs have left the board of governors before their terms were up, there is some precedent for Powell to stay. In 1978, then-Chair Arthur Burns stayed on the board for about three weeks after his chairmanship ended. But in 1948, then-Fed chairman Marriner Eccles remained as a governor for three years after finishing as chair, in part because President Harry Truman asked him to remain.\n\nIn 1951, however, he played a key role in undercutting the Truman administration in a dispute over interest rates, which led to the Fed-Treasury Accord that established the modern Fed as a largely independent institution.\n\nEccles became a symbol of Fed independence, though some academics say that reputation is overstated. The Fed's principal office building \u2014 currently under renovation and at the centre of the criminal investigation of Powell \u2014 is named after him.\n\nTruman then appointed a Treasury official, William McChesney Martin, to the Fed chairmanship and assumed he would do his bidding. Yet Martin defied Truman and raised interest rates. Years later, Truman ran into Martin in New York City and called him a \u201ctraitor\u201d. The Fed's second office building in Washington is named after Martin.\n\n\u201cSo it's a cautionary tale also for Trump, thinking he's going to get his own Fed chair in there,\u201d said Lev Menand, a law professor at Columbia University who studies the Fed. \u201cMartin didn't do what Truman wanted.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The Justice Department\u2019s investigation into federal reserve chair Jerome Powell has brought heightened attention to a key drama that will play out at the central bank in the coming months. Will Powell leave the Fed when his term as chair ends, or will he take the unusual step of remaining a governor?<\/p>\n<p>Powell's term as Fed chair finishes on 15 May, but because of the central bank's complex structure, he has a separate term as one of seven members of its governing board that lasts until 31 January 2028. Historically, nearly all Fed chairs have stepped down from the board when they are no longer chair. But Powell could be the first in nearly 50 years to stay on as a governor.<\/p>\n<p>Many Fed watchers believe that the criminal investigation into Powell's testimony about cost overruns for Fed building renovations was intended to intimidate him out of taking that step. If Powell stays on the board, it would deny the White House a chance to gain a majority, undercutting the Trump administration's efforts to seize greater control over what has for decades been an institution largely insulated from day-to-day politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find it very difficult to see Powell leaving before midnight on 31 January 2028,\u201d said David Wilcox, a former top economist at the Fed and senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. \"This is a mortal threat to the governance structure of the Fed as we\u2019ve known it for 90 years. And I think that Powell does take that threat exceedingly seriously, and therefore will believe that it is his solemn duty to continue to occupy his seat on the board of governors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Powell, 72, was appointed as Fed chair by Trump in 2018, and must step down from the position in May because his second four-year term is ending. He has declined several times to comment on his plans beyond that when asked by reporters. A spokesperson declined to comment for this story.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has sought to push out Powell before his time is up, obsessively attacking him for not cutting rates as sharply as the president wants, particularly in light of ongoing concerns about high costs for groceries, utilities, and housing that have remained a salient political issue even as inflation has cooled.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Trump highlighted that mortgage rates have declined in the past year. \u201cIf I had the help of the Fed, it would be easier,\u201d he said. \"But that jerk will be gone soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe not.<\/p>\n<h2>What happens if Powell stays on the board<\/h2>\n<p>Trump said on Tuesday that he hopes to name a new Fed chair in the next few weeks. But that could get held up by the criminal investigation of Powell.<\/p>\n<p>Several Republican senators, including at least two on the banking committee who would have to approve Trump\u2019s nominees to the Fed, have expressed scepticism that Powell committed crimes during his testimony last June regarding the Fed\u2019s $2.5bn (\u20ac2.15bn) renovation of two office buildings, a project that Trump has criticised as excessive. That testimony is the subject of subpoenas sent to the Fed by US attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, said he would not vote for any Fed nominees until the legal cloud around Powell is resolved. That would be enough to delay a nomination from getting out of the banking committee.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2026//01//12//us-opens-criminal-investigation-into-fed-chair-jerome-powell/">US opens criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//11//19//uncertainties-over-economy-threaten-federal-reserve-interest-rate-cut/">Uncertainties over economy threaten Federal Reserve interest rate cut<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>If no new chair of the Fed's board has been confirmed by 15 May, then Powell could remain in that post until a replacement has been confirmed. As a result, the Fed might not cut interest rates anywhere near as quickly as Trump wants.<\/p>\n<p>If Powell stays on as a governor even after he is no longer chair, Trump could still name someone to lead the Fed but that would give him a total of three appointments on the board \u2014 including two from his first term \u2014 and short of a majority.<\/p>\n<p>So even if Trump nominates a chair who seeks to do the president\u2019s bidding regarding interest rates, that person \u201cwould have very little persuasive power with his colleagues,\" said Wilcox, who is also director of research at Bloomberg Economics. Powell, along with other members of the Fed's 19-member interest rate-setting committee, could outvote the new chair. That hasn't happened since 1986.<\/p>\n<h2>What happens if Powell leaves the board<\/h2>\n<p>If Powell leaves, Trump could nominate a fourth person to the board and gain a majority. He could even then add a fifth, if the Supreme Court allows his attempt to fire Governor Lisa Cook to proceed. The high court will hear her case on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A majority on the board would enable the White House to make sweeping changes to the Federal Reserve. Trump's Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, has advocated numerous reforms to reduce the central bank's influence in the economy and financial markets.<\/p>\n<p>Trump's majority on the Fed's board could also remove some of the presidents of the 12 regional banks, who are members of the Fed's rate-setting committee. The New York Fed president has a vote on the committee and four others vote on a rotating basis.<\/p>\n<p>Several of those bank presidents have expressed opposition to the deep rate cuts that Trump has demanded. The board of governors could seek to have them fired if a chair wanted to do so.<\/p>\n<h2>What past Fed chairs have done<\/h2>\n<p>While nearly all Fed chairs have left the board of governors before their terms were up, there is some precedent for Powell to stay. In 1978, then-Chair Arthur Burns stayed on the board for about three weeks after his chairmanship ended. But in 1948, then-Fed chairman Marriner Eccles remained as a governor for three years after finishing as chair, in part because President Harry Truman asked him to remain.<\/p>\n<p>In 1951, however, he played a key role in undercutting the Truman administration in a dispute over interest rates, which led to the Fed-Treasury Accord that established the modern Fed as a largely independent institution.<\/p>\n<p>Eccles became a symbol of Fed independence, though some academics say that reputation is overstated. 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The Fed's second office building in Washington is named after Martin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it's a cautionary tale also for Trump, thinking he's going to get his own Fed chair in there,\u201d said Lev Menand, a law professor at Columbia University who studies the Fed. \u201cMartin didn't do what Truman wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1768561002,"updatedAt":1768567403,"publishedAt":1768567398,"firstPublishedAt":1768567398,"lastPublishedAt":1768567398,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/52\/25\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2d726e5f-0cfd-513c-a0f1-a11dd0befba2-9615225.jpg","altText":"FILE - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at the Federal Reserve. Washington. 10 Dec. 2025.","caption":"FILE - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at the Federal Reserve. 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Some have done it in the past","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Can a Nobel Prize be gifted or sold? Some have done it in the past","titleListing2":"Can a Nobel Prize be gifted or sold? Some have done it in the past","leadin":"Although Machado's gesture marks a rare instance of a living laureate parting with their medal shortly after receiving it, it is not unprecedented. Rules state that Machado could give away her actual medal but not the honour itself.","summary":"Although Machado's gesture marks a rare instance of a living laureate parting with their medal shortly after receiving it, it is not unprecedented. Rules state that Machado could give away her actual medal but not the honour itself.","keySentence":"","url":"can-a-nobel-prize-be-gifted-or-sold-some-have-done-it-in-the-past","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/16\/can-a-nobel-prize-be-gifted-or-sold-some-have-done-it-in-the-past","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"In a largely unusual move, Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to US President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, in what she said was \"recognition for his unique commitment to our freedom.\"\n\nMachado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her leadership of Venezuela's opposition movement amid a crackdown by Nicolas Maduro, most notably in the much-maligned 2023 presidential election in the South American country.\n\nIn the meantime, Trump ordered a blitz US military operation on 3 January that resulted in Maduro's capture. The former Venezuelan leader and his spouse now face drug trafficking-related charges in New York.\n\n\u201cI presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize,\u201d Machado told reporters as she departed the White House on Thursday.\n\nTrump confirmed on social media that Machado had left the medal for him to keep, and he said it was an honour to meet her.\n\n\u201cShe is a wonderful woman who has been through so much. Mar\u00eda presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done,\u201d Trump said in his post. \u201cSuch a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Thank you Mar\u00eda.\u201d\n\nAlthough Machado's gesture marks a rare instance of a living laureate parting with their medal shortly after receiving it, it is not unprecedented, and rules state that Machado could give away her actual medal but not the honour itself.\n\nThe Nobel Foundation's statutes and Alfred Nobel's will \u2014 which dictate the merits awardees should have \u2014 state that the title of the winner belongs personally to the individual and cannot be legally shared or reassigned to another person.\n\nThe medal or the associated diploma can be physically given, sold or auctioned, but this does not confer the award's title on anyone else.\n\nSeveral other Nobel laureates have previously given away or sold their medals, although the circumstances and motivations varied.\n\nAuction for Ukrainian refugees\n\nRussian journalist Dmitry Muratov, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 \u2014 alongside Maria Ressa of the Philippines \u2014 for his efforts to safeguard freedom of expression in Russia, auctioned his medal in June 2022 for a record-breaking $103.5 million (\u20ac89.1m).\n\nAll proceeds from the sale held at Heritage Auctions in New York to an anonymous buyer were donated to UNICEF's fund for Ukrainian child refugees following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of that year.\n\nThe auction came just months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nMuratov is the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's last independent newspapers.\n\nThe publication suspended operations in March 2022 after receiving warnings from Russian authorities amid a crackdown on dissent and criticism of the Kremlin's actions during the early weeks of the war.\n\nWartime fundraising and infamous gestures\n\nIn the early days of World War II, Nobel medals belonging to Danish physicists Niels Bohr and August Krogh, who won in 1922 and 1920 respectively, were auctioned to raise funds for Finnish civilian relief during the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union in 1939-1940.\n\nThe medals were later donated to museums in Denmark.\n\nDuring World War II, German physicists Max von Laue and James Franck, both Nobel laureates, gave their medals to Niels Bohr as Nazi Germany occupied their countries.\n\nTo prevent the medals from falling into Nazi hands, Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy, who worked in Bohr's laboratory, dissolved them in acid.\n\nAfter the war, the gold was recovered, and the Nobel Foundation recast the medals, which were returned to von Laue and Franck's family.\n\nNot all stories around Nobel Prize medals are positive, however, and some of the choices made by laureates were quite controversial.\n\nNorwegian author Knut Hamsun, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920, reportedly gave his medal to Nazi Germany's Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels during World War II.\n\nHamsun, who met with Adolf Hitler and Goebbels in 1943, was a Nazi sympathiser who supported the German occupation of Norway. Historical accounts indicate he gave his Nobel medal to Goebbels as a symbolic gesture of support.\n\nHamsun's reputation was destroyed after the war, although his literary works continue to be studied.\n\nThe case of James Watson\n\nJames D Watson sold his medal amid controversy at Christie's auction house in December 2014 for about $4.8 million (\u20ac4.13m).\n\nWatson, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 alongside Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for discovering the structure of DNA, said proceeds would support scientific research institutions and conservation causes.\n\nHe became the first living Nobel laureate known to sell his medal.\n\nRussian billionaire Alisher Usmanov purchased the medal only to return it to Watson at an official ceremony in Moscow in 2015, saying the scientist \"deserved\" to have it.\n\nWatson's decision to sell came amid financial difficulties and following controversial statements about race and intelligence, especially regarding people of African heritage, that damaged his reputation and led to his departure from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he had served as chancellor.\n\nThe laboratory stripped Watson of his titles and cut all ties with him in 2019. Watson initially apologised over his remarks, but later said his views remained unchanged.\n\nThe EU sanctioned Usmanov in 2022, imposing a bloc-wide travel ban on him and freezing all his assets over his links to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government. Watson enjoyed close ties with Russia late in his career.\n\nCrick's Nobel Prize medal, won together with Watson and Crick, was also sold at Heritage Auctions in 2013 for $2.27 million (\u20ac1.95m). Part of the sale proceeds were donated to the Francis Crick Institute in London.\n\nNorman Angell's Nobel Peace Prize medal from 1933, won for promoting international understanding, was sold at Sotheby's in 1983. The medal is now held by the Imperial War Museum in London.\n\nAage Bohr, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975, had his medal sold at auction in 2011 and again in 2019. Bohr was the son of Niels Bohr, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.\n\nPrize money donations\n\nSome laureates have donated their Nobel prize money rather than parting with their medals.\n\nAlbert Einstein, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, left his prize money to his first wife Mileva Mari\u0107 and their children under a pre-arranged divorce settlement. The agreement was made before Einstein won the prize.\n\nIn 1979, Macedonian-born Albanian Peace Prize laureate Mother Teresa asked for the traditional Nobel banquet to be cancelled and that the funds, together with the prize money, be donated directly to the poor.\n\nPaul Greengard, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000, donated his full prize earnings to establish the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, an annual award supporting women scientists.\n\nG\u00fcnter Blobel, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1999, donated his prize money to restoration projects for Dresden and to the construction of a synagogue in his hometown.\n\nE Donnall Thomas, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990, donated his prize money to his research centre to support ongoing work in bone marrow transplantation.\n\nThe Nobel Prize currently includes a monetary award of 11 million Swedish kronor (around \u20ac1 million), although the amount has varied over the decades.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>In a largely unusual move, Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to US President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, in what she said was \"recognition for his unique commitment to our freedom.\"<\/p>\n<p>Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her leadership of Venezuela's opposition movement amid a crackdown by Nicolas Maduro, most notably in the much-maligned 2023 presidential election in the South American country.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Trump ordered a blitz US military operation on 3 January that resulted in Maduro's capture. The former Venezuelan leader and his spouse now face drug trafficking-related charges in New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize,\u201d Machado told reporters as she departed the White House on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump confirmed on social media that Machado had left the medal for him to keep, and he said it was an honour to meet her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is a wonderful woman who has been through so much. Mar\u00eda presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done,\u201d Trump said in his post. \u201cSuch a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Thank you Mar\u00eda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Machado's gesture marks a rare instance of a living laureate parting with their medal shortly after receiving it, it is not unprecedented, and rules state that Machado could give away her actual medal but not the honour itself.<\/p>\n<p>The Nobel Foundation's statutes and Alfred Nobel's will \u2014 which dictate the merits awardees should have \u2014 state that the title of the winner belongs personally to the individual and cannot be legally shared or reassigned to another person. <\/p>\n<p>The medal or the associated diploma can be physically given, sold or auctioned, but this does not confer the award's title on anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Several other Nobel laureates have previously given away or sold their medals, although the circumstances and motivations varied.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Auction for Ukrainian refugees<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 \u2014 alongside Maria Ressa of the Philippines \u2014 for his efforts to safeguard freedom of expression in Russia, auctioned his medal in June 2022 for a record-breaking $103.5 million (\u20ac89.1m). <\/p>\n<p>All proceeds from the sale held at Heritage Auctions in New York to an anonymous buyer were donated to UNICEF's fund for Ukrainian child refugees following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of that year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//50//05//808x539_cmsv2_620be172-9d75-53c9-a7cb-886dafc45990-9615005.jpg/" alt=\"FILE: People point to the screen showing the final price for Dmitry Muratov&#x27;s 23-karat gold medal of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize after being auctioned in New York 20 June 2022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/384x256_cmsv2_620be172-9d75-53c9-a7cb-886dafc45990-9615005.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/640x427_cmsv2_620be172-9d75-53c9-a7cb-886dafc45990-9615005.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/750x500_cmsv2_620be172-9d75-53c9-a7cb-886dafc45990-9615005.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/828x552_cmsv2_620be172-9d75-53c9-a7cb-886dafc45990-9615005.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/1080x720_cmsv2_620be172-9d75-53c9-a7cb-886dafc45990-9615005.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/1200x800_cmsv2_620be172-9d75-53c9-a7cb-886dafc45990-9615005.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/1920x1281_cmsv2_620be172-9d75-53c9-a7cb-886dafc45990-9615005.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE: People point to the screen showing the final price for Dmitry Muratov&#x27;s 23-karat gold medal of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize after being auctioned in New York 20 June 2022<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The auction came just months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Muratov is the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's last independent newspapers. <\/p>\n<p>The publication suspended operations in March 2022 after receiving warnings from Russian authorities amid a crackdown on dissent and criticism of the Kremlin's actions during the early weeks of the war.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Wartime fundraising and infamous gestures<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In the early days of World War II, Nobel medals belonging to Danish physicists Niels Bohr and August Krogh, who won in 1922 and 1920 respectively, were auctioned to raise funds for Finnish civilian relief during the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union in 1939-1940.<\/p>\n<p>The medals were later donated to museums in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>During World War II, German physicists Max von Laue and James Franck, both Nobel laureates, gave their medals to Niels Bohr as Nazi Germany occupied their countries. <\/p>\n<p>To prevent the medals from falling into Nazi hands, Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy, who worked in Bohr's laboratory, dissolved them in acid. <\/p>\n<p>After the war, the gold was recovered, and the Nobel Foundation recast the medals, which were returned to von Laue and Franck's family.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6591796875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//50//05//808x532_cmsv2_564b50c6-74e4-57cb-9f22-339189291a6d-9615005.jpg/" alt=\"FILE: The aftermath of Mosquito planes of the Royal Air Force raid on factories working for the Nazis in Copenhagen, 10 February 1943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/384x253_cmsv2_564b50c6-74e4-57cb-9f22-339189291a6d-9615005.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/640x422_cmsv2_564b50c6-74e4-57cb-9f22-339189291a6d-9615005.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/750x494_cmsv2_564b50c6-74e4-57cb-9f22-339189291a6d-9615005.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/828x546_cmsv2_564b50c6-74e4-57cb-9f22-339189291a6d-9615005.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/1080x712_cmsv2_564b50c6-74e4-57cb-9f22-339189291a6d-9615005.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/1200x791_cmsv2_564b50c6-74e4-57cb-9f22-339189291a6d-9615005.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/1920x1266_cmsv2_564b50c6-74e4-57cb-9f22-339189291a6d-9615005.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE: The aftermath of Mosquito planes of the Royal Air Force raid on factories working for the Nazis in Copenhagen, 10 February 1943<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Not all stories around Nobel Prize medals are positive, however, and some of the choices made by laureates were quite controversial.<\/p>\n<p>Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920, reportedly gave his medal to Nazi Germany's Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Hamsun, who met with Adolf Hitler and Goebbels in 1943, was a Nazi sympathiser who supported the German occupation of Norway. Historical accounts indicate he gave his Nobel medal to Goebbels as a symbolic gesture of support.<\/p>\n<p>Hamsun's reputation was destroyed after the war, although his literary works continue to be studied.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The case of James Watson<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>James D Watson sold his medal amid controversy at Christie's auction house in December 2014 for about $4.8 million (\u20ac4.13m).<\/p>\n<p>Watson, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 alongside Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for discovering the structure of DNA, said proceeds would support scientific research institutions and conservation causes. <\/p>\n<p>He became the first living Nobel laureate known to sell his medal.<\/p>\n<p>Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov purchased the medal only to return it to Watson at an official ceremony in Moscow in 2015, saying the scientist \"deserved\" to have it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5888671875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//50//05//808x475_cmsv2_913e142f-dae2-5d8a-a010-d8810b0b0982-9615005.jpg/" alt=\"FILE: People queue to attend a lecture by US Nobel laureate biologist James Watson, at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 17 June 2015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/384x226_cmsv2_913e142f-dae2-5d8a-a010-d8810b0b0982-9615005.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/640x377_cmsv2_913e142f-dae2-5d8a-a010-d8810b0b0982-9615005.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/750x442_cmsv2_913e142f-dae2-5d8a-a010-d8810b0b0982-9615005.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/828x488_cmsv2_913e142f-dae2-5d8a-a010-d8810b0b0982-9615005.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/1080x636_cmsv2_913e142f-dae2-5d8a-a010-d8810b0b0982-9615005.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/1200x707_cmsv2_913e142f-dae2-5d8a-a010-d8810b0b0982-9615005.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/1920x1131_cmsv2_913e142f-dae2-5d8a-a010-d8810b0b0982-9615005.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE: People queue to attend a lecture by US Nobel laureate biologist James Watson, at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 17 June 2015<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Watson's decision to sell came amid financial difficulties and following controversial statements about race and intelligence, especially regarding people of African heritage, that damaged his reputation and led to his departure from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he had served as chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>The laboratory stripped Watson of his titles and cut all ties with him in 2019. Watson initially apologised over his remarks, but later said his views remained unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>The EU sanctioned Usmanov in 2022, imposing a bloc-wide travel ban on him and freezing all his assets over his links to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government. Watson enjoyed close ties with Russia late in his career.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2026//01//13//fact-check-machado-cant-share-her-peace-prize-with-trump/">Fact check: Machado can't 'share' her Nobel Peace Prize with Trump <\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//16//venezuelas-machado-presents-trump-with-her-nobel-peace-prize-during-white-house-meeting/">Venezuela/u2019s Machado presents Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize during White House meeting<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Crick's Nobel Prize medal, won together with Watson and Crick, was also sold at Heritage Auctions in 2013 for $2.27 million (\u20ac1.95m). Part of the sale proceeds were donated to the Francis Crick Institute in London.<\/p>\n<p>Norman Angell's Nobel Peace Prize medal from 1933, won for promoting international understanding, was sold at Sotheby's in 1983. The medal is now held by the Imperial War Museum in London.<\/p>\n<p>Aage Bohr, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975, had his medal sold at auction in 2011 and again in 2019. Bohr was the son of Niels Bohr, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Prize money donations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Some laureates have donated their Nobel prize money rather than parting with their medals.<\/p>\n<p>Albert Einstein, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, left his prize money to his first wife Mileva Mari\u0107 and their children under a pre-arranged divorce settlement. The agreement was made before Einstein won the prize.<\/p>\n<p>In 1979, Macedonian-born Albanian Peace Prize laureate Mother Teresa asked for the traditional Nobel banquet to be cancelled and that the funds, together with the prize money, be donated directly to the poor. <\/p>\n<p>Paul Greengard, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000, donated his full prize earnings to establish the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, an annual award supporting women scientists.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7578125\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//50//05//808x612_cmsv2_be028483-00a6-536f-af42-e4d28223f375-9615005.jpg/" alt=\"FILE: Prof Albert Einstein poses with sailboat presented to him for his 50th birthday by Berliner Handelgesellschs Ftm, a German bank, June 1929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/384x291_cmsv2_be028483-00a6-536f-af42-e4d28223f375-9615005.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/640x485_cmsv2_be028483-00a6-536f-af42-e4d28223f375-9615005.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/750x568_cmsv2_be028483-00a6-536f-af42-e4d28223f375-9615005.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/828x627_cmsv2_be028483-00a6-536f-af42-e4d28223f375-9615005.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/1080x818_cmsv2_be028483-00a6-536f-af42-e4d28223f375-9615005.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/1200x909_cmsv2_be028483-00a6-536f-af42-e4d28223f375-9615005.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/1920x1455_cmsv2_be028483-00a6-536f-af42-e4d28223f375-9615005.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE: Prof Albert Einstein poses with sailboat presented to him for his 50th birthday by Berliner Handelgesellschs Ftm, a German bank, June 1929<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>G\u00fcnter Blobel, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1999, donated his prize money to restoration projects for Dresden and to the construction of a synagogue in his hometown.<\/p>\n<p>E Donnall Thomas, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990, donated his prize money to his research centre to support ongoing work in bone marrow transplantation.<\/p>\n<p>The Nobel Prize currently includes a monetary award of 11 million Swedish kronor (around \u20ac1 million), although the amount has varied over the decades.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1768555528,"updatedAt":1768570982,"publishedAt":1768564716,"firstPublishedAt":1768564716,"lastPublishedAt":1768570981,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","altText":"FILE: A Nobel Prize medal, 8 December 2020","callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"caption":"FILE: A Nobel Prize medal, 8 December 2020","url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/50\/05\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c1be85b3-46a7-5cfa-a1ce-9ae169c82315-9615005.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":700},{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","altText":"FILE: Prof Albert Einstein poses with sailboat presented to him for his 50th birthday by Berliner Handelgesellschs Ftm, 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EMERGENCY MEETING ON IRAN","daletPyramidId":3898935,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Washington warns Tehran 'all options are on the table' in emergency UN Security Council session","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Washington warns Tehran 'all options are on the table' at UNSC session","titleListing2":"Washington warns Tehran that 'all options are on the table' in emergency UN Security Council session","leadin":"Trump remains open to military intervention if Tehran continues to exact lethal force on protesters in the ongoing nationwide demonstrations, US representatives told the UN Security Council on Thursday.","summary":"Trump remains open to military intervention if Tehran continues to exact lethal force on protesters in the ongoing nationwide demonstrations, US representatives told the UN Security Council on Thursday.","keySentence":"","url":"washington-warns-tehran-all-options-are-on-the-table-in-emergency-un-security-council-sess","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/16\/washington-warns-tehran-all-options-are-on-the-table-in-emergency-un-security-council-sess","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The United States has warned Iran that all options are \u201con the table\u201d as representatives of both countries faced off at an emergency UN Security Council session on the protests in Iran on Thursday.\n\nUS Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz warned that President Donald Trump is ready to militarily intervene in Tehran if authorities continue to use lethal force to quell the unrest.\n\n\u201cColleagues, let me be clear: President Trump is a man of action, not endless talk like we see at the United Nations,\u201d Mike Waltz told the council.\n\n\u201cHe has made it clear that all options are on the table to stop the slaughter. And no one should know that better than the leadership of the Iranian regime.\u201d\n\nWaltz's remarks came as the prospect of US retaliation for the protesters\u2019 deaths still hung over the region, though Trump signalled a possible de-escalation, saying the killing appeared to be ending.\n\nBy Thursday, the protests challenging the Tehran regime appeared increasingly smothered, but the state-imposed communication blackout remained.\n\nDuring the Security Council session, Hossein Darzi, the deputy Iranian ambassador to the UN, slammed the US for what he claimed was \u201cdirect involvement in steering unrest in Iran to violence.\u201d\n\n\u201cUnder the hollow pretext of concern for the Iranian people and claims of support for human rights, the United States is attempting to portray itself as a friend of the Iranian people, while simultaneously laying the groundwork for political destabilisation and military intervention under a so-called \u2032humanitarian\u2032 narrative,\u201d added Darzi.\n\nVideos of demonstrations have stopped coming out of Iran, likely signalling a slowdown in the pace of protests under the heavy security presence in major cities.\n\nIn Tehran, eyewitnesses said that on recent mornings there were no new signs of bonfires lit the night before or debris in the streets. The sound of intense gunfire, heard for several nights, has reportedly also faded.\n\nThe clampdown on the demonstrations has killed at least 2,677 people so far, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency. They say the death toll exceeds any other round of major anti-government protests since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.\n\nThe figures are based on estimations due to the lack of official data and difficulties in verifying casualties on the ground. Iranian officials reject the numbers, saying they're grossly overinflated to incite more chaos and fulfil political agendas.\n\nWashington also announced on Thursday a series of new sanctions against Iranian officials accused of suppressing the protests, which began in late December, initially over the collapse of the currency, the rial, and the worsening economic conditions.\n\nAmong those hit include the Secretary of Iran\u2019s Supreme Council for National Security, whom the US Treasury Department accuses of being one of the first officials to call for violence against protesters.\u00a0\n\nThe G7 group of nations and the EU also said they were considering new sanctions to increase pressure on the regime in Tehran.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the 27-member bloc was looking to strengthen sanctions \u201cto push forward that this regime comes to an end and that there is change.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The United States has warned Iran that all options are \u201con the table\u201d as representatives of both countries faced off at an emergency UN Security Council session on the protests in Iran on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz warned that President Donald Trump is ready to militarily intervene in Tehran if authorities continue to use lethal force to quell the unrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColleagues, let me be clear: President Trump is a man of action, not endless talk like we see at the United Nations,\u201d Mike Waltz told the council. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has made it clear that all options are on the table to stop the slaughter. And no one should know that better than the leadership of the Iranian regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waltz's remarks came as the prospect of US retaliation for the protesters\u2019 deaths still hung over the region, though Trump signalled a possible de-escalation, saying the killing appeared to be ending.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//60//32//12//808x539_cmsv2_122bd44e-518c-5462-a468-5b296fa94218-9603212.jpg/" alt=\"United States&#x27; Ambassador to the United Nations Michael Waltz addresses the Security Council Monday, Jan. 5, 2026 at UN headquarters\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/60\/32\/12\/384x256_cmsv2_122bd44e-518c-5462-a468-5b296fa94218-9603212.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/60\/32\/12\/640x427_cmsv2_122bd44e-518c-5462-a468-5b296fa94218-9603212.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/60\/32\/12\/750x500_cmsv2_122bd44e-518c-5462-a468-5b296fa94218-9603212.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/60\/32\/12\/828x552_cmsv2_122bd44e-518c-5462-a468-5b296fa94218-9603212.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/60\/32\/12\/1080x720_cmsv2_122bd44e-518c-5462-a468-5b296fa94218-9603212.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/60\/32\/12\/1200x800_cmsv2_122bd44e-518c-5462-a468-5b296fa94218-9603212.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/60\/32\/12\/1920x1281_cmsv2_122bd44e-518c-5462-a468-5b296fa94218-9603212.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">United States&#x27; Ambassador to the United Nations Michael Waltz addresses the Security Council Monday, Jan. 5, 2026 at UN headquarters<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Frank Franklin II\/Copyright 2026 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>By Thursday, the protests challenging the Tehran regime appeared increasingly smothered, but the state-imposed communication blackout remained.<\/p>\n<p>During the Security Council session, Hossein Darzi, the deputy Iranian ambassador to the UN, slammed the US for what he claimed was \u201cdirect involvement in steering unrest in Iran to violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the hollow pretext of concern for the Iranian people and claims of support for human rights, the United States is attempting to portray itself as a friend of the Iranian people, while simultaneously laying the groundwork for political destabilisation and military intervention under a so-called \u2032humanitarian\u2032 narrative,\u201d added Darzi.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//46//47//808x539_cmsv2_274d4820-3507-5f53-8b15-763e8d1696be-9614647.jpg/" alt=\"FILE - Iran&#x27;s representatives to the United Nations during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations Headquarters, Tuesday, June 24, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/46\/47\/384x256_cmsv2_274d4820-3507-5f53-8b15-763e8d1696be-9614647.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/46\/47\/640x427_cmsv2_274d4820-3507-5f53-8b15-763e8d1696be-9614647.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/46\/47\/750x500_cmsv2_274d4820-3507-5f53-8b15-763e8d1696be-9614647.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/46\/47\/828x552_cmsv2_274d4820-3507-5f53-8b15-763e8d1696be-9614647.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/46\/47\/1080x720_cmsv2_274d4820-3507-5f53-8b15-763e8d1696be-9614647.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/46\/47\/1200x800_cmsv2_274d4820-3507-5f53-8b15-763e8d1696be-9614647.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/46\/47\/1920x1281_cmsv2_274d4820-3507-5f53-8b15-763e8d1696be-9614647.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE - Iran&#x27;s representatives to the United Nations during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations Headquarters, Tuesday, June 24, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Yuki Iwamura\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Videos of demonstrations have stopped coming out of Iran, likely signalling a slowdown in the pace of protests under the heavy security presence in major cities.<\/p>\n<p>In Tehran, eyewitnesses said that on recent mornings there were no new signs of bonfires lit the night before or debris in the streets. The sound of intense gunfire, heard for several nights, has reportedly also faded.<\/p>\n<p>The clampdown on the demonstrations has killed at least 2,677 people so far, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency. They say the death toll exceeds any other round of major anti-government protests since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The figures are based on estimations due to the lack of official data and difficulties in verifying casualties on the ground. Iranian officials reject the numbers, saying they're grossly overinflated to incite more chaos and fulfil political agendas. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//46//47//808x539_cmsv2_c9753fb9-7948-5852-b290-471c05333315-9614647.jpg/" alt=\"Women cross an intersection in downtown Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/46\/47\/384x256_cmsv2_c9753fb9-7948-5852-b290-471c05333315-9614647.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/46\/47\/640x427_cmsv2_c9753fb9-7948-5852-b290-471c05333315-9614647.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/46\/47\/750x500_cmsv2_c9753fb9-7948-5852-b290-471c05333315-9614647.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/46\/47\/828x552_cmsv2_c9753fb9-7948-5852-b290-471c05333315-9614647.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/46\/47\/1080x720_cmsv2_c9753fb9-7948-5852-b290-471c05333315-9614647.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/46\/47\/1200x800_cmsv2_c9753fb9-7948-5852-b290-471c05333315-9614647.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/46\/47\/1920x1281_cmsv2_c9753fb9-7948-5852-b290-471c05333315-9614647.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Women cross an intersection in downtown Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Vahid Salemi\/Copyright 2026 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Washington also announced on Thursday a series of new sanctions against Iranian officials accused of suppressing the protests, which began in late December, initially over the collapse of the currency, the rial, and the worsening economic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Among those hit include the Secretary of Iran\u2019s Supreme Council for National Security, whom the US Treasury Department accuses of being one of the first officials to call for violence against protesters. <\/p>\n<p>The G7 group of nations and the EU also said they were considering new sanctions to increase pressure on the regime in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the 27-member bloc was looking to strengthen sanctions \u201cto push forward that this regime comes to an end and that there is change.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1768536744,"updatedAt":1768631025,"publishedAt":1768558808,"firstPublishedAt":1768558808,"lastPublishedAt":1768631024,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Frank Franklin II\/Copyright 2026 The AP. 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Fico is politically aligned with the MAGA agenda from Ukraine to migration.","keySentence":"","url":"slovakias-fico-to-meet-trump-in-florida-on-saturday-with-nuclear-plant-deal-in-focus","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/01\/16\/slovakias-fico-to-meet-trump-in-florida-on-saturday-with-nuclear-plant-deal-in-focus","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico will meet President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residency in Florida on Saturday, aiming to deepen ties between the two countries.\n\nFico, who is politically aligned with the MAGA agenda, has praised the US for its efforts to end the war in Ukraine and follows a similar hardline approach to migration.\n\nSeparately, the two leaders could discuss plans that would see Slovakia entering a business agreement to buy nuclear reactors from the US in a project that could be worth around \u20ac13 to \u20ac15 billion, according to Slovak media.\n\nFico's ally Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n announced similar plans when he visited Trump last November. Just like Hungary, Slovakia is one few EU countries that is still connected to Russian energy despite efforts from the bloc to unplug from Moscow.\n\nThe Slovak government wants to conduct talks with the US company Westinghouse about the construction of the nuclear site, according to local media.\n\nLast year, a controversial US national security document argued the EU is facing civilisational erasure if it does not reverse course from its current policies and vowed to foster ties with what it described as \"patriotic forces\" resisting Brussels from within.\n\nFico's political stance is aligned with Trump's agenda in multiple ways despite his socialist background. Fico is highly critical of illegal migration, the EU institutions and its environmental policies and maintains bilateral ties with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.\n\nStill, Fico was critical of the US military intervention in Venezuela, which resulted in the capture and arrest of strongman Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, arguing in favour of international law.\n\n\u201cIf military power is used without the mandate of the UN Security Council, then everyone who is great and strong does what he wants to promote his own interests,\" Fico said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico will meet President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residency in Florida on Saturday, aiming to deepen ties between the two countries. <\/p>\n<p>Fico, who is politically aligned with the MAGA agenda, has praised the US for its efforts to end the war in Ukraine and follows a similar hardline approach to migration. <\/p>\n<p>Separately, the two leaders could discuss plans that would see Slovakia entering a business agreement to buy nuclear reactors from the US in a project that could be worth around \u20ac13 to \u20ac15 billion, according to Slovak media. <\/p>\n<p>Fico's ally Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n announced similar plans when he visited Trump last November. Just like Hungary, Slovakia is one few EU countries that is still connected to Russian energy despite efforts from the bloc to unplug from Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The Slovak government wants to conduct talks with the US company Westinghouse about the construction of the nuclear site, according to local media. <\/p>\n<p>Last year, a controversial US national security document argued the EU is facing civilisational erasure if it does not reverse course from its current policies and vowed to foster ties with what it described as \"patriotic forces\" resisting Brussels from within. <\/p>\n<p>Fico's political stance is aligned with Trump's agenda in multiple ways despite his socialist background. Fico is highly critical of illegal migration, the EU institutions and its environmental policies and maintains bilateral ties with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. <\/p>\n<p>Still, Fico was critical of the US military intervention in Venezuela, which resulted in the capture and arrest of strongman Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, arguing in favour of international law. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf military power is used without the mandate of the UN Security Council, then everyone who is great and strong does what he wants to promote his own interests,\" Fico said. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1768554478,"updatedAt":1768558873,"publishedAt":1768558635,"firstPublishedAt":1768558635,"lastPublishedAt":1768558872,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. 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her.","keySentence":"","url":"venezuelas-machado-presents-trump-with-her-nobel-peace-prize-during-white-house-meeting","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/16\/venezuelas-machado-presents-trump-with-her-nobel-peace-prize-during-white-house-meeting","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado on Thursday presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to US President Donald Trump at the White House, in an unusual move for a winner of the world's most coveted peace award.\n\nMachado's gesture to Trump followed a series of developments in Venezuela after a blitz US military raid captured Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife and brought them to New York to stand trial on drug trafficking charges two weeks ago.\n\nDuring the visit, Machado gave Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal \"as a recognition for his unique commitment to our freedom,\" she told reporters outside the US Capitol on Thursday.\n\n\u201cI presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize,\u201d Machado told reporters as she departed the White House.\n\nTrump confirmed on social media that Machado had left the medal for him to keep, and he said it was an honour to meet her.\n\n\u201cShe is a wonderful woman who has been through so much. Mar\u00eda presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done,\u201d Trump said in his post. \u201cSuch a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Thank you Mar\u00eda.\u201d\n\nThe White House subsequently shared a picture of Machado holding the medal in a big frame while standing next to Trump in the Oval Office.\n\nThe framed medal states that it was presented to Trump \"as a personal symbol of gratitude on behalf of the Venezuelan people in recognition of President Trump's principled and decisive action to secure a free Venezuela.\"\n\nThursday's meeting between Trump and Machado took place as acting President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez delivered her first State of the Union speech in Caracas, and just as US forces in the Caribbean Sea seized another sanctioned oil tanker that the Trump administration says had ties to Venezuela.\n\nHowever, the future of Venezuela post-Maduro remains unclear, especially as Trump and his top advisers have surprisingly signalled their willingness to work with Rodr\u00edguez, who was Maduro\u2019s vice president, rather than with Machado and her party, which is widely believed to have won the 2024 elections Maduro rejected.\n\nTrump, who on social media styled himself as acting president of Venezuela and said he would be in charge of controlling oil proceeds from the country, says it would be difficult for Machado to lead because she \u201cdoesn\u2019t have the support within or the respect within the country.\u201d\n\n\u2018We can count on President Trump,' says Machado\n\nEven before Thursday's meeting began, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called Machado \u201ca remarkable and brave voice\u201d but also said the meeting didn\u2019t mean Trump\u2019s opinion of her changed, calling it \u201ca realistic assessment.\u201d\n\nLeavitt told reporters that Trump supported new Venezuelan elections \u201cwhen the time is right\u201d but did not say when he thought that might be.\n\nAfter the closed-door meeting, Machado greeted dozens of cheering supporters waiting for her near the White House gates, stopping to hug many.\n\n\u201cWe can count on President Trump,\u201d she told them without elaborating, prompting some to briefly chant, \u201cThank you, Trump.\u201d\n\nShe later went on to hold a closed-door meeting with a bipartisan group of senators, telling them that \u201cif there\u2019s not some progress, real progress towards a transition in power, and\/or elections in the next several months, we should all be worried,\u201d according to Democratic Senator Chris Murphy.\n\nAhead of Machado's visit to Washington, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, organisers of the Nobel Prize, said in a statement that a Peace Prize cannot be withdrawn, transferred, or split once it has been announced.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado on Thursday presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to US President Donald Trump at the White House, in an unusual move for a winner of the world's most coveted peace award.<\/p>\n<p>Machado's gesture to Trump followed a series of developments in Venezuela after a blitz US military raid captured Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife and brought them to New York to stand trial on drug trafficking charges two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, Machado gave Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal \"as a recognition for his unique commitment to our freedom,\" she told reporters outside the US Capitol on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//46//89//808x539_cmsv2_fe939ab8-a767-5147-8710-44a8709d48b6-9614689.jpg/" alt=\"Venezuelan opposition leader Mar&#xED;a Corina Machado gestures to supporters on Pennsylvania Avenue as she leaves the White House after meeting with Donald Trump 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All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cI presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize,\u201d Machado told reporters as she departed the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Trump confirmed on social media that Machado had left the medal for him to keep, and he said it was an honour to meet her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is a wonderful woman who has been through so much. Mar\u00eda presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done,\u201d Trump said in his post. \u201cSuch a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Thank you Mar\u00eda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House subsequently shared a picture of Machado holding the medal in a big frame while standing next to Trump in the Oval Office. <\/p>\n<p>The framed medal states that it was presented to Trump \"as a personal symbol of gratitude on behalf of the Venezuelan people in recognition of President Trump's principled and decisive action to secure a free Venezuela.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTjowIBEa42\/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; 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The organisation's top decision-making body, the Security Council, is paralysed because of tensions between the United States and Russia and China, all three of which are permanent, veto-wielding members.\n\n\"As we meet today, the snares of conflict have trapped millions of members of the human family in miserable, prolonged cycles of violence, hunger and displacement,\" Guterres said.\n\nOn Gaza, the UN chief called for humanitarian aid to \"flow unimpeded\" and on Ukraine he said \"we must spare no effort\" to stop the fighting.\n\nHe also called for the resumption of talks to bring about a lasting ceasefire in Sudan.\n\nGuterres also used his wide-ranging remarks to urge action against the abuse of artificial intelligence and to call for efforts to fight inequality.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres lashed out at world leaders on Thursday who he said were seeking to \"put international cooperation on deathwatch\" amid brazen violations of international law, but held off naming offending countries.<\/p>\n<p>He also reiterated that he was \"deeply concerned about the violent repression in Iran,\" ahead of an emergency Security Council meeting on the crisis scheduled for later on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres, who will step down at the end of 2026, was giving his last annual speech setting out his priorities for the year ahead and said the world was riven with \"self-defeating geopolitical divides (and) brazen violations of international law.\"<\/p>\n<p>He also slammed \"wholesale cuts in development and humanitarian aid,\" an apparent reference to deep cuts to the budgets of UN agencies made by the United States under the Trump administration's \"America First\" policy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"2011825054539972703\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"These forces and more are shaking the foundations of global cooperation and testing the resilience of multilateralism itself,\" Guterres told the General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>\"At a time when we need international cooperation the most, we seem to be the least inclined to use it and invest in it. Some seek to put international cooperation on deathwatch.\"<\/p>\n<p>Guterres said the UN is \"totally committed in the cause of peace in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and far beyond and tireless in delivering life-saving aid to those so desperate for support.\"<\/p>\n<p>Those three deadly, protracted conflicts have come to define Guterres' time at the helm of the UN, with critics arguing the organisation has proved ineffective at conflict prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has questioned the UN's relevance and attacked its priorities. The organisation's top decision-making body, the Security Council, is paralysed because of tensions between the United States and Russia and China, all three of which are permanent, veto-wielding members.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//45//22//808x539_cmsv2_92be6111-7968-5281-84ef-f879f1c7122c-9614522.jpg/" alt=\"Palestinians walk amid buildings destroyed by Israeli air and ground operations in Gaza City, 15 January, 2026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/45\/22\/384x256_cmsv2_92be6111-7968-5281-84ef-f879f1c7122c-9614522.jpg 384w, 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inequality.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1768498729,"updatedAt":1768501211,"publishedAt":1768501206,"firstPublishedAt":1768501206,"lastPublishedAt":1768501206,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/45\/22\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_39d351f7-e51a-5b27-b0cd-730d627029d7-9614522.jpg","altText":"UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrives at the COP30 Climate Summit in Bel\u00e9m, 20 November, 2025","caption":"UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrives at the COP30 Climate Summit in Bel\u00e9m, 20 November, 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1395,"height":784},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/45\/22\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_92be6111-7968-5281-84ef-f879f1c7122c-9614522.jpg","altText":"Palestinians walk amid buildings destroyed by Israeli air and ground operations in Gaza City, 15 January, 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tanker in effort to control Venezuela's oil","titleListing2":"US seizes sixth tanker with alleged ties to Venezuela in Trump's effort to control oil","leadin":"Trump met with executives oil companies last week to discuss his goal of investing \u20ac86 billion in Venezuela to repair and upgrade its oil production and distribution.","summary":"Trump met with executives oil companies last week to discuss his goal of investing \u20ac86 billion in Venezuela to repair and upgrade its oil production and distribution.","keySentence":"","url":"us-seizes-sixth-tanker-with-alleged-ties-to-venezuela-in-trumps-effort-to-control-oil","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/15\/us-seizes-sixth-tanker-with-alleged-ties-to-venezuela-in-trumps-effort-to-control-oil","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"US forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker that the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela, part of a broader effort by Washington to take control of\u00a0the South American country\u2019s oil.\n\nHomeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on social media that the US Coast Guard had boarded the Motor Tanker Veronica early on Thursday.\n\nShe said the ship had previously passed through Venezuelan waters and was operating in defiance of President Donald Trump\u2019s \"established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean.\"\n\nUS Southern Command said Marines and sailors launched from\u00a0the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford\u00a0to take part in the operation alongside a Coast Guard tactical team, which Noem said conducted the boarding as in previous raids.\n\nThe military said the ship was seized \"without incident.\"\n\nNoem posted a brief video that appeared to show part of the ship\u2019s capture. The black-and-white footage showed helicopters hovering over the deck of a merchant vessel while armed troops dropped down on the deck by rope.\n\nThe Veronica is\u00a0the sixth sanctioned tanker seized\u00a0by US forces as part of the effort by Trump\u2019s administration to control the production, refining and global distribution of Venezuela\u2019s oil products and the fourth since\u00a0the ouster of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u00a0in a surprise nighttime raid almost two weeks ago.\n\nThe Veronica last transmitted its location on 3 January as being at anchor off the coast of Aruba, just north of Venezuela\u2019s main oil terminal.\n\nAccording to the data it transmitted at the time, it was partially filled with crude.\n\nThe ship is currently listed as flying the flag of Guyana and is considered part of\u00a0the shadow fleet that moves oil cargo\u00a0in violation of US sanctions.\n\nAccording to its registration data, the ship also has been known as the Galileo, owned and managed by a company in Russia.\n\nIn addition, a tanker with the same registration number previously sailed under the name Pegas and was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for moving cargoes of illicit Russian oil.\n\nAs with prior posts about such raids, Noem and the military framed the seizure as part of an effort to enforce the law. Noem argued that the multiple captures show that \"there is no outrunning or escaping American justice.\"\n\nHowever, other officials in Trump's Republican administration have made clear that they see the actions as a way to generate cash as they seek to rebuild Venezuela's battered oil industry and restore its economy.\n\nTrump\u00a0met with executives oil companies\u00a0last week to discuss his goal of investing $100 billion (\u20ac86 billion) in Venezuela to repair and upgrade its oil production and distribution.\n\nHis administration has said it expects to sell at least\u00a030-50 million barrels\u00a0of sanctioned Venezuelan oil.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>US forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker that the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela, part of a broader effort by Washington to take control of the South American country\u2019s oil.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on social media that the US Coast Guard had boarded the Motor Tanker Veronica early on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>She said the ship had previously passed through Venezuelan waters and was operating in defiance of President Donald Trump\u2019s \"established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean.\"<\/p>\n<p>US Southern Command said Marines and sailors launched from the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford to take part in the operation alongside a Coast Guard tactical team, which Noem said conducted the boarding as in previous raids.<\/p>\n<p>The military said the ship was seized \"without incident.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"2011803374807547909\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Noem posted a brief video that appeared to show part of the ship\u2019s capture. The black-and-white footage showed helicopters hovering over the deck of a merchant vessel while armed troops dropped down on the deck by rope.<\/p>\n<p>The Veronica is the sixth sanctioned tanker seized by US forces as part of the effort by Trump\u2019s administration to control the production, refining and global distribution of Venezuela\u2019s oil products and the fourth since the ouster of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in a surprise nighttime raid almost two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Veronica last transmitted its location on 3 January as being at anchor off the coast of Aruba, just north of Venezuela\u2019s main oil terminal.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data it transmitted at the time, it was partially filled with crude.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2026//01//12//why-boosting-production-of-venezuelas-very-dense-very-sloppy-oil-could-harm-the-environmen/">Why boosting production of Venezuela's 'very dense, very sloppy' oil could harm the environment<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//08//us-could-run-venezuela-and-tap-into-its-oil-reserves-for-years-trump-says-in-interview/">US could run Venezuela and tap into its oil reserves for years, Trump says in interview<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The ship is currently listed as flying the flag of Guyana and is considered part of the shadow fleet that moves oil cargo in violation of US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>According to its registration data, the ship also has been known as the Galileo, owned and managed by a company in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a tanker with the same registration number previously sailed under the name Pegas and was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for moving cargoes of illicit Russian oil.<\/p>\n<p>As with prior posts about such raids, Noem and the military framed the seizure as part of an effort to enforce the law. Noem argued that the multiple captures show that \"there is no outrunning or escaping American justice.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//44//27//808x539_cmsv2_82a6e3c3-6efb-5242-989c-3bbed2c9897b-9614427.jpg/" alt=\"Flames rise from flare stacks at the Amuay refinery in Los Taques, 14 January, 2026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/44\/27\/384x256_cmsv2_82a6e3c3-6efb-5242-989c-3bbed2c9897b-9614427.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/44\/27\/640x427_cmsv2_82a6e3c3-6efb-5242-989c-3bbed2c9897b-9614427.jpg 640w, 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class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>However, other officials in Trump's Republican administration have made clear that they see the actions as a way to generate cash as they seek to rebuild Venezuela's battered oil industry and restore its economy.<\/p>\n<p>Trump met with executives oil companies last week to discuss his goal of investing $100 billion (\u20ac86 billion) in Venezuela to repair and upgrade its oil production and distribution.<\/p>\n<p>His administration has said it expects to sell at least 30-50 million barrels of sanctioned Venezuelan oil.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1768495562,"updatedAt":1768496135,"publishedAt":1768496131,"firstPublishedAt":1768496131,"lastPublishedAt":1768496131,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/44\/27\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_800d4ed6-4a6f-58d5-8b7e-b1dc4d487222-9614427.jpg","altText":"The 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SANCTIONS ON IRAN","daletPyramidId":3895105,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"US sanctions Iranian officials accused of repressing protests against the government","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"US announces sanctions on Iranian officials over protest crackdown","titleListing2":"US sanctions Iranian officials accused of repressing protests against the government","leadin":"The Treasury announcement comes a day after Trump that he\u2019d been told \"on good authority\" that\u00a0plans for executions in Iran have stopped.","summary":"The Treasury announcement comes a day after Trump that he\u2019d been told \"on good authority\" that\u00a0plans for executions in Iran have stopped.","keySentence":"","url":"us-sanctions-iranian-officials-accused-of-repressing-protests-against-the-government","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/15\/us-sanctions-iranian-officials-accused-of-repressing-protests-against-the-government","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The United States imposed sanctions on Iranian security officials and financial networks on Thursday, accusing them of orchestrating a violent crackdown on peaceful protests and laundering billions in oil revenues.\n\nTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the measures in the wake of the biggest anti-government protests in the history of the Islamic republic, although the demonstrations appear to have diminished over the last few days in the face of repression and an almost week-long internet blackout.\n\n\"The United States stands firmly behind the Iranian people in their call for freedom and justice,\" Bessent said in a statement, adding that the action was taken at President Donald Trump's direction.\n\nAmong those sanctioned is Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme Council for National Security, whom Washington accused of coordinating the crackdown and calling for force against protesters.\n\nFour regional commanders of Iran's Law Enforcement Forces and Revolutionary Guard were also sanctioned for their roles in the crackdown in Lorestan and Fars provinces.\n\nSecurity forces in Fars \"have killed countless peaceful demonstrators\" with hospitals \"so inundated with gunshot wound patients that no other types of patients can be admitted,\" the Treasury said.\n\nThe Treasury additionally designated 18 individuals and entities accused of operating \"shadow banking\" networks that launder proceeds from Iranian oil sales through front companies in the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and the United Kingdom.\n\nThese networks funnel billions of dollars annually using cover companies and exchange houses, as Iranian citizens face economic hardship, according to the Treasury.\n\nThe sanctions freeze any US assets of those designated and prohibit Americans from doing business with them. Foreign financial institutions risk secondary sanctions for transactions with the designated entities.\n\nThe action builds on the Trump administration's \"maximum pressure\" campaign against Iran following the US' unilateral withdrawal from the landmark international nuclear deal.\n\nIn 2025, the Treasury sanctioned more than 875 persons, vessels and aircraft as part of this effort, it said.\n\nThe demonstrations in Iran\u00a0began on 28 December\u00a0initially over the collapse of the rial currency, but morphed into wider discontent with the country\u2019s government.\n\nExecutions reportedly stopped\n\nThe Treasury announcement comes a day after Trump that he\u2019d been told \"on good authority\" that\u00a0plans for executions in Iran have stopped, even as Tehran signalled fast trials and executions ahead in its crackdown on protesters.\n\nTrump's claims, which were made with few details, came as he\u2019d told protesting Iranians in recent days that \"help is on the way\" and that his administration would \"act accordingly\" to respond to the Iranian government.\n\nBut Trump has not offered any details about how the US might respond and it wasn't clear if his comments on Wednesday indicated he would hold off on action.\n\nOn Wednesday, Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, Iran's judiciary chief, said the government must act quickly to\u00a0punish more than 18,000 people\u00a0who have been detained through rapid trials and executions.\n\nThe security force crackdown on the demonstrations has killed at least 3,428, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) NGO reported.\u00a0\n\nThe death toll\u00a0exceeds that of any other round of protest or unrest in Iran in decades and recalls the chaos surrounding the country\u2019s\u00a01979 Islamic Revolution.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The United States imposed sanctions on Iranian security officials and financial networks on Thursday, accusing them of orchestrating a violent crackdown on peaceful protests and laundering billions in oil revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the measures in the wake of the biggest anti-government protests in the history of the Islamic republic, although the demonstrations appear to have diminished over the last few days in the face of repression and an almost week-long internet blackout.<\/p>\n<p>\"The United States stands firmly behind the Iranian people in their call for freedom and justice,\" <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////home.treasury.gov//news//press-releases//sb0364/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>Bessent said in a statement<\/strong><\/a>, adding that the action was taken at President Donald Trump's direction.<\/p>\n<p>Among those sanctioned is Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme Council for National Security, whom Washington accused of coordinating the crackdown and calling for force against protesters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"2011824147161088024\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Four regional commanders of Iran's Law Enforcement Forces and Revolutionary Guard were also sanctioned for their roles in the crackdown in Lorestan and Fars provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces in Fars \"have killed countless peaceful demonstrators\" with hospitals \"so inundated with gunshot wound patients that no other types of patients can be admitted,\" the Treasury said.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury additionally designated 18 individuals and entities accused of operating \"shadow banking\" networks that launder proceeds from Iranian oil sales through front companies in the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>These networks funnel billions of dollars annually using cover companies and exchange houses, as Iranian citizens face economic hardship, according to the Treasury.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions freeze any US assets of those designated and prohibit Americans from doing business with them. Foreign financial institutions risk secondary sanctions for transactions with the designated entities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//43//67//808x539_cmsv2_5e220b74-34e2-57e9-acd3-0e51700de009-9614367.jpg/" alt=\"People cross an intersection in downtown Tehran, 15 January, 2026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/43\/67\/384x256_cmsv2_5e220b74-34e2-57e9-acd3-0e51700de009-9614367.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/43\/67\/640x427_cmsv2_5e220b74-34e2-57e9-acd3-0e51700de009-9614367.jpg 640w, 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class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The action builds on the Trump administration's \"maximum pressure\" campaign against Iran following the US' unilateral withdrawal from the landmark international nuclear deal.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, the Treasury sanctioned more than 875 persons, vessels and aircraft as part of this effort, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations in Iran began on 28 December initially over the collapse of the rial currency, but morphed into wider discontent with the country\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Executions reportedly stopped<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Treasury announcement comes a day after Trump that he\u2019d been told \"on good authority\" that <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//15//iran-closes-airspace-to-commercial-flights-for-hours-as-tensions-with-us-remain-high-over-/">plans for executions in Iran have stopped<\/strong><\/a>, even as Tehran signalled fast trials and executions ahead in its crackdown on protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Trump's claims, which were made with few details, came as he\u2019d told protesting Iranians in recent days that \"help is on the way\" and that his administration would \"act accordingly\" to respond to the Iranian government.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump has not offered any details about how the US might respond and it wasn't clear if his comments on Wednesday indicated he would hold off on action.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" 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https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/34\/60\/1200x800_cmsv2_81fda2d0-0ea5-588b-813f-84222f8fee7f-9613460.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/34\/60\/1920x1280_cmsv2_81fda2d0-0ea5-588b-813f-84222f8fee7f-9613460.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">US President Donald Trump signs a bill in the Oval Office of the White House, 14 January, 2026<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>On Wednesday, Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, Iran's judiciary chief, said the government must act quickly to punish more than 18,000 people who have been detained through rapid trials and executions.<\/p>\n<p>The security force crackdown on the demonstrations has 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climate","daletPyramidId":3887769,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"NASA has released its data on rising temperatures. Why is climate change not mentioned at all?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"NASA sparks concern after report on rising temperatures omits climate","titleListing2":"NASA has released its data on rising temperatures. Why is climate change not mentioned at all?","leadin":"An expert says NASA\u2019s statement is \u201cconsistent\u201d with all of the other \u201canti-climate actions\u201d the Trump administration has taken in the last year.","summary":"An expert says NASA\u2019s statement is \u201cconsistent\u201d with all of the other \u201canti-climate actions\u201d the Trump administration has taken in the last year.","keySentence":"","url":"nasa-has-released-its-data-on-rising-temperatures-why-is-climate-change-not-mentioned-at-a","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2026\/01\/15\/nasa-has-released-its-data-on-rising-temperatures-why-is-climate-change-not-mentioned-at-a","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"NASA has sparked concern after releasing a statement alongside its latest benchmark annual report on global temperatures, which notably omits one key word.\n\nThe release, which was published yesterday (14 January), confirms that global surface temperatures in 2025 were marginally warmer than 2023, following estimates that the two would become the joint-second-hottest years on record. However, NASA\u2019s statement includes no mention of climate change, emissions, fossil fuels, or the term \u2018global warming\u2019.\u00a0\n\nMultiple other reports, including Europe\u2019s Copernicus Climate Services, have blamed the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, from rising emissions and reduced uptake of CO2 by natural sinks like forests, as the main driver behind 2025 and 2023 being exceptionally warm.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nNASA\u2019s rising temperatures report\n\n\u201cEarth\u2019s global surface temperature in 2025 was slightly warmer than 2023 \u2013 but within the margin of error the two years are effectively tied according to an analysis by NASA scientists,\u201d NASA says in the statement. \u201cSince record-keeping began in 1880, the hottest year on record remains 2024.\u201d\n\nThe release also cites independent analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which concludes that the global surface temperature for 2025 was the third warmest on record.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThese scientists use much of the same temperature data in their analyses but employ different methodologies and models, which exhibit the same ongoing warming trend,\u201d NASA adds.\u00a0\n\nThe comments are a stark contrast compared to last year\u2019s communications, issued under the Biden administration, where NASA explicitly said: \u201cThis global warming has been caused by human activities\u201d.\n\nNASA, which is an independent agency of the US federal government, previously linked increased temperatures to extreme weather events such as heat waves, wildfires, \u201cintense\u201d rainfall and flooding. None of this was included this year.\n\nIs Trump to blame?\n\nMike Scott of Carbon Copy Communications, which specialises in explaining sustainability, the environment, investment and business, tells Euronews Green that NASA\u2019s statement is \u201cconsistent\u201d with all of the other \u201canti-climate actions\u201d the Trump administration has taken in the last year.\u00a0\n\nLast month, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scrubbed all mention of fossil fuels \u2013 the main driver of global warming \u2013 from its popular online page explaining the causes of climate change.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s not clear what climate institutions are left for Trump to try and dismantle, but there is little doubt that if he finds them, he will go after them,\u201d Scott says.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThe climate denial is really worrying and out of line with almost every other country in the world, including most of the world\u2019s largest oil producers. Failing to acknowledge the impacts of climate change will leave the US less able to deal with those impacts \u2013 which will continue to happen whatever Trump thinks.\u201d\n\nScott argues this highlights the potential loss of future data on climate change, which is essential to help guide nations and their economies on how to adapt.\n\n\u201cThe US stance is bad for science, it\u2019s bad for the US economy and its citizens, and it\u2019s bad for the climate,\u201d he adds.\u00a0\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s also unsustainable. Climate change will not stop because the US administration doesn\u2019t believe in it. The American response to climate-related disasters will be worse if it doesn\u2019t understand why extreme weather events and other climate impacts are happening.\u201d\n\nA NASA spokesperson tells Euronews Green: \u201cThe press release and publicly available data provide the official agency analysis.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>NASA has sparked concern after releasing a statement alongside its latest benchmark annual report on <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2026//01//14//copernicus-2025-was-the-third-hottest-year-globally-and-in-europe-with-two-main-drivers/">global temperatures<\/strong><\/a>, which notably omits one key word.<\/p>\n<p>The release, which was published yesterday (14 January), confirms that global surface temperatures in 2025 were marginally warmer than 2023, following estimates that the two would become the joint-second-hottest years on record. However, NASA\u2019s statement includes no mention of climate change, emissions, fossil fuels, or the term \u2018global warming\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>Multiple other reports, including Europe\u2019s Copernicus Climate Services, have blamed the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, from rising emissions and reduced uptake of CO2 by natural sinks like forests, as the main driver behind 2025 and 2023 being exceptionally warm. <\/p>\n<h2>NASA\u2019s rising temperatures report<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cEarth\u2019s global surface temperature in 2025 was slightly warmer than 2023 \u2013 but within the margin of error the two years are effectively tied according to an analysis by NASA scientists,\u201d <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nasa.gov//news-release//nasa-releases-global-temperature-data///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>NASA says<\/strong><\/a> in the statement. \u201cSince record-keeping began in 1880, the hottest year on record remains 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The release also cites independent analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which concludes that the global surface temperature for 2025 was the third warmest on record. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese scientists use much of the same temperature data in their analyses but employ different methodologies and models, which exhibit the same ongoing warming trend,\u201d NASA adds. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2026//01//15//greenlands-value-explained-could-trump-really-buy-the-danish-island/">Greenland/u2019s value explained: Could Trump really buy the Danish island?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2026//01//28//direct-assault-how-trump-has-rolled-back-climate-progress-in-the-first-10-days-of-2026/">Trump Tracker: How the US is rolling back back climate progress in 2026<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The comments are a stark contrast compared to last year\u2019s communications, issued under the Biden administration, where NASA explicitly said: \u201cThis global warming has been caused by human activities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>NASA, which is an independent agency of the US federal government, previously linked increased temperatures to extreme weather events such as heat waves, wildfires, \u201cintense\u201d rainfall and flooding. None of this was included this year.<\/p>\n<h2>Is Trump to blame?<\/h2>\n<p>Mike Scott of Carbon Copy Communications, which specialises in explaining sustainability, the environment, investment and business, tells Euronews Green that NASA\u2019s statement is \u201cconsistent\u201d with all of the other \u201canti-climate actions\u201d the Trump administration has taken in the last year. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, the<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//12//10//we-look-ridiculous-us-government-website-removes-fossil-fuels-as-cause-of-global-warming/"> <strong>US Environmental Protection Agency<\/strong><\/a> (EPA) scrubbed all mention of fossil fuels \u2013 the main driver of global warming \u2013 from its popular online page explaining the causes of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not clear what climate institutions are left for Trump to try and dismantle, but there is little doubt that if he finds them, he will go after them,\u201d Scott says. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe climate denial is really worrying and out of line with almost every other country in the world, including most of the world\u2019s largest oil producers. Failing to acknowledge the impacts of climate change will leave the US less able to deal with those impacts \u2013 which will continue to happen whatever Trump thinks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott argues this highlights the potential loss of future data on climate change, which is essential to help guide nations and their economies on how to adapt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US stance is bad for science, it\u2019s bad for the US economy and its citizens, and it\u2019s bad for the climate,\u201d he adds. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also unsustainable. Climate change will not stop because the US administration doesn\u2019t believe in it. The American response to climate-related disasters will be worse if it doesn\u2019t understand why extreme weather events and other climate impacts are happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A NASA spokesperson tells Euronews Green: \u201cThe press release and publicly available data provide the official agency analysis.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1768466134,"updatedAt":1768549461,"publishedAt":1768483211,"firstPublishedAt":1768483211,"lastPublishedAt":1768549460,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. 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ICE TENSIONS","daletPyramidId":3888796,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Second ICE shooting in Minneapolis sparks clashes with protesters","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Second ICE shooting in Minneapolis sparks clashes with protesters","titleListing2":"Second ICE shooting in Minneapolis sparks clashes with protesters","leadin":"A federal immigration agent shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis on Wednesday night after reportedly being attacked with a shovel and a broom handle, as tensions between ICE agents and protesters continued to rise.","summary":"A federal immigration agent shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis on Wednesday night after reportedly being attacked with a shovel and a broom handle, as tensions between ICE agents and protesters continued to rise.","keySentence":"","url":"second-ice-shooting-in-minneapolis-sparks-clashes-with-protesters","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/15\/second-ice-shooting-in-minneapolis-sparks-clashes-with-protesters","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A federal immigration agent shot a man in the leg during an enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday night, sparking clashes with demonstrators in what the mayor said turned into an \"unsustainable\" situation.\n\nIt was the second ICE-related shooting in the city in just over a week, with tensions rising since the fatal shooting of Renee Good on 7 January amid a major immigration crackdown that has seen thousands of ICE officers sent to Minnesota's largest city.\n\nThe US Department of Homeland Security said federal officers were involved in a chase of a Venezuelan man they claim was in the country illegally.\n\nThe person drove away and crashed into a parked car before fleeing on foot, DHS said.\n\nAfter officers reached the person, two other people arrived from a nearby apartment and attacked the officer \"with a snow shovel and broom handle,\" according to DHS.\n\n\"Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life,\" DHS said.\n\nMinneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said the man shot was in hospital with a non-life-threatening injury and the two people who came out of the apartment were in custody.\n\nThe shooting was followed by clashes between federal officers and protesters calling on ICE to leave the city. ICE agents wearing gas masks fired tear gas while some protesters threw rocks and shot fireworks.\n\nThe US Department of Homeland Security says ICE agents have made more than 2,000 arrests in Minnesota since early December and has vowed to continue operations.\n\nSituation 'defies belief,' Governor Walz says\n\nTensions have risen since the fatal shooting of Good on 7 January, further escalating on Wednesday.\n\nBystanders have demanded officers leave after watching agents remove people from cars and homes, in a situation Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called \"unsustainable.\"\n\n\"This is an impossible situation that our city is presently being put in and at the same time we are trying to find a way forward to keep people safe, to protect our neighbours, to maintain order,\" Frey said Wednesday.\n\nFrey described a federal force five times as large as the city's 600-officer police force that has arrived in the city, creating tension among residents, some of whom want officers to \"fight ICE agents.\"\n\n\"We cannot be in a place right now in America where we have two governmental entities that are literally fighting one another.\"\n\nFrey added the Minneapolis police force is still responsible for its day-to-day work as 3,000 ICE officers \"are creating chaos,\" adding \"this is not the path that we should be on right now in America.\"\n\nDuring a televised speech before Wednesday's shooting, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz described Minnesota as being in chaos, saying what's happening in the state \"defies belief.\"\n\n\"Let's be very, very clear, this long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement,\" he said. \"Instead, it's a campaign of organised brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.\"\n\nDemocrats propose laws to limit ICE\n\nDemocratic lawmakers across the country are proposing state law changes to limit immigration enforcement.\n\nNew Jersey's Democrat-led Legislature passed three bills Monday that immigrant rights groups have long pushed for, including a measure prohibiting state law enforcement officers from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement.\n\nCalifornia lawmakers are proposing to ban local and state law enforcement from taking second jobs with the Department of Homeland Security and make it a violation of state law when ICE officers make \"indiscriminate\" arrests around court appearances.\n\nNew York Governor Kathy Hochul wants the state to allow people to sue federal officers alleging violations of their constitutional rights. Another measure aims to keep immigration agents lacking judicial warrants out of schools, hospitals and houses of worship.\n\nMinnesota and Illinois, joined by their largest cities, sued the Trump administration this week. Minneapolis and Minnesota accuse the Republican administration of violating free speech rights by punishing a progressive state that favours Democrats and welcomes immigrants.\n\nThe Trump administration has opposed efforts to limit ICE operations, including suing local governments whose \"sanctuary\" policies limit police interactions with federal officers.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A federal immigration agent shot a man in the leg during an enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday night, sparking clashes with demonstrators in what the mayor said turned into an \"unsustainable\" situation.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second ICE-related shooting in the city in just over a week, with tensions rising since the fatal shooting of Renee Good on 7 January amid a major immigration crackdown that has seen thousands of ICE officers sent to Minnesota's largest city.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Homeland Security said federal officers were involved in a chase of a Venezuelan man they claim was in the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p>The person drove away and crashed into a parked car before fleeing on foot, DHS said.<\/p>\n<p>After officers reached the person, two other people arrived from a nearby apartment and attacked the officer \"with a snow shovel and broom handle,\" according to DHS.<\/p>\n<p>\"Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life,\" DHS said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"2011632198000976086\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said the man shot was in hospital with a non-life-threatening injury and the two people who came out of the apartment were in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting was followed by clashes between federal officers and protesters calling on ICE to leave the city. ICE agents wearing gas masks fired tear gas while some protesters threw rocks and shot fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Homeland Security says ICE agents have made more than 2,000 arrests in Minnesota since early December and has vowed to continue operations.<\/p>\n<h2>Situation 'defies belief,' Governor Walz says<\/h2>\n<p>Tensions have risen since the fatal shooting of Good on 7 January, further escalating on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bystanders have demanded officers leave after watching agents remove people from cars and homes, in a situation Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called \"unsustainable.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//36//93//808x539_cmsv2_186c03ba-2d60-543f-a402-202d386fb3b6-9613693.jpg/" alt=\"Protesters shout at law enforcement officers after a shooting on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Minneapolis.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/384x256_cmsv2_186c03ba-2d60-543f-a402-202d386fb3b6-9613693.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/640x427_cmsv2_186c03ba-2d60-543f-a402-202d386fb3b6-9613693.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/750x500_cmsv2_186c03ba-2d60-543f-a402-202d386fb3b6-9613693.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/828x552_cmsv2_186c03ba-2d60-543f-a402-202d386fb3b6-9613693.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/1080x720_cmsv2_186c03ba-2d60-543f-a402-202d386fb3b6-9613693.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/1200x800_cmsv2_186c03ba-2d60-543f-a402-202d386fb3b6-9613693.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/1920x1280_cmsv2_186c03ba-2d60-543f-a402-202d386fb3b6-9613693.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Protesters shout at law enforcement officers after a shooting on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Minneapolis.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Abbie Parr<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"This is an impossible situation that our city is presently being put in and at the same time we are trying to find a way forward to keep people safe, to protect our neighbours, to maintain order,\" Frey said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Frey described a federal force five times as large as the city's 600-officer police force that has arrived in the city, creating tension among residents, some of whom want officers to \"fight ICE agents.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"We cannot be in a place right now in America where we have two governmental entities that are literally fighting one another.\"<\/p>\n<p>Frey added the Minneapolis police force is still responsible for its day-to-day work as 3,000 ICE officers \"are creating chaos,\" adding \"this is not the path that we should be on right now in America.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//36//93//808x539_cmsv2_2f834e35-626b-5c45-962f-b0bca2dff525-9613693.jpg/" alt=\"A protester holds an umbrella as sparks fly from a flash bang deployed by law enforcement on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Minneapolis. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/384x256_cmsv2_2f834e35-626b-5c45-962f-b0bca2dff525-9613693.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/640x427_cmsv2_2f834e35-626b-5c45-962f-b0bca2dff525-9613693.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/750x500_cmsv2_2f834e35-626b-5c45-962f-b0bca2dff525-9613693.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/828x552_cmsv2_2f834e35-626b-5c45-962f-b0bca2dff525-9613693.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/1080x720_cmsv2_2f834e35-626b-5c45-962f-b0bca2dff525-9613693.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/1200x800_cmsv2_2f834e35-626b-5c45-962f-b0bca2dff525-9613693.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/1920x1280_cmsv2_2f834e35-626b-5c45-962f-b0bca2dff525-9613693.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A protester holds an umbrella as sparks fly from a flash bang deployed by law enforcement on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Minneapolis. <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Adam Gray<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>During a televised speech before Wednesday's shooting, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz described Minnesota as being in chaos, saying what's happening in the state \"defies belief.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Let's be very, very clear, this long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement,\" he said. \"Instead, it's a campaign of organised brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.\"<\/p>\n<h2>Democrats propose laws to limit ICE<\/h2>\n<p>Democratic lawmakers across the country are proposing state law changes to limit immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey's Democrat-led Legislature passed three bills Monday that immigrant rights groups have long pushed for, including a measure prohibiting state law enforcement officers from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>California lawmakers are proposing to ban local and state law enforcement from taking second jobs with the Department of Homeland Security and make it a violation of state law when ICE officers make \"indiscriminate\" arrests around court appearances.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//61//36//93//808x539_cmsv2_5b812bcb-c5bf-52fb-948d-46bff7e798e3-9613693.jpg/" alt=\"A protester holds a copy of the U.S. Constitution in front of federal law enforcement after a shooting on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Minneapolis.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/384x256_cmsv2_5b812bcb-c5bf-52fb-948d-46bff7e798e3-9613693.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/640x427_cmsv2_5b812bcb-c5bf-52fb-948d-46bff7e798e3-9613693.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/750x500_cmsv2_5b812bcb-c5bf-52fb-948d-46bff7e798e3-9613693.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/828x552_cmsv2_5b812bcb-c5bf-52fb-948d-46bff7e798e3-9613693.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/1080x720_cmsv2_5b812bcb-c5bf-52fb-948d-46bff7e798e3-9613693.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/1200x800_cmsv2_5b812bcb-c5bf-52fb-948d-46bff7e798e3-9613693.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/61\/36\/93\/1920x1280_cmsv2_5b812bcb-c5bf-52fb-948d-46bff7e798e3-9613693.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A protester holds a copy of the U.S. Constitution in front of federal law enforcement after a shooting on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Minneapolis.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Adam Gray <\/span>\n <\/span>\n 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Another measure aims to keep immigration agents lacking judicial warrants out of schools, hospitals and houses of worship.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota and Illinois, joined by their largest cities, sued the Trump administration this week. 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