President Trump’s announcement appeared to draw the United States back from the possibility of military and economic conflict with American allies over Greenland.
The initiative is the latest example of the president dismantling the post-World War II international system and building a new one, with himself at the center.
The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, for the moment, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in Minnesota.
As the justices weighed the consequences of allowing President Trump to fire a Federal Reserve official, the president reprised his pressure campaign on the central bank.