Timothy Busfield, the Emmy-winning actor known for “The West Wing” and “Thirtysomething,” has secured a legal victory in his child sex abuse case.

A New Mexico judge on Tuesday sided with Busfield, announcing he will release him on his own recognizance as the 68-year-old actor-director awaits trial stemming from allegations he sexually abused two child actors on the set of the Fox drama “The Cleaning Lady.” His wife, “Little House on the Prairie” star Melissa Gilbert, was in attendance at Tuesday’s hearing and wept following the decision.

“Thank you, God,” she appeared to say.

New Mexico District Court Judge David A. Murphy said the child sex abuse allegations against Busfield are “inherently dangerous” and that prosecutors proved “Mr. Busfield does pose a danger to the safety of others” but that it is currently “difficult for the court to put too much weight into the allegations as they’ve not been vetted by the judicial system.”

Leading up to his decision, Murphy cited letters submitted by Busfield’s defense team from the actor’s friends and family, additional affidavits in support of the actor and “the lack of a pattern involving children in this case.”

“I don’t find that there’s been sufficient presentation that this defendant may commit new crimes pending trial. There’s not evidence of a pattern of criminal conduct,” Murphy added. “There are no similar allegations involving children in his past. There’s no evidence of noncompliance with prior court orders.”

Though Busfield will be supervised by a pretrial services officer in Albuquerque, his travel will not be limited and he is required to report to that officer. He is barred from possessing firearms and weapons and from consuming alcohol or drugs. He is also ordered to refrain from contacting the alleged victims and their family and from discussing his case with witnesses.

Busfield had been jailed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque, where he was booked on two felony counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and a single count of child abuse. He turned himself into law enforcement last week, days after New Mexico officials issued a warrant for his arrest.

An affidavit filed earlier this month accuses Busfield of inappropriately touching two child actors, who are brothers, during his tenure as a director, actor and producer for “The Cleaning Lady.” According to the complaint, one child actor said Busfield first touched his “private areas” multiple times on set when he was 7 years old. The actor said that, when he was 8 years old, Busfield touched him inappropriately again several times, according to the affidavit. The complaint also detailed a police interview with Busfield in which he suggested that the boys’ mother might have sought “revenge” on the director for “not bringing her kids back for the final season.”

Leading up to his surrender, Busfield denied the allegations. “They’re all lies, and I did not do anything to those little boys,” he said in a video published last week by TMZ. He also told supporters at the time he intends to “fight” the charges and predicted, “I’m gonna be exonerated.”

Tuesday’s hearing featured statements by Bernalillo County Deputy Dist. Atty. Savannah Brandenburg-Koch, Busfield defense attorney Amber Fayerberg and testimony from “Cleaning Lady” cinematographer Alan Caudillo.

Although Brandenburg-Koch argued against Busfield’s release and cited previous allegations that he assaulted two women, his attorney presented audio from the child actors’ initial interviews with police in which they said that Busfield did not touch them inappropriately.

“This was not a failure to disclose,” Fayerberg said of the audio clips, which she played in the courtroom. “This was an express denial.”

Fayerberg also mentioned the legal troubles of the child actors’ parents, including father Ronald Rodis’ guilty plea to a federal fraud charge in 2017, and a fraud lawsuit in 2011 against the boys’ mother, Angele LaSalle. The attorney said the two young actors had been “victimized” but not by Busfield.

“They were victimized by their own parents, who no longer could make money as a lawyer, disbarred. No longer could write bad checks,” she said, “taking 85% of the money they made on a TV show and then manufactured into victims as revenge.”

Busfield’s professional career has taken numerous hits amid the child sex abuse allegations. As the complaint circulated, Busfield was dropped by his agency and edited out of an upcoming film, according to Deadline. Last week, NBC also decided to pull an episode of “Law & Order: SVU” featuring Busfield from its programming lineup.

SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom sharply criticized world leaders while attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week, faulting them for their “complicity” and failure to confront President Trump’s aggressive posture on issues such as Greenland and trade.

Speaking to reporters there, Newsom urged European and other global leaders to “stand tall and firm” and to “have a backbone,” bemoaning that too many have been “rolling over” in the face of Trump’s actions and rhetoric.

“It’s just pathetic,” Newsom told reporters.

He quipped that he “should’ve brought a bunch of kneepads for all the world leaders,” a retort Newsom has become fond of leveling against those he feels are supine in their duties. He admonished the suggestion that Europeans could continue to approach diplomacy with Trump as they have previous presidents. Newsom called Trump a “T-Rex.”

“You mate with him, or he devours you, one or the other,” Newsom said.

His comments came as the forum grappled with heightened geopolitical tensions, particularly debates over Trump’s controversial push involving Greenland — a flashpoint that has drawn warnings from European leaders and underscored wider concerns about the erosion of traditional alliances and global norms.

On Tuesday, stocks slumped on Wall Street after Trump threatened to hit eight European countries with new tariffs over his attempts to assert American control over Greenland.

Trump is scheduled to speak Wednesday at the World Economic Forum, where he is expected to try to convince Americans he can make housing more affordable. However, many onlookers will be watching what Trump has to say about his desire to acquire Greenland.

The annual event opened Monday and is a four-day gathering of world leaders with the stated mission of engaging in “forward-looking discussions to address global issues and set priorities.”

Trump’s attendance comes after his administration opted to skip the annual United Nations climate policy summit in Belém, Brazil, in November, with Newsom instead attending as a proxy for the United States.

While in Switzerland, Newsom announced Tuesday that California surpassed 2.5 million cumulative new zero-emission vehicle sales since 2010. The state had set a goal of putting 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles on the road by 2025, with that target eclipsed despite setbacks in clean energy brought on by the Trump administration.

“California didn’t reach 2.5 million zero-emission vehicles by accident — we invested in this future when others said it was impossible,” Newsom said in a statement.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones, center fielders who excelled at the plate and with their gloves, were elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on Tuesday.

Beltrán, making his fourth appearance of the ballot, received 358 of 425 votes for 84.2% from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, 39 above the 319 needed for the 75% threshold.

Jones, in the ninth of 10 possible appearances, was picked on 333 ballots for 78.4%

Beltrán moved up steadily from 46.5% in 2023 to 57.1% the following year and 70.3% in 2025, when he fell 19 votes short as Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner were elected.

Beltrán was hired as the New York Mets’ manager on Nov. 1, 2019, then fired on Jan. 16, 2020, without having managed a game, three days after he was the only Astros player mentioned by name in a report by Major League Baseball regarding the team’s illicit use of electronics to steal signs during Houston’s run to the 2017 World Series championship — his final season.

He was hired by the Mets as a special assistant before the 2023 season.

“When I retired from baseball, I thought everything that I built in baseball, like relationships … I thought that was going to be lost,” he said in 2023. “Being back in baseball, I still receive love from the people, I still receive love from the players. The teammates that I had inside the clubhouse, they know the type of person that I am. But at the same time I understand that that’s also a story that I have to deal with.”

Jones received just 7.3% in his first appearance in 2018 and didn’t get half the total until receiving 58.1% in 2023. He increased to 61.6% and 66.2%, falling 35 votes short last year.

They will be inducted at Cooperstown, New York, on July 26 along with second baseman Jeff Kent, voted in last month by the contemporary era committee.

BBWAA members with 10 or more consecutive years in the organization were eligible to vote.

Chase Utley (59.1%) was the only other candidate to get at least half the vote, improving from 39.8% last year. He was followed by Andy Pettitte at 48.5%, an increase from 27.9% last year, and Félix Hernández at 46.1%, up from 20.6%.

Cole Hamels topped first-time candidates at 23.8%. The other first-time players were all under 5% and will be dropped from future votes.

Steroids-tainted players again were kept from the hall. Alex Rodriguez received 40% in his fifth appearance, up from 7.1%, and Manny Ramirez 38.8% in his 10th and final appearance.

David Wright increased to 14.8% from 8.1%.

There were 11 blank ballots.

A nine-time All-Star, the switch-hitting Beltrán batted .279 with 435 homers and 1,587 RBIs over 20 seasons with Kansas City (1999-2004), Houston (2004, ’17), the Mets (2005-11), San Francisco (2011), St. Louis (2012-13), the New York Yankees (20014-16) and Texas (2016). He had 311 homers hitting left-handed and 124 batting right,

Beltrán was the 1999 AL Rookie of the Year and won three Gold Gloves, also hitting .307 in the postseason with 16 homers and 42 RBIs in 65 games.

Jones batted .254 with 434 homers, 1,289 RBIs and 152 stolen bases in 17 seasons with Atlanta (1996-2007), the Dodgers (2008), Texas (2009), the Chicago White Sox (2010) and the Yankees (2011-12). He finished his career with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Japan’s Pacific League from 2013-14.

His batting average is the second-lowest for a position player voted to the Hall of Fame, just above the .253 of Ray Schalk, a superior defensive catcher, and just below the .256 of Harmon Killebrew, who hit 573 homers.

Carlos Beltran with the Mets in 2011.

(Bill Kostroun / Associated Press)

A five-time All-Star, Jones earned 10 Gold Gloves. He joins Braves teammates Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz and Chipper Jones in the hall along with manager Bobby Cox.

In the 1996 World Series opener at Yankee Stadium, Jones at 19 years, 5 months became the youngest player to homer in a Series game, beating Mickey Mantle’s old mark by 18 months. Going deep against Pettitte in the second inning and Brian Boehringer in the third of a 12-1 rout, Jones became the second player to homer in his first two Series at-bats after Gene Tenace in 1972.

Baseball Hall of Fame voting results

425 votes cast, 319 needed.

Carlos Beltrán 358 (84.2%), Andruw Jones 333 (78.4), Chase Utley 251 (59.1), Andy Pettitte 206 (48.5), Félix Hernández 196 (46.1), Álex Rodríguez 170 (40.0), Manny Ramírez 165 (38.8), Bobby Abreu 131 (30.8), Jimmy Rollins 108 (25.4), Cole Hamels 101 (23.8), Dustin Pedroia 88 (20.7), Mark Buehrle 85 (20.0), Omar Vizquel 78 (18.4), David Wright 63 (14.8), Francisco Rodríguez 50 (11.8), Torii Hunter 37 (8.7)

Received fewer than 20 votes (less than 5%, dropped from future ballots): Ryan Braun 15 (3.5), Edwin Encarnación 6 (1.4), Shin-Soo Choo 3 (0.7), Matt Kemp 2 (0.5), Hunter Pence 2 (0.5), Rick Porcello 2 (0.5), Alex Gordon 1 (0.2), Nick Markakis 1 (0.2), Gio González 0, Howie Kendrick 0, Daniel Murphy 0.

Jan. 20 (UPI) — Vice President JD Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, announced Tuesday that they’re expecting their fourth child.

They revealed the news in a joint post on Instagram.

“We’re very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy. Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July,” the post read.

“During this exciting and hectic time, we are particularly grateful for the military doctors who take excellent care of our family and for the staff members who do so much to ensure that we can serve the country while enjoying a wonderful life with our children.”

JD Vance and Usha Vance, who married in 2014, share three children: Ewan, 8, Vivek, 5, and Mirabel, 4. The last vice president to welcome a child while in office was Schuyler Colfax — who served under President Ulysses S. Grant — in 1870.

Singers Karol G and Feid have reportedly broken up after dating for three years.

According to TMZ, the split was “amicable” and the duo remain on good terms.

Representatives for Karol G and Feid did not immediately respond to The Times’ request for confirmation of the breakup.

Neither artist has addressed their split on social media, with Karol G’s most recent Instagram post being Christmas themed and Feid promoting his new single with Luis Fonsi, “Cambiaré’.”

The Colombian power couple were first rumored to be dating after the release of their 2021 collaboration “Friki.” Their relationship was all but confirmed after the two were seen together at the 2023 Latin Grammys, where Karol G won album of the year for “Mañana Será Bonito.”

The “Provenza” artist made their romance public when she posted a photo on Instagram in March 2024 of her holding hands with Feid at the 2024 Billboard Women in Music ceremony.

Feid was featured on Karol G’s 2025 album “Tropicoqueta” on the track “Verano Rosa.”

Feid spoke with The Times last year about how the single came to be.

“We recorded the song in 2023, but we changed the tone of it many times. We were trying to find a way in which Karol would sound like Karol and I would sound like Ferxxo,” he said.

El Ferxxo — pronounced Fercho — was an alter ego used by Feid beginning in 2020. The nickname was inspired by the singer embracing his Medellín roots and incorporating slang from his hometown into this music.

“Karol then told me, ‘Let’s put this song on my album. It would be muy chimba to release because our teams love us together on it,’” Feid said. “So we went to the studio again and recorded it in different tones until we both felt comfortable with it. It’s always special to work with her. She knows what she wants and how she wants it. For her to also be my partner, it’s beautiful and a blessing to work with family.”

The state Republican party on Tuesday filed an emergency application asking the U.S. Supreme Court to issue an injunction to stop the congressional districts California voters approved last year from going into effect.

Arguing that the districts created by Proposition 50 violate federal law because the race of voters was considered when they were configured, the filing urges the court to act by Feb. 9 because of ensuing deadlines for candidates to file to run for office.

“Our emergency application asks the Supreme Court to put the brakes on Prop. 50 now, before the Democrats try to run out the clock and force candidates and voters to live with unconstitutional congressional districts,” state GOP chairwoman Corrin Rankin said in a statement. “Californians deserve fair districts and clean elections, not a backroom redraw that picks winners and losers based on race.”

A spokesperson for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who led the rare middecade redistricting effort and is one of the respondents in the lawsuit, did not immediately respond to a request for coverage.

The redrawing of congressional districts typically occurs once a decade, after the U.S. Census, to account for population shifts. In California, the boundaries are drawn by a voter-approved independent commission to stop partisan gerrymandering and incumbent protection.

After President Trump urged leaders in Texas and other GOP-led states to redraw their delegation’s districts to boost the number of Republican elected to Congress in the November mid-term election, Newsom and other Democratic leaders responded by crafting a plan to increase the number of their party’s members in the California delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives. Republicans currently have a razor-thin majority, and the party that controls Congress after the November election will determine whether Trump is able to continue enacting his agenda during his final two years in office.

California voters handily passed Proposition 50, one of the most expensive ballot measure campaign in state history. The state GOP and others immediately challenged the new districts, but earlier this month, two members of a three-judge federal panel rejected their claim that the district boundaries were drawn to illegally favor Latino voters.

Reese Donatelli has been a football prognosticator since before she could talk, selecting the NFL teams she thinks will win on her dad’s social media, often with unexpected accuracy.

For years, football fans have loved her sass and the excitement she exudes as she shouts out her picks, grabbing the anointed team’s helmet and sometimes tossing the opponent’s.

But when the 4-year-old’s predictions weren’t panning out during the first weekend of playoff games this month, the situation took a nasty turn. Followers began to think the teams she picked as winners were actually cursed to be losers.

Reese’s family started receiving death threats. Her dad, Anthony Donatelli, received messages from people saying they were owed thousands of dollars because her predictions were wrong.

“It’s nuts,” Donatelli, of Riverside, said. “She’s obviously not an NFL analyst. She’s picking teams based on the color of her dress, or she’ll pick the Packers because she likes cheese. She just relates these silly little things as reasons why she picks certain teams.”

Even rapper Cardi B joked about Reese’s picks becoming curses after the girl picked the New England Patriots to win over the Houston Texans this weekend. The rapper’s partner, Stefon Diggs, is a wide receiver on the team. During an Instagram live, Cardi B said that “little white girl said we’re going to win. F— that, b—!” before immediately apologizing and saying, “I didn’t mean to say that.”

In the end, Reese’s prediction that the Patriots would win was right. New England beat Houston 28-16 on Sunday, advancing to the AFC Championship game against the Denver Broncos.

Donatelli said that although Cardi B’s comment was “unfortunate,” he isn’t looking to feud with the Grammy winner.

“I’m not here to fight fire with fire. I’m not angry,” he said. “We don’t want anybody or anything to ruin what Reese and I have created and how we bond.”

The Donatellis’ Instagram series, now called “Trust the Toddler,” started nearly four years ago on a whim when Donatelli was looking to share the joy of football with his infant daughter.

Donatelli purchased NFL mini helmets on Amazon as a way to help Reese learn colors and geography and introduce her to the game he grew up watching with his father. When Donatelli, a lifelong Steelers fan, first placed helmets in front of her, she picked one up and chucked it across the room.

“I said, you know what, we might have something here,” he recalled, laughing. “It just clicked. I would put the match-ups of who was going to play that week in front of her, and for the past four years she’s been calling football games. And she’s been pretty dang good at it.”

But even the best guessers have their off days.

There were six games in the first week of the playoffs, and Reese guessed the wrong team would win each time. The next week, she was 1 for 9 after predicting that the Buffalo Bills, San Francisco 49ers and Chicago Bears would win their respective games.

Amid the hoopla, Donatelli kept it lighthearted, posting on Instagram that “the curse has been reversed” alongside a photo of Reese, her fist pumped into the air in victory after she (rightly) predicted that the Patriots would beat the Texans.

Some still weren’t happy, but others kept up with the joke. One Instagram user deadpanned that they’d put “$10 million on Houston because of her,” adding that they’re in “more debt than the U.S. government now.”

Another follower offered a reality check for the haters: “If [you’re] letting a kid pick your parlays you shouldn’t be betting.”

Donatelli and Reese aren’t planning to stop their tradition anytime soon. For them, time spent watching Sunday football only strengthens their daddy-daughter bond, even if Reese’s team picks don’t always make it to the end zone.

Real Madrid beat Monaco 6-1 in the league phase of the Champions League, as forward Vinicius defies boos from home fans.

With three assists and a goal, Vinicius Junior quieted the fans who had booed him again at the start of Real Madrid’s 6-1 rout over Monaco in the Champions League.

Part of the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium crowd jeered the Brazil forward nearly every time he touched the ball early on in the league-phase game in Madrid on Tuesday. But the boos dissipated as the match went on and were virtually gone by the time Vinicius scored his first Champions League goal of the season in the 63rd minute.

The early boos were not nearly as loud as they were on Saturday in Madrid’s 2-0 win over Levante in the Spanish league. Both times fans jeered when Vinicius’s name was announced in the starting lineup, but this time, the game ended with fans on Vinicius’s side as he was chosen the man of the match.

Vinicius has been having a lacklustre season, and some fans viewed him as one of the reasons why coach Xabi Alonso was replaced last week.

Vinicius had spats with Alonso, a former Madrid and Spain great as a player, who was replaced as a coach following a tumultuous eight-month stint. Vinicius was reportedly the main player not backing Alonso in the locker room.

He scored his goal on Tuesday with a well-placed strike after getting past a couple of defenders and hitting the upper corner. He did not go towards the fans to celebrate, and instead hugged his teammates near the midfield. Then he ran towards the sideline to salute and hug the new Madrid coach, Alvaro Arbeloa.

Vinicius had assists in goals by Kylian Mbappe in the 26th and Franco Mastantuono in the 51st. The Brazilian also assisted with a cross that led to an own-goal by Monaco defender Thilo Kehrer in the 55th.

“Vini, we are behind you,” read a banner held by a fan at the Bernabeu.

Mbappe scored in the fifth minute to put the hosts ahead. He hugged Vinicius after his second goal later in the first half and again following the final whistle.

Mbappe and Arbeloa had come out defending Vinicius recently, with Mbappe saying the crowd should not single out Vinicius as the one to blame for the team’s struggles.

Many fans applauded a seventh-minute attempt by Vinicius, who just missed wide from inside the area. When he misplayed a ball in the 40th, some of the fans started to boo again, but many more applauded in response.

There were no immediate jeers towards club President Florentino Pérez as had happened against Levante.

Mbappe appeared to apologise to Monaco fans after scoring. He was a former Monaco player. Mbappe has 18 Champions League goals for Madrid, the most of any player in the first 20 appearances with the club, ahead of the 14 of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Jude Bellingham, who was also jeered by some fans on Saturday, scored Madrid’s sixth goal in the 80th minute.

Vinicius came close to scoring again on a breakaway in second-half stoppage time.

Madrid had entered the match against Levante coming off a two-game losing streak, which included a loss to Barcelona in the final of the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia – prompting Alonso’s departure – and an embarrassing elimination against Albacete in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey.

There was a moment of silence before the match in honour of the victims of the train crash, in which more than 40 people were killed, in southern Spain on Sunday.

Arsenal win 3-1 at Inter Milan in the league phase of the UEFA Champions League to seal their place in the last 16.

Gabriel Jesus is already hitting top form just a month after returning from a lengthy injury layoff.

The Arsenal forward was given only his third start this season, and he scored twice in a dynamic first half to set his side on the way to a 3-1 victory at Inter Milan in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Jesus was out for almost a year after tearing his ACL last January.

“It’s a dream night. I always dreamed of being a footballer,” Jesus told Amazon Prime. “I watched when I was a kid, I watched a lot of Serie A, so to be here in this stadium and score here is tears in my eyes, because I always dreamed of being here.

“There is always a reason that things happen, even whether it’s good things or difficult things. I learned that during my 11 months out of the field.”

Jesus returned in December, but has made mainly substitute appearances since then, with his only starts before Tuesday coming in domestic cup competitions.

However, Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta named the Brazilian in the starting lineup at San Siro in place of Viktor Gyokeres, who has struggled to adapt since his big-money move from Sporting Lisbon in the summer.

“Everyone wants to start,” Jesus added. “I am a very respectful guy. I am not a kid any more; I am 28, so I understand football.

“I am very happy Vik came on and scored a goal. I am so happy I scored, and Vik scored.”

Jesus fired Arsenal in front in the 10th minute with an instinctive finish to stretch out his leg and get on the end of a scuffed Jurrien Timber shot.

It was his first Champions League goal in more than two years since netting in a group match against Lens in November 2023.

Inter levelled eight minutes later through Petar Sucic, but Jesus was again in the right place at the right time to put Arsenal in front in the 31st minute.

Bukayo Saka swung in a corner from the right to the far post, where Leandro Trossard nodded it back across for Jesus to head home.

Gyokeres came on for Jesus in the 75th and scored Arsenal’s third nine minutes later.

The victory assured table-topping Arsenal a spot in the knockout stage of the Champions League and also saw it win seven European games in a row for the first time in its history.

Arsenal have never won the Champions League, although they reached the final in 2006, losing to Barcelona.

Arteta’s side also top the Premier League, with a seven-point advantage, and host Manchester United on Sunday.

Big Brother is reportedly set to return with a major shakeup to the format, shortly after it was announced that the celebrity edition will be rested for at least two years

Big Brother bosses are reportedly planning an “extension” of the series. The iconic reality show, which initially started out on Channel 4 in 2000 and then moved to Channel 5, was revived by ITV in 2023 after several years off air.

The first series of the reboot was won by Jordan Sangha, and Ali Bromley reigned supreme the second time round, whilst Richard Storry was named the public’s favourite housemate at the end of the third series last November. The broadcaster also made the decision to launch a comeback of the celebrity version, with Ibiza Weekender star David Potts and Coronation Street actor Jack P Shepherd emerging victorious.

Shortly afterwards, it was revealed that ITV had decided to hit pause on Celebrity Big Brother, but sources have now insisted that the civilian version of the programme is still very much on the cards and there could even be an increase in the number of episodes.

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A source said: “Despite the hold on the celeb version, ITV has always insisted that the programme is what they call a ‘priority reality format’. So it’s reassuring to see plans like this on the table. Extending by a week is something fans have been calling for as past runs have shown the action really only heats up in the latter days.”

The source teased that the upcoming edition of Big Brother will be worthwhile for both viewers and the broadcaster because it will be “exciting”, but it is also “far cheaper” to make than its celebrity counterpart.

Speaking to The Sun, the source explained: “The civilian one is far cheaper to produce than celebrity so the return on investment is worth the while. ITV really is committed to the format and has lots of ideas to keep the civilian version as exciting as possible, with the extension being one of the options being considered.”

It’s no secret that ITV have faced major budget cuts over the last year, with soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale each having had a reduction in episodes. The broadcaster’s daytime brands, Lorraine and Loose Women, have also been slashed significantly, and now only air for 30 weeks of the year as opposed to the full 52. So far, Celebrity Big Brother has been rested until at least 2027, and even hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best will not know whether they will be back at the helm until a later date.

The Sun reported an insider said: “Both hosts will plan most of their other TV work around fronting Big Brother, but that’s incredibly difficult when so much is up in the air. AJ, in particular, will have plenty of offers and usually makes decisions on taking other jobs based on recording dates for BB, as it’s her biggest gig and commitment.

ITV boss Kevin Lygo explained the issue at the Edinburgh TV festival last year. He said: “Celebrity Big Brother, we’re looking at. We’re thinking not on the main channel, that’s the answer. “It’s so difficult now to book big celebrities, famous people, which is what we need on the main channel. Whereas you can go more interesting and niche on ITV2.

“We’re in a battle with [production company] Banijay about the price. It does really well for us on ITVX. It’s a really important, crucial show. I love it and it does a tremendous job for us so, yes, it’s coming back.”

The Late And Live spin-off, which AJ and Will hosted, was also axed. The Mirror has contacted ITV for comment.

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WASHINGTON — President Trump took command of a White House press briefing on Tuesday to tell reporters directly why he believes his first year back in office has been a success — though his showcase at times included false claims and a lack of clarity on his foreign policy agenda.

“I don’t like to do this, to be honest with you, but I do it because we got to get the word out,” Trump told reporters during a nearly two-hour appearance in which he took roughly 20 questions from reporters.

In his remarks, the president repeated claims that the 2020 election was “rigged,” reiterated his annoyance at not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ending “eight wars,” and dismissed concerns about the economy as he claimed the country is “doing so well” because of his tariffs.

Trump called Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado a “good woman” for giving him her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, calling his political foes “sick people,” and said Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was “incompetent” for how she handled last year’s wildfire recovery efforts.

The president alleged that under Bass’ leadership, the city’s delay in issuing local building permits will take “years” when it should have taken “two or three days.”

“You had the incompetent mayor of Los Angeles who decided to go to Africa during the fire,” he said. “The place went crazy. Well, they still haven’t gotten their permits.”

At one point, Trump was asked about California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who is widely expected to be eyeing a run for president in 2028, and who is in Davos, Switzerland, this week to talk about the California economy at the World Economic Forum.

“I don’t know that he is going to be the nominee,” Trump told reporters. “I just hate how California is being run. We actually have people leaving, it’s never happened before, but I hate the way it’s being run. He and I had a very good relationship, really close to the word exceptional, but now we seem not to.”

Trump kicked off the press briefing by sifting through dozens of mug shots of undocumented immigrants whom his administration has arrested and targeted for deportation. He boasted that many of the individuals were “murderers, they’re drug lords, drug dealers” in keeping with his campaign promise that he would be targeting the “worst of the worst.” But since he retook office, his administration has also cracked down on legal immigration, and at times, detained U.S. citizens.

As he talked about immigration, Trump lamented the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis — but partly because the president said her parents, particularly her father, were “tremendous Trump fans.”

“A lot of people, they say, ‘Oh, he loves you,’” Trump said. “I hope he still feel the same way.”

While Trump tried to focus on the success of his domestic policies, much of his appearance was dominated by his stance on foreign policy. The president, who was scheduled to leave for Davos on Tuesday evening, has repeatedly threatened to acquire Greenland and impose tariffs on European countries that send troops to help Denmark defend its Arctic territory.

Asked how far he would be willing to go to acquire Greenland, Trump said: “You’ll find out.” He was later asked if he was willing to risk breaking up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for the territory, to which the president responded: “I think that we will work something out where NATO’s going to be very happy and where we’re going to be very happy.”

Trump was also asked about Greenlanders who have said they do not want to be part of the United States and have expressed dismay about Trump’s desires to seize the island.

“I haven’t spoken to them,” Trump said. “When I speak to them, I’m sure they’ll be thrilled.”

At the press briefing, the president insisted that “Norway controls the Nobel Prize,” an assertion he made over the weekend in a text message sent to Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Store. In the text message, Trump wrote that he no longer felt an “obligation to think purely of Peace” when it comes to acquiring Greenland because he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Norway has repeatedly said the award is given by the independent Nobel Committee, not the government, Store said in a statement.

Trump told reporters to not “let anyone tell you that Norway doesn’t control the shots.”

“I should’ve gotten the Nobel Prize,” Trump said.

Machado, last year’s Nobel Peace laureate, gave Trump her award during a White House visit last week. Trump appeared to have taken kindly to the gesture, telling reporters that he has “such respect for María, doing what she did.

“She said, ‘I don’t deserve the Nobel Prize. He does,’” Trump said. “How nice, right? Good woman.”

The president said he wanted to discuss the wide range of topics personally with reporters because he felt that he was not getting enough credit for the job he had done in the last year.

“A lot of people are listening to the fake news a little bit. I think we’ve done a much better job than we have been able to promote,” Trump said. “We have taken a mess and made it really good. It’s going to get even better.”

Times staff writer Gavin Quinton in Washington contributed to this report.

Aston Villa explore Jean-Philippe Mateta and Tammy Abraham moves, Manchester United decline Ajax’s Manuel Ugarte approach and Bournemouth fight to keep Marcos Senesi.

Aston Villa have expressed their interest in signing 28-year-old Crystal Palace and France striker Jean-Philippe Mateta, with the Eagles exploring a move for Villa’s Ivory Coast international Evann Guessand, 24. (Athletic – subscription required), external

Villa are also stepping up their efforts to sign Roma striker Tammy Abraham, who is currently on loan at Besiktas, with the club officials watching the 28-year-old England international play in Istanbul on Monday. (Sky Sports), external

Ajax have asked about signing Manuel Ugarte, 24, on loan as they search for a defensive midfielder but Manchester United are not looking to move out the Uruguay international. (Athletic – subscription required), external

Borussia Dortmund boss Niko Kovac has emerged as a new name on Manchester United‘s shortlist ro be their next manager but England head coach Thomas Tuchel and Marseille’s Roberto de Zerbi remain their top two targets. (Mirror), external

Inter Milan are exploring a move for Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez, 33, but the Argentina international would have to accept a wage cut to sign next summer. (Sky Sports), external

Bournemouth plan to resist any bids for Marcos Senesi, 28, this month with Chelsea, Juventus and Barcelona among clubs who have shortlisted the Argentina centre-back as a possible target. (Talksport), external

Leon Bailey’s loan spell at Roma has been cut short with the 28-year-old Jamaica winger returning to Aston Villa. (Sky Sports – in Italian), external

Fulham are battling Wolfsburg and Real Betis in the race to sign Republic of Ireland forward Troy Parrott, 23, from AZ Alkmaar in the summer. (Independent), external

Coventry City boss Frank Lampard is likely to be a strong contender to replace Oliver Glasner as Crystal Palace manager with the club also interested in Getafe’s Jose Bordalas and Rayo Vallecano’s Inigo Perez. (Talksport), external

Sunderland have no intention of selling DR Congo midfielder Noah Sadiki, 21, to Manchester United but are willing to listen to offers for fringe players such as English goalkeeper Anthony Patterson, 25, and former England Under-20 midfielder Dan Neil, 24. (Sun), external

Everton have enquired about the availability of Sunderland‘s 25-year-old French striker Wilson Isidor as they look to strengthen their attack. (Mirror), external

Sheffield Wednesday’s 17-year-old English defender Yisa Alao is edging closer to a January transfer to Premier League giants Chelsea. (Sheffield Star), external

United States President Donald Trump has made a range of claims about the state of the US economy.

In a long and meandering address to the media on Tuesday, the first year anniversary of his second term as president, Trump’s claims ranged from there being “no inflation” in the US to drug prices being slashed by as much as 600 percent. Most claims were factually inaccurate.

Al Jazeera examined some of his statements on the economy:

Core inflation has been at 1.6 percent for the past three months, and there is “no inflation”.

Both claims are false. Core inflation in November and December stood at 2.6 percent year over year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

A core consumer price index (CPI) report was not released for the month before due to the federal government shutdown, the longest in US history.

Overall, inflation rose by 2.7 percent compared with the same period last year.

Drug prices under Trump’s “most favored nation” programme are down by “300, 400, 500, 600 percent”.

This is incorrect. While the programme is intended to lower drug prices, reductions beyond 100 percent are mathematically impossible.

A 100 percent price reduction would mean a product is free. Anything beyond that would require pharmaceutical companies to pay consumers to take their products.

Pending Supreme Court ruling on tariffs:

Trump addressed a pending Supreme Court case that will rule on the legality of his use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs. He claimed the US would have to return money if the court rules against his administration.

This is partially accurate but unclear. If the court rules against the administration, the US would need to refund some of the money importers paid in tariffs. In September, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said the government could be required to refund roughly half of the tariffs it collected.

The White House’s economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, has said the administration is exploring alternative legal avenues to impose tariffs if the court blocks the current plan.

Former President Joe Biden “did not do tariffs”.

This is false. Biden imposed multiple tariffs during his administration. In 2022, he imposed 35 percent tariffs on Russian imports as part of sanctions following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

In 2024, Biden raised tariffs on Canadian lumber to 14.5 percent from 8.5 percent, continuing a Trump-era policy.

That year, he also imposed tariffs on China, including 100 percent on electric vehicles, 25 percent on steel and aluminium, and 50 percent on semiconductor chips.

Trump administration removed more than 270,000 bureaucrats from the federal government, but they are going to the private sector. 

The federal government has cut 277,000 jobs since January 2025, according to the BLS. But data shows limited growth in the private sector, especially in tariff-exposed industries.

In the most recent jobs report, the US economy added 50,000 jobs. The biggest gains were in food service, which added 27,000 jobs, and healthcare, which added 34,000 jobs.

The US economy added 584,000 jobs in 2025. This is significantly lower than the two million created the year before, under Biden.

Gas prices are at $1.99 per gallon in some states

This is inaccurate. According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), which tracks gas prices, the average price for a gallon of gas is $2.82. The cheapest gas prices are in the state of Oklahoma, at $2.31.

More car factories are being built in the US now than ever before.

Oxford Economics tracks private construction spending on transportation equipment factories. In 2025, nominal spending on manufacturing structures related to transportation equipment was down from its peak in 2024, it said.

Trump has been making claims like this for close to a year. Auto industry experts have long said they are exaggerated, because while companies, including Hyundai and Stellantis, have increased investments in US manufacturing, these are additions to existing plants.

Oxford Economics, which tracks private construction on transportation equipment, found that “nominal spending” in 2025 was trending downwards after hitting a peak during the final year of the Biden administration.

Kurdish-led SDF accepts truce but reports continued attacks by government-allied forces, despite the agreement.

The Syrian government has announced a four-day ceasefire with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after the army continued to seize territory in the country’s northeast following lightning advances.

The Syrian Army announced the ceasefire, which came into effect at 8pm (17:00 GMT) on Tuesday.

It also said it had asked the SDF to provide the name of a candidate for the role of assistant to the defence minister in Damascus, as part of efforts to integrate the Kurds into the Syrian state.

The SDF confirmed it had accepted the ceasefire and said it would not engage in any military action unless attacked.

“We also affirm our openness to political paths, negotiated solutions, and dialogue, and our readiness to move forward with the implementation of the January 18 agreement in a manner that serves de-escalation and stability,” the SDF said in a statement.

However, shortly after the ceasefire came into effect, the SDF claimed that government-allied groups were launching an attack, “using heavy weapons”, on the village of Tal Baroud, along the Abyad road, south of Hasakah.

According to the SDF’s spokesperson, Farhad Shami, the town of Zarkan has been “under intense artillery shelling” in recent hours by Damascus-affiliated factions. He said that government-allied forces have also attacked al-Aqtan Prison north of Raqqa, using five suicide drones and heavy gunfire.

In the past few days, the Syrian government has rapidly advanced and seized territory held by the SDF, in the biggest success and change of control for President Ahmed al-Sharaa after the fall of former leader Bashar al-Assad.

Syria’s Ministry of Interior said the army’s forces have begun to take control of the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria, home to thousands of ISIL (ISIS) fighters’ families as well as other long-term refugees from the conflict. The SDF abandoned control of the camp earlier today.

The SDF still retains control of Hasakah city, with a population of Kurds and Arabs, and the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli. The Syrian government said its forces would not try to enter either of the cities during the ceasefire.

Under intense military pressure, the SDF agreed to withdraw from two Arab-majority governorates it controlled for years, Raqqa and Deir ‌Az Zor, the site of Syria’s main oilfields.

Abdul Karim Omar, a Kurdish representative in Damascus, told Al Jazeera that the northeastern region of Syria, formerly under SDF control, is ready for the process of integrating SDF forces into the institutions of the Syrian state.

Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ibrahim Olabi, told reporters that the government hope the ceasefire agreement holds.

“We’re working with our partners at the United States to make sure that it holds,” Olabi said.

The US envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, announced that the Syrian government was now the US’s main partner in fighting ISIL, a role previously held by the SDF.

Netflix reported a strong finish to its fiscal year on Tuesday, with revenue climbing 18% in the fourth quarter to just over $12 billion compared to a year ago.

The streaming giant’s profits during the same period reached $2.4 billion, or 56 cents a share, up from $1.87 billion, or 43 cents a share, a year earlier, the company reported.

The results were slightly ahead of Wall Street estimates and driven by growth in the company’s advertising business, higher prices and increases in paid memberships, which surpassed the 325 million mark, Netflix said in a letter to shareholders.

Netflix said total engagement on its platform, meaning the amount of time its users spent watching content, rose 2% in the second half of the year.

Netflix got a big boost in the quarter from the final season of its hit series “Stranger Things,” among other popular shows, documentaries and movies, including Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” and “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.”

For the year, the Los Gatos-based company reported revenues of $45.2 billion, up 16% from 2024.

The latest earnings report follows news earlier Tuesday that Netflix modified its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, making it an all-cash bid. The companies agreed on the deal, valued at $82.7 billion, in December.

Rival bidder Paramount has made clear it will continue its hostile takeover attempt for Warner Bros., despite some setbacks. It has given the company’s shareholders a Jan. 21 deadline to tender their shares. It remains to be seen whether Paramount opts to extend that deadline.

Warner Bros. has rejected Paramount’s overtures multiple times in recent months, while expressing its preference for its deal with Netflix.

The results were released after markets closed. Netflix shares closed at $87.05, down 1% on Tuesday.

For much of the last decade, chavismo has been described either as a regime surviving on inertia or as a system permanently on the verge of collapse. Both readings assume a level of rigidity that no longer fits the evidence. What Venezuela is living under today is neither chaos nor grand design, but something more flexible and more dangerous: an authoritarian system that has learned how to improvise.

This distinction matters. Regime learning does not mean the end of improvisation. On the contrary, it means knowing when to improvise, when to retreat, and when to pretend there was a plan all along. In Venezuela, the regime’s advantage has never been strategic sophistication, but adaptive resilience.

Every effective political actor operating under existential pressure must be able to solve problems on the fly. The Venezuelan regime has done this repeatedly. Faced with mass protests, electoral shocks, international sanctions, or diplomatic isolation, it has shown a consistent ability to regroup, recalibrate, and re-enter the field. This improvisational capacity is not accidental. It is enabled by structural advantages the opposition does not possess: control over territory, weapons, institutions, and the coercive apparatus of the state. Perhaps most importantly, what these assets buy: time. As with almost everything else in Venezuela, time is not democratic.

Of course, the regime would prefer a decisive victory. But over the last several years, neither decisive victory nor ideological closure has been necessary. For chavismo, tactical retreat does not imply strategic defeat. It only needs to survive the next shock. A misstep can be absorbed, reframed, or quietly undone. Improvisation works best when failure does not threaten survival. The same is rarely true for the opposition, where failure often carries near-fatal consequences.

Opposition movements, by contrast, have tended to think systematically. They rely on roadmaps, timelines, and narratives that make sense not only domestically but internationally. This has brought real benefits: legitimacy, recognition, and sustained external support. But it has also imposed constraints. Slogans harden into commitments, commitments into expectations, and expectations narrow the room for maneuver. La Salida, the National Assembly of 2015, “cese de la usurpación, gobierno de transición, elecciones libres,” and more recently hasta el final were not merely rhetorical devices. They were frameworks that structured behavior and raised the cost of deviation. Corners are useful defensively. They are far less forgiving when you paint yourself into one and need to move.

Opposition strategies shift from ambiguity to high-risk bets, swings taken not because the odds are favorable but because the stakes are existential (…) The opposition often plays under sudden-death conditions.

Recent opposition leadership has shown greater awareness of these traps. María Corina Machado, in particular, has so far navigated the terrain with more sophistication than her predecessors. Strategic ambiguity has functioned as a way to preserve optionality in an environment that punishes premature clarity. In this context, ambiguity is not indecision but insurance. Yet insurance premiums rise over time. Strategic ambiguity works best when no single actor controls the clock, which in Venezuela belongs entirely to the regime. External allies, domestic supporters, and internal rivals eventually demand definition. What begins as flexibility risks being recast as hesitation, or worse, as accumulated opportunity cost.

I have argued before that strategic ambiguity can create unexpected openings for the opposition. What matters now is how the regime has learned to anticipate and narrow those openings.

At certain moments, like the one Venezuela is now entering, optionality collapses. Delay becomes indistinguishable from defeat. Opposition strategies shift from ambiguity to high-risk bets, swings taken not because the odds are favorable but because the stakes are existential. These moments expose the core asymmetry: the regime can lose a round and remain in the game. The opposition often plays under sudden-death conditions. Improvisation under those circumstances looks less like adaptability than desperation, and Venezuelan voters tend to punish desperation. This means opposition actors learn under harsher constraints.

While opposition debates play out publicly, the regime has been adjusting more quietly. Under Delcy Rodríguez, the relationship with the United States has been reclassified. Washington no longer needs to function exclusively as an existential enemy in a revolutionary script. It can serve instead as a transactional counterpart, engaged or antagonized as conditions require.

This shift has been accompanied by a rapid change in political aesthetics. Senior regime figures have returned to X. Diosdado Cabello appears in a suit shaking the hands of European diplomats before justifying the steps the regime has been taking in its rapprochements towards the United States. Revolutionary excess has given way to bureaucratic normality. Performing confrontation has become less useful than performing administration.

Even symbols have life cycles. The regime will continue to invoke Maduro’s “captivity” and mourn those who fell defending him. But the narrative of Nicolás Maduro as a kidnapped or persecuted president awaiting redemption continues to fade, not because it was disproven, but because it outlived its usefulness. As Orwell understood, in authoritarian systems, leaders can always be repurposed.

The regime absorbs failure without discarding experience. The opposition, by contrast, renews itself through rupture.

Recent economic and social measures follow the same logic. Policy adjustments signal pragmatism and stability to external actors while leaving the internal balance of power untouched. Liberalization is selective. Repression is backgrounded, not removed. The loaded gun remains on the table, conveniently covered.

The moral asymmetry in Venezuela is absolute. An authoritarian regime that imprisons, tortures, and kills cannot be meaningfully compared to a democratic opposition struggling, often heroically, under conditions designed to break it.

Yet politics is not decided by moral standing alone. What has allowed chavismo to survive repeated crises is not ideological coherence but organizational learning. The regime absorbs failure without discarding experience. The opposition, by contrast, renews itself through rupture. Leaders are consumed by disappointment and replaced, taking with them whatever institutional memory they accumulated. Each cycle leaves the movement cleaner in principle, but poorer in adaptive capacity.

Regime learning in Venezuela is not about brilliance. It is about survivability. The regime can afford to improvise because time works in its favor, because failure is absorbable, and because retreat is not existential. The opposition operates under permanent endgame conditions. Every bet is final and every pause carries a cost.

This is why the regime’s turn toward normality matters. Not because it reflects genuine reform, but because it reshapes the criteria by which politics is judged. The longer chavismo is allowed to fail without consequence and return intact, the narrower the space for disruption becomes. In Venezuelan politics, the decisive advantage is not moral clarity or strategic daring, but the ability to lose, reset, and come back, while your adversary cannot.

WASHINGTON — An unconstrained U.S. president has sided with Russia in its war of conquest in Europe, seized Venezuela’s dictator from his bed in an attempt to take control of that country’s oil, threatened military strikes against America’s closest neighbors and sent tariffs soaring on its friends.

Donald Trump has gotten away with it all — but his threats to annex Greenland, risking destruction of the Western alliance in its current form, may prove a breaking point in a global order that has benefited the United States for over 75 years.

Canada’s prime minister said Tuesday that the Trump administration’s boorish behavior marks a “rupture,” not merely a transition, in the international system, away from a world where the United States could be relied upon as a force for good. American cardinals in the Catholic Church warned over the weekend that U.S. foreign policy had gone “morally adrift.” France’s president said that Europe now represents a rare refuge where predictability, loyalty, and rule of law still trump the “brutality” of “bullies.”

Trump’s effort to coax allies to his will on Greenland through another round of tariff hikes prompted panic in U.S. markets. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged nearly 900 points, the Standard & Poor’s 500 dropped 2%, and the NASDAQ fell over 500 points. U.S. 30-year Treasury yields spiked. The price of gold hit an all-time high.

“The transatlantic alliance is over,” Kirill Dmitriev, a top confidant to Russian President Vladimir Putin, celebrated on social media.

Trump was set to leave for Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday night for a summit of foreign leaders suddenly fixated on the fate of Greenland, the world’s largest island, which has been under Danish rule since the 18th century.

Top government officials in Denmark and Greenland have warned that any U.S. attempt to annex the territory by force would amount to an act of war and mark the end of the NATO alliance, comments echoed by other leaders across Europe. But Trump has only escalated his threats in recent days, warning of his ambitions over the holiday weekend, “there can be no going back.”

In a news conference at the White House on Tuesday, Trump acknowledged the existential risk posed to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in his bid to take over Danish territory.

Whether his Greenland effort could break up the alliance is a “very interesting” question, Trump told a reporter, adding: “I think something is going to happen that’s going to be very good for everybody.”

“I think we will work something out,” he added. “NATO is going to be very happy and we are going to be very happy.”

Trump dismissed that Greenlanders don’t want to be part of the United States.

“When I speak to them they will be thrilled,” Trump said.

President Trump speaks during a press briefing Tuesday at the White House.

(Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)

In his own news conference earlier Tuesday, Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, warned the island population to prepare for the unlikely possibility of a U.S. invasion. “A military conflict cannot be ruled out,” he said.

Any acquisition of U.S. land, by agreement or by force, has to be approved by Congress, where bipartisan skepticism began firming up this week.

Several prominent Republican lawmakers have criticized Trump’s threats to seize the island, and to punish European countries that defend Denmark’s Arctic territory. But no substantive steps have been taken thus far to preemptively block the president’s actions.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Rep. Don Bacon (R-Nebraska) have both joined Democrats in their respective chambers to introduce legislation that would prevent Trump from using Defense Department funds to seize the territory of a NATO country or territory, such as Greenland. But no other GOP lawmakers had joined their cause as of Tuesday.

In an interview with the Omaha World-Herald last week, Bacon went as far as to say that if Trump were to follow through with his threats to acquire Greenland, it would be “the end of his presidency.”

“And [Trump] needs to know: The off-ramp is realizing Republicans aren’t going to tolerate this and he’s going to have to back off,” Bacon told the Nebraska newspaper. “He hates being told no, but in this case, I think Republicans need to be firm.”

Republican lawmakers, while critical of Trump’s tactics in recent days, have stopped short of committing to congressional action to stop Trump’s purported plans in Greenland.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said that imposing tariffs on allies for sending troops to Greenland is “bad for America, bad for American businesses and bad for America’s allies” — but in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday he said he was “not going to go to impeachment” on the matter.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said last week that an attempt to seize the Arctic territory would “shatter the trust of allies” and be “disastrous” for Trump’s legacy.

An address Tuesday by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to the British Parliament showed the fine line Republicans are toeing when it comes to appeasing Trump and allies abroad, as he told them that he was there to help “calm the waters” between the United States and Europe.

“We have always been able to work through our differences calmly as friends,” Johnson said. “We will continue to do that. I want to assure you this morning that that is still the case.”

In his speech to the Davos economic forum, Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, described Trump’s bid for Greenland as a stark example of the global order collapsing in real time.

“We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically,” Carney said. “This fiction was useful. An American hegemony, in particular, helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security.

“We know the old order is not coming back,” Carney added. “We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.”

A trespassing charge against Minnesota Vikings receiver Jordan Addison has been dismissed a little more than a week after the former USC star was arrested for allegedly refusing to leave a Tampa, Fla., restaurant after being asked multiple times to do so.

Susan S. Lopez, the state attorney for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, filed a notice of termination of prosecution Tuesday in Hillsborough County Court, indicating that the case against Addison has been closed after a review of the criminal report affidavit.

Addison had been charged with misdemeanor trespass in an occupied structure or conveyance.

According to the criminal report affidavit, the alleged incident happened at approximately 3:42 a.m. on Jan. 12 at a noodle bar inside the Seminole Hard Rock Casino. Addison was asked to leave several times by casino security but refused, the affidavit states, and had to be redirected several times toward the exit while being escorted out. He was taken into custody for trespass after warning, the report says.

No other details have been released about the alleged incident.

“All I can tell you is he did nothing wrong,” Addison’s attorney Brian Pakett told The Times on Tuesday.

In a Jan. 13 post on X, Addison’s agent Tim Younger suggested that the charge against his client might not hold up.

“On Jordan’s behalf, his legal team has already initiated the investigation, identified witnesses, and we are reviewing the viability of a claim for false arrest,” Younger wrote. “He looks forward to the legal process and upon full investigation, we are confident Mr. Addison will be exonerated.”

Addison played two years at Pittsburgh, winning the Fred Biletnikoff Award for best receiver in the country in 2021, and one season at USC. He was selected by Minnesota at No. 23 overall in the 2023 draft and has 175 catches for 2,396 yards and 22 touchdowns in three seasons with the Vikings.

In July 2024, Addison was arrested when a California Highway Patrol officer found him sleeping behind the wheel of a Rolls-Royce that was blocking traffic near Los Angeles International Airport. He pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor drunk-driving charges in December 2024.

Those charges were dismissed in July after Addison entered a no-contest plea to the lesser charge of “wet reckless driving upon a highway.” He was suspended by the NFL for the first three games of 2025 for violating the league’s personal conduct policy.

In July 2023, Addison was caught driving 140 mph in a 55-mph zone in St. Paul, Minn. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge, paid a fine and lost his license for six months.

Jan. 20 (UPI) — At a White House press briefing Tuesday afternoon, a reporter asked President Donald Trump how far he’s willing to go to acquire Greenland: “You’ll find out,” he responded.

Trump spoke to a packed White House press room for two-and-a-half hours, mostly boasting about his accomplishments in the past year, immigration, the Nobel Peace Prize, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement arrests and former President Joe Biden. At the end of the press conference, he took questions.

A reporter said that taking Greenland could mean the breakup of NATO and asked “Is that the price you’re willing to pay?”

“I think something’s going to happen that’s going to be very good for everybody,” Trump said. “Nobody’s done more for NATO than I have, as I said before, in every way. Getting them to go up to 5% of GDP was something nobody thought was possible. And pay. At 2% they weren’t paying. At 5% they are paying,” he said, referencing his push to get NATO members to spend 5% of their gross domestic product on defense.

“They are buying a lot of things from us, and I guess giving them to Ukraine,” apparently talking about military assets.

“I think that we will work something out that NATO is going to be very happy, and we’re going to be very happy. We need [Greenland] for security purposes, national security and world security,” he said.

Earlier Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron jabbed at Trump in his address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, though he didn’t mention the president specifically.

Near the end of his economy-heavy address, Macron told the audience, “It’s not a time for new imperialism or new colonialism. This is a time of cooperation in order to fix these three global challenges for our fellow citizens. We do prefer respect to bullies,” Macron concluded. “And we do prefer rule of law to brutality.”

His comments came after Trump’s threat to add 200% tariffs on French wine to punish France for supporting Greenland and Denmark.

Macron described the threat of tariffs as “unacceptable.”

“No intimidation or threat will influence us — neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world when we are confronted with such situations,” he said on X. “Europeans will respond in a united and coordinated manner should they be confirmed. We will ensure that European sovereignty is upheld.”

A reporter asked Trump about his relationship with Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

“I think I get along very well with them. They always treat me well,” he said. “They get a little rough when I’m not around. They gotta straighten out their countries on immigration and energy. They gotta stop with the windmills.”

Earlier, Trump posted a screenshot of a text conversation with Macron.

“My friend, we are totally in line on Syria. We can do great things on Iran. I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland.”

He offered to meet with Trump in Davos and to call an emergency G7 meeting.

At his press conference, Trump said he wouldn’t meet with Macron because of logistics. Trump is leaving Tuesday evening for Davos, and he said Macron likely won’t still be there.

Usha Vance, the wife of Vice-President JD Vance, has announced she is pregnant with her fourth child.

In a post on X, the second lady said she is looking forward to welcoming a boy in late July.

“Usha and the baby are doing well,” a statement posted on Tuesday to the second lady’s social media account read.

Vance and his wife, Usha, 40, have three young children: Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel.

Usha Vance (née Chilukuri) was born and raised in the working-class suburbs of San Diego, California, to a mechanical engineer father and a molecular biologist mother who had moved to the US from Andhra Pradesh, India.

She met JD Vance as a student at Yale Law School in 2010, when they joined a discussion group on “social decline in white America”.

JD Vance has been one of the most vocal members of the Trump administration in calling for higher birth rates in the US.