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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump arrives in Switzerland on Wednesday morning with Europe on edge and the NATO alliance in crisis over his aggressive push to wrest control of Greenland.At the annual World Economic Forum in the resort town of Davos, Switzerland, Trump will hold a series of meetings with European leaders rattled by his insistence that Denmark cede its island territory to the U.S., willingly or not. “I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland,” French President Emmanuel Macron wrote Trump in a private text message that Trump posted online.Trump has recently vowed to hit Denmark and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Air Force One was forced to return to Joint Base Andrews shortly after takeoff Tuesday evening with President Donald Trump aboard, the White House said.The crew experienced a “minor electrical issue” after takeoff at 10:20 p.m. and returned “out of an abundance of caution,” according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.The lights in the press cabin briefly went out after takeoff, reporters on board said.TRUMP SAYS ‘YOU’LL FIND OUT’ WHEN ASKED HOW FAR HE’LL GO ON GREENLAND TAKEOVER President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One, on his return from Detroit, Michigan,…

The actor Hugh Grant is among the signatories of a letter urging Westminster party leaders to ban social media for children under 16.The letter to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Ed Davey calls on them to back amendment 94a to the children’s wellbeing and schools bill, ahead of peers voting on amendments on Wednesday.It is backed by campaigners including the actor Sophie Winkleman and Esther Ghey, the mother of Brianna Ghey, who was murdered by two teenagers in Warrington, Cheshire, in 2023.The letter states that national polling by the charity Parentkind found 93% of parents think social media is harmful…

NARA, Japan — A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced a 45-year-old man to life imprisonment for fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, public broadcaster NHK reported, in an incident that stunned the nation three and a half years ago.Tetsuya Yamagami was arrested on the spot in July 2022 after fatally firing at Abe with a homemade gun while he was delivering a campaign speech in the western city of Nara. Abe, the country’s longest-serving premier, was 67.A guilty verdict was all but certain after Yamagami admitted to killing Abe in the first court hearing at the Nara District Court…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she believes America is ready for a woman president, pushing back on recent comments by former first lady Michelle Obama, who said U.S. voters were not ready to elect a woman to the White House.In an interview with NPR released on Tuesday, Whitmer said she has “love” for the former first lady and “the last thing I want to do is disagree with her,” but that she has a different perspective.”I think America is ready for a woman president,” Whitmer said. “The question comes down to…

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The government is facing “crunch time” over the rising costs and failures of special needs education for children in England, according to a report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.The IFS said government spending on educating children with special needs would double between 2015 and 2028, “squeezing funding” for mainstream schools as a result.“These pressures risk crowding out resources for mainstream schools and constraining the system’s ability to deliver a broad, balanced and high-quality education for all,” the report states.The IFS report highlights the difficulties facing the government’s plans to reform provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The House of Representatives passed a bill that would require the government to create more access to artificial intelligence (AI) education for small businesses Tuesday evening.The AI for Main Street Act passed with broad bipartisan support in a 395-14 vote. Eleven Republicans and three Democrats voted against the measure.”Main Street stands at the doorstep of a major transformation because the AI revolution isn’t just coming, it’s already here,” Rep. Mark Alford, R-Mo., the bill’s sponsor, said in a statement after its passage. (Photo courtesy of Rep. Mark Alford’s office.) (Office of Rep.…

Going into this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the White House’s top science and technology adviser, Michael Kratsios, signaled some chilly conversations with European leaders may lie ahead on the topic of artificial intelligence and the way it is regulated.“I will continue to point out to my tech minister counterparts the ways they can create a regulatory environment to allow AI to thrive,” Kratsios told NBC News, “to make sure they’re not getting ahead of themselves with overburdening regulations, like the EU AI Act, which are an absolute disaster.” For Kratsios, the Trump administration’s light-touch approach to AI…

There will be no phaseout date for gas boilers in the government’s warm homes plan despite its pledge to wean the UK off fossil fuels, but billions of pounds will go towards heat pumps and insulation upgrades.Labour’s principal attempt to solve the UK’s cost of living crisis, the £15bn warm homes plan, will overhaul 5m dwellings, aiming to cut energy bills by as much as £1,000 a year, in the biggest public investment yet made into home upgrades.Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, said he wanted every household to benefit from clean energy: “We understand that clean energy can lower bills.…