The United States has reached an agreement with Denmark that Trump says gives Washington permanent control over Greenland's security, including the ability to expand America's military presence on the strategically vital island. The agreement would also block adversaries from establishing bases or making sensitive investments there—a significant expansion of U.S. power in the Arctic without acquiring Greenland outright.

The divide between Americans benefiting from rising asset values and those being squeezed by prices, debt and stagnant purchasing power is becoming harder to ignore. The argument goes beyond inequality, tracing the divide to monetary and fiscal policies that have rewarded asset ownership while leaving many wage earners struggling to keep pace.

Warnings about artificial intelligence exceeding human capabilities are moving from Silicon Valley into Congress. Senators are now confronting a question that once sounded like science fiction: whether increasingly autonomous AI needs hard limits before systems emerge that humans can no longer reliably control.

Republicans face a recurring challenge heading toward the midterms: translating the coalition that turns out for Trump into support for congressional candidates when Trump himself isn't on the ballot. The question is whether the voters and constituencies he brought into the Republican coalition will remain engaged when someone else is at the top of the ticket.

A federal task force has reportedly uncovered an FBI records system containing material placed behind unusually restrictive access controls and effectively walled off from ordinary searches.