"I Was Everyone's Child": Survivor Born In Concentration Camp Shares Story

01/27/26 2:56 PM

Now 81, Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem is among the youngest Holocaust survivors. She survived only because she was born when the Nazi leadership was in disarray as the war was ending. Otherwise, she most certainly would have been killed.

"Stop Undermining Peace": China Vows 'Support' For Cuba After US Threats

01/27/26 6:46 PM

China promised on Tuesday to provide Cuba with "support and assistance" in the face of repeated threats from the United State, which weeks ago removed Havana's ally in Venezuela Nicolas Maduro.

"They Want To Make A Deal, I Know So": Trump Says Iran Wants Talks

01/27/26 6:36 PM

AUSnaval strike force led by anaircraftcarrierwas in Middle Eastern waters on TuesdayasIranvowed to hit back against any strike and President DonaldTrumpsaid he believed the Islamic republic still wantedtalks.

"We Delivered The Mother Of All Deals": India-EU Trade Pact Finally Sealed

01/27/26 7:15 PM

The India-EU free trade agreement which European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called "the mother of all trade deals" has been sealed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday afternoon.

'Eleven years of this': Swing-seat Republican shrugs off Trump’s Davos 'pandemonium'

01/23/26 7:08 PM

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s erratic behavior on the world stage — threatening to seize Greenland from Denmark, making rambling speeches and attacking key NATO allies at Davos — was just business as usual, a prominent moderate Republican insisted.“Eleven years of this, have people not figured it out?” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) told Raw Story at the Capitol. The U.S. will benefit “if the end result is that he gets greater access, increased military presence” in Greenland, Lawler said, bemoaning the media’s “pandemonium” coverage of a head-spinning week.President Trump first told Norway’s prime minister he wanted to buy or seize Greenland, in part because the Nobel Committee passed him over for the Peace Prize he so covets, even though the committee is completely independent from the Scandinavian country’s government. Then, at the 56th World Economic Forum in Switzerland, President Trump saw Canadian PM Mark Carney win rave reviews for a pointed speech about the need for mid-sized countries to work together and not rely on America in the wake of the tariff-fueled trade wars Trump’s waged across the globe.In stark contrast to the clarity offered by the leader of America’s northern neighbor, Trump’s own remarks in Davos saw him continually confuse Greenland with Iceland; promise not to use force to seize the former but insist he wants to take it regardless; say he and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte had worked out the “framework of a future deal” for increased U.S. access to Greenland; and then abuse NATO allies whose troops fought alongside the U.S. in its post-9/11 wars."We've never needed them," Trump told Fox News, adding: "We have never really asked anything of them."They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines."Just in the case of the United Kingdom, 457 British troops were killed in Afghanistan and another 179 in Iraq, while waging former President George W. Bush’s “global war on terror.”Denmark lost 43 service members in Afghanistan and eight in Iraq.‘Permanent damage’Now that 2026 is here, November’s midterm elections are starting to engulf everything in Washington, especially for endangered Republicans like Lawler who have tried to create distance from Trump without enraging his MAGA base. While Lawler and others in the GOP straddle that Trumpian tightrope, Democrats insist they won’t let them off the hook for letting Trump embarrass America on the world stage. “Trump's craziness has done permanent damage,” Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) told Raw Story.Boyle, who serves on NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly — a body comprised of 281 parliamentarians from 32 countries — is visiting the organization in Brussels next month. He expects to perform damage control.“This is doing permanent damage,” he stressed.In the wake of Trump’s gaffes in Switzerland, Boyle got started on international diplomacy early, after American allies freaked out and blew up his phone throughout the week. ‘President was a draft dodger’Other members of Congress have also been trying to clean up the president’s international messes, many of which predated the Davos disaster. Last week, Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) “spent time with the representative from Greenland and the Danish Ambassador.” “I think [Trump’s] staff didn't inform him of our relationships with Greenland and Denmark,” Kaptur told Raw Story this week. The midwestern progressive is embarrassed that President Trump threatens allies with U.S. military might, despite what she dismissed as his own lackluster record on military matters.“Well, the President was a draft dodger,” the Congresswoman said, “so, yeah, I don't really think he has a sense of the military. I think he views it as his police force.”Trump, 79, obtained five draft deferments during the Vietnam War, four for academic reasons and one due to a claim to have bone spurs in his heels.Infamously, in 2015 and 2016, during his first run for president, he stoked controversy by deriding Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, a decorated war hero, for having been captured by Vietnamese forces. "He's a war hero because he was captured,” Trump said. “I like people that weren't captured.”Perhaps more infamously still, Trump once told shock jock Howard Stern that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases while dating in New York had been his “own personal Vietnam.”“I feel like a great and very brave soldier,” he said.

'I lost friends there': Prince Harry uncorks scathing response to Trump's NATO comments

01/23/26 10:57 PM

Prince Harry on Friday rebuked President Donald Trump's comments dismissing NATO allies and spoke out about sacrifices among those who fought alongside the United States. The Duke of Sussex served in the British Army for a decade and did two tours in Afghanistan, among many of the service members who answered the call to serve after NATO invoked Article 5 under the mutual defense agreement following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, NBC News reported. “I served there. I made lifelong friends there. And I lost friends there. The United Kingdom alone had 457 service personnel killed,” he said. “Thousands of lives were changed forever. Mothers and fathers buried sons and daughters. Children were left without a parent. Families are left carrying the cost.”“Those sacrifices deserve to be spoken about truthfully and with respect, as we all remain united and loyal to the defense of diplomacy and peace,” the Duke of Sussex said.In an interview Thursday with Fox News from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump questioned NATO allies' reliability, and claimed the U.S. "never needed them" and that allies sent troops to Afghanistan but "stayed a little back, a little off the front lines." Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk also hit back at Trump's statement. "The American officers who accompanied me then, told me that America would never forget the Polish heroes. Perhaps they will remind President Trump of that fact," Tusk wrote on X. Several other European leaders have spoken out in response against Trump's comments, including UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer, who called the president's statements "insulting and frankly, appalling."

'One Battle After Another' leads the pack in nominations for U.K.'s BAFTA film awards

01/27/26 7:44 AM

Paul Thomas Anderson's politically charged action thriller "One Battle After Another" leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, securing 14 nominations Tuesday, including acting nods for five of its cast.

'Stunning speech': MS NOW reporter astounded by Trump’s 'rambling' and lies to Europe

01/21/26 8:25 PM

An MS NOW reporter was stunned following President Donald Trump's shift away from suggesting he would use military force to seize Greenland and his comments to world leaders on Wednesday. Ravi Agrawal described a full room at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where people were anticipating hearing Trump's comments on the Arctic island, NATO and the future of the United States' relationship with European nations. "Gosh, I mean, a lot of people here calling it performance art, or maybe performance imperialism. This was a stunning speech, I've been to many Davoses over the last 15 years, I've never seen one speech that was this anticipated with this many hundreds of people trying to get in because they wanted to see in person Trump repeat the threats he has made on social media and add some balas to it."During the 90 minutes, the first 30 minutes were scripted, Agrawal said. And that he didn't bring up Greenland until the end. "Ever the showman, he knew that that is the only reason why people had come in to listen to him in the numbers that they did, and of course, he didn't disappoint," Agrawal said. "The points he made were rambling, he said that NATO has never done anything for the United States, which is absolutely untrue. The only time Article 5 of NATO has been invoked is to defend the United States after 9/11. And Greenland, Denmark, more than any other country, has lost more troops helping Americans more than any other country as a percentage of their population." People were curious if Trump would repeat his claims on social media in front of the world leaders. "These are facts that everyone in the audience knew about, but they were there to see whether Trump would repeat all of these lies in person and whether he would add some more weight to his threats," Agrawal said."The question now is whether European leaders will add some action to their words. I have to say I am seeing for the first time in a long time, European leaders really resolve in a strong way to do more than just words because they realize how serious this now is," he added.

'Trump murdered it': Urgent 'therapy' session called as leaders traumatized by president

01/22/26 11:36 AM

World leaders and European Union dignitaries believe the American Dream is dead at the hands of Donald Trump. Following the president's speech in Davos, Switzerland, anonymous sources from within the governments of several countries cited growing concerns with Trump's rhetoric and what it means for global relations. Speaking with Politico they said the decisions made by Trump on Greenland, Venezuela, and his relationship with Russia and Ukraine had strained connections between the U.S. and several European countries. One EU diplomat said, "Our American Dream is dead. Donald Trump murdered it." Another senior envoy from a country described as a "key American ally" by Politico suggested the "trust is lost" with the U.S. They added, "We are experiencing a great rupture of the world order." Trump's hour-long speech at Davos Wednesday will affect what other world leaders meet about also, according to one EU official, who says the European Council will have a "therapy" session to analyze Trump's speech. World leaders may be right to worry about Trump's comments, as political analysts warn allied nations should be afraid of what the president may do next.Writing in The Mirror, Christopher Bucktin suggested comments on Greenland "should have terrified allies," but there is more to worry about than just Trump's desire to bolster national security. "Trump claimed the war would never have happened if he had been president," Bucktin wrote, "insisted Vladimir Putin was holding back out of affection for him, and suggested global peace depends on his personal charm. Diplomacy reduced to ego massage."And then, because no Trump appearance is complete without it, he declared once again that the 2020 election was 'rigged'. At Davos. To the world. With no evidence. No details. Just the same lie, repeated endlessly in the hope that repetition might one day make it true."This wasn’t just embarrassing. It was dangerous. A US president telling an international audience that American democracy is fraudulent while promising prosecutions that exist only in his imagination is not strong leadership. It is instability on display."

11 Of The Best Things To Do In London This Mother's Day And Paddy's Day Weekend

03/17/23 5:02 PM

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