Congressman moves to help Trump acquire Greenland and give it catchy new name
Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., has thrown his support behind President Donald Trump’s quest to acquire Greenland — and has taken a step in Americanizing the country’s name.
Carter introduced a bill on Tuesday proposing that Greenland’s name be changed to Red, White and Blueland. In a press release, the Georgia congressman wrote that “America is back and will soon be bigger than ever” with the addition of the Nordic country.
“President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome its people to join the freest nation to ever exist when our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal,” Carter added.
Carter also published the text of the bill, which is named the “Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025.”
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“Greenland shall be known as ‘Red, White, and Blueland,'” the text states. “Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to Greenland shall be deemed to be a reference to ‘Red, White, and Blueland.'”
Carter has not spoken to Trump about the bill, which had no cosponsors as of Tuesday evening, Carter’s office told Fox News Digital.
Trump has signaled interest in acquiring Greenland since 2019, calling it a potentially “large real estate deal,” toward the end of his first term. In December, he ramped up calls for the U.S. to acquire the Danish territory and called it a national security issue.
“[F]or purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” the then-president-elect wrote in a Truth Social post at the time.
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At the beginning of February, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen affirmed that Greenland is “not for sale,” but said she was open to the U.S. increasing its footprint in the Arctic region.
“I totally agree with the Americans that the High North, that the Arctic region is becoming more and more important when we are talking about defense and security and deterrence,” Frederiksen said, referencing Chinese and Russian activity in the region. “And it is possible to find a way to ensure stronger footprints in Greenland. They [the U.S.] are already there, and they can have more possibilities.”
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“And at the same time, we are willing to scale up from the Kingdom of Denmark. And I think NATO is the same. So if this is about securing our part of the world, we can find a way forward.”
Dem senator comes out in support of Trump’s latest proposal
President Donald Trump has found an ally in the Senate, at least on his plan to stop creating new pennies.
Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., came out in support of Trump’s latest proposal on Tuesday, calling it a “common sense move.”
The Democrat represents a battleground state that both she and Trump won in 2024.
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Over the weekend, Trump announced that he “instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies.”
“For far too long, the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
“Let’s rip the waste out of our great nation’s budget, even if it’s a penny at a time.”
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Rosen took to X on Tuesday, writing, “I’m not afraid to embrace a good idea when it comes from the other side of the aisle, and I agree with President Trump on this.”
“Eliminating the penny is a common sense move that’ll save taxpayer dollars,” she said.
She isn’t the only Democrat who has come out in support of Trump’s idea.
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“As well as saving taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, there are major environmental benefits to eliminating the penny. This is a great move,” Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colo., said of the president’s plan.
Trump’s unlikely Democratic backers come as much of the party has revolted amid his Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to aggressively audit and slash spending at executive branch agencies and departments.
White House terminates bloated agency’s inspector general
The White House has fired the inspector general of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Fox News has learned.
USAID Inspector General Paul Martin was fired Tuesday, though rather than coming from USAID acting administrator and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the firing reportedly came from the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.
The dismissal comes days after the USAID inspector general published a report that was critical of the Trump administration’s pause on aid.
It also comes a day after USAID warned that the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID had made it all but impossible to monitor $8.2 billion in humanitarian funds.
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USAID is under fire from the Trump administration as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its chair, Elon Musk, investigate the agency’s spending practices and prepare to revamp and potentially shutter the agency.
The agency announced on its website Feb. 4, that nearly all personnel would be placed on leave by Friday, making a few exceptions for those in roles related to “mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs.”
Its overseas missions reportedly had also been told to shut down.
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Lawmakers, news outlets and think tanks have dug into past reports related to USAID spending amid the apparent dismantling of the agency, finding countless examples of money channeled to questionable organizations or programs, such as creating a version of “Sesame Street” in Iraq, or funding pottery classes in Morocco.
This week, it was discovered that USAID provided millions of dollars in funding to extremist groups tied to designated terrorist organizations and their allies, according to a report published by Middle East Forum, a U.S. think tank.
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USAID was established in 1961 under the Kennedy administration, operating as an independent agency that works closely with the State Department to allocate civilian foreign aid.
Under Rubio, the agency could be abolished after its reorganization over the coming days, he said in a letter to bipartisan lawmakers on Feb. 3.
Homeland Security puts staff involved in ‘disinformation’ board on administrative leave
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Tuesday that some Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) employees who worked on “mis-, dis-, and malinformation” were put on administrative leave.
In a statement to Scripps News, DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote CISA needs to “refocus on its mission,” starting with election security.
“The agency is undertaking an evaluation of how it has executed its election security mission with a particular focus on any work related to mis-, dis-, and malinformation,” according to the statement.
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As first reported by Fox News Digital, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified in April 2022 that the Department of Homeland Security was creating a “Disinformation Governance Board” to combat misinformation ahead of the 2022 midterm election.
During an appearance before the House Appropriations Subcommittee, Mayorkas said a “Disinformation Governance Board” was created to address misinformation campaigns targeting minority communities.
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While the agency conducts the assessment, personnel who worked on the alleged “mis-, dis-, and malinformation,” as well as foreign influence operations and disinformation, will remain on administrative leave, according to the statement.
The board was allegedly led by Undersecretary for Policy Rob Silvers, co-chair with principal deputy general counsel Jennifer Gaskill.
Nina Jankowicz, who previously served as a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, reportedly served as executive director, Politico reported.
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Eight illegal aliens with ties to Tren de Aragua busted for sex trafficking
The crackdown on the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) continues across the nation, and law enforcement officials announced the indictment of eight members accused of multiple federal crimes in Tennessee.
Robert McGuire, the acting United States attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, along with agency leaders from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD), Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), FBI, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced the details of the indictment during a press conference Tuesday.
McGuire said the indictment alleges that all eight defendants conspired to transport women from South America into the United States and forced those women to engage in prostitution.
Officials also allege the trafficking was part of a scheme to promote an unlawful prostitution enterprise in the Middle District of Tennessee.
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“We will not stand by and allow TdA or any criminal organization to get a stronghold in Tennessee. They are not going to be here. They will not be allowed to commit crime here. We will hunt these bad actors down,” TBI Director David B. Rausch vowed.
“We will dismantle them, and we will work with every tool that we have under the law to hold these violent criminals absolutely accountable for my fellow Tennesseans,” Rausch added. “Rest assured, this is an ongoing cooperative work involving our Tennessee chiefs and sheriffs throughout the state. Together, we are working to protect and improve the safety of our communities and the Volunteer State.”
Officials announced that three of the defendants were also charged with conspiring to commit sex trafficking by using “force, fraud, and coercion to compel their participation in illegal commercial sex acts.”
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McGuire said this was all done for the profit of the defendants. The indictment also charges one defendant with unlawful possession of guns by an illegal alien.
“As of this morning, all charged defendants are in federal custody,” McGuire said.
Officials said the defendants lured women from South America with false promises of a better life in the U.S., describing how they were bullied, intimidated and threatened to have sex with strangers for illegal profits.
The indictment also alleges two of the charged defendants used their affiliation with TdA to intimidate the victims into continuing to commit commercial sex acts, claiming “they had skyrocketing debts, debts that no person could ever pay, and that the only way to avoid those debts was to have sex with strangers for money.”
Officials said they are “committed to working with their partners to successfully investigate and prosecute these heinous gangs in Tennessee.”
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Prior to the press conference, FBI agents from the Houston and Nashville branch, along with HSI officials, arrested three suspects who are believed to also be tied to the violent TdA gang in Houston Tuesday morning.
“FBI Houston agents and HSI Houston assisted FBI Nashville with arresting three suspected Tren de Aragua associates in Houston this morning,” FBI Houston wrote in a post on X.
“Those arrested were allegedly part of a multi-state TdA sex trafficking ring that threatened and abused victims.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) also announced the arrest of a TdA gang member who is suspected of being linked to a mass shooting in Chicago.
According to a spokesperson for ICE, Ricardo Padillia-Granadillo, 24, an illegally present Venezuelan national, was arrested Feb. 8 in Raleigh.
Granadillo illegally entered the U.S. near El Paso, Texas, on Oct. 1, 2022, and was encountered by the U.S. Border Patrol, paroled into the country and given a notice to appear, officials said. But he failed to show up for his immigration appointment scheduled for Sept. 12, 2024, and the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas issued an arrest warrant.
Law enforcement officers with ICE, Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations and the U.S. Marshals Service arrested Granadillo at a home in Raleigh without incident and found a handgun, ammunition and 10 other Venezuelan aliens in the house while conducting the arrest operation.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that more than 8,000 immigrants have been arrested since Jan. 20 as part of Trump’s plan to detain and deport immigrants in the country illegally, although hundreds of those arrested have since been released back into the U.S.
Trump said the Venezuelan government has also agreed to accept “all Venezuela illegal aliens who were encamped in the U.S., including gang members of Tren de Aragua,” and pay for their flights home.
A-lister reveals secret plan to take control of movies in resurfaced clip amid legal feud
Blake Lively wanted to be more than just an actress on a set, according to an unearthed interview from the 2022 Forbes Power Women’s Summit.
During the sit-down in New York, Lively, 37, admitted some directors and producers felt uncomfortable with her need to feel “authorship” while working on projects.
“When I was younger, in my life and career, I would sort of shape myself to the version of myself that I thought they wanted, or when I would show up on a set I knew that they just wanted me to show up and look cute and stand on a little pink sticker where I’m supposed to go and say what I’m supposed to say,” Lively said in the resurfaced interview.
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“But I also knew, like, that wasn’t fulfilling for me, that I wanted to be a part of the storytelling, that I wanted to be part of the narrative, whether that be in the writing, in the costume design, in creating the character.”
Despite some willingness from production for Lively to be hands-on with the project, Lively also said she received backlash.
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“Sometimes, I had directors or producers or writers who would welcome that and invite that once they saw that I was able to offer that, and sometimes I would have people who really resented that because they were like, we just hired you to be an actor.
“Yet when I went in the meetings, I would just seem like I’m just there to be the actor and ready to get the gig, I wouldn’t reveal that I actually need to have authorship in order to feel fulfilled.”
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She added, “So, I think that for them, sometimes that might have felt like a rug pull because you’re like, you’re trying to assert yourself into something that we didn’t hire you to do, and so it was a really strange position to be in. I want to have more authorship. It’s about knowing what I want and what I need and knowing what I need from the outset.”
“I would just seem like I’m just there to be the actor and ready to get the gig, I wouldn’t reveal that I actually need to have authorship in order to feel fulfilled.”
Representatives for Lively did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. It’s unclear which of Lively’s projects the star is referring to.
The “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” actress is embroiled in a legal back-and-forth with Justin Baldoni, her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star, whom she accused of sexual harassment. Baldoni, 41, filed his own $400 million defamation lawsuit against Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds.
In an attempt to show how Lively allegedly took control of the movie’s production, Baldoni’s legal team claimed in documents that the actress used her friendship with Taylor Swift to threaten him. While working on the film, Lively insisted on rewriting the rooftop scene. Baldoni had been hesitant about the idea but told the 37-year-old actress he would “take a look at what she put together,” according to the complaint.
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Afterward, Lively invited Baldoni over to her New York City home, where the actor said he felt Swift and Reynolds pressured him into using the rewritten scene. “Later, Baldoni felt obliged to text Lively to say that he had liked her pages and hadn’t needed Reynolds and her megacelebrity friend to pressure him,” the complaint said.
Lively filed a sexual harassment suit in December against Baldoni, his Wayfarer studio and former PR reps. The same day Lively filed her suit, Baldoni filed a $250 million suit against the New York Times for a December article about the alleged smear campaign Baldoni attempted to run against his co-star.
Weeks later, Baldoni then named Lively and Reynolds in a separate $400 million lawsuit in which he accused the Hollywood power couple of attempting to hijack “It Ends With Us” and create their own narrative.
Judge Lewis J. Liman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered a trial set for March 9, 2026.
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