In 1865, in the wake of the Civil War, the U.S. began looking to expand its influence on the world stage. This happened at precisely the moment when Russia, having just lost the Crimean War, was ...

From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island.

Upon returning to the White House, Trump signed a flurry of executive orders, including declaring a national emergency at the southern border, ending birthright citizenship and delaying the TikTok ban ...

Readers react to Trump’s talk of annexing Canada and Greenland and taking control of the Panama Canal. Regarding the Jan. 8 ...

EXCLUSIVE: While Trump has made out security demands make the switch essential, experts believe there's other reasons behind ...

COPENHAGEN -- Denmark's government has proposed purchasing two new Arctic inspection vessels and increasing dog sled patrols to boost its military presence in Greenland, as U.S. President-elect Donald ...

PARIS (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has tossed expansionist rhetoric at U.S. allies and potential adversaries with arguments that the frontiers of American power need to be extended into ...

since a submarine planted a one metre-high titanium Russian flag at the North Pole in 2007. The Kremlin issues a map, dividing Greenland diagonally: the US will get the south-western section ...

The British and French foreign ministers have said they can't foresee a U.S. invasion of Greenland. Still, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot portrayed Trump’s remarks as a wake-up call.

In recent weeks, US President-elect Donald Trump has shown renewed interest in taking control of Greenland, a largely autonomous territory of Denmark in the Arctic and the world's largest island. He ...

Greenland's prime minister said Friday that the mineral-rich Arctic territory's people don't want to be Americans, but that he understands U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's interest in the ...

The Greenlandic, Danish and U.S. flags fly outside of Denmark ... U.S. and its incoming president could do for Greenland’s future. An imaginary map of Denmark — if it had been colonized ...