Análisis por Stephen Collinson, CNN

Donald Trump pelea tan brutalmente como los luchadores de la UFC a quienes invitó a enfrentarse en el jardín sur de la Casa Blanca para celebrar el aniversario 250 de Estados Unidos.

Los aliados de Estados Unidos en la OTAN, expertos en una diplomacia gentil aunque a menudo dura, enfrentan por lo tanto un enorme desafío al oponerse a las demandas del presidente respecto a Groenlandia.

Derrotar a Trump es difícil.

Es una prueba que han reprobado dos candidatos presidenciales demócratas, más de una docena de aspirantes presidenciales republicanos, varios fiscales, innumerables enemigos empresariales y casi todos los legisladores que alguna vez han intentado enfrentarse a él.

Los adversarios pueden invocar reglas, leyes, la Constitución o la decencia común para intentar dominarlo. Pero Trump simplemente lucha de forma asimétrica, ignorando el comportamiento de la gente común.

Tal vez haya llegado el momento de que Europa adopte algunas de sus tácticas: encontrar formas, más allá de los protocolos diplomáticos normales, de perjudicar al desenfrenado presidente estadounidense.

Es imposible exagerar la alarma al otro lado del océano.

“Esta locura no debe escalar más de lo que ya lo ha hecho”, declaró Rasmus Jarlov, miembro del parlamento de Dinamarca, a Jim Sciutto de CNN en “The Source”.

“Nunca podemos ceder ante la exigencia de que simplemente entreguemos tierras y personas a las que Estados Unidos no tiene absolutamente ningún derecho”, señaló Jarlov, advirtiendo que las demandas de Trump significan que los daneses ya no reconocen a Estados Unidos.

“No eres tú. No es quién eres”, apuntó Jarlov.

Algunos europeos quieren contratacar con una guerra comercial. Otros quieren atacar a las industrias tecnológicas estadounidenses. Y algunos legisladores en Gran Bretaña y Alemania incluso han contemplado la opción nuclear: un boicot a la Copa Mundial de la FIFA de este verano, organizada en parte por Estados Unidos, en la que Trump claramente planea acaparar la atención.

En el enfrentamiento por Groenlandia, Trump ha puesto en juego la seguridad del mundo occidental y casi 80 años de historia común porque quiere cerrar el mayor acuerdo inmobiliario del mundo y sumar Groenlandia a Estados Unidos.

Este es un ejemplo clásico de su técnica de negociación sin concesiones. Trump a menudo parece dispuesto a disparar metafóricamente al rehén —en este caso, la OTAN— para conseguir lo que quiere.

Los demócratas aprendieron esta lección durante el cierre gubernamental del año pasado. Trump no se conmovió ante el intenso sufrimiento de los trabajadores federales privados de salario ni, cuando se agotaron los beneficios nutricionales para estadounidenses de bajos ingresos.

Los demócratas, operando en un mundo político convencional y reacios a seguir siendo cómplices de la miseria, no tuvieron más opción que poner fin al cierre antes de alcanzar sus objetivos.

El enorme riesgo para los miembros europeos de la OTAN es que el escenario de pesadilla sobre el cual advierten —el colapso de la alianza militar más exitosa del mundo— podría no parecer un precio demasiado alto para Trump, quien piensa que es una gran estafa.

Los líderes europeos que han puesto límites a Groenlandia tienen otro problema: ¿Cómo razonan con un presidente que vive en su realidad única?

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By Tierney Sneed, CNN

(CNN) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday over a Hawaii law that bars people from carrying guns onto private property without the explicit approval of the property owner, a measure intended to reduce guns in retail stores and other businesses open to the public.

The case is the latest gun rights dispute to reach the high court after its conservative majority adopted an expansive view of the Second Amendment in a blockbuster 2022 ruling that established that the Constitution protects the right to bear arms outside the home.

The current case, Wolford v. Lopez, concerns a law Hawaii, passed in the wake of the 2022 Supreme Court decision. It says that if a conceal carry license holder wants to bring their firearm on private property that is open to the public, they must get express consent from the property owner – such as verbally or with a sign.

Gun control groups have framed the dispute as a property rights case – rather than a Second Amendment dispute – arguing there is a longstanding tradition of property owners being able to set rules about what is carried onto their property. All the Hawaii law does, they say, is flip the “default” legal position from one in which people are presumptively permitted to carry guns into stores to one in which they are prohibited from doing so.

“Since our founding as a nation, private property rights have been foundational to American identity and embedded throughout our system of government and our Constitution,” said Douglas Letter, chief legal officer at the gun control group Brady.

Four other blue states – California, New York, New Jersey, and Maryland – have similar regulations, though the challengers contend that Hawaii’s is the most extreme. A trial court blocked the Hawaii statute, but an appeals court panel sided with Hawaii and the full US 9th Circuit of Appeals – over the vigorous dissent of several members – refused to rehear the case. The law, however, is still on hold for the Supreme Court appeal.

The challengers – individuals with conceal carry permits in Hawaii as well as a gun rights group – allege that Hawaii is openly defying the 2022 ruling known as Bruen, by going well beyond that ruling’s limits on where the government can ban firearms. They say it’s unconstitutional for Hawaii to make it the “default” rule that firearms are prohibited in privately owned public spaces, arguing that the consent requirement means that guns are presumptively banned in most public places. Such a law, they argue, would effectively make it impossible to carry a firearm in public.

The right to prohibit firearms “belongs to the property owner, not the State,” the gun owners said in court filings.

“Had Hawaii merely enacted a law that prohibited a knowing failure to obey a property owner’s decision to exclude arms, Petitioners would not have challenged it. Instead, Hawaii has made it a crime to carry arms even where the owner of property open to public is merely silent. That presumption tramples on the Second Amendment,” they told the court.

Hawaii counters that law does not touch on conduct covered by the Second Amendment, and even if it did, it says the law meets the requirements of the Bruen ruling for when gun regulations can be upheld.

The Bruen opinion, authored by Justice Clarence Thomas and joined by the court’s five other GOP appointees, says that a gun restriction regulating conduct covered by the Second Amendment is constitutional if it has some parallel in the types of firearm regulations that existed at the time of the Constitution’s framing.

“Both at the time of the Founding and in the Reconstruction Era, numerous state laws prohibited armed entry onto private property without the owner’s express content,” Hawaii Attorney Gen

By John Towfighi, CNN

London/New York (CNN) — Stocks in Europe fell Tuesday and US stocks were set to open lower as investors continued to digest President Donald Trump’s clash with European leaders over ownership of Greenland.

Trump on Sunday threatened a new 10% tariff on imports from eight European countries including Denmark, the United Kingdom and France, amid his demands that the United States should acquire the Danish territory.

Europe’s benchmark Stoxx 600 index — which tracks stocks across the region — was down 1% Tuesday morning. The Stoxx 600 on Monday fell 1.19% and posted its worst day since November.

Denmark’s OMX Copenhagen 20 — which tracks the 20 most actively traded shares on Copenhagen’s stock exchange — was down 0.1%. The OMX Copenhagen 20 on Monday fell 2.73% and posted its worst day since October.

US stock futures were also lower. Dow futures were down 765 points, or 1.5%. S&P 500 futures fell 1.7%. Futures tied to the Nasdaq 100 slid 2%.

In the bond market, US Treasury yields rose as investors sold bonds. US stock and bond markets were closed Monday in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, so Tuesday will be US stock and bond traders’ first full day to react to the extraordinarily newsy weekend — and flaring trade tensions between the United States and Europe.

“The latest developments serve as a reminder that the US economy is not immune to the uncertainty generated by Trump’s policy shifts, while lingering concerns over Fed independence — amplified by the delayed nomination of a new chair and the ongoing probe into Jerome Powell — add another layer of caution around the US currency,” George Vessey, lead FX and macro strategist at Convera, said in a Monday note.

Trump’s tariff threat tests markets

Investors across the globe are trying to discern how tensions between the United States and Europe might develop.

“This is one of those be-ready-for-anything weeks as wildcards abound for both US and global markets — most of them POTUS-related,” Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research, said in a Monday note.

While investors are on edge, stock market losses so far have been relatively contained compared to the turmoil spurred by Trump’s initial “Liberation Day” tariff announcement in April.

Investors are cautiously watching for a potential off-ramp, including waiting for the US Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump’s use of an emergency powers act to levy tariffs.

The Court is deliberating the legality of the president’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to implement tariffs. That to-be-determined ruling would have direct implications for Trump’s renewed threat of additional tariffs on imports from some European countries.

“Markets will trade risk-off, but bet that either the Supreme Court will take away Trump’s authority to impose tariffs in this manner, or Trump will deliver a TACO reversal anyway,” Krishna Guha, vice chairman at Evercore ISI, said in a Monday note, referring to the Wall Street acronym for “Trump Always Chickens Out”.

But as tensions flare, uncertainty is rife.

“With the EU readying potential retaliation — including not just tariffs but also possible use of the ‘anti-coercion instrument’ that would be extremely punitive towards US companies doing business in Europe — investo

Por Hanna Park y Zoe Sottile, CNN

El Departamento de Justicia está investigando a los manifestantes que interrumpieron un servicio religioso cristiano en St. Paul, Minnesota, el domingo, mientras las tensiones en torno a la amplia represión migratoria de la administración Trump en las Ciudades Gemelas continúan aumentando.

La investigación del Departamento de Justicia se anunció horas después de que decenas de manifestantes entraran en la Iglesia Cities, coreando “¡Fuera ICE!”, y obligando a suspender el servicio. Los manifestantes dijeron que estaban allí para protestar contra uno de sus pastores, quien parece ser un alto funcionario del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE).

Al anunciar la investigación, el fiscal general adjunto Harmeet Dhillon dijo que los manifestantes estaban “profanando una casa de culto e interfiriendo con los fieles cristianos”.

Mientras tanto, la resistencia a la ofensiva migratoria del presidente Donald Trump en las Ciudades Gemelas continúa desarrollándose en las calles de Minneapolis y en los tribunales federales de Minnesota, donde tanto los manifestantes como los líderes estatales están desafiando la presencia de miles de oficiales federales y sus tácticas.

Estas son las últimas noticias:

• El Departamento de Justicia investiga una protesta en una iglesia : El secretario de Justicia adjunto Todd Blanche declaró a Fox News el lunes que la División de Derechos Civiles del Departamento de Justicia envió expertos a Minneapolis. La Fiscalía Federal, el FBI y el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional participan en la investigación, añadió. Las autoridades han sugerido que Don Lemon, expresentador de CNN que ahora produce contenido independiente y estuvo presente en la protesta en la iglesia, podría enfrentar cargos, aunque Lemon declaró a CNN que estuvo presente en el evento como periodista.
• El Departamento de Justicia apela la decisión : El Departamento de Justicia está apelando la orden de un juez que limita la respuesta de los agentes federales a las protestas en Minnesota. La orden, emitida el viernes, prohíbe a los agentes arrestar o detener a manifestantes pacíficos, usar ciertas medidas de control de multitudes como gas pimienta contra ellos, y detener a conductores cuando no exista una sospecha razonable y articulada de que estén obstruyendo o interfiriendo por la fuerza con las operaciones federales. La secretaria del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, Kristi Noem, calificó la orden de “un poco ridícula”, afirmando que los agentes solo usan irritantes químicos “cuando hay violencia”.
• Investigación del FBI sobre el asesinato de Renee Good: El FBI abrió brevemente una investigación de derechos civiles sobre el agente de ICE que disparó fatalmente a Renee Good en Minneapolis antes de centrarse en si el agente fue agredido, según informaron dos fuentes a CNN. La atención se centra ahora en la conducta de Good y de quienes la rodeaban, incluida su viuda, indicaron. El abogado de la familia afirma que se necesita una investigación para averiguar qué sucedió.
• Tropas en espera: El Pentágono ha ordenado a unos 1500 soldados en servici

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN

Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Australia’s long summer school holidays usually draws crowds to the beach but a spate of shark attacks in the country’s most populous state has triggered warnings to stay out of the water.

Around 40 beaches along the coast of New South Wales (NSW) remain closed after four shark attacks in 48 hours, with all attributed to bull sharks – a stocky species with powerful jaws that lurk in murky waters near the mouths of rivers after heavy rain.

Bull sharks typically inhabit warmer waters up the coast but move further down the coastline towards Sydney’s most popular beaches during the summer months. Last weekend saw some of the heaviest rainfall in Sydney over 24 hours for at least a decade, creating the perfect mix of conditions for potentially lethal encounters, experts say.

“We do get a lot of shark sightings, or people being bumped by sharks, but to have four incidents where all the victims have been actually attacked by sharks is really uncommon,” said Steve Pearce, the CEO of NSW Surf Life Saving, whose volunteers patrol the state’s beaches on weekends.

Bull sharks have the unique ability to live in both fresh and marine water. When heavy rain flushes food from the estuaries into the ocean, they tend to follow it, and feed by bite as the water quality makes it almost impossible to see.

At least one bull shark was hidden in the muddy water below rocks in Vaucluse, where a 12-year-old boy and his friends were jumping into the waters of Sydney Harbour on Sunday.

The boy was the first of four people attacked in separate incidents, and experts say until the water clears and the bull sharks move away, they may not be the last.

Temperatures are expected to surge over the weekend just ahead of the Australia Day public holiday when many people will head to parks and beaches.

“We know this weekend is forecast for a really extreme hot temperature. So, we know we’re going to have tens of thousands of people flocking down to the coastline,” said Pearce. “We know that they will go into the water regardless of whether they’re closed or not.”

“Beaches are shut. They’re shut for a reason. Stay clear of the water, both swimming and surfing.”

Four attacks in two days

The 12-year-old boy attacked on Sunday was pulled from the water by his friends, and first responders were quick to apply tourniquets to both legs.

He remains in critical condition in hospital, as does a 25-year-old surfer who was attacked on Monday on North Steyne Beach in Manly, a popular tourist destination in Sydney’s northern suburbs.

Another surfer Dayan Neave was on the beach when the attack occurred. He said two tourists helped drag the victim out of the water.

“I ran down and helped them bring him in because once the surfer stood up, he passed out and his leg was pretty severely lacerated,” Neave told CNN affiliate Nine News. “I grabbed my leg rope before we ran down the beach, and we just got them up to dry sand and just applied the tourniquet straight away.”

Earlier that day, a suspected bull shark took a 15-centimeter (6-inch) bite out of an 11-year-old’s surfboard at Dee Why Point.

The next day, another man was out surfing at Point Plomer on the NSW Mid North Coast when a shark took hold of his board. Police said he was treated for minor injuries and discharged from hospital.

But the attacks have not deterred everyone from the beaches.

Rob West told CNN on Tuesday he’d been out surfing at Bondi Beach, which remains open, that morning.

“I’ve been surfing since I’ve been 13 and I’ve never even seen one out there. They’ve probably seen me plenty of times and just realized what I was. I don’t look enough like a seal to be at