GOP Sen. Rand Paul said Wednesday he opposes any U.S. military action in Greenland as the White House says it is exploring all options for acquisition of the territory.

"It won't happen under my watch," Paul said on "CBS Mornings" about military action in Greenland. "I will do everything to stop any kind of military takeover of Greenland."

The Kentucky senator, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has long opposed offensive U.S. military action overseas. He voted to advance a war powers resolution, which would have limited the president's authority to continue a military campaign in Venezuela, but Senate Republicans blocked the measure. The Trump administration did not seek congressional approval before launching last week's strikes. The Senate is expected to bring up a war powers resolution again this week.

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Warner Bros. Discovery's board of directors on Wednesday rejected Paramount Skydance's revised hostile bid, saying that its terms are inferior to Warner's $82.7 billion merger agreement with Netflix.

"Our binding agreement with Netflix will offer superior value at greater levels of certainty, without the significant risks and costs Paramount's offer would impose on our shareholders," Warner Bros. Discovery's board said in a statement.

The rebuff is the second from Warner Bros. Discovery of Paramount Skydance's efforts to acquire the storied studio, which has produced films such as "Casablanca" and the "Harry Potter" franchise and owns cable networks including CNN and TNT.

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After losing to Nottingham Forest, West Ham's relegation is looking ever more likely in an epic collapse from just two seasons ago


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This was once the team that was too good to go down. Now West Ham are crashing headfirst into the reality that a hierarchy with all the financial muscle they needed to at least be the best of the rest are too bad to stay up. There might be 17 games left this season but it is hard to shake the sense that Tuesday night's 2-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest was the night in which their fate was sealed.

A seven point gap to safety has been bridged before, but not by teams like this. It isn't just that the players are largely not up to the level, or that Nuno Espirito Santo has not really proven himself to be a coach able to make them more than the sum of their parts. On the pitch it was...More

French actress Brigitte Bardot poses with a huge sombrero she brought back from Mexico, as she arrives at Orly Airport in Paris, France, May 27, 1965. AP

Brigitte Bardot's funeral was being held on Wednesday with a private service and a public homage in Saint-Tropez, the French Riviera resort where she lived for more than half a century after retiring from movie stardom at the height of her fame.

The animal rights activist and far-right supporter died on Dec. 28 at the age of 91 at her home in southern France.

President Emmanuel Macron said after her death that France was "mourning a legend."

She died from cancer after undergoing two operations, her husband, Bernard d'Ormale, said in an interview with Paris Match magazine released Tuesday evening. "She was conscious and concerned about the fate of animals until the very end," he...More

People wait at a bus stop during a blackout that left tens of thousands of homes without power after a suspected arson attack at the Lichterfelde power plant in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district in southern Berlin, Germany, Jan. 4, 2026. Lisi Niesner/REUTERS

An arson attack claimed by a left-wing extremist group has left tens of thousands of residents in Germany's capital without electricity in the dead of winter for several days. The Saturday morning arson attack on critical electricity infrastructure in southwest Berlin cut power to nearly 50,000 homes and businesses, and renewed scrutiny of a long-running sabotage campaign by the left-wing "Vulkangruppe."

The group claimed responsibility for the fire, which destroyed several high-voltage cables near the Lichterfelde heat and power station and triggered one of the most severe blackouts the capital has...More

In this photo released by the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, rescuers recover a body believed to be one of the victims of a tourist boat that sank on Dec. 26, in the waters near Padar Island in Komodo National Park, Indonesia. BASARNAS / AP

Indonesian rescuers found on Tuesday a tourist boat that sank in rough seas nearly two weeks ago, and recovered the body of one of two missing Spanish victims, an official said.

Seven of those on board when the boat went down in eastern Indonesia on December 26 were rescued alive, while four others -- a Spanish man and three of his children -- were declared missing.

The search mission had already recovered the bodies of the man, 44-year-old soccer coach Fernando Martin Carreras, and his daughter. Martin is the coach of Valencia CF's women's football B team, BBC News...More

Why does the United States want control of Greenland? President Trump has made it clear that he thinks the U.S. needs to control the Arctic island to ensure the security of America and its NATO allies, a point those allies — and Greenland — vehemently disagree with.

But there's more at play here, including a valuable shipping route and access to mineral resources.

Here's what interests the U.S. about the semi-autonomous Danish territory:

"It's so strategic right now"
Greenland spans about 836,000 square miles, much of it covered by the Greenland Ice Sheet. It's home to only around 60,000 people and is a semi-autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark with its own elected government.

Its location between the U.S., Russia and Europe makes it strategic for both economic and defense purposes — especially as melting sea ice has...More

María Corina Machado, the leader of Venezuela's opposition party, said interim president Delcy Rodríguez was "one of the main architects" of Nicolás Maduro's oppressive regime in Venezuela.

"Everybody in Venezuela and abroad knows perfectly who she is and the role she has played," in the country's oppressive regime, Machado said in an interview with Tony Dokoupil airing Tuesday night on "CBS Evening News."

Rodríguez, Maduro's vice president, was sworn in as the interim president on Monday after Maduro was captured and taken to the United States. The Venezuelan military has expressed their support for Rodríguez, 56.

Machado, who has been in hiding since Venezuela's disputed 2024 election, emerging only to claim the Nobel Peace Prize in December, criticized those who believe Rodríguez should lead the country. She described Rodríguez as...More