While Greenland is currently not for sale, the U.S. has purchased land and territories from other countries in the past.

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Teddy Roosevelt was hardly a shrinking violet. The Rough Rider, outdoorsman and survivor of an assassination attempt in 1912 (he famously continued delivering a speech after being shot), was a ...

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Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede said the island nation is "not for sale and will never be for sale," after President-elect Donald Trump suggested the U.S. should take it over.

The president-elect is renewing calls he made during his first term for the U.S. to buy Greenland, the ice-covered ...

The Danish government has announced plans to boost defence spending for Greenland, after US President-elect Donald Trump ...

The President-elect's son appeared to joke about recent remarks from his father on Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal.

President-elect Donald Trump has renewed unsuccessful calls he made during his first term for the US to buy Greenland from ...