| No Images? Click here   Editor's note: As the United States and other nations grapple with the rise of far-right movements and white supremacy, HuffPost is relaunching our Fringe newsletter to keep you informed about the latest news on political extremism. Subscribe to it here.Sen. Tom Cotton apparently told Trump to buy GreenlandSen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) claims he was one of the first people to bring up the idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland with President Donald Trump and even proposed it to Denmark last year. The Danish ambassador who spoke with Cotton in August 2018, Lars Gert Lose, was “caught a little off guard” by the thought, a spokeswoman for the senator told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. It is unclear whether Cotton was the first to pitch the idea to Trump, who confirmed last weekend that he had been mulling it over. The senator’s spokeswoman told The Washington Post that Cotton brought it up in a conversation with the president more than a year ago. Cotton defended the idea at a luncheon this week hosted by an Arkansas-based website, Talk Business & Politics, where he was asked why the U.S. might want to buy Greenland. “You’re joking, but I can reveal to you that several months ago, I met with the Danish ambassador, and I proposed that they sell Greenland to us,” Cotton told the event moderator. “It’s obviously the right decision for the United States, and anyone who can’t see that is blinded by Trump derangement,” he added, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.   WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed three weeks of radiation treatment after a tumor was discovered in her pancreas. Doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York said Friday that the tumor “was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body.”Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) plans to introduce legislation this fall to rescind 20 Medals of Honor awarded to U.S. soldiers who slaughtered hundreds of Lakota Indians ― mostly women and children ― in the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890.The Justice Department is under fire for allegedly including a link to a white nationalist website in its daily news briefing emailed to immigration court employees on Monday. The memos have been sent to staffers each morning by the Executive Office of Immigration Review, only this time, one included a link to an “anti-immigration hate website.”
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