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The Yankees are expected to get a yea or nay soon from Cody Bellinger.

La joueuse de tennis, star du Japon et classée 17e mondiale, a attiré tous les regards de mardi 20 janvier à Melbourne, lors de sa rencontre du premier tour remportée contre la Croate Antonia Ruzic. Voile, chapeau,...

Emmanuel Macron a surpris, lors du forum économique de Davos ce mardi, en portant des lunettes de soleil à l’intérieur. Un choix vestimentaire qui intrigue. Le chef de l’État s’était déjà présenté avec une paire...

By JOSH BOAK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to use a key address Wednesday to try to convince Americans he can make housing more affordable, but he’s picked a strange backdrop for the speech: a Swiss mountain town where ski chalets for vacations cost a cool $4.4 million. On the anniversary of his inauguration, Trump is flying to the World Economic Forum in Davos — an annual gathering of the global elite — where he may see many of the billionaires he has surrounded himself with during his first year back in the White House. Related Articles Read what France’s Macron and the head of NATO are saying to Trump behind the scenes Donald Trump thanks you for your attention to these matters in his second term Trump slams UK deal to hand over Chagos Islands after he previously backed it Top EU official questions Trump’s trustworthiness over Greenland tariff threat Trump’s voice in a new Fannie Mae ad is generated by artificial intelligence, with his permission Trump had campaigned on lowering the cost of living, painting himself as a populist while serving fries at a McDonald’s drive-thru. But in office, his public schedules suggest he’s traded the Golden Arches for a gilded age, devoting more time to cavorting with the wealthy than talking directly to his working-class base. “At the end of the day, it’s the investors and billionaires at Davos who have his attention, not the families struggling to afford their bills,” said Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative, a liberal think tank. Trump’s attention in his first year back has been less on pocketbook issues and more fixed on foreign policy with conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine and Venezuela. He is now bent on acquiring Greenland to the chagrin of European allies — a headline likely to dominate his time in Davos, overshadowing his housing ideas. Trump noted the Europeans’ resistance, telling reporters Monday night, “Let’s put it this way: It’s going to be a very interesting Davos.” The White House has tried to shift Trump’s focus to affordability issues, a response to warning signs in the polls in a year where control of Congress is at stake in midterm elections. About six in 10 U.S. adults now say that Trump has hurt the cost of living, according to the latest survey by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. It’s an issue even among Republicans, who have said Trump’s work on the economy hasn’t lived up to their expectations. Only 16% say Trump has helped “a lot” on making things more affordable, down from 49% in April 2024, when an AP-NORC poll asked Americans the same question about his first term. The president is banking on investment commitments from billionaires and foreign nations to create a jobs boom, even as his broad tariffs have crimped the labor market and spurred inflation. Trump supporters who attend his rallies — which the president resumed last month — are left to trust that Trump’s business ties can eventually help them. This strategy carries political risks. Voters are more interested in the economy they’re experiencing in their own lives than in Trump’s relationships with billionaires, said Frank Luntz, the Republican-affiliated pollster and strategist. “If you’re asking me, ‘Are billionaires popular?’ The answer is no — and they’ve haven’t been for some time,” said Luntz, who last year identified “affordability” as a defining issue for voters. Wooing billionaires instead of the working class Since Trump’s first term in 2017, the wealthiest 0.1% of Americans have seen their wealth increase by $11.98 trillion to $23.46 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve. FILE – President Donald Trump speaks with Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, during the Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center, Nov. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) The magnitude of those gains dwarfs what the bottom 50% of households — the majority of the country — received during the same…