Trump news at a glance: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasts president’s ‘age of authoritarianism’ at European conference

Democratic representative also condemns US capture of Nicolas Maduro, Trump's threats to annex Greenland and US support for Israel's war on Gaza - key US politics stories from Friday, 13 February at a glance

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused Donald Trump of tearing apart the transatlantic alliance with Europe and of seeking to introduce an age of authoritarianism", as she condemned his administration's foreign policy in front of its allies' top policymakers at the Munich security conference.

Speaking at a panel on populism on Friday, the New York representative outlined what she called an alternative vision" for a leftwing US foreign policy, challenging the Trump administration's shift to the right in front an audience of US allies who have grown increasingly wary of the US's increasingly nationalist - and militaristic - global posture.