Written by An unprecedented year of elections around the world has underscored a sobering trend – in many countries the commitment to act on the climate crisis has either stalled or is eroding, even as disasters and record temperatures continue to mount. So far 2024, called the “biggest election year in human history” by the United Nations […]
The mayor of a small town in Sardinia has said thousands of Americans keen to escape Donald Trump have expressed an interest in moving there after he offered homes to them for as little as €1. Francesco Columbu, the mayor of Ollolai, has staged similarly enticing initiatives in the past as a way to combat […]
National Education Association says nominating McMahon as education secretary shows Trump ‘could not care less about our students’ futures’ The president of the National Education Association (NEA) said that the president-elect’s decision to name Linda McMahon as his pick for education secretary in his upcoming administration, shows “that he could not care less about our […]
Top Democrat on Senate judiciary committee calls for sharing of ethics report on Gaetz Dick Durbin, the Democratic chair of the Senate judiciary committee, has called on the House ethics committee to share its report into Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general who resigned his seat in Congress yesterday. The judiciary committee is […]
Jack Smith plans to end prosecutions of Trump, resign before president-elect sworn in – report Justice department special counsel Jack Smith plans to end his two prosecutions of Donald Trump and resign before the president-elect takes office, the New York Times reports. Smith last year indicted Trump for allegedly plotting to overturn his 2020 election […]
Trump announces Elon Musk as Vivek Ramaswamy as heads of Department of Government Efficiency Trump has announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency. In a statement, Trump said: I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk, working in conjunction with American Patriot Vivek Ramaswamy, will lead […]
Tom Homan: Trump’s new ‘border czar’ who vowed to ‘run the biggest deportation’ the US has ever seen
In 2018, then acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) Thomas Homan told HuffPost that Congress needed to fix immigration laws because: “I’m the first one to say, I can’t arrest 11 million people.” Now, newly tapped as Donald Trump’s “border czar”, he will be tasked with just that. The president-elect said on Monday […]
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is practising golf – for the first time in eight years – in preparation for future meetings with US president-elect Donald Trump, Yoon’s office has confirmed. South Korean media said Yoon had visited a golf course on Saturday for a sport his office said he had last played in […]
Rick Scott emerges as front-runner for Senate majority leader Florida senator Rick Scott is picking up momentum from Donald Trump’s circle as a possible front-runner to be the Senate majority leader. Multiple conservatives, including Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck and Robert Kennedy Jr have endorsed Scott as the next leader. The majority leader race appears to […]
Nancy Pelosi blames Joe Biden for election defeat as Democrats turn on each other – US politics live
Nancy Pelosi says Biden’s delay in exiting race blew Democrats’ chances Martin Pengelly Joe Biden’s slowness in exiting the 2024 presidential election cost the Democrats dearly, the former House speaker Nancy Pelosi said, days after Kamala Harris was beaten by Donald Trump. “We live with what happened,” Pelosi said. Pelosi was speaking to The Interview, […]