Reading the Matt Gaetz ethics report
By blocking him as AG, Senators helped the country — and Trump.
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Xi digs in with top-down plan after ‘lost decade’
China is reeling from a property bust and verging on a deflationary spiral. Growth has slowed and Western investment has collapsed. But Xi Jinping won’t change his course.
Honda, Nissan to create world’s top-three automaker
Honda’s chief executive said the move wasn’t a rescue of troubled Nissan as Japanese government pressure and China impacts drive marriage.
House ethics report says Matt Gaetz regularly paid women for sex
Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s first choice for attorney-general, ‘regularly’ paid multiple women for sex, including a minor, and purchased drugs illegally, according to a report by congressional investigators.
Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to state murder charges
The 26-year-old appeared in a New York court where his lawyer said he was entitled to the presumption of innocence and accused law enforcement agencies and the city’s mayor of treating him like ‘some sort of political fodder, some sort of spectacle’.
Biden commutes sentences of 37 death row inmates
President Joe Biden’s move prevents President-elect Donald Trump from executing most men on federal death row.
Netanyahu: The inside story of Israel’s victory
‘Power isn’t about missiles, it’s the will to win’: Benjamin Netanyahu details the key decision points in the war against Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
Trump threatens to take control of Greenland amid Panama spat
Donald Trump has suggested taking Greenland from Denmark as the Panamanian president reacts angrily to a threat the US will take over the Panama Canal.
The complicated mourning of Brian Thompson
The United Healthcare chief executive’s assassination transformed him from a largely unknown executive to a potent symbol for the frustration many Americans feel towards healthcare.
Private prisons gear up for Trump deportation bonanza
Private prisons are getting ready to cash in on what Donald Trump has billed as ‘the largest domestic deportation operation in American history’.
The risky strategy behind Nike’s run-out sale
The sneaker giant’s new CEO is trying to clear out inventory, pressuring retailer partners.
Musk brings his messy way of doing things to Washington
Musk is blowing up plans and taking names as he and the GOP-controlled House start to learn about working with each other, while the billionaire dangles his wealth and influence as an enforcer in the new administration.
The global hunt for Putin’s ‘sleeper agents’
A quiet suburban mum, a hard-drinking war correspondent and an Arctic researcher were hiding in plain sight, championed by the Kremlin’s No. 1 fan of spy fiction, Vladimir Putin.
Biden weighs commuting sentences of death row inmates
With 40 men on death row, the decision – which could come by Christmas – would frustrate US President-elect Donald Trump’s ability to resume the rapid pace of executions that marked his first term.
US congress approves revised plan to avert government shutdown
The Senate followed the US House in voting to extend federal funding into March and provide disaster aid, but leave out the debt ceiling increase demanded by Donald Trump.
Trudeau loses grip on power as allies turn against him
A growing chorus of voices from within Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s own Liberal Party called on him to resign as he named a new cabinet.
Trump election-interference case hangs in the balance
Georgia’s election-interference case against Donald Trump could be doomed after an appeals court removed a district attorney from the case.
How the White House functioned with a diminished Biden in charge
The walls around Biden were built high; aides kept meetings short, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted – all while the administration denied his decline.
Musk draws first blood with spending bill bombshell
With an early morning social-media post on Wednesday, Elon Musk declared that a must-do spending bill ‘should not pass’. By early evening, the bill was dead. Those who doubt his ability to shake up Washington are having second thoughts.
Frenchman jailed for 20 years for wife rape
A French court convicted the former husband of Gisele Pelicot and dozens of other men of raping her after he drugged her unconscious, ending a trial that shocked the conscience of a nation.
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