New Orleans mourns as Bourbon Street reopens after truck-ramming attack

The Department of Government Efficiency – the Trump administration’s cost-cutting agency, headed by billionaire business owner Elon Musk – has put hundreds of federal officials on leave, gained access to sensitive federal payment systems and led the charge to shutter federal agencies. The pushback against DOGE, as it is called, has been swift, as legislators…

Democrats slam ‘cruel’ Trump-backed Republican budget bill

Here is the situation on Thursday, December 26: Fighting: Russian and Ukrainian forces have once again engaged in fierce battles around the strategically important city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s General Staff said that 35 Russian attacks were reported around the city on Wednesday. “Three Russian armies are concentrated here against us,” Ukraine’s regional…

Trump kicks off second term as US president with flurry of executive orders

Apparently, the new and used – sorry, pre-owned – electric car salesman Elon Musk is aching to prove that he is even more of an insufferable braggart than his political dominatrix, Donald Trump. After leveraging his rancid social media platform to help elect the executive-order-giddy 47th president of the United States, Musk couldn’t resist upstaging…

Donald Trump is exploring options to rescue Chinese-owned video app TikTok from a nationwide ban, according to one of his top advisers. Mike Waltz, slated to serve as Trump’s national security adviser, confirmed on Wednesday that Trump was exploring options to “preserve” the app after a report in The Washington Post claimed he was considering…