Key takeaways from the fiery White House meeting with Trump and Zelenskyy

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order curtailing birthright citizenship, a constitutionally enshrined right granting automatic citizenship to anyone born in the United States. District Court Judge John Coughenour issued the temporary restraining order on Thursday in Seattle, Washington, preventing the government from implementing what he called a “blatantly unconstitutional” measure. Recommended…

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…

President Joe Biden is about to wrap up what many perceive as a disastrous presidency. His departure from the White House could potentially mark a turning point in both the Russia-Ukraine conflict and in the three decades of poorly thought-out Western policies which resulted in the alienation of Russia and the collapse of its democratic…

China has slammed Washington’s “Cold War mentality” in Latin America after Panama quit its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China on Friday hit out at the United States for sabotaging the global infrastructure programme. Recommended Stories list of 3 items list 1…

The wind whips up embers as the Palisades fire burns during a windstorm on the west side of Los Angeles, California [Ringo Chiu/Reuters]

United States President Donald Trump has signalled he intends to move forward with plans to dismantle the Department of Education, despite mixed signals from his administration. “Well, I want to just do it. I mean, we’re starting the process,” Trump said at a signing ceremony in the Oval Office on Thursday. Recommended Stories list of…