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Elon Musk embraces Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Oct. 5, 2024. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, NBC News reported Tuesday. They will be seated on the platform near Cabinet … Read more

Watch: JD Vance and his wife Usha on their relationship When JD Vance, a military veteran with a hardscrabble working-class background and a case of imposter syndrome, entered Yale Law School, he may not have seemed like someone destined to land a heartbeat from the US presidency. Many of those who know him credit his … Read more

Investigators have detained South Korea’s impeached leader, Yoon Suk Yeol. This is the first time a sitting South Korean president has been detained on criminal charges. Choe Sang-Hun, the ​Seoul bureau chief for The New York Times​, explains how we got here and what it may mean for South Korea moving forward.

South Korean law enforcement officials on Wednesday detained impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his brief imposition of martial law last month. In a video message recorded before he was escorted to the headquarters of an anti-corruption agency, Yoon lamented that the “rule of law has completely collapsed in this country,” but said he was … Read more

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says gov’t working to verify report that volunteer fight was killed by Russian forces. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged to take the “strongest possible action” against Russia if it is confirmed that Russian forces killed a Melbourne school teacher in their captivity in Ukraine. Albanese made the remarks on … Read more

MSNBC host Alex Wagner lamented on Monday that the Democratic Party and the media missed a “cataclysmic moment” in the 2024 election with regard to what voters really cared about and detailed how she would be spending President-elect Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office.  “I think one of the feelings we have all had … Read more

Security personnel gather near buses parked to protect impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol from a possible second arrest attempt, at the main entrance of his official residence in Seoul, South Korea, January 8, 2025. Reuters | Kim Hong-Ji South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol was reportedly arrested by the country’s Corruption Investigation Office … Read more

EPA Mozambicans who say the election was stolen have been protesting for months A “national strike” is being threatened as Mozambique’s president-elect is sworn in on Wednesday, more than three months since disputed elections. Daniel Chapo, who is 48, took 65% of votes in a poll that opposition leaders, electoral observers and the public at … Read more

After more than 15 months of nearly uninterrupted fighting in Gaza, diplomats trying to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas expressed cautious hope on Tuesday that a deal could finally be within reach. But that optimism was tempered — by the uncertainty of whether both sides would ultimately agree, by what details could still … Read more