President-elect Donald Trump has announced that Karoline Leavitt, the spokesperson for his 2024 campaign, will become the White House press secretary when he takes office in January. At just 27 years old, Leavitt will make history as the youngest person to hold the position.  

In a statement released on Friday, Trump praised Leavitt for her performance during his campaign. “Karoline Leavitt did a phenomenal job as the National Press Secretary on my Historic Campaign,” he said. “She is smart, tough, and has proven to be a highly effective communicator. I have the utmost confidence she will excel at the podium and help deliver our message to the American People as we, Make America Great Again.”  

Shill. Sheep. Cooker. Anti-vaxxer.

Michelle Hunder's been called many names in the past few years.

It all began when she started speaking publicly about the crippling chest pains she experienced after getting her COVID-19 vaccines.

"People who are really pro-vaccine would be like, 'You are lying. Or you're just a shill for the anti-vaxxers,'" she recalls.

"People that are really vehemently anti-vax would be like, 'You're a sheep, you're an idiot. This is what you get.'"

Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles announced Sunday that Japanese troops will regularly deploy to northern Australia

About 2,000 U.S. Marines are stationed in Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, for six months each year.

The deployment is in response to growing worries among Washington and its allies about China's increasing military strength in the Indo-Pacific region.

If there’s anything more gratifying than watching conservatives win, it’s watching celebrities lose. The pampered, out-of-touch A-listers who shilled for Kamala Harris have not coped well since Tuesday’s results (if threats of death-by-Drano are any indication). But in every meltdown, one thing is clear: their despair isn’t just that the vice president failed, but that the country is too stupid to understand that famous people know better. It’s the same campaign of condescension that led to the demise of woke corporations. And with a little luck, celebrity endorsements will meet the same fate.

As President-elect Trump’s team is taking shape, we’re learning more about who will take the lead on energy, climate and the environment. The first announcement on that front is Lee Zeldin, a former GOP congressman who will head the Environmental Protection Agency. Trump has called climate change a “scam” and says addressing it hurts business. William Brangham discussed more with Coral Davenport.

• As we reported, president-elect Trump's new team will include a former Republican congressman to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

  William Brangham takes a closer look at the stakes for energy, environment and the climate.

• William Brangham:

Post mortemis….. Can angels lie? Or die?

Vaccines against small pox, measles and rabies

Round pills to calm violent schizophrenics

No cure for warmongering mad men

Hating hysterical freedom-loving loud women

Angels in heaven America that do not want babies

Have screwed-up the dying demographic dynamics

Humans of races and creeds are not that beautiful

Eight billion of us, one small per cent could qualify

From which women still have to perfect their looks

Cuticles, eyebrows, lashes and bright red lips

Men cut their beards, hair and muscle their nooks

Not to look like Neanderthals dumb and dark dips

Cave brutes nor brown bears that just awoke

In a world suddenly gone from carnivore to woke

For freedom-sake Orange Donald is vile we testify

Harry Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, once quipped: ‘Polls are like sleeping pills – designed to lull the voters into sleeping on election day’. And the truth of Truman’s thesis has been confirmed once again by the recently concluded US presidential campaign – the outcome of which contradicted the pollsters.

Donald Trump is back.

Anatomy of victory: The five reasons Trump won
The Republican candidate’s victory was total, and it was carefully – and expertly – planned....
By Maxim Suchkov

The climate crisis is much more severe than most people and politicians realise. Most information, education and media reporting around climate change (global heating) focuses on reducing our annual emissions to a target based on a ‘trajectory of progressive reduction’, and eventually ‘net’ zero annual emissions by 2050 or some other date.

But this ignores the reality that it is the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and their contribution to radiative forcing in real time that actually drive global heating.

The term “neoliberalism” is frequently invoked but often lacks a clear definition. The concept requires an in-depth examination that dissects its origins as a philosophy of governance and its transformation into a political and cultural project. Over the course of the twentieth century, powerful interests adapted the concept to consolidate their influence, reshape public perception, and embed market principles into all facets of society. Unraveling the complexities and varying interpretations of neoliberalism can shed light on its profound and deleterious impact on contemporary political and social structures.

The Dream and Nightmare of Neoliberalism

AN INTERVIEW WITH
ALEX HIMELFARB

US President-elect Donald Trump has promised that his team will work hard to resolve the Ukraine conflict to prevent further bloodshed.

Trump made the remarks at the America First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida on Thursday. “We’re going to work in the Middle East, and we’re going to work very hard on Russia and Ukraine.”

He went on to say that the conflict “has got to stop,” adding that he has seen a report claiming that “thousands of people… were killed” over the past three days. “They happen to be soldiers but whether they’re soldiers or they’re people sitting in towns, we’re going to work [on] it,” Trump said, without elaborating further.

Controversy has erupted in France over plans for a lavish VIP gala in Paris sponsored by Israel is Forever, an association of staunchly pro-Zionist groups.   

At €260 a head, the evening celebrating “the power and history of Israel” – the location of which has not yet been disclosed – has already drawn vocal opposition from French human rights groups, unions and leftist politicians.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw a field trial of domestically produced kamikaze drones this week, state media reported on Friday.

The news agency KCNA released on Thursday images showing Kim and two other senior officials observing the deployment of several unmanned aircraft, which were blurred. The prototypes were developed by a research facility associated with North Korea’s Unmanned Aerial Technology Complex (UATC), the report said.

Boosters are used for the launch of the weapons, while engineers are exploring various types of air frames, with one model apparently designed with four wings in a cross configuration, according to the report. Photos also showed attacks on various targets, including a tank that was hit at a steep angle from above.

Forty years after they began the task – and nearly four hundred years after receiving their first commission – sages in Paris have finally produced a new edition of the definitive French dictionary.

The full ninth edition of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française was formally presented to President Macron this afternoon in the plush surroundings of the 17th century Collège des Quatre-Nations on the left bank of the Seine.

With Donald Trump as president-elect of the United States, it is not clear what exactly his Ukraine policy will look like in the future. NATO partners feel left in the dark about Trump's willingness to support Kyiv and its European allies in fighting back Russian troops from Ukrainian territory.

US President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), declaring that the former Democrat will ensure that “everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals [and] pollutants.”

Trump announced his choice in a social media post on Thursday evening. “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to public health,” he wrote.