Day: December 30, 2024

Joe Biden says predecessor was ‘extraordinary leader’ as Donald Trump says America owed him a ‘debt of gratitude’

Imagine standing on a street corner and trying to decide whether someone has a severe, moderate or mild substance use disorder, whether their medical condition is serious and likely to deteriorate, or whether their personal safety is so compromised that they are likely to die if they are not detained. Such weighty decisions are usually the domain of trained medical professionals, but starting …

How’s this for irony? Never in American political history has the business class – or more accurately, one noisy part of it – jumped so enthusiastically on to a presidential bandwagon. But never has a president needed them less. Trump’s core Maga vote is strongly anti-globalisation. This year his campaign acquired the support of wealthy supporters …

There was no murmur on Snicko, but third umpire Sharfuddoula saw a big deflection on normal replays and made up his mind

Jimmy Carter, who served a single full presidential term without the chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice, nonetheless left behind an incomparable judicial legacy.

Finland said last week it detained a ship that may be from Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers as part of a probe into a damaged undersea cable.