Day: December 21, 2024

As the U.S. Congress scrambled to come up with a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown Friday, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump insisted that a debt ceiling increase be included in any such deal, then went a step further by seeking to suspend or eliminate the debt limit before he takes office. Here’s why.

The bill’s passage comes after President-elect Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk scuttled an earlier bipartisan deal.

A 50-year-old doctor from Saudi Arabia, Taleb al-Abdulmohsen had expressed anti-Islam views and described himself as a Saudi dissident, a German official said.

State premier says suspect thought to be ‘lone perpetrator’ of attack in eastern town of Magdeburg

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will visit Magdeburg on Saturday after a car drove into a crowd of people at a Christmas Market. Two people have been killed in the attack. DW has the latest.