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Top Trump officials will hold talks with Europeans on the Russia-Ukraine war. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy, will travel to Paris this week for talks with European allies on U.S. efforts to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. – apnews.com/

Denzel Washington’s ‘Othello’ breaks Broadway box office Record. “Othello,” now playing on Broadway and starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, achieved a weekly gross of more than $2.8 million. Great Denzel Washington!

With White House visit, U.K.’s Starmer to have a go at persuading Trump.
Starmer will be battling not just for Britain’s standing in Trump’s Washington, but Europe’s, as well.

To Get Trump on Board, Kremlin Dangles a Chance to Make Big Money. Russian officials are arguing that American companies stand to make billions of dollars by re-entering Russia. The White House is listening. -.nytimes.com/

Trump says inauguration will take place indoors. President-elect Trump announced that he would move the ceremony inside the Capitol Rotunda because of extreme cold. The move is a break with tradition.

Meteorologists warn wildfire danger isn’t over yet as strong winds return to LA next week

Elon Musk is creating his own Texas Town. Hundreds already live there.

– nytimes.com/2024/12/24/us/starbase-texas-city-elon-musk-spacex.html

Desertion threatens to starve Ukraine’s forces at a crucial time in its war with Russia
Some soldiers take medical leave and never return, haunted by the traumas of war and demoralized by bleak prospects for victory.(AP)

President-elect Trump is choosing his collaborators and making his government. He has a good way of proceeding because the people he is choosing are his closest collaborators.

The 2025 GRAMMYs will air live on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025.

Election Day is in two weeks.

New York Film Festival ·
She is here and we are loving it.
Isabelle Huppert has arrived at #NYFF62 for the North American Premiere of Hong Sangsoo’s A TRAVELER’S NEEDS!

Pope Francis’ Asia-Pacific trip — his longest ever

Gaza’s traumatized children are facing another lost year of school. About 650,000 students are missing their second school year, an absence educators say will compound the trauma of war and could cause lasting developmental problems.

A.P. – Judge in Texas orders pause on Biden program that offers legal status to spouses of US citizens
A federal judge in Texas has issued a temporary pause on the Biden administration’s new protections that would allow immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens a path to citizenship.

On the Democratic National Convention’s fourth and final day in Chicago, the theme of the final night is “For Our Future,” according to convention organizers. The pop star Pink is set to headline the final night of the convention. The Rev. Al Sharpton, the prominent civil rights leader, has also announced he will speak.

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how a gunman armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get close enough to shoot and injure former President Donald Trump at a rally Saturday in Pennsylvania, a monumental failure of one of the agency’s core duties. The gunman, who was killed by Secret Service personnel, fired multiple shots at the stage f…[Leggi tutto]

Shelley Duvall, star of ‘The Shining’ and ‘Nashville,’ dies at 75. Goodbye Shelley!

UK election, Keir Starmer officially becomes the new UK prime minister Starmer received the blessing of King Charles III to form a government in a ceremony known as the “kissing of hands.”

Brazil becomes the largest nation to decriminalize marijuana. The country’s Supreme Court voted to remove criminal penalties for possession of up to 40 grams of marijuana