Venezuela's president asked to keep $200m of his private wealth, amnesty for his officials and safe harbour in a friendly country as part of a deal with Donald Trump to step down and flee, sources said.
Those familiar with a phone call between the two leaders told The Telegraph that the plan fell apart owing to Nicolas Maduro's demands for a blanket amnesty for as many as 100 top officials.
During the 15-minute call, the two leaders also disagreed on how to set up a transitional government and on the location Mr Maduro would flee to from Venezuela.
Outgoing Islamophobic sore loser NYC Mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order barring NYC from making business or pension investment decisions that discriminate against Israel to continue sabotaging the popular NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani who wants to divest NYC funds from the ethnic cleansing Pariah nation, which would include an NYPD contract worth $567,000 with Tel Aviv-based Terrogence Global.
... What if he didn't really change"what if the bureaucrats changed him? That's the puzzle piece America and the Trump administration are examining right now. Biden's hard turn left after taking office arrived without an external shock. Which invites a different reading, one that might sound cynical in any other era. Maybe the shift that began with a stack of pardon certificates wasn't evolution. Maybe it was a revolution by the people who held the pen
American manufacturing contracted for the ninth straight month, a survey showed, as uncertainty tied to ever-changing tariffs and a historic government shutdown weighed on business.
Staged just a mile from the White House, Friday's World Cup draw will have a distinctly political feel. The glittering ceremony will take place at the Kennedy Center, the famous Washington arts venue now chaired by US President Donald Trump after he overhauled its board this year. Proceedings, however, seem to have been planned with the US president very much in mind. Read more
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's rush to bolster the number of ICE agents on the streets means applicants who can "barely read or write" are being accepted, according to a new report. With the goal of hiring 10,000 new deportation officers by the end of the year, the Homeland Security Department appears to be cutting corners, according to an investigation by the Daily Mail. "We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English," one DHS official told the outlet.
President Donald Trump, apparently enamored by the pint-size kei cars he saw during his recent trip to Japan, has paved the way for them to be made and sold in the US, despite concerns they're too small and slow to be driven safely on American roads.
America loves a good illusion. It loves the performance of generosity from people who built their fortunes on systems that leave everyone else scrambling. That's why the country is celebrating Michael and Susan Dell dropping $6.25 billion into "Trump Accounts." Twenty-five million kids will get $250 each in a special savings account that they can't touch for almost two decades. It sounds like generosity. It plays like hope. It sells like opportunity. But it isn't any of that. It's a corporate heist dressed up as philanthropy, and America is too exhausted or too desperate to notice.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) accused former Vice President Kamala Harris of telling "blatant lies" to write her postcampaign memoir "107 Days" and "cover her a"," according to a profile about the governor published in The Atlantic on Wednesday. Reporter Tim Alberta described Shapiro as "between outrage and exasperation as I relayed the excerpts" about him from Harris's book. She accused Shapiro of taking over the conversation when he was interviewed to be her running mate, allegedly insisting on being "in the room for every decision," Alberta wrote.
F Finally, thankfully, the global warming craze is dying out. To paraphrase Monty Python, the climate parrot may still be nailed to its perch at the recent COP summit in Belm, Brazil " or at Harvard and on CNN " but elsewhere it's dead. It's gone to meet its maker, kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. By failing to pledge a cut in fossil fuels, COP achieved less than nothing, the venue caught fire, the air-conditioning malfunctioned " and delegates were told on arrival not to flush toilet paper. Bill Gates's recent apologia, in which he conceded that global warming "will not lead to humanity's demise," after he closed the policy and advocacy office of his climate philanthropy group is just the latest nail in the coffin.
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Announced job cuts from U.S. employers moved further ahead of 1 million for the year in November as corporate restructuring, artificial intelligence and tariffs have helped pare job rolls, consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported Thursday. The firm said layoff plans totaled 71,321 in November, a step down from the massive cuts announced in October but still enough to bring the 2025 total up to 1.17 million. That total is 54% higher than the same 11-month period a year ago and the highest level since 2020, when the Covid pandemic rocked the global economy.
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(Yargtay) ruled that likes under photos of individuals of the opposite sex on social media may be considered "trust-undermining" and constitute grounds for divorce.
Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.'s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics "Green Onions," "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour," has died. He was 84.
Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup backed by Dummkopf Trumpf Jr's venture capital firm 1789 Capital, has secured a $620 million contract from the US DOD. The contract is part of a $1.4 billion partnership with the US government and ReElement Technologies to expand and boost the domestic supply of magnets.
George Bush speechwriter and podcaster Tim Miller says anti-gerrymandering Republicans in Indiana are catching increasing threats of violence as the party's unpopular policies continue to sink it. Indiana Republicans are making another push at mid-decade gerrymandering, unveiling a new congressional map that eliminates all of the state's Democratic seats, flipping the state's congressional map from a Republican advantage of 7-to-2 to 9-to-0. Meanwhile, the pressure on Indiana Republicans who oppose the power grab has escalated to include threats of violence, with nearly a dozen state lawmakers reporting that they have been the victims of SWAT or doxing attempts. Read more
