Incoming president has promised retaliation against his opponents. Plus, billionaire wealth grew $2tn in 2024<\/p>\n
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The United States braces for a new era of disruption and division on Monday with Donald Trump scheduled to be sworn in as its 47th president<\/a>, promising a blitz of executive orders and radical shake-up of the global order.<\/p>\n What did Trump promise yesterday? <\/strong>\u201cWe\u2019re going to stop the invasion of our borders \u2026 We\u2019re going to unlock the liquid gold that\u2019s right under our feet \u2026 We\u2019re going to bring back law and order to our cities \u2026 We\u2019re going to get radical woke ideology the hell out of our military.\u201d<\/p>\n How <\/strong>are some assessing the Biden administration? <\/strong>Joe Biden was a \u201cremarkably consequential one-term president\u201d<\/a>, writes Katrina vanden Heuvel. Internationally, Biden \u201cwas assuming a world that no longer existed\u201d \u2013 with calamitous results \u2013 but domestically, Biden \u201cconsolidated the break\u201d with \u201cfailed market fundamentalism\u201d.<\/p>\n What is the status of the three Israelis?<\/strong> On Sunday, three women held hostage by Hamas in tunnels beneath Gaza \u2013 Emily Damari, 28, Romi Gonen, 24 and Doron Steinbrecher, 31 \u2013 were released and reunited with their mothers<\/a>. Videos showed them in apparently reasonable health.<\/p>\n Were there any obstacles? <\/strong>Yes, a three-hour delay to the start of the truce, during which Israeli warplanes and artillery pounded the Gaza Strip. The delay meant a further 13 people were killed, Palestinian health authorities said. At least two missiles hit a family travelling on a donkey cart as they tried to return home, Al Jazeera reported.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Incoming president has promised retaliation against his opponents. Plus, billionaire wealth grew $2tn in 2024 Good morning. The United States braces for a new era of disruption and division on Monday with Donald Trump scheduled to be sworn in as its 47th president, promising a blitz of executive orders and radical shake-up of the global … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}