The New York Times

Donald Trump has ordered that officials tasked with overseeing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across federal agencies be placed on administrative leave and that all initiatives be brought to a halt.

BRET STEPHENS: The most interesting detail of the Israeli and Hamas hostage and ceasefire deal isn’t in its terms, which mainly resemble what’s been on the table for months, it’s the way the deal was secured.

President Joe Biden kicked off his final week in office with a robust defence of his foreign policy, arguing in a speech that America had grown stronger on his watch and had ‘the wind at our back’.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: There is ‘a distinct possibility’ that Hamas and Israel could agree to a peace deal this week. Here we take a look at what they are negotiating and what are the biggest hurdles.

When Donald Trump won a return to the White House, many countries thought they knew what to expect and how to prepare for what was coming.  But it’s getting harder for the world to keep calm and carry on.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Trump has returned to our daily national cognisance, even though one could argue he never really left. Tuesday’s news conference was a reminder of what that was like and what’s in store.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump aired a hodgepodge of grievances, complaints, false claims and bold claims to expand the US empire by using force to claim Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal.

Just weeks after a coalition of rebels toppled the Assad regime, the interim government they have set up in Damascus has moved quickly to order a raft of changes.

MICHELLE GOLDBERG: As the world’s richest man and a quasi-official member of Donald Trump’s team, Musk has enormous influence, and his admirers in both the United States and Britain have taken up the cause. 

THE NEW YORK TIMES: As President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his inauguration, some of the legal cases that spilled out of Trump’s first presidency will follow him into the second.

A week after a crash that killed 179 people on December 29, Jeju Air’s future is clouded by even deeper questions.

Despite losing thousands of fighters to death or prison, and suffering the demise of its self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State group is still radicalising recruits. This is how.

ISIS has left a brutal legacy of death and destruction across the world. The group whose flag was found after a New Orleans truck-ramming attack has never stopped orchestrating and inspiring acts of terror.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Rebels easily toppled Syria’s army and their path to victory is littered with evidence of Syria’s defeated military, reflecting the sizeable task of trying to put the country back together.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: In recent months Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a native of Texas had been acting erratically, ‘being all crazy, cutting his hair’ after converting to Islam.