The New York Times

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.

Elon Musk plays many roles with President-elect Donald Trump. He is Trump’s most important donor, most influential social media promoter and a key adviser. Since Election Day, he has also been Trump’s tenant.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: From murder suspects to immigrants to a former Olympic gold medallist, Russia pressures those it thinks should fight in Ukraine.

For years, the Houthis were the enemy most Israelis didn’t know they had. Now the Iranian-backed militia that controls much of northern Yemen, is keeping them up at night — literally — with a string of attacks.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Four years ago, Donald Trump denounced TikTok as a threat to America’s national security. Now, as he eyes a White House return, he calls it a ‘unique medium for freedom of expression’.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: American officials are wary as they try to persuade the rebels now in control in Syria to govern with an inclusive and moderate hand in a bid to avoid repeating history.

Could Trump’s second term be as bad as his most fervent critics fear? Yes. Is it time to drop the heavy moralizing and incessant doomsaying that typified so much of the Never Trump movement? Yes, please.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Mounting evidence, and lack thereof, suggests that perhaps the whole craze has been a sort of communal fever dream.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Are more people exhibiting the traits of autism, or are more people with such traits now being identified?