The New York Times

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Experts say Donald Trump’s hard-line response to Gustavo Petro may have a chilling effect on other leaders in the region as they weigh their own actions.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose relationship was always the subject of mystery and psychodrama in the first Trump term, are at it again.

Two US companies teamed up to treat cancer patients using an unproven blood filter in Antigua, out of reach of American regulators. Then things took a tragic twist.

President Donald Trump has ordered federal prisons to house inmates who are transgender women in men’s facilities and halt medical treatments related to gender transition.

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht’s pardon was not an obvious agenda item for Donald Trump. Here’s the inside story of how he was persuaded to free the Bitcoin pioneer.

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.