Trump praises Meloni for having “taken Europe by storm” during visit

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had a surprise meeting with President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday at Mar-a-Lago, becoming the latest world leader to meet the incoming president as he is set to take office later this month. Meloni stayed the whole evening, including a screening of a Trump-friendly documentary about John Eastman, one of his

Trump Announces Additions to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’s Team

Attorney Stanley Woodward will serve as assistant to the president and senior counselor. President-elect Donald Trump announced a number of additions to his incoming White House team on Saturday. Trump’s transition team said in a statement that attorney Stanley Woodward, Robert Gabriel Jr., Nicholas Luna, and William “Beau” Harrison will join the White House, to

Transcript: Senate Majority Leader John Thune on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Jan. 5, 2025

The following is the full transcript of an interview with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that aired on Jan. 5, 2025. MARGARET BRENNAN: Thank you for making time for us—  SEN. JOHN THUNE: Great to be with you. MARGARET BRENNAN: —on a big day

Lincoln, Davis, and a Biography Divided

The American Civil War was a war of dualities—North and South, Union and Confederate, slave and free—and never less so than when it comes to dual biographies. Pairing personalities—Lee and Grant, Lee and Jackson, Grant and Sherman, McClellan and Lincoln—has been one of the most unusual features of the limitless literature of the Civil War.

On the Bubble

Humans born in 1900 witnessed a startling stream of technologies that transformed their everyday lives and their understanding of the universe. Cars, telephones, and the internet overturned where we lived, how we worked, and whom we knew. Other scientific feats took the breath away by their sheer might—most of all, the atom bomb and a