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Donald Trump wants UFC fighters as assistants

After a series of combative press briefings between the Trump administration and journalists, the US president surprised many by reportedly offering Dana White, the head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and a longtime friend, the role of White House press secretary. Trump praised White as a “violent fighter and warrior”, but US media reports say he has already turned down the offer. Was it a punchy choice by the president or simply a punchline? Jack Pownall takes a closer look.

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The policy of cruelty

I would like to think that the magnificent Republican defeat on Tuesday also responds to a raging of the evil of trumpism and not just to the price of gasoline

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After the "woke"?

Everything that is now triumphing in the US elections is too much like what Social Democracy invented here to then abandon it.

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This victory is not enough: what should the Democrats do now?

The Democratic Party goes through a moment of euphoria that was not lived since the election of Barack Obama in 2008. But the challenge ahead, to defeat Donald Trump in the 2028 presidential, demands, according to historian Michael Kazin, to abandon elitism and to transmit empathy to ordinary men and women, as well as to maintain the coalition between the left wing and the moderate wing of the party.

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Who will pay for the Republican debacle in the United States?

In this issue of A Week in the World, we wonder who will pay the debacle of Donald Trump's party in the mid-term elections. Are we witnessing the end of the story policy? Do Democrats and Republicans re-exchange the image of people's and elite representatives? Will anything change in Iran and Ukraine?

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Stephen Miller named White House Chief of Staff

Following historic Republican losses in the midterm elections, Donald Trump has replaced his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, with her deputy Stephen Miller, the architect of his administration’s immigration crackdown. Wiles had been seen by some as a stabilising force in the White House, but with Democrats now controlling both chambers of Congress, Trump is reportedly seeking a more aggressive approach to pushing his agenda. Caroline Baum reports.

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