Author: Christian Datoc and Naomi Lim

President Donald Trump‘s visit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House derailed into heated outbursts on camera, endangering the Trump administration’s progress on negotiating a precursory rare earth minerals agreement and an end to the war in Ukraine. The palpable tension, including the president yelling at Zelensky, played out before reporters brought into…

As President Donald Trump convenes his first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the intrigue will be on Elon Musk, who wields far more power than his mere White House adviser title denotes. While the billionaire businessman isn’t a Cabinet member, Trump has publicly embraced Musk and his brainchild, the Department of Government Efficiency, even as the…