Experienced and well-liked – but with a complicated relationship to the USA's president. The Senate's new majority leader, South Dakota Republican John Thune, stands before his life's task: to push Donald Trump's policy through the chamber.
World politicsJimmy Carter's greatest political achievement as the President of the USA was that Israel and Egypt made peace. But he failed to free the Americans held as hostages at the US embassy in Tehran and was unpopular when he lost the election to Ronald Reagan in 1980. As an ex-president, he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on human rights.
WorldThe President of the USA, Joe Biden, is considering pardoning a number of individuals who are threatened by retaliatory measures from President-elect Donald Trump.
WorldQuestionable security checks, serious rhetoric, and a presidential candidate presented as a martyr. The assassination attempt on Donald Trump is casting a shadow over the Republican Party convention, which is now underway in Wisconsin.
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