Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer celebrates as the Senate begins voting on the government funding bill just in time to meet the midnight deadline.

Congress approves funding bill,ignoring Trump demand over shutdown

Donald Trump urged the US government shutdown to “start now”,but a bipartisan a deal was approved by Republicans and Democrats alike at the last minute.

  • byLisa Mascaro,Farnoush Amiri andMatt Brown
Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr Paul Gachet.

The search for van Gogh’s lost masterpiece

  • byMichael Forsythe,Graham Bowley andElisabetta Povoledo

Opinion&Perspectives

Musk helped kill a bill. But much of what he spread was misinformation

The X owner,an unelected figure,not only used his outsize influence on the platform to help sway the US Congress,he did so without regard for the facts.

Melissa Goldin

‘Co-president’ Elon Musk? True power of Trump’s ally in the spotlight

The unelected tech billionaire’s role in scrapping a spending deal in Congress alarmed Democrats and watchdog groups,and could result in a government shutdown.

Cat Zakrzewski,Jacqueline Alemany,Marianne LeVine,Liz Goodwin andColby Itkowitz

What’s scarier than Trump suing to cow the media? The media caving in

News outlets need to keep saying Trump is all the things the courts have declared him to be.

Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman

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Diver Felipe Luna,dressed as Santa Claus,greets a visitor from inside a tank at the AquaRio Marine Aquarium in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil.
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World of photos,December 23,2024

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau.

Justin Trudeau was one of the world’s most popular leaders. Now he’s toast

His deputy PM has quit,his government faces a vote of no confidence and critics want him to take the same “walk in the snow” his father did four decades ago.

  • byMatina Stevis-Gridneff

Europe

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Royal New Zealand Airforce P-3K2-Orion aircraft co-pilot and Squadron Leader Brett McKenzie during the initial search.

Search to resume for MH370 wreckage on ‘no-find-no-fee’ basis

Malaysia has agreed to reopen the search for the wreckage more than 10 years after it disappeared in one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.

  • byAshley Tang
Ali Imron waving to journalists after his sentencing in 2003. He was spared the death penalty because of his remorse and cooperation with authorities.
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Bali bomber’s family asks for same leniency given to Bali Five

Ali Imron hopes to piggyback off the charity shown to the last prisoners of the Bali Nine gang.

  • byZach Hope andAmilia Rosa

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Pope Francis.

Pope calls Gaza airstrikes ‘cruelty’ after Israeli minister’s criticism

Francis opened his annual Christmas address to the Catholic cardinals who lead the Vatican’s various departments with what appeared to be a reference to Israeli airstrikes.

  • byJoshua McElwee

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