2 h. ago New Ukraine chief of staff revealed by Zelensky at key moment in Russia war

General Budanov replaces Andrii Yermak, President Zelensky’s long-standing aide, who resigned in November

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10 h. ago What to know about the Ukrainian general picked by Zelenskyy to be his new chief of staff

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, the head of the country’s military intelligence service, as his new chief of staff

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24 h. ago Volodymyr Zelenskyy picks military spymaster to replace top aide

Ukraine’s former head of defence intelligence Kyrylo Budanov to become chief of staff following Andriy Yermak resignation

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3 d. ago Elon Musk’s 2025 recap: how the world’s richest person became its most chaotic

How the tech CEO and ‘Dogefather’ made a mess of the year – from an apparent Nazi salute during his White House tenure to Tesla sales slumps and Starship explosionsThe year of 2025 was dizzying for Elon Musk. The tech titan began the year holding court with Donald Trump in Washington DC. As the months ticked by, one public appearance after another baffled the US and the world. Musk appeared to give a Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration, staunchly championed a 19-year-old staffer nicknamed “Big Balls,” denied reports of being a drug addict while advising the president, and showed up at a White House press conference with a black eye – all in the first half of the year alone.“Elon’s attitude is you have to get it done fast. If you’re an incrementalist, you just won’t get your rocket to the moon,” Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, told Vanity Fair in an expansive interview earlier this month. “And so with that attitude, you’re going to break some china.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Brit army to offer 'paid gap year' to avoid WW3 conscription chaos

The decision comes as the Chief of Defence staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton said Britain's 'sons and daughters' should be 'ready to fight'

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7 d. ago British officials feared ‘top man’ in Northern Bank robbery would avoid arrest

Downing Street chief of staff at the time, Jonathan Powell, said the robbery ‘had knocked up the price’ of peace negotiations.

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8 d. ago British campaigner launches legal challenge against Trump administration after deportation threat

Imran Ahmed, an anti-disinformation advocate, claims he is being targeted over his work scrutinising social media companiesA British anti-disinformation campaigner close to Keir Starmer’s chief of staff has launched a legal challenge against the Trump administration after being told he could face deportation from the US in a row over freedom of speech.Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), has filed a complaint against senior Trump allies including the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the attorney general, Pam Bondi, in an attempt to prevent what he says would be an unconstitutional arrest and removal. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago ‘Not an enabler’? A glimpse behind the curtain at Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles

Are her recent candid remarks about Trump an attempt to distance herself from an increasingly unpopular president?She was now one of the family. When Donald Trump addressed supporters in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, in early December, he asked: “Susie Trump – do you know Susie Trump? Sometimes referred to as Susie Wiles.”The US president was referring to his chief of staff, who he said had persuaded him to return to the campaign trail ahead of the 2026 congressional midterm elections. But a week later, Wiles appeared at risk of becoming the family outcast. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Business jet crashes killing top army general on board as footage shows flash of light where plane lost contact

A BUSINESS jet carrying a top army general has crashed, as footage shows a flash of light across the sky moments after contact with the plane was lost. Turkish authorities have confirmed Libya’s army chief of staff Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad was aboard the plane that crashed shortly after takeoff from Ankara. Libya's UN-backed Prime...

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1 week ago Is Susie Wiles an innocent bystander in Trump’s White House? | Sidney Blumenthal

As chief of staff, she has stifled her temptation to intervene time and time againSusie Wiles has the gimlet eye of an alcoholic’s daughter. She is always on edge, vigilant to the slightest movement, fearful of sudden danger, and has learned to withdraw herself from the chaos in order to survive. She is keenly observant, sees through people around her who are not drinkers to decipher their underlying motives that might flare into unexpected menace, and practiced in passive aggression of which her interview with Vanity Fair is a classic case study. Wiles defines herself as the child of a raging drunk and it is through that singular lens of her formative experience that she defines her current boss. “I make a specialty of it,” she told the writer Christopher Whipple for his Vanity Fair profile of the Trump White House chief of staff in one of the eleven interviews she granted him. Donald Trump, she stated, “has an alcoholic’s personality,” though he does not drink. She didn’t stop the...

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1 week ago Stephen Miller rails against jury that acquitted tow truck driver for snatching ICE vehicle during an arrest

‘Another example of blatant jury nullification in a blue city,’ the White House deputy chief of staff says

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2 w. ago Trump critics praise Vanity Fair article for its scrutiny while allies dismiss it as hit piece

Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, spoke candidly about Trump’s inner circle and the piece made even bigger waves with its unsparing photosUS politics live – latest updatesCritics of the Trump administration have praised Vanity Fair’s interview with the White House chief of staff, and particularly the unvarnished photographs of Trump’s inner circle that accompanied it, as overdue scrutiny of a controversial cabinet even as his allies rallied to dismiss it as a hit piece.Over what the magazine said was 11 separate interviews by reporter Chris Whipple, Susie Wiles spoke candidly about her colleagues, describing Trump as having “an alcoholic’s personality”, JD Vance, the vice-president, as being a “conspiracy theorist for a decade” and Russell Vought, the budget chief, as a “right-wing absolute zealot”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s speech: ‘Surprise primetime episode of The Worst Wing’

Late-night hosts recapped Trump’s national address and further insights from chief of staff Susie Wiles’s interviewLate-night hosts discussed – or ignored – Donald Trump’s surprise primetime address and dug further into the explosive new interview the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump says Susie Wiles made him do the primetime address where he spent 18 minutes yelling about his ‘accomplishments’

Trump told reporters Wednesday that his chief of staff will remain in her role after the explosive Vanity Fair article

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2 w. ago Trump live updates: Susie Wiles joins president to honor caskets of killed soldiers hours before primetime address

The chief-of-staff joined the president at Dover Air Force Base for a dignified transfer ceremony

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2 w. ago The View hosts reject Susie Wiles’ ‘hit piece’ claims over bombshell Vanity Fair interview

The ‘Vanity Fair’ piece revealed candid confessions from White House chief of staff Susie Wiles

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2 w. ago I know Trump has an ‘alcoholic’s personality’ because I have one too

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has claimed that President Donald Trump has an ‘alcoholic’s personality’ in a Vanity Fair interview, in addiction circles it is also known as ‘King Baby’, something Charlotte Cripps knows all too well.

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2 w. ago Susie Wiles interview might be a useful distraction from how poorly things are going for Americans

The incendiary quotes don’t disguise how dissatisfied people are about jobs, inflation or the cost of livingThis was originally published in This Week in Trumpland; sign up to receive it in your inbox every WednesdaySo it appears Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, agrees with many of us: she thinks Donald Trump’s cabinet is bonkers.From that bombshell Vanity Fair interview, which featured some truly terrifying close-up photos, we learned that Wiles considers JD Vance to have been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade”. She believes Elon Musk to be an “odd, odd duck”. Russell Vought, head of the Office of Management and Budget, is, in Wiles’ view, “a right-wing absolute zealot”.“If we’re judging by these numbers, Americans are completely dissatisfied with the way things are happening in this country.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The major takeaways from Vanity Fair’s interviews with Trump ‘ice maiden’ Susie Wiles

White House chief of staff labels JD Vance a ‘conspiracy theorist’ and Elon Musk an ‘avowed ketamine’ user in revealing interviews throughout the president’s chaotic year in office

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2 w. ago 8 unhinged Donald Trump moments as West Wing left in chaos by kamikaze interview

Chief of Staff Susie Wiles spending most of the year slagging off Trump's team to a magazine reporter (only to be shocked when he published her comments) was on nobody's bingo card. And there were some real surprises buried in the Vanity Fair profile

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