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Donald Trump announced that he spoke to Chinese president Xi Jinping just days before returning to the White House.

The president-elect posted on his Truth Social website that he spoke by phone with Xi for the first time since 2021, just three days before his inauguration.

A farmer who voted for President-elect Donald Trump is warning him not to go too far with his pledge to carry out the largest deportation in American history.

In an interview with Bloomberg, tomato grower Tony DiMare said that it would be a major mistake for Trump to institute the kind of crackdown on undocumented farm labor that has been enacted in Florida, where he says he's having trouble finding enough people to pick crops.

A French woman who has kept a wild boar as a pet since finding and domesticating the animal can keep it for now, a court has ordered, overruling local authorities who insisted the animal had to be removed or killed.

Horse breeder Elodie Cappe found the female boar -- named Rillette after a delicacy often made from pork -- in 2023 when it was still a piglet near a complex of stables she runs in Chaource, in France's centre-east.

Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is causing more consternation within the president-elect's transition team by getting involved in staff hiring for Department of Homeland Security nominee Kristi Noem.

According to a report from NBC, the South Dakota Republican is getting ahead of the game by soliciting resumes for advisors before she attempts to run the department tasked with keeping America safe.

Archaeologists at Pompeii have uncovered a private thermal baths complex where guests would take the plunge before sitting down to sumptuous feasts, the Italian site said Friday.

The baths excavated at the Roman villa make up "one of the largest private thermal complexes" found so far in the ancient city, near Naples, which was devastated when nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago.

Chinese President Xi Jinping held phone talks Friday with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Chinese state media reported.

CCTV said the phone call happened "on the evening of January 17", without providing any immediate further details.

President Joe Biden has been making a flurry of last-minute moves before ending his 50-year political career, and a former White House aide believes that betrays a lack of confidence in his legacy.

The outgoing president has issued orders to limit offshore drilling, speed up the construction of data centers for artificial intelligence and promote cybersecurity, in addition to reaffirming his legacy as the president who has issued the most pardons and commutations in history by commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders, and former White House spokesperson Pete Seat offered an analysis of those moves on CNN.

Longtime progressive strategist Faiz Shakir, who managed Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign, announced his late entry into the race for Democratic National Committee chair earlier this week, expressing frustration with what he described as the current crop of candidates' apparent "lack of vision and conviction for what to do to restore a deeply damaged Democratic brand."

"As I have listened to our candidates, I sense a constrained, status-quo style of thinking," Shakir wrote in a Medium post. "We cannot expect working-class audiences to see us any differently if we are not offering anything new or substantive to attract their support."

The editorial board of the New York Times has published a lengthy essay warning readers against complacency and prodding them to show "courage and resilience" during President-elect Donald Trump's second term.

The editorial begins by showing the ways that Trump has sought to use fear to cow his critics and political opponents over the years, all with the goal of removing roadblocks to using the office of the presidency to enact his will unchecked.

by Anne-Marie PROVOST

A shared library, sports fields and fire stations. The American border town of Derby Line and its Canadian twin Stanstead have been living in harmony for more than two centuries, but their bonds are being tested by US President-elect Donald Trump.

The U.S. Senate has shown it is fully in Donald Trump's pocket, according to a former Republican strategist.

Conservative Rick Wilson, a staunch anti-Trump critic, said on Friday that, "the former United States Senate, now clearly a division of Trump Inc., is in full plumage this week: that of the yellow-backed swamp buzzard."

CNN commentators clashed over the ouster of the Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee by speaker Mike Johnson.

Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) has told colleagues that Donald Trump "personally" ordered the House speaker to remove him from the panel overseeing the CIA and FBI, which Johnson disputes, because the president-elect sees him "basically an intel community sycophant," but Republican strategist Brad Todd argued the move was "completely legitimate."