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Using just two examples from Donald Trump's tsunami of executive orders since assuming office this week, a law professor suggested that both are flagrant violations of federal law and that tremendous damage will be done before the courts can unwind them.

In a column for the Bulwark, University of Baltimore Law School Professor Kim Wehle wrote that a complicit Supreme Court and an equally complicit GOP-controlled Congress have handed the newly-elected president the ability to do as he pleases with no restraints placed upon him.

U.S. Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked from a final vote a Republican bill that, according to Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, made clear that under newly sworn-in President Donald Trump, "it will be a golden age, but for the extreme, anti-choice movement."

"This bill is the very definition of pernicious: It attacks women's healthcare using false narratives and outright fearmongering, and adds more legal risk for doctors on something that is already illegal," Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on the chamber's floor before senators voted 52-47 along party lines, short of the 60 votes needed to advance the so-called Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (S. 6) to a final vote.

by Frank Zeller

Donald Trump's return to the White House has darkened the mood in Germany a month before elections, as multiple crises shake the foundations on which Europe's biggest economy built its post-war prosperity.

A conservative commentator met pushback from fellow CNN panelists for downplaying the political impact of Donald Trump's pardons of all the Jan. 6 rioters.

The president freed all of his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn his 2020 election loss – even those who violently attacked police officers – and Republican political operative Matt Gorman argued the pardons shouldn't haunt his second term because he'd promised to make the move during his campaign.

by Andrew MARSZAL

This year's Oscar nominations will be unveiled Thursday in an announcement delayed by the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, with transgender cartel musical "Emilia Perez" expected to lead a highly competitive field.

Scores of same-sex and transgender couples married in Thailand on Thursday as the kingdom's equal marriage law went into effect, with two high-profile gay actors among the first to do so.

In matching beige suits, Apiwat "Porsch" Apiwatsayree, 49 -- who was in tears -- and Sappanyoo "Arm" Panatkool, 38, were handed their pink-bordered marriage certificates at a registry office in Bangkok.

by Laurent Thomet and Raziye Akkoc

Donald Trump on Thursday will star in an eagerly-anticipated online appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, addressing global elites whose annual gabfest has been consumed by the U.S. president's days-old second term.

by Andrew MARSZAL

The U.S. film industry's first major gathering since wildfires devastated Los Angeles begins Thursday at Sundance, where Olivia Colman and John Lithgow will kick off the indie movie festival under somber circumstances.

by Fulya OZERKAN

Negligence played a role in the deaths of 78 people who perished when a huge fire gutted a luxury ski resort hotel in northern Turkey this week, an expert has told AFP.

The Wall Street Journal raced to the defense of the world's richest man on Wednesday evening to ward off what it claimed was "disinformation" peddled by Democrats, who soundly rebuked Elon Musk over his salute that drew comparisons to a Hitler salute.

Musk put his hand on his chest and then raised it in a salute during a speech to a cheering MAGA crowd at President Donald Trump’s inauguration rally earlier this week.

The Kremlin said Thursday it saw nothing new in US President Donald Trump's calls for Russia to end its military offensive in Ukraine, and that Moscow was ready for "mutually respectful" dialogue with him.

The US leader had on Wednesday threatened fresh sanctions on Moscow if Russia did not strike a deal to end its nearly three-year campaign against Ukraine.

The Trump administration wants more federal agents to be armed with the power to carry out deportations as part of the president’s long-held promise of making immigration a central part of his second-term agenda, according to a memo reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.

That includes giving agents across government agencies – including the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Marshals Service – the authority equal to that of an immigration officer, the Journal reported.

A three-page Justice Department memo that began circulating Wednesday as part of President Donald Trump’s new immigration agenda stunned CNN legal analyst Elie Honig, who called it a “very heavy-handed” approach to law enforcement.

“This memo has sent shockwaves through the legal and political world,” Honig, a former state and federal prosecutor, said Wednesday night on CNN’s “NewsNight.”