In what came as a surprise to many, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, won a majority of constituencies in the recent Delhi elections, which took place on February 5, 2025. The right-wing BJP, the party of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had been out of power in India’s capital for nearly three decades, with power being held by either the centrist Congress party or the center-left Aam Aadmi Party, or AAP, which had been running Delhi up until this election.
US President Donald Trump and his Vice President, JD Vance, were both sworn into office on January 21st, 2025, marking the official end of now-former President Biden’s term and Trump’s resumption of the powers the Oval Office entails. In his 29-minute-long inaugural address, Trump declared that “the decline of America is over” and railed against various aspects of Biden’s administration and the “many betrayals [of the American people] that have taken place.”
On Monday, January 6th, the US Congress certified Donald Trump’s victory in last year's presidential elections, which took place on November 5, 2024. In order to legally determine the winner of the election, this procedure is required, which involves members of the US House of Representatives and the US Senate allocating their state’s votes in the Electoral College and declaring that their state’s election results are “regular in form and authentic”.
The murder of UnitedHealthCare’s CEO Brian Thompson in New York City on December 4th has pushed the debate over the United States healthcare system into the center of attention. Minnesota-based UnitedHealthcare, part of UnitedHealthGroup, one of America’s largest companies, provided private health insurance to over 49 million individuals across the US and was holding its annual investor’s conference in New York City when its CEO was shot directly in front of the hotel hosting the conference.
Breaking months of isolation during which he had close to no direct contact with any major Western leader, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz over the phone on Friday, November 15. Being the two leaders’ first time speaking with one another since the beginning of 2022, and Putin’s first discussion with a sitting head of state or government of a Western nation since late 2022, the announcement of the phone call sparked surprise, controversy, and shock.
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