From left, Activists wearing masks of AfD top candidate for Chancellor Alice Weidel, Elon Musk, US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US Vice President JD Vance, protest

So-called authentic leadership was once seen as good and moral. But leaders are increasingly ‘signalling’ their messages in ways that can be highly polarising.

The decision came in a lawsuit filed by 14 states, including Massachusetts and Rhode Island, challenging DOGE’s authority to access sensitive government data.

Trump is also making his second administration's first forays on the diplomatic front with calls to Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy on ending the 3-year-old war that began in February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine.

From left, Activists wearing masks of AfD top candidate for Chancellor Alice Weidel, Elon Musk, US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US Vice President JD Vance, protest

The White House says billionaire Elon Musk is not the administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency team that is sweeping through federal agencies, but he is actually a senior adviser

President Donald Trump and members of his second administration are continuing their effort to swiftly remodel the federal government, including making far-reaching changes to personnel.The president on Sunday named Dan Bongino,

Vice President JD Vance has already spoken at CPAC in Maryland while Trump and Musk’s purge of the federal bureaucracy continues apace, with 6,700 probationary employees of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) set to be fired as tax season looms.

President Donald Trump’s week included rewriting U.S. policy toward Russia and firing the country's senior military officer.

Elon Musk’s team has begun sweeping layoffs of federal workers. Trump spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday. Tulsi Gabbard was sworn in as Trump’s director of national intelligence.