## Trump and His Team Are ‘Laughing’ at Biden’s Commitment to Decorum

Authored by rollingstone.com

Biden has promised to attend Trump’s 2025 inauguration, even though Trump refused to grant him the same grace after the 2020 election.

Not long after the election this early November, Biden hosted Trump at the White House for a pleasant photo opportunity.

And — in the same way that top Trump adviser Stephen Miller privately found it funny that Biden actually preserved some of his and Trump’s preferred immigration crackdown methods — members of Team Trump find this asymmetrical level of commitment to norms, well, funny.

“Some of us have been laughing about it,” an incoming Trump administration official tells Rolling Stone.

“[Democrats] spend all this time calling Donald Trump a Nazi and Hitler, and now it’s just: ‘Smile for the camera!’” Editor’s picks.

By contrast, the Biden administration has seemingly bent over backward to avoid giving the incoming Trump administration any opening to claim they are obstructing his return to power.

Earlier this year, Trump said it was “ridiculous” that he had to leave the White House. »

### Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law

Authored by bbc.com

Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law.

Her life would have been much easier had she had a right to maternity leave, paid by her employer.

Sex workers will be entitled to official employment contracts, health insurance, pensions, maternity leave and sick days. »

### Russia’s War Economy Is Hitting Its Limits

Authored by foreignpolicy.com

Now that Donald Trump is returning to a second term as U.S. president, ascertaining the true state of Russia’s war economy is more important than ever.

The apparent resilience of the Russian economy has confounded many strategists who expected Western sanctions to paralyze Moscow’s war effort against Ukraine. »

### Pensioner, 95, left on cold pavement with broken hip for five hours told by 999 she’s ‘not a priority’

Authored by independent.co.uk

A 95-year-old woman was left on a cold pavement for more than five hours waiting for an ambulance after the emergency services told a bystander trying to help her that she wasn’t a priority.

Winifred Soanes fell and broke her hip on Christchurch High Street in Bournemouth on 25 November.

“She was lying on the cold pavement, and we couldn’t move her because she was in huge amounts of pain”. »

### Tens of thousands of soldiers have deserted from Ukraine's army

Authored by euronews.com

Desertion is starving the Ukrainian army of desperately needed manpower and crippling its battle plans at a crucial time in its war with Russia.

Facing every imaginable shortage, tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops, tired and bereft, have walked away from combat and front-line positions to slide into anonymity, according to soldiers, lawyers and Ukrainian officials.

Entire units have abandoned their posts, leaving defensive lines vulnerable and accelerating territorial losses, according to military commanders and soldiers. »

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