Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are struggling with a key question as they stare down a fast-approaching deadline to fund the government: How do they fund federal agencies that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to dismantle?

The strategy could help satisfy hard-liners but alienate Democrats whose votes will be needed to fund the government.

Trump and Musk may want to rethink their strategy with DOGE if they want real reform. The US economy has always been a mix of government regulation and market forces. The balance between those has shifted over time,

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday that his government would temporarily halt tax hikes on draught beer, amid sagging popularity for the governing Labor Party ahead of a general election due by May.

A promise to pause the draught beer excise for two years under a re-elected Labor government has been followed by a matching pledge from the opposition.