Analysis: Trump criticises the intelligence community and the media for the news reports that ultimately led to national security adviser Flynn's resignation.
Perhaps the best feature of the American electoral system is that it gives us two and a half months to recover our composure before the new president takes office.
It came as something of a shock to get off the plane after a week in New York to hear calls for a state of emergency to be declared in safe little old New Zealand.
No man is an island according to John Donne, but poor old National MP Nuk Korako must have felt that way as he stood to defend his member's bill in Parliament this week.
Labour leader Andrew Little's first move on the first day back at Parliament after a month's recess was to announce he had found the silver bullet to solve the housing crisis.
Prime Minister John Key has done so many u-turns this week he is in danger of coming to the attention of his boyracer-car-crushing minister Judith Collins.