US politics
Barron Trump will not be a delegate at Republican convention after all
The announcement came only hours after Donald Trump suggested in a radio interview that the 18-year-old was among his political advisers.
- by Michael Gold
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Donald Trump
Can Trump survive a Stormy sex scandal? Just ask Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton accustomed the American people to political scandal. Donald Trump may benefit from their consequent ambivalence to politicians behaving badly.
- by Nick Bryant
Stormy Daniels clashes with Trump’s lawyer over her account of sex with former president
In a combative few hours of cross-examination in the hush money trial, Trump’s lawyers sought to portray the former porn star as a promiscuous extortionist.
- by Farrah Tomazin
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US Votes 2024
Trumpeting a terrible vision: What awaits if Biden loses … or even wins?
Donald Trump has outlined his manifesto for a second term, and it’s a disquieting smorgasbord of retribution and paranoia.
- by Peter Hartcher
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‘The Kennedy dream’: Inside Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s run for the presidency
Vaccine critic RFK Jr has gone from ‘troubled life’ to candidate for the top job. Here’s why his rivals are paying attention.
- by Angus Holland and Jackson Graham
Trump fined, threatened with jail time over contempt of court in hush money trial
The former US president was found to have broken a gag order nine times by making public statements on social media and on his campaign website.
- by Farrah Tomazin
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The pro-Palestine wave tearing some of America’s most prestigious universities apart
American universities are “walking a tightrope” as one of the nation’s most storied higher education institutions becomes the centre of a national student uprising.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Australian journalist named as co-conspirator in Trump hush money trial
The bombshell revelations were made during Trump’s historic hush money trial, in which the ex-president has been accused of falsifying records to stop an alleged affair from becoming public.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Opinion
Trump's America
Whether Trump did or didn’t let loose, there’s a whiff of defeat about him
Just when you thought the most buffoonish member of the US right could not get any sillier, he managed to pull it off – and it stinks.
- by Bill Wyman
Two Australians had ringside seats to Trump’s 2016 ‘catch and kill’ plot
One of them is still grappling with feelings of guilt over what is now alleged to have been a successful attempt at election interference.
- by Farrah Tomazin
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Joe Biden just had a significant win, but he’s still in the wars
Ongoing wars in Ukraine – and especially in Gaza – remain politically problematic, and potentially fatal, for US President Joe Biden.
- by Bruce Wolpe