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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Emily Clark |Brad Ryan
Donald Trump loves a one-liner, and saying "tariff" is the "most beautiful word" in the dictionary has become a go-to for the United States' president. He turned to tariffs in his first term, and he says he's using them again in his second to get a better deal from countries the US does business with.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Brad Ryan
Californian authorities have apologised for incorrect evacuation alerts that have been panicking Los Angeles residents during the city's devastating firestorm.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Brad Ryan
Several fires have raged through southern California, destroying at least 1,000 properties, most in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. Two people have died in a fire to LA's north-east. Dangerous conditions are forecast to fuel "extreme fire behaviour" into Thursday, local time. The large wildfires burning through Los Angeles have now destroyed at least 1,000 buildings, killed two people and caused a "high number" of significant injuries, authorities say.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Brad Ryan
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has announced a bunch of big changes for Facebook, Instagram and Threads. He says Donald Trump's election win represents a "cultural tipping point" in favour of free speech, and his company will work with Trump to push back on censorship. The president-elect has praised the changes and says Zuckerberg is "probably" responding to the threats he's made against the Meta CEO in the past. Here's what's happening.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Brad Ryan
Donald Trump's election win has been certified by a joint sitting of the US Congress. The certification ceremony was free of the chaos and violence of four years ago, when a mob of election deniers stormed the US Capitol, attacked police and forced members to flee. The orderly event was undoubtedly still uncomfortable for Kamala Harris, though, whose vice-presidential duties meant she had to preside over a painstaking roll call confirming her loss.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Brad Ryan
A new US Congress has assembled, and the Republican Party now has a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. That's a gift to president-elect Donald Trump, who will need the support of Congress to fully implement his MAGA agenda. But the tight numbers present challenges for Trump in both chambers. In the Senate, his plans face being stonewalled by the much-maligned "filibuster".
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Jade Macmillan |Brad Ryan
The terrorist who crashed a truck into crowds in New Orleans was probably acting alone, according to the FBI. Authorities had initially feared Shamsud-Din Jabbar was working with others when he drove a truck, adorned with an ISIS flag, into New Year's revellers on Bourbon Street.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Brad Ryan
A man has driven a truck through a crowd of people in the US city of New Orleans, killing at least 10 and wounding at least 35 more. Authorities say it was a deliberate attack, and the FBI is investigating it as possible terrorism. Here's what we know so far. The driver crashed a pick-up truck through a crowd of people about 3:15am on Wednesday, local time. The victims were celebrating New Year's Day in the Bourbon Street party area, in the city's French Quarter.
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Dec 21, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Brad Ryan
During his first term as president, Twitter was Donald Trump's noisiest megaphone. Officials were fired, enemies were threatened, and foreign adversaries were warned of war by tweet. These days, Trump prefers Truth Social, the alternative he created after Twitter banned him. But Twitter, now X, is reverting to form as the place where the MAGA agenda comes into view, and the Trump administration's power bears down.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Brad Ryan
The Georgia prosecutor who brought election interference charges against Donald Trump and some of his allies has been disqualified from the case. Lawyers for Trump and his co-accused successfully argued Fani Willis, a Democrat district attorney, had compromised the case by having a secret relationship with a lawyer she hired to lead it. In March, a lower court found the relationship had created a "significant appearance of impropriety".
