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1 week ago | 
news.com.au | Benedict Brook |Samuel Clench
Welcome to our continuing, and dare we say endless, coverage of US politics. Former president Joe Biden, who was still in charge a mere three months ago, has popped up again to critique the Trump administration. “Fewer than 100 days into this new administration, they have done so much damage and destruction,” Mr Biden said today. “It is kind of breathtaking it could happen that soon.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.com.au | Samuel Clench |Jessica Wang
Gas prices would have been reduced by 15 per cent over the last two months under the Coalition’s gas policy to boost supply into the domestic market, Peter Dutton has revealed. In his address to the Future Western Sydney forum, the Opposition Leader talked up the gas policy to increase domestic production and ensure it is fed into Australia’s energy grid, and “decoupled” from the overseas market.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.com.au | Benedict Brook |Brielle Burns |Samuel Clench |Alex Blair
Welcome back to our live coverage of US politics. The fallout from senior Trump administration officials’ use of Signal to discuss their secret plans for military strikes continues to grow. We know about their utilisation of the platform, which is not supposed to be used for discussions of sensitive government information, because one of the participants accidentally added journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a chain in which officials were discussing imminent strikes on the Houthis in Yemen.
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1 month ago | 
news.com.au | Benedict Brook |Samuel Clench |Alex Blair
Welcome, once again, to our live coverage of US politics. US President Donald Trump says there have been “positive” developments regarding a potential ceasefire in Ukraine, after diplomats from both the US and Ukraine reached a provisional agreement. The Ukrainians are on board. But without reciprocal concessions from Russia, any would-be ceasefire deal is worthless.
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1 month ago | 
news.com.au | Brielle Burns |Samuel Clench |Benedict Brook
Welcome to our live coverage of US politics. US President Donald Trump has refused to exempt Australia from US tariffs on steel and aluminium despite saying he would give the matter “great consideration”. That let down came hours after he upped some tariffs on Canada to 50 per cent after one Canadian province put a surcharge on electricity exported to the US. Mr Trump said Canada’s move was an “abusive threat” as he threatened even more tariffs.
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1 month ago | 
cairnspost.com.au | Megan Palin |Samuel Clench
Canada has chosen its next prime minister, with former financier Mark Carney winning the race to replace outgoing leader Justin Trudeau. Mr Carney won a whopping 86 per cent of the vote in the contest to take over the leadership of Mr Trudeau’s Liberal Party, which sits on the Canadian centre-left. Speaking at the Liberal Leadership Convention after his victory, he issued a blunt message to Canada’s southern neighbour.
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1 month ago | 
news.com.au | Alex Blair |Samuel Clench |Megan Palin
Welcome to our live coverage of the political maelstrom unfolding in the US. Donald Trump’s two-hour address to Congress on Wednesday has been discussed at length by pundits around the globe. It wasn’t without controversy, with Democrat Al Green being escorted off the premises for interrupting the President. The congressman shouted that Mr Trump had “no mandate” within minutes, brandishing his cane and causing a scene.
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1 month ago | 
cairnspost.com.au | Alex Blair |Samuel Clench
Welcome to our live coverage of the political maelstrom unfolding in the US. Donald Trump’s two-hour address to Congress yesterday has been discussed at length by pundits around the globe. It wasn’t without controversy, with Democrat Al Green being escorted off the premises for interrupting the President. The congressman shouted that Trump had “no mandate” within minutes, brandishing his cane and causing a scene.
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1 month ago | 
couriermail.com.au | Brielle Burns |Samuel Clench |Benedict Brook
US President Donald Trump has delivered an address to a joint session of his nation’s Congress, promising to make America “the most dominant civiliation ever to exist”. That striking pledge came at the end of a speech that lasted about an hour and 40 minutes, easily the longest such address by any president in history. The famously long-winded Bill Clinton once went for an hour and a half.
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1 month ago | 
news.com.au | Samuel Clench |Shannon Molloy |Megan Palin |Heath Parkes-Hupton
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s meeting with Donald Trump ended disastrously, devolving into an all-out row in the Oval Office on Friday. The US President and his Vice President, J.D. Vance, berated Mr Zelensky in front of the cameras, accusing him of being insufficiently “grateful” for America’s aid in the war to repel Russia’s invasion of his country, and of “gambling with World War III”.
