US Politics

President Trump, who promised to ‘end wars’, not start them, may have fallen into a familiar presidential trap.

The threats from Tehran came as the US intensified its airstrike campaign on Wednesday, pushing the region back towards all-out war.

The president is accustomed to forcing other countries to bend to his will. But he is struggling to come up with a strategy to extract Iranian concessions as the cease-fire he brokered collapses.

An American defence official has dismissed an emerging alliance of ‘middle powers’ including Australia, arguing that traditional US security partners would waste time trying to be less dependent on Washington.

Shipping industry still waiting for a strait answer as President Donald Trump changes fee proposal to only guaranteeing safe passage to vessels from states that agree to invest in the United States

US President Donald Trump has paid writer E Jean Carroll millions of dollars after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her.

Donald Trump's lawsuit against the IRS was filed for an "improper purpose", says US judge Kathleen Williams.

WASHINGTON POST: The deal that the United States and Iran struck last month to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and negotiate over Tehran’s nuclear program was merely ‘a test’, US President Donald Trump said.

LATIKA M BOURKE: A leading Democratic Senator has pushed back against the Trump administration’s demands for Australia to spend more on defence, arguing the US should be thanking its close ally.

US President Donald Trump says the US is ‘reinstating’ its blockade in the Strait of Hormuz and will charge ships for safe passage.

A fragile ceasefire has unravelled into fresh chaos in the Strait of Hormuz, as a controversial Trump-brokered deal is blamed for handing Iran sweeping control over one of the world’s most critical oil routes.

Lindsey Graham’s death comes as another influential Republican senator, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has spent several weeks in the hospital for undisclosed reasons.

Emergency medical responders reportedly worked to stabilise a man at the senator’s home and transport him to a hospital.

After weeks of speculation about his whereabouts, 84-year-old US Republican Senator Mitch McConnell has issued a statement about his health.

Iranian media have reported further explosions on the country's southern coast beside the Strait of Hormuz following a wave of US strikes.

Fresh US strikes have escalated tensions in the Middle East after Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed following an attack on a commercial vessel.

While the ceasefire between the US and Iran is in ruins, both sides are continuing talks to find a solution to the impasse over the Strait of Hormuz.