US Politics

Five years after rioters stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, Democrats highlighted Donald Trump’s role in stoking the mob and forcefully rebutted his efforts to rewrite the history of the attack.

Donald Trump has confirmed an enormous amount of crude oil is on its way to the US after discussions with Venezuela’s interim government.

President Trump has said since his first term that he wants to acquire Greenland, and he asked aides for an updated plan on Monday. European leaders reject the President’s assertions.

The White House says Donald Trump and his team are discussing a ‘range of options’ to acquire Greenland as a ‘priority’, adding the US military may be used.

It has been decades since the industry relished foreign-policy entanglements.

US President Donald Trump has revealed that his wife, First Lady Melania Trump hates when he does one specific thing.

The opposition was not strong enough to take control of the corrupt country from the security services, criminal cartels and Nicolas Maduro’s political allies, the CIA said.

MARC CHAMPION: As in Venezuela, and echoing Putin in Crimea, what Donald Trump cares about is access to resources and re-establishing an exclusive sphere of influence in the western hemisphere.

The US President threatened the acting Venezuelan president with a terrible fate - worse than Nicolas Maduro’s.

Denmark’s Prime Minister issued a grave warning that if the US President acted on his desire for the mineral-rich territory, it would mean the end of NATO, the world’s strongest defensive alliance.

THE ECONOMIST: It is not a template for Taiwan but a reality check on China’s global power.

Donald Trump’s tariffs in 2025 marked the worst US-led trade war since 1930, with one Labor minister labelling it a ‘dog act’. But the American President was just doing what Australia did much more recently.

US health authorities have dropped the number of vaccines they recommend for every child, saying the change aligns with similar developed countries.

The US Secret Service says a man who broke windows at Vice President JD Vance's Ohio home has been detained.

US President Donald Trump says Venezuela was a ‘dead country’ before he directed an attack on its capital and had put another country on notice, warning he ‘will have to do something’.