US Politics

If US Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed any discontent or even opposition about Australia recognising a Palestinian state, it didn’t matter and more importantly, it didn’t work.

US President Donald Trump has spoken ahead of his meeting with Russian President and is hopeful that ‘Putin will make peace,’ but says the aim of talks is to set up a second meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky.

America’s top diplomat in Israel has branded Australia's Palestinian statehood recognition 'ill-timed' while hostages remain captive under Hamas control.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: In a nation made supposedly of laws, we have gambled on the discretion of men to keep the use of crisis authority in check. With Trump, we played a bad hand.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump appears poised to reward Putin for his invasion of Ukraine, a stark departure from the US Senate’s 2022 resolution condemning Russia’s leader as a war criminal.

Joe Biden's son Hunter has made damning claims about Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and Melania Trump, but the US First Lady is having none of it, and is threatening big legal action.

The annual Kennedy Centre Honours production may see significant changes under Donald Trump, who revealed the honourees during a visit to the arts complex on Wednesday.

Donald Trump is painting a picture of Washington, DC, as a city gripped by crime, but federal figures reveal the reality is a 30-year low.

Donald Trump says he wants to keep the police in Washington DC under federal control beyond mid-September, and could extend the move to other cities.

Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky and leaders from several NATO member nations held virtual talks just days before the US President’s scheduled summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

THE WASHINGTON POST: Voters are struggling amid mediocre economic growth, but when will the tide turn? When will the blame be put on Donald Trump?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The war in Ukraine has become the political, psychological and economic centre of Putin’s regime.

A Republican congressman has spruiked Australia’s relationship with the US amid concerns the Trump Administration could scrap AUKUS.

The tariff pause gives negotiators until mid-November to resolve major sticking points as a Beijing summit looms.

The US budget deficit has surged nearly 20 per cent in July, with record tariff collections under Donald Trump failing to slow the nation’s growing fiscal gap.