Today
- Opinion
- Opinion
Reality will bite Trump’s big dreams in Gaza
The US president’s vision of the US taking over Gaza and turning it into a peaceful, prosperous property development project is a fantasy.
- Jennifer Hewett
EVs can’t shake sceptical motorists despite steep price falls
Electric vehicles are at their lowest proportion of new cars sales in more than two years as buyers show growing concerns about resale values and repairs.
- Simon Evans
‘Self-interested people’: Why Murdoch and Trump are back in business
Rupert Murdoch is known for aligning his business interests with the politician of the hour. His appearance with Donald Trump this week was no different.
- Zoe Samios
US postal service halts parcels from China
The United States imports about 3 million parcels a day; Peter Dutton says PM is “embarrassed” by caravan explosives plot. Follow live updates.
- Updated
- Lucy Slade
Trump’s Gaza take-over plan sparks fury in Middle East
The US president made the stunning announcement to redevelop the war-torn enclave during a news conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- Matthew Cranston and Andrew Tillett
‘US will take over Gaza’: Trump; Lessons from Future Fund’s 3 big moves; Portsea home sells for $19m
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Opinion
- Trump diplomacy
China’s Mr Big won’t cave to Trump for nothing
The US president thinks he has the upper hand in the trade war. But Xi Jinping might be ready to make some hard decisions.
- Updated
- Shuli Ren
The Australian lawyer behind DC’s new MAGA hangout
From Steve Bannon to Sean Spicer, clubhouse Butterworth’s has become the place to be seen for Republican operatives. And a former Liberal staffer is its biggest backer.
- Hannah Wootton
EU seeks early US talks to avert Trump tariffs
The president has repeatedly complained about the US goods trade deficit with the 27-country European Union.
- Philip Blenkinsop
Yesterday
- Opinion
- Trade wars
Expect Trump’s trade war to leave more bite marks next time
The quick apparent resolution will encourage Trump to keep strong-arming other friends and foes into doing whatever by threatening their access to the American market.
- Michael Stutchbury
China hits back at Trump with tariffs on US coal, LNG, crude
China will impose a 15 per cent tariff on coal and LNG products and 10 per cent on crude oil and other products in response.
- Andrew Tillett, Jessica Sier, Matthew Cranston, Michael Read, Alex Gluyas and Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Analysis
- Trump's America
Trump shows signs of being a paper tiger on tariffs
The president’s pause on tariffs feeds his growing reputation for stopping short of his bombast when it comes to trade, using the levies as a negotiating ploy.
- Josh Wingrove and Jenny Leonard
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
Trump is running America the way America ran Iraq
We have no precedent for an administration treating its own government like a hostile territory to be conquered and exploited.
- Michelle Goldberg
Trump hints at curbing Musk: ‘He does nothing without my approval’
The president said the billionaire could not dismantle government spending without his permission, as legislators accuse him of breaking the US Constitution.
- Cameron Henderson
Coalition and Labor argue over free business lunches
Angus Taylor pushes Jim Chalmers for company tax-free lunches costings; parliament votes to condemn antisemitism. How the day unfolded.
- Updated
- Lucy Slade
- Analysis
- Trade wars
The statistic Australia will use to avoid Trump’s tariffs
Since 1952, Australia has imported more from the US than it has exported, in a relationship that generates America’s fourth-largest surplus with its trade partners.
- Michael Read
Trade war paused; The price of Trump’s ‘deals’; Why you don’t need that much super
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Trump pauses trade war on Mexico, Canada
Mexico and Canada have agreed to Donald Trump’s demands to tighten up illegal immigration and drug trafficking in exchange for pausing sweeping tariffs.
- Updated
- Matthew Cranston
Trump creates sovereign wealth fund as ‘legendary’ Murdoch watches on
In a meeting in the Oval Office, the US president said the new fund, along with wealthy investors, could be used to buy part of Chinese owned TikTok.
- Matthew Cranston
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
There is a price to be paid for Trump’s ‘deals’
Markets welcomed the president’s reprieve for tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and talks with China. But there’s a big price for using chaos as a bargaining tool.
- James Thomson