March
Jeff Bezos to hold star-studded three-day wedding
The guest list reportedly includes Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her property developer husband Jared Kushner, along with Kim Kardashian and Oprah Winfrey.
February
‘Dubai on the Mediterranean’: Inside Trump’s Gaza plan
The US president’s proposal to expel millions of Palestinians emerges from a fringe idea in his first term that was rejected by Palestinian leaders.
Jared Kushner builds a business empire off his father-in-law’s back
The president’s son-in-law is leveraging relationships from his time in the first Trump White House for his private equity firm.
December 2024
Trump picks another in-law for top Middle East post
Massad Boulos has been named an adviser, a day after the president-elect appointed another son-in-law’s father to be US ambassador to Paris.
November 2024
The idealists who thought Truth Media was their big chance
They thought they could build a mainstream platform that prized free speech and treated users as more than eyeballs. Then they ran up against Trump’s management choices.
Employment jumps; Cbus CEO apologises; Trump’s shock pick
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
The billionaires in charge of Trump’s White House
His first term was heavily reliant on the party establishment. The inner circle now includes billionaires and is in tune with the ideas of the new right.
August 2024
Chinese officials struggle to build ties with Trump’s campaign
The frustrated overtures come amid rising bipartisan hostility towards China and a realisation in Beijing that US policy is unlikely to become less hawkish.
June 2024
Why Trump, and not Hunter Biden, is trashing America’s courts
Treating the rule of law as a partisan issue is the mark of a corroded political culture.
Trump claims ‘sick people’ are behind his prosecution
The former president declared that he would appeal against the landmark verdict, calling the trial a “scam” and the judge a “tyrant”.
March 2024
Trump is richer than ever but still desperate for cash
The former president’s fortune on paper has vaulted to $US7.2 billion thanks to his newly public media company, but legal strains threaten his finances.
February 2024
The real reason Trump wants the White House again
The Republican frontrunner is hoping to cash in on the presidency to mend his business woes.
October 2023
US continues push for Saudi-Israel ties even after Hamas assault
US President Joe Biden and his top aides have recently attempted to negotiate a complex three-way ‘normalisation’ deal with Saudi Arabia and Israel.
December 2021
Jared Kushner’s investment firm raises $4b in committed funding
Mr Kushner, a former top aide to former US president Donald Trump who is married to his daughter, Ivanka, formed the Miami-based Affinity Partners this year.
June 2021
Where is Trump now? Florida coast becomes Republican power base
Lured south by sunshine, golf and money, the former president’s allies and hangers-on have formed an alternate universe that revolves around Mar-a-Lago.
March 2021
America’s swab supply depends on two cousins who hate each other
The pandemic brought the business opportunity of a lifetime to a small family-owned business in Maine but it was not enough to quell an epic family feud.
February 2021
Ivanka and Jared’s White House run ended with sharp income drop
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s assets appreciated only modestly, if at all, over the past four years, while the sharemarket climbed more than 60 per cent.
January 2021
Trump pardons Bannon, 142 others
The pardon for former key aide Steve Bannon marks the latest example of the outgoing president using his pardon power to end the legal woes of his allies.
Prospect of pardons in final days fuels market in access to Trump
The brisk market for pardons reflects the access peddling that has defined Donald Trump's presidency as well as his unorthodox approach to exercising unchecked presidential clemency powers.
How Trump's COVID-19 response went from bad to worse
In the heat of a re-election campaign and in the face of mounting evidence of a coming surge in infections and deaths, Trump's management of the crisis was in effect reduced to a single question: What would it mean for him?