This Month
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- Trump's America
Melania Trump’s boater hat steals the show at inauguration
Nobody could fault the first lady for her outfit – except, perhaps, her husband. Her wide-brimmed hat blocked his kiss as he took the oath of office.
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- Lauren Sams
Biden awards 18 medals, and delivers one unmistakable message
Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom included some of the brightest lights of the old guard that Donald Trump has said he wants to tear down.
- Michael D. Shear and Zach Montague
December 2024
Trump co-opts Jill Biden to spruik his ‘fight, fight, fight’ perfume
From footwear to digital trading cards, everything around the president-elect has become monetised. The latest is “a fragrance your enemies can’t resist”.
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- Katie Rogers
July 2024
Secret Service chief admits failure in Trump shooting but won’t resign
Kimberly Cheatle admitted the attempt on the former president’s life was the “most significant operational failure at the Secret Service in decades”.
- David Morgan
- Analysis
- US election
Biden circle shrinks as Democrats fear election wipeout
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump at the weekend has muted some of the public pressure on the US president to exit the race. But the party remains deeply divided.
- Katie Rogers, Lisa Lerer, Reid J. Epstein and Maggie Haberman
- Opinion
- Biden's White House
Why Jill Biden’s Vogue cover story has been slammed as an epic failure
A week is a long time in politics. In the world of monthly publications, it can be an eternity.
- Jo Ellison
June 2024
- Opinion
- US election
Joe Biden must quit now, in case he does actually win
The prospect of Biden as president for four more years is too scary to contemplate: the entire global order will be endangered if there is an empty vessel in the Oval Office.
- Ross Douthat
August 2023
‘The devastation is overwhelming’: Biden tours fire damage on Maui
The president has come under criticism from Republicans for not saying enough publicly in their view about the fires that turned Lahaina into an inferno.
- Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Erica L. Green
May 2023
Coronation pomp gives way to a royal concert for all
Charles and Camilla and other senior royals joined an audience of 20,000 members of the public and invited guests for the ‘Coronation Concert’ at Windsor Castle.
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- Michael Holden and Alistair Smout
March 2023
In their own words: Why US, UK and Australian leaders back AUKUS
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, US President Joe Biden, and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced details of the AUKUS submarine deal in San Diego.
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February 2023
Biden ready to run for a second term, US first lady says
Joe Biden aides have said an announcement is likely to come in April, after the first fundraising quarter ends.
- Darlene Superville
January 2023
Investigators seize more classified documents from Biden’s home
The remarkable search of a sitting president’s home by federal agents — at the invitation of Mr Biden’s lawyers — dramatically escalated the legal and political situation for the president.
- Michael D. Shear and Katie Rogers
November 2022
Biden warns of Trump’s threat to democracy as midterm rout looms
US leaders are making final pitches to American voters, who will cast their verdicts on the president and their appeal for Donald Trump.
- Trevor Hunnicutt
May 2022
Bidens mourn with families of massacred children
The trips offering condolences from Mr Biden are becoming a common, solemn ritual of his presidency.
- Edgar Sandoval, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Karen Zraick and Jonathan Weisman
Jill Biden makes surprise visit to Ukraine to meet first lady
The US first lady met Olena Zelenska at a school converted to assist refugees near the border with Slovakia.
- Katie Rogers
March 2022
Biden vows to fight for democracy, hit inflation
Mr Biden said current tensions over Russia were a “battle between democracy and autocracy”.
- Matthew Cranston
June 2021
Queen to bestow royal treatment on G7
Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Prince William will be in Cornwall to meet G7 leaders. Kate Middleton will meet separately with Jill Biden.
- Karla Adam
What the world needs now is Jill Biden’s jacket
Jill Biden said she was ‘bringing love from America’ as she wore a jacket emblazoned with the word at a photo op on the US first couple’s first foreign trip. Joe Biden said he’s married above his station.
- Reuters
March 2021
Soft power: Jill Biden sets a new tone as first lady
First Lady Jill Biden is already a much more visible presence than her predecessor, becoming the face of the White House’s campaign to get schools open again as the pandemic eases.
- Courtney Weaver
January 2021
How Jill Biden is quietly making history
The new first lady is somewhat overshadowed by the other political firsts happening around her, but she doesn't seem at all concerned.
- Robin Givhan