March 2023
IAG’s brush with oligarchs, Greensill detailed in new court claim
A new lawsuit puts renewed questions on IAG’s oversight of the risks a half-owned insurance agency was signing up for.
- Jenny Wiggins and Liam Walsh
June 2022
China says chances of a reset with Australia are fading
Beijing has accused Anthony Albanese of undermining the process by linking Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with Taiwan and backing NATO claims of collusion.
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- Michael Smith and Phillip Coorey
March 2021
Russia recalls its US ambassador after Biden agrees Putin is ‘killer’
US President Joe Biden says Russian leader Vladimir Putin ‘will pay a price’ for interfering in the US election and trying to engineer a win for Donald Trump.
- Magan Crane
US expected to sanction Russia over alleged election meddling
US intelligence officials say President Vladimir Putin likely directed a Russian effort to manipulate the US presidential campaign to benefit Donald Trump.
- Christopher Bing, Joseph Menn and Raphael Satter
February 2021
Russia cultivating Trump as an asset for 40 years, says former KGB spy
Former US President Donald Trump was the “perfect target” for the Russians, a new book claims.
- John Sipher
July 2020
Britain looked the other way on Russian meddling: report
The long-awaited report, which had been blocked by the British government since October, says authorities "actively avoided looking for evidence" of Russian interference in Brexit.
- Kitty Donaldson
November 2019
Revealed: the fourth spy in the US atomic bomb project
His Soviet code name was Godsend, and he came to Los Alamos from a family of secret agents.
- William J. Broad
China 'needs to get on with us': Downer
Former foreign minister says Beijing needs to remember that its economic growth has been fuelled by Australian raw materials.
- Andrew Tillett
October 2019
US Justice review into Russian investigation becomes criminal probe
The investigation by US Attorney General William Barr could involve the Australian government, which tipped off the CIA about possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
- Katie Benner and Adam Goldman
Hockey hits back at Downer spy conspiracy theory
"We reject your characterisation" of Alexander Downer's role in the Russia inquiry, says Ambassador Joe Hockey to trump loyalist Senator Lindsay Graham.
- Jacob Greber
PM faces 'please explain' over Trump request to torpedo Mueller
Scott Morrison is under pressure to explain what, if any, assistance Australia provided to help Donald Trump try to torpedo the Mueller probe.
- Phillip Coorey and Jacob Greber
September 2019
Whistleblower report on Trump-Ukraine dealings released
Officials have declassified the whistleblower report that alleged Donald Trump tried to get Ukraine to interfere in the US presidential election.
July 2019
In dramatic testimony, Mueller says report does not exonerate Trump
Robert Mueller, who spent 22 months investigating the US president over collusion with Russia, has appeared at high stakes congressional hearings over his report.
- Jan Wolfe and David Morgan
June 2019
Mueller agrees to testify before two house panels
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before two House committees, the chairmen of the panels said on Wednesday.
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- John Harney
May 2019
Spies worried over Trump's move to reveal secret Russia documents
A former spy chief says Donald Trump has posed a "dangerous challenge" to intelligence sharing.
- Andrew Tillett
April 2019
Russian Maria Butina sentenced to jail
The self-proclaimed Russian gun rights activist will be jailed and then deported to Russia for failing to register as a foreign agent.
- Greg Farrell and David McLaughlin
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How the US should respond to the Mueller report
Congress should hold substantive hearings that build on the Mueller report and fill in its gaps, not jump straight to an up-or-down vote on impeachment, writes Hillary Clinton.
- Hillary Clinton
Democrats subpoena Mueller report
Democratic leaders are under mounting pressure to seize the moment as a jumping-off point for trying to remove Trump from office.
How Trump may have been saved by staff
Repeatedly, it appears, Donald Trump may have been protected from serious legal jeopardy because his own staffers simply refused to carry out his demands.
- Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett
Mueller report explicitly doesn't exonerate Trump
The report says the US president complained, "this is terrible. This is the end of my presidency," when told of the Russia probe.