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US President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill

Master of deception: How Trump is fudging the numbers

The costs of Donald Trump’s proposed One Big Beautiful Bill are being significantly understated by a Republican accounting trick.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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Trump’s expanding interests in crypto add another dimension to the string of conflicts he faces.

Which conflicts of interest? Trump doubles down on crypto

Donald Trump has pledged to make America the “crypto capital of the world”. He’s certainly making crypto the centre of his personal financial world.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Trump’s “America First”  unilateralism, and his economic illiteracy, has unsettled allies and investors.

The Trump alarm bells are ringing louder

The surprise decision by Moody’s to downgrade America’s credit rating reflects the risks of Trump’s policies for America’s future.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump holds a signed executive order during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden of the White House.

How Trump changed America in 100 days - with just a pen

It is the most consequential start of a term of any American presidency, with Donald Trump taking direct aim at law, media, public health and culture.

Former US Representative George Santos, a one-time rising Republican star who falsely claimed to have worked for Goldman Sachs before running for Congress, was ordered to serve seven years and three months in prison for stealing campaign funds.

‘Where is the remorse?’: Disgraced former congressman cries into his hands as court metes out punishment

George Santos, whose pattern of lies and fraud led to his expulsion from Congress, has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison.

  • Michael Gold and Grace Ashford
Angry constituents in Fort Madison, Iowa peppered the 91-year-old senator with questions about Donald Trump’s presidency.

In small-town America, a senator under siege has Australia on his mind

From the town halls of rural Iowa to the farms of Kentucky, Australia’s reluctance to accept imports of US beef is a hot topic.

  • Michael Koziol
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US President Donald Trump meets El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office on Monday (Tuesday AEST).

‘Uncharted waters’: US edges closer to constitutional crisis over deportee

Veteran Democrat Nancy Pelosi is among those accusing the Trump administration of defying the courts by refusing to return a man from a notorious Salvadorean jail.

  • Michael Koziol
US President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office.

Hillary Clinton on Trump’s ‘dumb power’: it’s feeble, friendless, stupid and lethal

The blundering Signal chat may be the least of the Trump administration’s dangerous moves. As a former senior spy put it, “we’re shooting ourselves in the head, not the foot”.

  • Hillary Clinton

‘The outsiders’: Who’s who in Trump’s new White House

Some are predictable picks for their roles, most are not. Meet the people you’ll be seeing a lot in the next three years.

  • Angus Holland
President Donald Trump walks with Elon Musk’s son X Æ A-Xii on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Washington to depart on Marine One. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

‘Tremendous mistake’: Democrats turn on each other in fight over Trump ‘slush fund’

When a handful of Democrat senators supported a Republican funding bill late on Friday night, their colleagues were furious.

  • Michael Koziol

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