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Frank Chung is a senior journalist at news.com.au covering topics including local and international breaking news, politics, culture, media and technology. In his previous role as finance editor he wrote about economics, retail, industrial relations, small business, consumer affairs and real estate.

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US novelty Aussies take for granted

Australians take this feature for granted but Americans this week were celebrating a new fixture at the White House press briefings.

Leaders

(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 06, 2020, US President Donald Trump holds up a newspaper that displays a headline

‘Nation’s leader’: Trump’s plan revealed

One of Donald Trump‘s key advisers has revealed the former President’s plans for the future – and it’s probably not what most were expecting.

US Politics

US President Joe Biden speaks about the Covid-19 response before signing executive orders for economic relief to Covid-hit families and businesses in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 22, 2021. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP)

Stunning virus admission sparks backlash

Joe Biden has made a stunning comment about COVID-19, with many saying the admission stands in stark contrast to his pre-election pledge.

US Politics

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump looks down during an event on lowering prescription drug prices in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC on November 20, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

All 143 people Trump pardoned

US President Donald Trump has dropped a number of bombshells in his final hours in office, with his full list of pardons released.

Global Coronavirus

Wuhan doctors secretly filmed in new ITV documentary.

Wuhan doctors make bombshell admission

Doctors in Wuhan have been secretly filmed admitting they knew how serious coronavirus was at the start of the outbreak but that they were told to lie.

Politics

Invasion Day Protests are getting bigger and whiter.

Controversial Australia Day idea slammed

A Sydney MP has been accused of treating Indigenous Australians as “helpless victims” over a controversial Australia Day suggestion.

US Politics

Riley June Williams, 22, is being investigated over her role in the Capitol riots. Picture: FBI

Rioter ‘tried to sell Pelosi’s laptop to Russia’

The FBI is investigating claims that a woman involved in the Capitol riots stole a laptop belonging to Nancy Pelosi and attempted to sell it to Russia.

US Politics

(FILES) In this file photo Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks on the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London on May 19, 2017. - The US Justice Department said on January 4, 2021 that it was

Surprises in Trump’s final pardon spree

Rapper Lil Wayne is expected to be one of up to 100 people to receive last-minute commutations or pardons before Donald Trump leaves office.

Politics

Controversial graffiti slams Australia Day as celebrating 'genocide'

Australia Day a celebration of ‘genocide’

A controversial “Invasion Day” message blasting January 26 as a celebration of “genocide” has been slammed as irresponsible.

US Politics

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 31: U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walk along the South Lawn to Marine One as they depart from the White House for a weekend trip to Mar-a-Lago on January 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. Senators are expected to debate and then vote on whether to include additional witnesses and documents today in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

Trump’s new neighbours aren’t happy

Donald Trump will settle into civilian life at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida after he leaves the White House this week – and not everyone is happy.

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