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Donald Trump at a cabinet meeting this week. Despite big disruption from his administration, markets are back to where they started.

Trump says Biden is to blame for America’s shrinking economy. The data says otherwise

The US president blames his predecessor for the sharemarket slump and the fall in America’s GDP. In reality, it’s the “dumbest trade war in history” that’s responsible.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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Joe Biden: “In fewer than 100 days, this administration has done so much damage and so much destruction.”

‘So much destruction’: Biden returns to spotlight, swinging at ‘this guy’ Trump

The former US president has largely avoided speaking publicly since leaving the White House in January, but came out to deliver a speech full of punches.

  • Steve Peoples and Fatima Hussein
An automatic signing machine, known colloquially as an autopen.

All presidents use this robot pen, even Trump – but now he’s blowing up about it

Trump claims Joe Biden’s use of the so-called ‘autopen’ had voided his pre-emptive pardons of those on a congressional committee that investigated the January 6 pro-Trump riots.

  • Michael Koziol
Former first lady Michelle Obama has opted not to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration next week.

It’s past time Democrats got over Michelle Obama

The former first lady’s new podcast is highly unlikely to be the launchpad for a bid for the White House. The party needs another answer to its crisis.

  • Isaac Schorr

How American liberalism lost its way and handed Trump a path to victory

Trump’s electoral resurrection was, in part, a rejection of the intolerance which has come to be emblematic of American progressivism.

  • George Brandis
Donald Trump addresses Congress.

Trump says he’s ‘just getting started’ in address to rowdy US Congress

Before a highly charged and divided joint sitting of the House of Representatives and Senate, Trump delivered a long, rally-like speech that was heavy on political venom.

  • Michael Koziol
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Two teenagers have died in a boating accident at a holiday park in north-western NSW during the summer break.

Waste is one thing, essential services are another

Peter Dutton’s promise to cut government “waste” will make life harder for the public, a reader writes.

Elderly voters will play an important role at the federal election on May 21.

Be careful what you wish for at election time – just look at America

The reality in Australia is that Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is a largely unknown and untested quantity, with very few original policies, writes one reader.

The president Joe Biden and Donald Trump stand together before the start of Trump’s inauguration in January.

Trump revokes Biden’s security clearance, fires art centre’s board and declares himself its chairman

Here are the US President’s latest head-turning moves and the pushback he encountered in several areas.

Newly elected Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin says he is not interested in discussing whether former president Joe Biden should have sought re-election.

Where to now for divided US Democrats as they struggle to oppose Trump

Elected Democrats have no shared understanding of why they lost the election, never mind how they can win in the future.

  • Lisa Lerer and Reid J. Epstein

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