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Even as he rocked the world with his tariff announcement, Donald Trump attempted to sell America to rich would-be immigrants with a $US5 million gold for a fast track to citizenship.

Is this the beginning of the end for Trump?

Cracks are appearing in Donald Trump’s armour. Let’s consider his self-inflicted wounds.

  • Bruce Wolpe

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, left, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listen as President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Lutnick calls Australian biosecurity rules ‘nonsense’, says Trump won’t back off

As global markets roiled from the US president’s tariff overhaul, his commerce secretary said the time for negotiation was over and other countries had to “change their ways”.

  • Michael Koziol

Brexit for the US: Trump’s tariffs are the sign of a nation in decline

Trump is famously unpredictable, but his unifying theme is utterly consistent: the retrieval of national power. It is to make America great again.

  • Waleed Aly
The US embassy in Beijing, where Claiborne was posted twice during her State Department career, along with a third posting in Shanghai.

US bans government staff in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens

Though some US agencies already had strict rules on such relationships, a blanket “non-fraternisation” policy, as it is known, has been unheard of publicly since the Cold War.

  • Dake Kang, Matthew Lee and Didi Tang
McDonald and Herd Island and some of its inhabitants - a tariff threat to the United States.

The tiny Australian islands no one expected to draw Trump’s fury

They’re uninhabited and are home to thousands of penguins and seals, but Donald Trump reckons they should be slapped with a 10 per cent tariff. Trump also didn’t forget Norfolk Island where locals are scratching their heads.

  • Shane Wright and Daniel Lo Surdo
President Donald Trump unveils the reciprocal tariffs.

Donald Trump’s dumb war just got much, much dumber

Donald Trump has just announced the most self-destructive set of policies in modern American economic history.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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This is one of America’s most shocking economic defeats in 40 years

A photo taken on the weekend shows just how much the world is uniting to fight back against Donald Trump’s damaging trade war.

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Achieving a happy medium in the national capital

While others tackle a hot tertiary topic.

Vladimir Putin saw Europe’s dependence on Russia energy as its vulnerability and as leverage to prevent it from coming to Ukraine’s aid. His gamble has backfired.

Putin stole their businesses, but now they want them back

Vladimir Putin has done something that at first glance seems wholly out of character.

  • Melissa Lawford

Elon Musk has a target on his back

Until recently, the world’s richest man had little need to look over his shoulder. Now, a target is on his back.

  • The Economist

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