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‘Will of the people’: Musk adds his voice to Senate GOP leadership contest
There are three contenders for Mitch McConnell’s job. The SpaceX chief executive knows who he is backing.
- by Farrah Tomazin
‘Trump proofing’ begins as Democrats face power vacuum
Some Democratic governors are moving to inoculate their states from Trump’s policies, raising their profiles as the party searches for a new leader.
- by Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Marianna Sotomayor and Tyler Pager
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Knife’s edge: How the US election result will change the world
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have two radically different sets of policies that will have great consequence not just for Americans, but for the rest of the world.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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‘They cheat like hell’: The fallout from the attack on the Capitol
Hare-brained schemes and legal loopholes helped cause havoc after the last presidential election. But there are many ways to contest a result. How?
- by Angus Holland
Opinion
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Why the heck isn’t Kamala Harris running away with this election?
In many ways, it’s because in the US political parties no longer serve the function they used to. Now, they are better seen as religious organisations.
- by David Brooks
State of US vote system puts ours in good light
The only upside of watching US elections and electoral processes is, as Peter Hartcher says, to develop or renew one’s own appreciation of Australia’s electoral system
Boycotted but unbowed: Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress
The Israeli leader was invited to address the congress by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson amid a war that has mobilised youthful protesters, while Kamala Harris stayed away from the speech.
- by Farrah Tomazin
‘We failed’: Secret Service director grilled in hearing on Trump assassination attempt
Kimberly Cheatle acknowledged that the Secret Service was told about a suspicious person two to five times before the shooting at the Pennsylvania rally.
- by Farnoush Amiri and Claudia Lauer
Reporter Evan Gershkovich goes on trial in Russia on specious espionage charges
The American-born son of immigrants from the USSR is the first Western journalist arrested on espionage charges in post-Soviet Russia.
- by Jim Heintz and Kirill Zarubin
Democrats consider boycotting Netanyahu’s planned speech to Congress
Some Democrats say they don’t want to be part of a “one-way lecture” when the Israeli prime minister addresses Congress next month.
- by Josef Federman and Elena Becatoros
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