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Trump bans major US news agency for refusing to rename Gulf of Mexico
The US president has been accused of violating the First Amendment after indefinitely barring The Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One.
- by Michael Koziol
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Opinion
Foreign relations
‘Aluminium Albo’ has blueprint to test Trump’s mettle
Australian prime ministers have traditionally had poor name recognition in the US. But Anthony Albanese can change that.
- by Nick Bryant
Trump vowed to reduce inflation. Eggs didn’t get the memo
Across the US, a scarcity of eggs caused primarily by a bad strain of bird flu has sent prices skyrocketing and made them tricky to find.
- by Michael Koziol
87-year-old goes viral for party invitation: ‘4pm until the cops arrive’
Doug Turner started hosting an annual neighbourhood winter party after his wife died. He asks that guests “bring only a smile”.
- by Sydney Page
Trump wants Russia, China to stop making nuclear weapons, so all can cut defence spending by half
“There’s no reason for us to be building brand-new nuclear weapons, we already have so many,” he said. “You could destroy the world 50, 100 times over.”
- by Zeke Miller and Michelle Price
RFK Jr becomes US health secretary after lone Republican votes ‘no’
A disgraced Australian celebrity chef has the ear of America’s new health secretary, who has promoted vaccine scepticism and wants fluoride out of the water supply.
- by Michael Koziol
Opinion
US politics
Beyond Elon Musk’s chaos is a plan being executed with terrifying precision
Republican voters signed up for “The Trump Show: Politics Edition.” Elon Musk is producing and distributing that show, one chaotic bite at a time.
- by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Hundreds of thousands sign petition to buy California for Denmark
The lighthearted petition was launched in response to US President Donald Trump’s talk about taking control of Greenland.
- by Stefanie Dazio
Analysis
Russia-Ukraine war
Putin accepts Trump’s invitation to ‘come in from the cold’
“The time has come for our countries to work together,” the Kremlin has said, after a phone call between the Russian and US presidents.
- by Michael Koziol
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Russia-Ukraine war
Trump and Putin plan Saudi Arabia meeting as US lays out blunt vision for Ukraine
While praising Putin for his “common sense”, Trump said the two men had a lengthy and productive phone call and agreed to visit each other’s countries.
- by Michael Koziol
Tony Wright’s Column
Trump diplomacy
We need to become agile to avoid Trump’s road rage
Increasingly it feels as if we are living in a new age of the endlessly furious.
- by Tony Wright
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