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‘The reckoning is here’: Have the Democrats found a billionaire of their own to take down Trump?
Democrats are beginning to mark out territory as they debate how best to take on Donald Trump. Could their next presidential candidate be a billionaire governor?
- by Michael Koziol
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Trump calls Albanese after saying he had ‘no idea’ who PM’s opponent was in election
The phone call paves the way for a future in-person meeting between the two leaders, possibly at next month’s G7 meeting in Canada.
- by Michael Koziol
Trump was asked if he has to uphold the Constitution. His response: ‘I don’t know’
The US president also said in a wide-ranging interview that he did not think military force would be needed to make Canada the “51st state” and played down talk of a third term.
- by Aamer Madhani
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Gratitude isn’t acceptable among Trump’s cabinet. It’s mandatory
Critics look at the US president’s star line-up and see a group of people that bear more resemblance to North Korean generals than a traditional US cabinet.
- by David French
Trump posts AI-generated photo of himself as pope, drawing internet outrage
The US president posted the image just days after joking he would “like to be pope” and less than a week after attending Pope Francis’ funeral.
- by Andrea Shalal
‘Take an Uber’: Pentagon helicopter ‘scenic’ flight forces aborted landings at crash airport
Two commercial flights were impeded by an army helicopter, just months after 67 people were killed in an eerily similar incident at the same Washington airport.
- by David Shepardson
‘Skimp on the Barbie’: Murdoch US tabloid skewers Trump tariffs with Aussie jibe
Donald Trump’s throwaway line about children having fewer dolls has gone viral in the US, and was spoofed on the front page of one of his favourite newspapers using a phrase Americans still associate with Australia.
- by Michael Koziol
‘They fired the wrong guy’: Blowtorch turns to Hegseth as Waltz pays for Signalgate
US President Donald Trump has removed national security adviser Mike Waltz from his post and sent him off to be an ambassador to the United Nations, a body the president holds in contempt.
- by Michael Koziol
Fight back harder, Harris tells Democrats after Trump hits 100 days
In her first major speech since leaving office, the former vice president said Donald Trump was enacting an agenda decades in the making.
- by Michael Koziol
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Trump called this Australian billionaire a ‘red-haired weirdo’. Now, they’ve met again
Packaging magnate Anthony Pratt pledged to invest billions in American manufacturing, scoring him an invitation to the White House, where the US president described him as a friend.
- by Michael Koziol
Canada’s conservative leader was a shoo-in for PM before Trump. He couldn’t even hold his seat
Mark Carney’s rival, populist Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, was in the lead until US President Donald Trump took aim at Canada with a trade war and threats to annex the country as the 51st state.
- by Rob Gillies
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