US Senate
Republicans cave to Trump, endorse contentious picks for cabinet
A handful of senators – including a doctor – had raised concerns about Trump’s nominees for the top health and intelligence jobs, Robert F Kennedy Jr and Tulsi Gabbard. Now they’ve fallen into line.
- Michael Koziol
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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
Four takeaways from Kennedy Jr’s first confirmation hearing
The ex-Democrat and abortion rights supporter nominated by a Republican president to be the nation’s leading health official presented some unusual dynamics.
- Aaron Blake
Trump’s war on efforts to slow climate change futile
By doubling down on his cry to “drill, baby, drill” and removing all limits on America’s booming fossil fuel industry, the new president has once again declared war on the world’s climate mitigation efforts. But this is a war he can’t win.
Trump’s cabinet pick says AUKUS a ‘blueprint’ for other US pacts
Secretary of state-in-waiting Marco Rubio has given the strongest indication yet of what Donald Trump will do with the submarine deal.
- Farrah Tomazin and Michael Koziol
- Editorial
- Parliament House
The strange events at Parliament House in Canberra this week point to a larger problem
If our leaders lack the ambition to make their case to the nation, our democracy will become less fit for purpose.
- The Herald's View
Power out for Birmingham as he turns out the lights
The resignation of the last leading Liberal moderate, Simon Birmingham, means that it is definitely a case of asking Simon to turn off the lights in the house when he leaves.
Koala habitat destruction is a disgrace
How many times do we have to read stories about the NSW government’s failure to deliver the Great Koala National Park?
‘Politics is tough,’ Trump tells Biden in post-election White House visit
It must have been as surreal an experience for Biden, the 81-year-old president, who beat Trump for the presidency in 2020 and had mounted a second campaign that ended short.
- Farrah Tomazin
Who is Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick as secretary of defence?
The former infantry captain is a co-host of Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends Weekend, and became friends with Trump.
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