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What you need to know about Trump’s plan for Gaza

When Donald Trump stood beside Benjamin Netanyahu and outlined his vision for “the Riviera of the Middle East”, he sent shockwaves around the world.

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Trump greets Netanyahu as he arrives at the White House.

‘We will own it’: Trump wants the US to take over Gaza and redevelop it

The comments, made as he met with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, came after Trump earlier suggested displaced Palestinians be “permanently” resettled outside the war-torn territory.

  • Michael Koziol
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Trump just dressed up ethnic cleansing as a real estate opportunity, and blew up ‘America First’

Here’s the dire place we find ourselves three weeks into the second Trump administration.

  • Matthew Knott
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Trump tells advisers to ‘obliterate’ Iran if he’s assassinated

Federal authorities have been tracking Iranian threats against Donald Trump since he ordered the assassination of a key Iranian general in 2020.

  • Zeke Miller, Aamer Madhani and Michelle L. Price
Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s choice to be the Director of National Intelligence, arrives to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee for her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

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
The 1893 painting ‘Leiv Eirikson Discovering America’ by Christian Krohg.

Pyne’s history fail: It’s time for Greenland to reclaim America

Donald Trump gets Christopher Pyne’s endorsement to take over Greenland. But what of the Viking from Greenland who arrived in America more than 1200 years ago?

  • Tony Wright
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In 50 years, Trump will be remembered as just a puzzling footnote

No profession spends more time contemplating the future than economists. Are they any good at it? Well, no, not really.

  • Ross Gittins
Software engineers enlisted to work for DOGE and Elon Musk’s cost-cutting effort, left to right: Ethan Shaotran, 22, Luke Farritor, 23, Gavin Kliger, 25, Edward Coristine, 19, Akash Bobba, 21, Gautier Cole Killian, 24.

‘Muskovites’: The baby-faced squad dismantling foreign aid

America’s USAID is being pulled apart by a band of 19-24-year-old tech proteges hand-picked to slash government spending.

  • Cameron Henderson
Demonstrators outside the US Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters in Washington.

‘Unlawful power grab’: Democrats declare war on DOGE amid ‘Elon takeover’ of government agencies

The Elon Musk-led attack on USAID and reports the businessman’s team had gained access to the Treasury’s massive payments system spurred Democrats into action.

  • Michael Koziol
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Starmer in the middle: Trump wedges British PM

Keir Starmer is stuck between a rock and a hard place in the growing transatlantic spat between the US and the European Union.

  • Joe Barnes and Ben Riley-Smith

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