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Adam Creighton

Adam Creighton
Adam CreightonWashington Correspondent

Adam Creighton is an award-winning journalist with a special interest in tax and financial policy. He was a Journalist in Residence at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business in 2019. He’s written for The Economist and The Wall Street Journal from London and Washington DC, and authored book chapters on superannuation for Oxford University Press. He started his career at the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. He holds a Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours from the University of New South Wales, and Master of Philosophy in Economics from Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar.

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Immunity
TOPSHOT - Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 30, 2024. Jurors return Thursday to a second day of deliberations in Donald Trump's criminal trial, leaving the Republican presidential candidate and the country waiting for a decision that could upend November's election. (Photo by Mark Peterson / POOL / AFP)

Trump’s hush money sentencing delayed

Donald Trump won’t be sentenced until Sept 18 due to the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity verdict as Nancy Pelosi asks if Biden’s debate performance was ‘an episode or a condition’.

leadership focus
TOPSHOT - US President Joe Biden talks with his son Hunter Biden upon arrival at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, on June 11, 2024, as he travels to Wilmington, Delaware. A jury found Hunter Biden guilty on June 11 on federal gun charges in a historic first criminal prosecution of the child of a sitting US president. The 54-year-old son of President Joe Biden was convicted on all three of the federal charges facing him, CNN and other US media reported. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Biden family back President as public support plunges

Hunter Biden has emerged as one of the biggest supporters of his father continuing the campaign, reports say, as new polling suggests just 28pc of American voters want Joe Biden to seek re-election.

debate disaster
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - JUNE 28: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at a post-debate campaign rally on June 28, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Last night President Biden and Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump faced off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign.   Allison Joyce/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Allison Joyce / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Obama, Clintons rush to quell Democratic revolt

After a calamitous debate performance led some of Joe Biden’s top supporters to openly question whether he was fit to remain the Democratic nominee, the US President has vowed to keep on fighting.

COMMENTARY
It was difficult to watch Joe Biden go head-to-head with Donald Trump in the first presidential debate

Democrats panic as ageing Biden bombs

Joe Biden delivered a poor performance during the first presidential debate, appearing frail and sometimes incoherent, leaving Donald Trump the clear winner and Democrats scratching their heads over what to do now.

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