Big companies funding Trump’s inauguration
The second Trump inaugural fund is on track to be the most lucrative yet. Find out which companies are flocking to support the billionaire businessman.
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Bulls riding into 2025 on high hopes of a Trump boom
In the spirit of festive cheer, it’s time to look back on some of the things that went right in 2024 and why 2025 might not be as ghoulish as most are expecting.
Abandoning Israel comes with high price in Indo-Pacific
A continued weakening of US influence in the Middle East amid intensifying competition will play out not only in Riyadh but in Taipei. The war is about much more than Palestinians and Israelis.
Reading the Matt Gaetz ethics report
By blocking him as AG, Senators helped the country — and Trump.
House ethics report says Matt Gaetz regularly paid women for sex
Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s first choice for attorney-general, ‘regularly’ paid multiple women for sex, including a minor, and purchased drugs illegally, according to a report by congressional investigators.
Biden commutes sentences of 37 death row inmates
President Joe Biden’s move prevents President-elect Donald Trump from executing most men on federal death row.
Trump threatens to take control of Greenland amid Panama spat
Donald Trump has suggested taking Greenland from Denmark as the Panamanian president reacts angrily to a threat the US will take over the Panama Canal.
Private prisons gear up for Trump deportation bonanza
Private prisons are getting ready to cash in on what Donald Trump has billed as ‘the largest domestic deportation operation in American history’.
Trump vows to ‘stop transgender lunacy’ as priority
Donald Trump will sign executive orders to end ‘child sexual mutilation’, and to ‘get transgender out of’ the military and schools on day one of his presidency.
Funding bill averts US shutdown
There is anger even among Republicans after president-elect Donald Trump torpedoed an earlier deal
Biden authorises $US571m in more military aid to Taiwan
US President Joe Biden approved $US571.3 million ($914m) in more defence assistance for Taiwan on Friday as the Democrat prepares to leave office next month.
Biden weighs commuting sentences of death row inmates
With 40 men on death row, the decision – which could come by Christmas – would frustrate US President-elect Donald Trump’s ability to resume the rapid pace of executions that marked his first term.
US congress approves revised plan to avert government shutdown
The Senate followed the US House in voting to extend federal funding into March and provide disaster aid, but leave out the debt ceiling increase demanded by Donald Trump.
Austerity awaits if Canberra ignores lessons of history
More public spending to keep the economy afloat is not the transformative agenda that Australia needs to keep up with Donald Trump in his imminent second term.
Trump election-interference case hangs in the balance
Georgia’s election-interference case against Donald Trump could be doomed after an appeals court removed a district attorney from the case.
Trump 2.0: Reform or roll over, BCA warns
The Business Council of Australia says the government must respond to Donald Trump’s aggressive pro-business platform by reducing the 30 per cent corporate tax rate and slashing red tape – or risk being left behind.
Trump torpedoes government spending bill as shutdown looms
The US is hurtling towards a government shutdown after Donald Trump and JD Vance intervened to urge Republicans to overhaul a key funding bill and lift the debt ceiling before a looming Friday deadline.
More MPs urge Trudeau to go as Trump mocks the Canadian PM
The number of Justin Trudeau’s MPs openly urging him to resign is rising, with one going public to urge leadership change as Donald Trump says it would be ‘a great idea’ for Canada to become the 51st US state.
Pressure from Trump ‘led to Hamas concessions for ceasefire deal’: White House
Donald Trump’s threats of ‘all hell to pay’ if hostages aren’t released by the time he takes office pushed Hamas to agree to Israeli forces in Gaza and to release a list of hostages to be freed, the Biden administration admits.
Follow Trump’s lead on hostage release, Coalition urges Wong
After Foreign Minister Penny Wong doubled down on her Gaza ceasefire push, Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie said Labor should instead follow Donald Trump’s tough stance. The president-elect’s ‘all hell to pay’ threat has seen Hamas move closer to a hostage deal.
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