Off to a good start, but Trump’s executive orders were the easy part
The US President has gotten off to a running start, filling every day with action – but he can get only so far without congress.
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Trump signs order to deport anti-Semites who break the law
The executive order outlines plans for the Justice Department to investigate pro-Hamas graffiti and intimidation, including on college campuses.
Meta to pay $40m to settle 2021 Trump lawsuit
Donald Trump brought the lawsuit against Meta and its CEO after the company suspended his accounts following the attacks on the US Capitol in 2021.
Trump signs bill to hold migrants in Guantanamo Bay
Donald Trump will order the construction of a facility to hold as many as 30,000 of the ‘worst criminal illegal aliens’ at Guantanamo Bay.
ASX soars to record high on tech, rate cut hopes
The sharemarket has jumped to a record high of 8515.7 points, amid positive leads from Wall Street after big tech reports and Reserve Bank rate cut hopes. DeepSeek will not derail Microsoft’s $US80bn AI investment this year. Zip and MinRes drop.
‘Divine blessing’ ominous for a president in full flight
Donald Trump has big plans, including the intimidation of smaller countries, and one hopes it will not lead to the rise of an evil power. Trump claims to be ‘blessed by God’.
Trump revenge served hot, swift
With Donald Trump back in the White House, the reinstalled US President is ruthlessly meting out payback to those he apparently no longer likes or trusts.
Bond market waits on moves by Trump, RBA
The bond market remains volatile but much of its strength this year rests on the decisions by US President Donald Trump and the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Hardline stand on migration will alienate friends
The sheer scope of the deportation campaign is designed as a frightener and as a deterrent.
MAGA Hawk: Trump taps NBL club owner for key posting
The NBL has found itself with a line to the White House after billionaire Illawarra Hawks owner Jared Novelly was tapped for a key role in the Trump administration.
Trump asks SpaceX to ‘go get’ stranded US astronauts
US President Donald Trump said Elon Musk’s company will ‘soon’ begin a mission to repatriate the two astronauts who have been stranded for months on the International Space Station.
Trump invites Netanyahu to White House on February 4
The Israeli Prime Minister will be the first foreign leader invited to meet Donald Trump in Washington and comes after the US President advocated relocating Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan.
US judge blocks Trump’s freeze on federal aid spending
Minutes before the order freezing billions of dollars in federal grants, loans and other financial assistance-programs took effect, a Washington judge blocked federal agencies from implementing it.
Influencers before reporters: new WH press officer eschews tradition
Karoline Leavitt told reporters Donald Trump is opening up the briefing room to bloggers, podcasters and social-media influencers, as he seeks to challenge the mainstream media’s dominant role.
‘Mice in the blender, drugs in the dorm: my predator cousin Robert Kennedy’
Caroline Kennedy has written a damning letter warning US senators against confirming her ‘lying, cheating’ cousin as health secretary, calling his views ‘dangerous and misinformed’ | WATCH
‘Woke’ banks feel Trump heat on exiting UN climate pact
Australia’s big banks will not immediately follow US lenders in quitting the UN-backed Net Zero Banking Alliance but believe climate targets must be more realistic, amid a trans-Tasman push by Coalition MPs and NZ ministers to abandon the pact.
Trump’s war on DEI puts the wind up our diversity divas
There is no evidentiary foundation to DEI. From the get-go, it was built on sand. But just watch the advocates in Australia hold on to a flawed policy.
Stand back, it’s the President as king
By invoking the Almighty, Donald Trump has positioned himself and the White House within the most powerful idea that inspired the republic.
China’s DeepSeek is our generation’s Sputnik moment
The emergence of DeepSeek is no reason to panic. But it sure is a reason to get moving. Donald Trump’s early actions on the Chinese AI bombshell could not be more thoroughly justified.
DeepSeek threatens an AI revolution outside of US
Experts say China’s answer to ChatGPT has taught the world the US isn’t the only country capable of developing AI at scale and may pave the way for an AI revolution.
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