Original sin: How Biden’s decline was deliberately hidden
Joe Biden hadn’t been up past 9pm for months when he was asked to shuffle into a TV studio to debate a surging Donald Trump.
Joe Biden
Trump orders inquiry into Biden health ‘conspiracy’
The President steps up his campaign to discredit his predecessor as a growing chorus of Democrats also acknowledge Biden appeared to have been slipping in recent years.
Trump blames petrol bombing attack on Biden
Donald Trump has blamed Joe Biden’s ‘ridiculous open-door policy’ for allowing an iimmigrant to remain in the US and launch an attack on a Jewish event in Colorado.
Watergate-style hearings for the Biden cover-up
Former Nixon aide says congress should get to the bottom of the ‘Politburo’ that governed while the president declined.
Biden says ‘I’m feeling good’ after cancer diagnosis
The former US president, whose mental and physical health was a dominant issue in the 2024 election, also laughed off allegations that his White House covered up his decline.
Biden cancer smacks of cover-up
Sad though it is, Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis adds another dimension to speculation that has long surrounded his health and his determination until July 2024 to run against Donald Trump.
Biden owes the public more transparency on his PSA choices
Joe Biden has had prostate cancer a long time. Had he remained in the race and won, the country would now be contemplating a President Kamala Harris without having had the election choice.
Biden last screened for prostate cancer in 2014
The diagnosis raised questions about how the most powerful man in the world could have learned so late that he was suffering from a fairly common type of cancer in men his age.
With unrivalled medical care, how did Biden’s cancer go undetected?
The news Joe Biden is battling stage-4 prostate cancer ignited a public debate about why he was diagnosed at such an advanced stage with a disease that is quite common in men his age.
‘Pay the price’: Latest Biden revelations put Dems in tough spot
Democrats are trying to move beyond Joe Biden, but continued questions about his health and cognitive abilities in office are emerging as both a major distraction and a litmus test.
‘Cancer touches us all’: Biden’s message after diagnosis
Joe Biden has thanked Americans for their ‘love and support’ after he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones.
Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis explained
Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer; doctors say draft testing guidelines should reduce chances of a similar situation for Australian men.
Albanese’s sorrow for ‘friend’ Joe Biden, Marles flags EU/AUS
Anthony Albanese says he was saddened to hear his ‘friend’, former US president Joe Biden has prostate cancer, sending the family his well wishes in a brief statement, Acting Prime Minister Richard Marles says Australia has a ‘growing strategic relationship with Europe’, welcoming its importance in a ‘defence context’.
No more enmity: Trump’s new doctrine of peace for the Middle East
Let’s be clear: Donald Trump, for all his faults, strode across Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in a way that his predecessor Joe Biden never could have.
Biden accuses Trump of appeasing Putin
In his first interview since leaving office, the former president says he is worried that Europe no longer trusts the United States and that Russia will not stop until it annexes Ukraine.
What just happened? Making sense of Trump’s frenetic first 100 days
America’s national leadership has gone from narcoleptic to hyperactive, from chronic fatigue under Joe Biden to Attention Deficit under Trump. Biden put the world to sleep; with Trump we dare not close our eyes for a second.
PM goes Biden-lite with unrealised capital gains tax
Of all the Joe Biden policies that Anthony Albanese shares, the worst is unrealised capital gains tax. So unpopular was it in the US that Democrats pleaded for Biden and Kamala Harris to drop it.
Mission to avoid the traps of Biden: PM’s guiding mantra
In an exclusive interview, the Prime Minister was emphatic in serving a full three-year term if re-elected and confident about having a governing majority at the election.
Questioning Biden’s capacities was taboo a year ago. Now it’s everywhere
Several new books reveal how long Democratic insiders knew about – and covered up – the president’s age-related problems.
George Clooney picks ‘spectacular’ Democrat who could lead party
The Hollywood actor critical in persuading Joe Biden to drop out last year suggested there was one governor ‘levitating’ above his party colleagues.
Dutton fears for AUKUS under ALP
Peter Dutton says he holds ‘huge concern’ about the AUKUS pact under Labor, claiming former US president Joe Biden had initially been hesitant to enter the trilateral security agreement.
Will Hegseth and Waltz survive Signal fiasco?
Trump will be reluctant to give The Atlantic a scalp but the group chat revelations are deeply damaging to the White House.
Trump, hater of EVs, says he’s buying a Tesla
The politics of car ownership has turned upside down, with the US President on a mission to purchase a Tesla.
Trump deserves fair media scrutiny – no more, no less
Trump’s second term is already a success globally, insofar as challenging the madder agenda of identity politics that consumed the Democrats under President Joe Biden.
Hidden message behind the Oval Office clash
The great danger for Australia is we will be so appalled at what happened in the Oval Office we will not understand the underlying forces and their long-term impact on us.
Zelensky, who stood up to Putin, now refuses to bow to Trump
The televised clash between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky created the most severe breach between Washington and Kyiv since Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014. Yet, in a way, this confrontation was inevitable.
Trump orders sacking of all Biden-era US attorneys
Donald Trump has ordered the sacking of all remaining US attorneys nominated by his predecessor Joe Biden.
Elite’s long march scuttled by hubris and overreach
The American progressive movement hates Trump yet this movement triggered the pro-Trump rebellion. The scale of their hubris testifies to a movement with self-destructive instincts but in denial of its flaws.
Why Trump is the world’s ‘great decoloniser’
In two bold moves, he has threatened to end Danish control of Greenland and to defund the colonising mission of a large US government agency. Is the anti-Trump left not entertained?
Trump revokes Biden’s security clearance
The US President called the access ‘a courtesy provided to former presidents’ in a move that follows the precedent set by Biden who had also blocked Trump.
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