Biden fleshes out his green legacy
US President Joe Biden is declaring two new US national monument parks in California as he works to secure his environmental legacy in the last days of his presidency.
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Bidens honour terror victims in New Orleans
President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden have paid their respects to the to the victims of the New Year’s Day truck-ramming attack that killed 14 people in New Orleans.
ASX 200 ends up 0.3pc up as most sectors rise
Australia’s stock market rises for a fourth day running, setting three week intraday and daily closing highs as gains in most sectors outweigh falls in iron ore miners. Morgan Stanley says Aussie bank share prices ‘not justified’. IDP Education up on Macquarie upgrade. WiseTech’s new buy. Nvidia hits record.
Biden has poor legacy on Israel
As Israel battled for its survival the White House failed to provide the resolute leadership that has been needed throughout the Middle East crisis.
Biden-Netanyahu row encouraged Hamas to back off truce deal
As the Biden administration increased pressure on Israel in 2024, Hamas reasoned it didn’t need to release the hostages; the US would force Israel to end the war anyway.
Hillary Clinton awarded Medal of Freedom
US President Joe Biden has awarded the nation’s highest civilian honour to 19 people, including actors, athletes and fashion leaders.
Trump can tackle Iran in ways Biden ducked
Tehran has been a problem for every president since Carter but the regime’s weakness is evident.
Biden exits battling for his legacy and believing he could have won
The 82-year-old president is spending his final weeks in office telling war stories—and facing criticism that he inadvertently ushered in a second Trump presidency.
Biden declares day of mourning for Carter’s funeral
A state funeral will be held next week for the US’s 39th and longest-living president, who after a life of philanthropy post-politics, died at 100 where he was born and mostly lived – Plains, Georgia.
Carter: man of integrity and grace
Following his death at 100, former US president Jimmy Carter is being remembered as a driven leader and a man of ‘simple decency’.
The big inflation gamble that has failed middle Australia
Like Joe Biden, Jim Chalmers and Steven Kennedy have bet the house on an economic policy dud.
Biden eyes sanctions on Russia’s ‘dark fleet’ of oil ships
In his last weeks in office, Joe Biden is planning sanctions against Russia’s energy sector, targeting the ships carrying Russian oil around the world and bolstering Vladimir Putin’s war chest.
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’s no lame duck – he’s already getting things done
News from the US suggests that president-elect Donald J. Trump is perceived by many to be the US commander-in-chief while President Joe Biden fades into political nothingness.
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.
How the White House functioned with a diminished Biden in charge
The walls around Biden were built high; aides kept meetings short, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted – all while the administration denied his decline.
Biden has already left the building: history will not be kind
Joe Biden’s presidency ending in failure is the climax of a career in which his defining objective was simply to be, not to do.
Joe Biden gets lost in Trump’s shadow
The president-elect acts as if he’s already in charge. There’s never been a transition like this before.
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