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Vladimir Putin saw Europe’s dependence on Russia energy as its vulnerability and as leverage to prevent it from coming to Ukraine’s aid. His gamble has backfired.

Putin stole their businesses, but now they want them back

Vladimir Putin has done something that at first glance seems wholly out of character.

  • Melissa Lawford

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Elon Musk has a target on his back

Until recently, the world’s richest man had little need to look over his shoulder. Now, a target is on his back.

  • The Economist
Fed chairman Jerome Powell has been reluctant to speculate about how Donald Trump’s policies might affect the central bank’s decisions.

The Trump fire is burning on Wall Street

The American people are losing confidence in Donald Trump, sending shockwaves through Wall Street. And that’s before “Liberation Day”.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
US President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office.

Hillary Clinton on Trump’s ‘dumb power’: it’s feeble, friendless, stupid and lethal

The blundering Signal chat may be the least of the Trump administration’s dangerous moves. As a former senior spy put it, “we’re shooting ourselves in the head, not the foot”.

  • Hillary Clinton
DNA Study Revisited by artist Roberto Lugo, part of an exhibition, The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington.

Trump’s order on museums sparks debate on truth-telling

The US president’s latest executive order removes “improper ideology”; some experts argue it’s a fascist move that revises history.

  • Bianca Flowers, Andrew Hay and Julio-Cesar Chavez

‘The outsiders’: Who’s who in Trump’s new White House

Some are predictable picks for their roles, most are not. Meet the people you’ll be seeing a lot in the next three years.

  • Angus Holland
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White House national security adviser Mike Waltz, left, speaks with US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth last month. Waltz added the journalist to the group chat, Hegseth divulged highly sensitive military details.

‘They screwed up’: Intel community aghast at Trump team’s security breach

For US allies, including Australia, the Signal chat scandal is another reminder that this administration cares little for established norms and protocols.

  • Michael Koziol
In this image taken from security footage, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Massachusetts.

‘Looked like a kidnapping’: Student’s arrest in Trump crackdown caught on camera

The 30-year-old doctoral student was walking to meet friends for dinner when a man grabbed her on the footpath.

  • Jake Offenhartz, Kathy Mccormack and Michael Casey
America, led by Donald Trump (pictured here with Xi Jinping in 2019), is becoming more like China at a rapid rate.

Peter Hartcher on how Trump is remaking America in China’s image

A secret directive issued by Xi Jinping in 2013 holds the key to the most successful one-party dictatorship in the world. Peter Hartcher in The Morning Edition says it appears the new US president has been reading it.

Trump Wash Pol column

The 41-page ‘blueprint’ that shines a light on Trump chaos

President Donald Trump’s erratic trade policies have shaken up the global economy and have many observers shaking their heads. This paper from someone in his inner circle might explain his thinking.

  • Jeff Stein

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