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Donald Trump, during his first presidency, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 summit in 2019.

‘Very volatile’: Beijing retaliates with tariffs on US imports, Google probe

Within minutes of the new Trump-imposed tariffs hitting Chinese imports, Beijing fired back with a suite of tariffs and a probe into Google.

  • Lisa Visentin

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Software engineers enlisted to work for DOGE and Elon Musk’s cost-cutting effort, left to right: Ethan Shaotran, 22, Luke Farritor, 23, Gavin Kliger, 25, Edward Coristine, 19, Akash Bobba, 21, Gautier Cole Killian, 24.

‘Muskovites’: The baby-faced squad dismantling foreign aid

America’s USAID is being pulled apart by a band of 19-24-year-old tech proteges hand-picked to slash government spending.

  • Cameron Henderson
Trump has already hit pause on his tariffs on Mexico.

Where is the Australian dollar headed in Trump’s tariff argy-bargy?

Trump’s rollercoaster diplomacy has left investors wary. How will Trump’s decisions affect the local sharemarket and where is the Australian dollar headed?

  • Hannah Kennelly
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What was Murdoch really thinking as he joined Trump’s stage?

The media titan was curiously relegated to a new role on Monday - Donald Trump’s stage prop when the president announced plans for a US sovereign wealth fund.

  • Elizabeth Knight
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Starmer in the middle: Trump wedges British PM

Keir Starmer is stuck between a rock and a hard place in the growing transatlantic spat between the US and the European Union.

  • Joe Barnes and Ben Riley-Smith
Donald Trump signs executive order as Rupert Murdoch looks on in White House.

Rupert Murdoch in Oval Office as Trump shakes up trade ties with Mexico, Canada

The US president paused tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports and praised the “legendary” media mogul even as he lashed Murdoch’s newspaper, The Wall Street Journal.

  • Michael Koziol
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US President Donald Trump said the tariffs on Mexico would be “paused” for a month while a deal is negotiated.

Why China must be quietly pleased that Trump has made it a target

Around the world, Beijing is working to peel away support for a US-led international system and recast itself as a more reliable partner in trade, development and security.

  • Lisa Visentin
The fog of inflation is lifting.

Dutton plan: Free lunches, cuts to services

Stand by for the whole gamut of Trump’s MAGA suite of anti-government moves, which would make our lives more difficult.

Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada is positioned as anti-drugs. It’s really about something else.

Trump has lobbed a trade bomb at Canada. It may just blow up in his face

Canadians are naturally wondering why their long-standing status as close neighbours, friends, allies and partners seems to count for nothing.

  • Michael Koziol
Newly elected Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin says he is not interested in discussing whether former president Joe Biden should have sought re-election.

Where to now for divided US Democrats as they struggle to oppose Trump

Elected Democrats have no shared understanding of why they lost the election, never mind how they can win in the future.

  • Lisa Lerer and Reid J. Epstein

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