This Month
- Analysis
- US election
Gallows humour and escape: Trump’s possible return rattles Washington
Much of official Washington is bracing for the former president’s return – this time with ‘retribution’ as his avowed mission, the discussion is about self-imposed exile.
- Peter Baker
- Opinion
- US election
Europe should brace itself for a Trump victory
The difference between 2024 and 2016, when Trump last won the presidency, is that this time he has a plan. From Europe’s perspective, it would look like Fortress America.
- Updated
- Edward Luce
Trump and his one-time confidant meet again, this time in a courtroom
Hope Hicks, once a spokeswoman for Donald Trump, broke down in tears on the witness stand as she talked about their time together.
- Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Trump urges crackdown on ‘raging lunatic’ student protesters
Republicans have seized on the university protests as a wedge issue in the election, as anger among Joe Biden’s Democrats grows over Israel’s war in Gaza.
- Michael Gold
Trump threatened with jail, fined for contempt of court
The former president was ordered to pay the fine by the end of the week, and he deleted, as ordered, the offending posts from his Truth Social account.
- Michael Sisak and Jennifer Peltz
April
- Analysis
- US election
With Trump in court, can Biden take control of the election?
As polls show the race tied, the president is campaigning around the country and his opponent is stuck spending his days in a Manhattan courtroom.
- James Politi, Lauren Fedor and Joe Miller
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
Fight to the last Ukrainian
More aid is clearly a relief for Kyiv, but will it be enough to reverse the tide of the war?
- James Curran
Trump to set interest rates himself under secret presidential plan
Donald Trump’s aides plan to roll back the independence of the US Federal Reserve if he returns to the Oval Office.
- Tim Wallace
The loyal lieutenant who buried Trump’s secrets
David Pecker, ex-publisher of The National Enquirer, testified at the trial that Donald Trump personally thanked him for hiding potentially damaging stories.
- Jonah E. Bromwich, Ben Protess and Michael Rothfeld
Top US judges sympathetic to Trump in historic immunity case
Conservative Supreme Court judges signalled support for the former president on his claims of protection from prosecution in a case likely to impact the US election.
- John Kruzel and Andrew Chung
- Opinion
- Electric vehicles
How China plans to win the global EV war
The US and European governments are increasingly alarmed at the potential for China’s EV ambitions to put their own car manufacturers at risk.
- Updated
- Jennifer Hewett
US to rush weapons to Ukraine as Biden signs aid bill
The Pentagon said it would rush the first $1.5 billion in aid to Ukraine, including shoulder-fired Stinger surface-to-air missiles and other air defence munitions.
- Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Tabloid publisher says he sought to shield Trump from sex scandals
The effort to suppress unflattering information was designed to illegally influence the election, prosecutors have alleged.
- Michael Sisak, Eric Tucker, Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz
Kevin Rudd and CNN put on a US tennis clinic
The former prime minister’s shaking mud off his polo and getting on with tennis diplomacy.
- Mark Di Stefano
Zelensky says ‘chance of victory’ in race to deploy US funding
Ukraine’s president said his soldiers are outgunned on the battlefield after months of infighting in Washington, before a $95 billion aid package was approved.
- Shane Harris, Patrick Marley and Mariana Alfaro
Relief in Ukraine as US House approves $95b in aid
The vote marks a victory for Republican defence hawks against the more isolationist wing of the party led by Donald Trump.
- Updated
- Siobhán O'Grady
US can send fresh weapons to Ukraine ‘within days’
The Pentagon had already moved stockpiles of the most-needed arms closer to Ukraine’s borders before the passage of a crucial foreign aid bill in the US House.
- Tony Diver
- Opinion
- The AFR View
A traumatic week, and a need for calmer politics
Murder in Bondi Junction and terrorism in western Sydney have come to a country already demoralised by a cost-of-living crisis. Time for politicians and other opinion formers to put the hyperbole away.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Biden's White House
America’s Superman foreign policy flies again
The hard realism of Asian allies about America’s direction must jostle with the return of uncompromising American unilateralism.
- James Curran
Iran oil exports hit six-year high as West considers tougher sanctions
Iran’s success in exporting its crude underscores the difficulties facing the West as it seeks to build pressure on Tehran following its attack on Israel.
- Malcolm Moore and Najmeh Bozorgmehr
