This Month
Religious tensions rise as India election passes halfway mark
The world’s most populous nation began voting on April 19 in a seven-phase election in which nearly one billion people are eligible to vote.
- Rishika Sadam and Fayaz Bukhari
- Opinion
- Legal industry
How the US Supreme Court became a political organisation
When judges make decisions that should be left to politicians, they undermine democracy.
- Amanda Stoker
Big US companies are pulling back diversity policies
Facing a legal, social and political backlash, America’s diversity, equality and inclusion industry is starting to reassess and rebrand.
- Taylor Telford and Julian Mark
Garrick Club of London votes to accept female members for first time
The vote – a margin of roughly 60 per cent to 40 per cent – will open membership to women for the first time since the club’s founding in 1831.
- Mark Landler
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
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
McKinsey faces US criminal probe over opioids work: sources
McKinsey & Co is under criminal investigation in the United States over allegations it played a key role in fuelling the opioid epidemic.
- Mike Spector, Nate Raymond and Chris Prentice
Trump to make history with sordid ‘zombie’ trial
A previously stalled probe over alleged pay-offs to a porn star has led to the first criminal trial against a former US president that starts this week.
- Joe Miller
Biden blames Trump for ‘cruel’ abortion ruling in battleground state
Democrats quickly aimed to capitalise on the key election issue after an Arizona court ruling upholding an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions.
- Jonathan Cooper
Israel’s Gantz demands early elections, piling pressure on Netanyahu
The war cabinet member has broken ranks by demanding a vote near the first anniversary of the conflict in Gaza.
- Galit Altstein
Florida upholds abortion ban, but voters will have a say in November
While upholding a state ban, the Florida Supreme Court allowed a ballot measure to go to voters that would enshrine abortion rights in Florida’s constitution.
- Brendan Farrington
March
Netanyahu faces rising fury over orthodox draft exemption
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition is facing a crisis about whether ultra-Orthodox Jews should be required to join the Israeli army.
- Updated
- Loveday Morris
- Opinion
- US election
Why women will swing the US election
Joe Biden’s State of the Union address was an attempt to recapture the 2022 midterm wave driven by women angry about reproductive rights.
- Ava Kalinauskas
- Opinion
- US election
The mystery of the ‘secret non-Trump voter’
Despite a near clean sweep of Super Tuesday, the former president continued to underperform the pollsters’ predictions. What’s going on.
- Peter Spiegel
Trump storms to Biden rematch in ‘conclusive’ Super Tuesday win
Donald Trump and President Joe Biden won early Republican primaries in Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee, while the latter also took Iowa.
- Updated
- Hannah Knowles
Supreme Court restores Trump to state ballots in major win
The decision is a victory for the former president in his bid for the White House, and comes a day before Super Tuesday when 15 states vote in primaries.
- Updated
- Mark Sherman
February
Supreme Court to decide Trump’s criminal immunity claim
The move puts on hold criminal cases against the former US president, as the court looks into his claim he cannot be prosecuted over the January 6 insurrection.
- Updated
- Stefania Palma
- Opinion
- US election
The real reason Trump wants the White House again
The Republican frontrunner is hoping to cash in on the presidency to mend his business woes.
- Edward Luce
US Supreme Court seems wary of kicking Trump off ballots
A majority of the US Supreme Court justices indicated that individual states may not disqualify candidates in a national election unless Congress first enacts legislation.
- Adam Liptak
January
Trump sharpens focus on border security
The former president lavished praise on Texas Governor Greg Abbott for not allowing the Biden administration entry to remove razor wire in a popular corridor for migrants.
- Jonathan Cooper and Adriana Gomez Licon
