This Month
Stormy Daniels’ graphic testimony of alleged Trump sexual encounter
The remarkable testimony is the latest example of how Donald’s Trump’s dealings with women are coming back to haunt him in court.
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- Erik Larson, Patricia Hurtado and David Voreacos
Judge threatens Trump with jail over ‘hush money’ gag order
The former US president suggested that he would be willing to risk incarceration after the judge’s warned him over repeatedly breaching the gag order.
- Jack Queen, Luc Cohen and Andy Sullivan
- Analysis
- Donald Trump
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
- Opinion
How one public gaffe can destroy your career
Potential Trump vice president candidate Kristi Noem, who admits shooting her dog, is not the only public figure to have disastrously misjudged popular opinion.
- Henry Mance
- Opinion
- Opinion
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.
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- Edward Luce
- Analysis
- US politics
A bystander to ’60s protests, Biden now becomes a target
The protests pose two political risks to Joe Biden. They could worsen his estrangement with the left and feed into a narrative that he has presided over disarray.
- Peter Baker
- Opinion
- Federal Reserve
The US presidential election is casting a long shadow over the Fed
Lingering inflation has caused hopes for US interest rate cuts to wither. That means the Federal Reserve risks becoming dragged into a divisive election.
- Karen Maley
- Opinion
- Monetary policy
Powell bristles at election influence on rate cuts
The Federal Reserve chairman has taken umbrage at suggestions monetary policy decisions will be influenced by the US presidential election.
- Matthew Cranston
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
- Analysis
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
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
Trump hush money was ‘pure election fraud’, jury told
Prosecutors allege the former president was part of a “planned, long-running conspiracy” at the start of his hush money trial in New York.
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- Michael Sisak, Jennifer Peltz and Eric Tucker
- Analysis
- Donald Trump
The Aussies behind Trump’s ‘catch and kill’ trial
Journalist Lachlan Cartwright thinks he is at the top of any list to be “sent to the gulag” if Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office in November.
- Matthew Cranston
12 jurors picked for Donald Trump’s hush money trial
The rapid progress on Thursday afternoon propelled the case closer to opening statements and weeks of testimony.
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- Michael Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, Eric Tucker and Jake Offenhartz
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
US inflation lessons; Guzman y Gomez’s believers; Qantas’ points shakeup
This week, James and Anthony consider what the US inflation print means for US president Joe Biden, compare the turnover of a Guzman y Gomez store to its competitors, and discuss changes to Qantas’ loyalty program.
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
- Opinion
- US politics
How making abortion a state issue could work for Trump
After winning favour with the evangelical right, the former president’s latest policy on abortion is all about appeasing Republican moderates, particularly the suburban women he has lost.
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- Matthew Cranston
Trump seeks to outdo Biden fundraiser with glittering Palm Beach affair
The event, hosted by billionaire John Paulson, follows a concerted push by the Trump campaign to tackle a long-standing financial disparity with the president.
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- Michael Gold