World MAGA loyalists rebel against Donald Trump over Jeffrey Epstein association Donald Trump’s supporters appear to be distancing themselves from their MAGA loyalty over his associations with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
News & Views Albanese won’t “pre-empt” conversations with Donald Trump. But isn’t that exactly what we need him to do? These non-committal words from Albanese seem almost meek given what the world is currently facing. Treating Trump with kid gloves is no longer a viable strategy.
News & Views ‘It’s political retribution’: The LA Mayor taking on Trump amid ‘reckless’ raids Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has strongly rebuked Donald Trump’s deployment of thousands of federal military troops in Los Angeles.
News & Views Trump says he’ll ‘look at the facts’ on a potential pardon for Diddy US president Donald Trump has commented on potentially pardoning the disgraced music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Comb, saying he’d ‘look at the facts’.
News & Views Trump administration blocks Harvard University from enrolling international students The Trump administration has halted Harvard’s ability to enrol international students, insisting that they must transfer to other universities, or leave the US.
Soapbox How Donald Trump became the accidental saviour of centre-left governments everywhere Donald Trump’s hate politics is finally doing some good. It’s showing other countries what they don’t want their governments to look like.
News & Views Who is Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s Press Secretary? Who is Karoline Leavitt, the woman appointed the youngest person in US history to be the White House press secretary?
News & Views Dutton is dying on Trump’s hill—and taking the Coalition with him The ideological parallels between Opposition leader Peter Dutton’s campaign and Donald Trump’s playbook are becoming impossible to ignore.
News & Views Could Trump follow these world leaders who changed rules to cling to power? Several other world leaders (all of them, men) have found ways to change the rules to stay in power.
News & Views Trump deports more than 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador prison Donald Trump has deported more than 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang from the US to a high security mega-prison in El Salvador.
News & Views Jeffrey Epstein files will be released, US Attorney General Pam Bondi says A list of names related to Jeffrey Epstein is set to be released on Thursday, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
News & Views Trump, Putin and Musk all share a leadership style – we’ve figured out what it is We used to think that authenticity was inherently good, but leaders are increasingly ‘signalling’ their messages in polarising ways.