The United States has approved the sale of fighter jets and other military equipment to Israel as it prosecutes a 10-month-old war in the Gaza Strip although the Pentagon says deliveries will not begin for years. The sale is worth of $US20 billion ($30 billion). US Secretary of State Antony Blinken approved the sale of F-15 jets and equipment worth …

Ohio Senator JD Vance once described Donald Trump as “America’s Hitler”. Now, he will fight for Trump to win another term in office. The former president named Vance as his running mate on Tuesday (AEST), meaning Vance will be vice president if Trump wins the November election. Vance joined Trump and his family at the Republican National Convention, where he …

The failed assassination of Donald Trump has launched modern American politics into uncharted waters, as Joe Biden calls for a ratcheting down of rhetoric and Republicans blame him without knowing the motive of the would-be assassin. Trump will walk into this week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee as a defiant hero, while the Democrats continue to debate if Biden will …

Beleaguered United States President Joe Biden has apologised for his lacklustre performance last week debate and said his recent overseas trips were to blame. The 81-year-old’s faltering display against Republican challenger Donald Trump did nothing to quell concerns he has neither the mental or physical capacities for another four years in the White House. Biden acknowledged on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT) …

Donald Trump is again seeking to get the judge overseeing his upcoming New York criminal trial off the case, arguing the judge’s daughter’s work for a political consultancy with Democratic clients poses a conflict of interest. The Republican presidential candidate last year made a similar request for Justice Juan Merchan to recuse himself, but the judge denied the bid after …

Former leader of the free world Donald Trump has lashed out at former prime minister Kevin Rudd, characterising him as “not the brightest bulb”. In an interview with former far right British politician Nigel Farage on London’s GB News channel, the second-time presidential hopeful responded to years-old comments made by Rudd. Prior to his appointment as US ambassador, Australia’s 26th …

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a judicial decision barring the former US president from Colorado’s Republican primary ballot, taking up a politically explosive case with major implications for the 2024 presidential election. At issue is the Colorado Supreme Court’s December 19 ruling disqualifying Trump from the state’s Republican primary ballot based on language in the …

Henry Kissinger, who died on November 29, 2023, at age 100, was a key figure in American foreign policy for more than 50 years. I am a scholar of American foreign policy who has written on Kissinger’s service from 1969 to 1977 as national security adviser and secretary of state under the Nixon and Ford administrations. I have seen how his foreign policy views and …

Billionaire Elon Musk has let fly with an expletive-laden spray at advertisers that have fled his social media platform X over antisemitic content. He told them to “Go f— yourself” in a fiery interview on Wednesday. His profanity-laced remarks followed a moment of contrition in a New York Times DealBook Summit interview, as he first said “I’m sorry” for a tweet that …

At a White House briefing early this week, Joe Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, was asked whether there’d been any thought of postponing Anthony Albanese’s state visit because of the Middle East conflict. No, she said, highlighting the importance of alliances and reassuring that the president could handle more than one thing at a time. From Albanese’s vantage point it’s …